A Special Warehouse Sale October 2016 October 5th, 2016 by Chris Baylis Prior to our showroom relocation … Over the weekend of October 21st and 22nd we will be holding another of our ‘once in a blue moon’ sales of pre-owned furniture made by us, that we have bought back from clients for various reasons (house move, down sizing etc.,). Pieces will include several large refectory tables, farmhouse tables, sets of chairs, dressers, cabinets, sofas and more, all at very attractive prices and available to take away or for immediate delivery. There will also be ‘on offer’ various pieces from our showrooms, designs that have been superseded or discontinued. Unit 12, Station Field Industrial Estate, Banbury Rd, Kidlington OX5 1JD (only 3 miles from our Woodstock showrooms) Showroom relocation - from Woodstock to near Chipping Norton After 20 years of enjoyable and successful trading in Woodstock, we are on the move! We are currently in the process of restoring a wonderful old Coaching Inn,
a mile to the North East of Chipping Norton town centre, to where we will in due course relocate ourThe ‘refurbishment’ programme is taking longer than anticipated (!) and we now aim to remain trading in Woodstock until Christmas, opening at Chipping Norton early in the New Year with more space, exciting new designs and a fresh energy. As a ‘destination location’, we will be opening Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays 11.00 - 5.00 or by appointment at other times. Ample parking will be available with freshly brewed coffee ‘on tap’ at: Chapel House Grounds, Chipping Norton OX7 5SZ. The new site is literally 10 miles from Woodstock on the A3400 (Stratford Road) between the A44 and A361 turns to Chipping Norton. We will keep you posted via the website about closing the closing date at Woodstock and the opening at Chipping Norton….it will be ‘business as usual during the transition!! We look forward to seeing you at The Warehouse Sale at our Kidlington Warehouse (see above), in our Woodstock showrooms up until Christmas and then in The New Year at our new showrooms!
February 5th, 2016 by Chris Baylis Happy New Year to all…. As you know, we never have ’sales’ of core stock in our showrooms….but …’once in a blue moon’, we hold a sale in our warehouse, of ‘pre-owned’ pieces, made by us, that we have bought back from customers for a variety of reasons. It’s a chance to own a piece, made by The Real Wood Furniture Company, at a huge saving, compared to our making a ‘bespoke’ piece for you. Our sale this time includes: large refectory tables in English oak (centre column and canon leg) large and small farmhouse tables in English oak and cherry an oak gate leg table, a drop flap ‘loaper’ table sets of chairs, including: Classic Range wavy ladders with upholstered seats, Billinge Wigan ladderbacks with upholsterd and rush seats, Chippendale style chairs in English cherry with leather upholstered seats, Country ladderbacks with drop in rush seats, Dales chairs with drop in rush seats, ‘Citizen’ chairs, ‘Cotswold’ chairs with upholstered seats and backs etc.,
dressers with racks, dresser bases, glazed top cabinets, a standing glazed top corner cabinet, a corner TV / Media stand, leather sofas and armchairs, a curved front ‘Knole’ sofa various antique pieces and objects………. Please e mail us for a full listing……. SALE: SAT 13th & SUN 14th FEB 11.00 - 5.00 at: Unit 12, Station Field Industrial Estate, Banbury Road, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1JD (only 3 miles from our Woodstock showrooms) Tea, Coffee & Chocolate November 25th, 2015 by Chris Baylis Tuesday December 1st at 7.00pm - Melanie King will give a short talk about her new book ‘Tea, Coffee & Chocolate which traces the origins of our love affair with caffeine… Hampers and The Natural Bread Company will be offering teas, coffees and chocolates. Shelley Chocolates will be selling artisan made Belgian chocolates…The Woodstock Book Shop will be here to sell you a signed copy of the book and there will be a charity bar in aid of ROSY….
