I am Colin Semple. I design and make stunningly unique furniture in the Scottish Borders. Everything I do is customer commissioned and I work closely with all clients through the design process so the furniture created not only meets their needs, it reflects their tastes and personality. This site is a showcase for my furniture making projects. I hope you enjoy looking through my portfolio of work. If you are interested in discussing an idea or knowing more about my work please contact me. Colin’s coffee table makes the ideal finish to our front room, Colin took my thoughts and ideas on what I wanted for a unique coffee table and he delivered with panache, and I cannot thank him enough. Charles Mackintosh's Scotland Street school in Glasgow Scotland Street School Museum is a museum of school education in Glasgow, Scotland, in the district of Tradeston. It is located in a former School designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh between 1903 and 1906. The building is one of Glasgow's foremost architectural attractions.
It is located next to the Shields Road subway station. During the building's construction, Mackintosh frequently battled the school board about the design (the board wanted a less expensive design). The total cost for the building was £34,291, which was over budget. The building features a pair of windowed Scottish baronial style tower staircases. The school, which also served Tradeston, was designed for an enrolment of 1,250. However, by the 1970s the area was experiencing urban decay, and the school's enrolment fell to under 100. The school closed in 1979. Mackintosh based the design of the school on Rowallan Castle in Ayrshire and Falkland Palace. The museum features a wide range of activities and exhibits. The public are given the chance to participate in a Victorian classroom situation, with actress Lesley Robertson playing the teacher "Miss Baxter."FOR LOVERS OF SIMPLE RUSTIC CHIC Create your unique event with our rustic, worn and weathered vintage chairs, tables and accessories.
Whether you are organising a social or corporate event, a wedding, a photo shoot or film production we offer you the opportunity to create something individual and imaginative. From our base in Devon we regularly supply our rustic products to venues across the UK. If you see something you like on our site please contact us regarding delivery in the South West including Somerset, Dorset and Bristol, the South East and London. Virginias Vintage Hire also has a base in Perthshire offering Vintage Furniture Hire in Scotland including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Highlands and the Scottish Borders. Our ever-growing collection of treasures suit a variety of settings so if your event is taking place in a barn, marquee, field, country estate, woodland, warehouse, yurt, farmhouse or chic hotel come take a browse and be inspired.The City of Edinburgh has been a major centre for Law since the middle ages, and for more than 300 years the University has trained generations of the world's finest legal minds.
The first Chair in Law, the Regius Chair of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations, was established in 1707, a Regius chair endowed by conversion of a number of bursaries in Divinity. The man appointed to the new chair was Charles Areskine, MA (St Andrews) and Regent in Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. Areskine had a distinguished legal and political career, entering Parliament in 1722, and serving as Solicitor General (1725-1737) and Lord Advocate (1737-1742), before appointment to the bench as Lord Tinwald in 1742. In 1748 he became Lord Justice Clerk. In many ways he was a typical figure of the early Enlightenment in Scotland, interested in banking and economic development, a member of the Musical Society, and a founder member of that important intellectual club, the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, the forerunner of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Other Chairs, in Civil Law, Scots Law, Constitutional Law and History, and Forensic Medicine followed in the eighteenth century.
Over three centuries, the University has had a continuing history of fine legal scholarship and teaching. Read a full history of Law at the University of Edinburgh, written by Prof John W. Cairns and Prof Hector L. MacQueenCity streets the world over are overflowing with coffee shops, cafes and bistros that cater to people's unquenchable thirst for caffeine and cake. Yet, finding a green cafe is often a little harder, so we wanted to give you a taste of a new place Inhabitat visited in Glasgow, Scotland which is a great example of a sustainable cafe space. The Glad Cafe opened in August and it's brimming with up-cycled green designs. The completed space is a welcoming creative hub that aims to bring together the diverse cultural communities in the Southside of Glasgow through music, art, theatre and coffee! We were instantly impressed by interior design of The Glad Cafe, which is the result of a collaboration between three Glasgow based designers: Roy Shearer, Gerry Thomson and Simon Harlow.
The designers, who share green design principles, worked together with the owner Rachel Smillie in a purposefully ‘slow process’ in order to source suitable materials for re-use from local sources. They incorporated their individual signature designs with found materials that ranged from waste signage to school gymnasium floors and even piano keys. Read on to spot how these were transformed into innovative furniture pieces. These recycled Piano Key coat hooks were a favorite of ours. Saved from a dying old piano, these keys may no longer hold a note, but they offer a playful way to hold people’s jackets whilst bringing a subtle musical influence into the furnishings. This set of colorful and quirky shelves were created using waste signage from a print shop located behind the café. The words were cut up in an abstract matter as they were transformed into shelving, creating a playful wall of words – a definite conversation starter. The banisters were created from a batch of offcuts from a laser cutting job at the local Maklab.
This layered collection of waste material seems more like a piece of art than a piece of waste to us. Recycling starts from the ground-up at The Glad Café – even the floor boards are salvaged from a dance floor and an old school gym floor. The design seamlessly pulls the floor boards up to create the frontage for the main coffee bar, making it easy for customers to glide, dance or jump to the bar to pick up their coffee. If you are lucky, you might find yourself placing your coffee on one of these stunning coffee tables, which are made by laminating off-cuts, old pieces of wood, plastic and signage. This material was used for a small cube table, a larger bench, a taller side table, and a small table that uses a singer sewing machine as a base. The second bar pulls together signage and offcuts with backlighting to successfully create a different atmosphere in the performance area. Whilst ordering at the bar, you may not notice at first – but the shelves are cleverly crafted from scaffolding planks held in place by old glass bottles.
This is a great simple design, that fits into the café spirit very well – just as long as no-one tries to use one of the supporting bottles! This striking and colourful light is one of the first things you see as you enter the cafe. It’s constructed from plastic offcuts and it creates a welcoming glow and great first impression. The café has a selection of old recycled chairs and tables, which include church seating and school chairs. The café plans to have seasonal menus and it stocks as much locally-sourced produce as possible – including locally roasted and freshly toasted Dear Green Coffee, produced by a Glasgow-based artisan coffee roaster driven by a commitment to sustainable coffee farms. The owner and founder Rachel Smillie, who has a background in storytelling and music, chose the cafe name after being inspired by Carson McCullers book The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, but ultimately not wanting to make a sad cafe, she opted for the more optimistic Glad Cafe.