Finbarr Lucas - Designer & Maker

Unique Pieces

While most of Finkfurniture's pieces are one-offs, we thought we would have a separate section reflecting our ability to make unique pieces to almost any brief. Here is a selection of these commissions, from a music stand in walnut to sleek designer furniture.

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Grand table

The client said : 'I want you to make me a new coffee table', and I told her that I'd love to, thinking for some reason that it would be quite small.

When she traced it out with her finger on the rug it was four feet wide! It was a challenge but the overall effect is startling.

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Theta Trolleys

Used every day in the client's living room, one of these trolleys holds the TV and DVD player.

The other is an all-round footstool cum coffee table with space for magazines. While solid and physically unobtrusive, these pieces are visually striking.

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Flap Mirror

Walking along the sea-front, I was inspired by seeing people's scarves flapping in the breeze.

The resulting form, made from birch plywood, is both fanciful and practical. It works well in a bathroom.

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Wave-like shelves and a porthole mirror

Matt wanted something with a watery theme for his bathroom, with a fish-eye mirror like a porthole to stare into.

We spent a while sketching and chatting about it beforehand, trying to find the right flowing shapes, and then I took these drawings away and worked from them with off-cuts and random pieces from the workshop. He was really pleased when he saw it.

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Tree 37 Table

Tree 37 was a huge beech tree which had to be felled as it was in decline.

South Yorkshire Forestry organised a project that distributed the timber to many local woodworkers.

Finkfurniture and Treecycled worked in partnership to produce this solid beech coffee table with its distinctive 'wany-edged' central feature.

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Zipper Table

This little side table uses a bent plywood construction.

Bizarrely it is the only piece I make which actually involves bending plywood!

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Bed

This commission was wonderfully open - a bed, with drawers and shelves, made from reclaimed and reused wood.

After a few drawings and lots of thought, I realised the best thing to do was simply to get started and see where it went!

The cabinet at the head is solid ash, the drawer fronts are from a reclaimed oak headboard and the rest is a random collection of workshop materials.

This harmoniously fitted piece also provides an enormous storage solution.

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Music Stand

Musicians just love to personalize their stuff, and this client was no exception.

The resulting music stand, crafted in walnut, uniquely fits with the room's decor and features hand-sculpted adjustment screws reminiscent of a stringed instrument.