That is …as long as we all recover from ‘A Night of a Thousand Candles’, this Saturday Nov 28th, 6.00pm on the Town Square (preceded by an all day Christmas Market in St Mary Magdalene Church and Father Christmas arriving at 4.30!!) e and check out some amazing gift ideas and have a sneak preview of our brand new ‘Spires’ chair in glorious English ash and Scottish elm!!…officially launching in the New Year, along with a gorgeous elm and burr oak ‘Spires Pilgrim Table’…. Posted in Antiques, Art, Furry Friends, The World, Uncategorized, Wood, music A Celebration of Trees October 26th, 2015 by Chris Baylis From ‘horses’ in our last exhibition to to ‘trees’…the latter giving us the wonderful resource with which, as a company, we work …. ‘art in the furniture store’ presents a new exhibition…”In Celebration of Trees”… Three very different ‘takes’ on trees with: Rod Craig having produced some special watercolour and ink paintings of trees in Blenheim Park and other local spots…
Ian Fraser using photographic techniques he normally applies to capturing incredibly individual images of buildings, having produced some special images of trees you may recognise from the locality…… and Chis Townsend, celebrated tree artist and sculptor working in forged steel, having produced some special sculptures for our exhibition. Add in to the mix at the preview party, the premier performance of a new piece of music from tp & woodman, aptly titled ‘In celebration of trees’ and it all adds up to a great multi media celebration focusing on the mighty English oak. Preview party - Fri Oct 30th 6.30-9.00pm in our Woodstock showrooms The Real Wood Furniture Company is a supporter of ‘The Wychwood Project‘, a charity promoting engagement with the landscape and wildlife habitats contained within the former Royal Hunting Forest of Wychwood, which covered most of West Oxfordshire. The charity works in areas of land management, conservation, education and is keen to encourage the participation of all who live in the area.
The Real Wood Furniture Company has a special interest in tree planting projects. A ‘charity donation’ bar will raise funds for the project at the exhibition preview party. On other fronts, our steel horse ‘Milo’ has found a new and pleasant pasture On the furniture front, work progresses on our new ‘T Cup’ range, but in the meantime we have ’soft launched’ a new chair. Our ‘Spires chair’ takes its inspiration from a ’scroll back’ design made famous by master chairmaker Stephen Hazell who worked in Oxford from 1846.The original design is attributed to William Wardell, who is recorded as working in Summertown from 1839. He probably trained Stephen Hazell.The simple ’scroll back’ chair in time came to be known as ‘The Oxford Chair’. Having literally handled thousands of antique ‘Oxford chairs’ over the years, my starting point of inspiration was to create a chair of similar simplicity, low in height but with a generous seat and offering good comfort with an over arching feel of the ‘contemporary’.
We are making this with Scottish elm in the seat and back horizontal rails with other parts in English ash. We are about to make a second batch with English burr oak in the horizontal rails. As you can see from the photos, we are offering both a simple ‘H’ stretcher and a ‘crinoline’ or ‘cowhorn’ stretcher with angular shaped ‘torpedoes’ jointing the stretcher to the back legs. As ever with Windsor chairs, they are nothing if not an amalgam of their angles, so we have been through many prototypes and stages of ‘finessing’ the design. We have sold to two customers already within two weeks of the chair ‘hitting the floor’ with no promotion as such, so we hope that the design will have a wide appeal. The offer of wide plank Scottish elm has also afforded us the opportunity to look at table making with elm again. Our ‘Spires Pilgrim Table’ features 2 x wide planks of elm, flanked by narrower planks of English burr oak. By making the end ‘cleats’ the same width as the outer planks, we have created the illusion of a ‘paneled’ top without the inherent problems of shrinkage causing gaps to appear!
Time to go for the moment….I shall return later with ’sparkle’ aided by a glass of red! In Praise of The Horse August 24th, 2015 by Chris Baylis Just a quickie…as I am ’snowed’ with ‘Woodstock Live’ stuff …coming up Sat Aug 29th and Sun 30th, 1.00 - 10.00pm both days…some great acts booked….don’t miss it!!…and ‘building stuff’…but in the meantime, life goes on and our next ‘art in the furniture store’ exhibition is almost upon us!! Before that we are sponsoring an event on Fri Sept 4th for The Wychwood Project, to do with a major new land use project aimed at farmers and land owners, ‘Woods, Water and Farming’…which means that our usual Friday exhibition opening is going to happen on : Sat Sept 5th 6.30 - 9.00 pm in our Woodstock showrooms…. You are warmly invited to enjoy the exhibition, other ‘horse’ things, Pimms and wines, live music, furniture and make new friends: Also …take the opportunity to meet our new horse friend ‘Milo’…fashioned by artists in Kenya from steel: photo to follow!!