Mid Century Modern Chairs

Scrap of luxury

At any given time, Rupert Blanchard, a furniture designer, can be spotted sifting through a skip somewhere in his native east London, asking a stall holder at a car-boot sale to sell that single drawer they’re using as a container for actual stock, or having a good rifle around one of his favourite scrap yards.

“I’m a glorified rag-and-bone-man,” he says. “When I’m looking for materials I often feel like I’m Steptoe and Son.” Not that you’d ever judge him this way when checking out his unique — and much admired — furniture designs, including cabinets which sell for £1,400 each.

Blanchard is not alone in his pursuit of junk and reclaimed materials to use for high-end domestic pieces.

South of the river in London, the design duo Hendzel and Hunt, relative newcomers to the salvage scene, are constantly adding to their range of furniture, Made In Peckham, which is built entirely out of materials found in their SE15 postcode — discarded pallets from the streets and reclaimed materials from their local timber-recycling centre in the main.

While in Glasgow, Al Blair, a seasoned designer-maker, works 16-hour days on striking industrial-style lighting and furniture, from a creative studio that’s jammed with metal, bolts, gauges, prisms, car headlights and dental-hospital trolley wheels he’s gathered for the last 20 years. All three design outfits could be put in the salvagers and upcyclers niche. Yet each of them has their own design ethic that transcends the tag. Blair for one, is “distraught about the amount of stuff that gets thrown away, but I’m embracing these found pieces because it gets my work up to a level I’m happy with”.

His passion for sourcing has seen him en route to a wedding in a full suit jumping into a skip. He’s “got the whole of the west of Scotland nailed for salvage yards, bric-à-brac yards, antique fairs and scrap yards”.

But he thinks his designs are more rooted in engineering, a profession he started in straight from school, “where I got my training of putting things together”. Looking at one of his beautifully constructed lamps with integrated antique typewriter keys, or one of the gauges he’s reworked into a £600 clock, it’s easy to see this learned craftsmanship — and that his so-called “junk” is of a certain standard.

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