Handcrafted designer furniture and lighting made in Cornwall
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A very bendy video
April 23rd, 2012
I recently did an interview for Falmouth Uni about my business and how I started out bending wood as a student. You can view the video by following this link UCF Interview Alternatively you can view the profile at http://your.falmouth.ac.uk/tomraffield. It amazing looking back at to the start of my relationship with wood, it makes me [...]
April 2nd, 2012
Entra design and architectural magazine brings you a variety of topical subjects including product design, visits to showrooms and artists’ studios, antiques, and personality pieces. We’ll also introduce you to new hotels, exhibitions, books and collectibles. The spring issue, fronted by the Honey Bee Light Shade, has a fantastic article written by Phyllis Richardson on Toms [...]
March 26th, 2012
I love the idea of Cornwall furnishing the UK, perhaps it is a bit far-fetched, but we’ve got a good thing going down here. I think all the fresh air, sea and sand sparks creativity and the character of the Cornish community is perfect for independent business minds. Dominic Lutyens has done a great write [...]
November 26th, 2011
Introducing the newest additions to our range; the Floor Lamp’s No.1 & No.2, Stem Wall Light, the HoneyBee and the Butterfly Light which is now available in Oak. The floor and wall lights are elegantly steam bent from carefully selected solid English Oak and can be used to compliment any of our beautiful wooden lampshades. [...]
October 21st, 2011
Find a collection of Toms work including the Ribbon Light and Sycamore Pendant, featured with an in-depth interview in “Interviews, Confessions of a Design Geek”, written by Katie Treggiden author of the popular designers blog, confessions of a design geek. Having won, “Best Interior Design Blog, 2010″ she has put together a collection of interviews [...]
September 24th, 2011
Alice Westgate has featured one of our newest products in the Cornwall Today magazine! The Log and Kindling Loop is having much success with the nights drawing in and is now being stocked at the Sofa Workshop stores through-out the UK aswell as being available from a selection of individual design shops/ galleries and of course [...]
September 10th, 2011
The newly released Butterfly Lamp was featured in last months Elle Decoration USA. A new USA supplier of Tom Raffield, ‘Eco First Art’ brought this innovative and stunning design to the attention of the US market by featuring it in the publication. The Butterfly Lamp is currently made in sustainably sourced Walnut but due to it’s popularity [...]
Steam bent lighting and furniture
