Bates and Lambourne Furniture makers

Oxford Artweeks is upon us again and we invite you (even more than we normally would) to visit our workshops, check out the chairs, try out the tables, swoon over sideboards, and generally alliterate a lot in the name of fine furniture fashioning. And, we have work boots filled with Geraniums! Read more...

So keen are we to get on with making something else when the last one was finished that we often forget to make proper record of what we made before. So, in an attempt to put right this oversight, my colleague Diane (camera, trigger-finger, and virtual rolls of 35mm celluloid) and I (Granny’s battered vintage Harrods suitcase full of mostly unnecessary lighting equipment) went for a day’s meanderings through the quads, naves and stairwells of Oxford! Read more...

Here’s an unusual project: In 1968 Jimi Hendrix and his girlfriend Kathy Etchingham moved into a flat in 23 Brook St, London, now being given its due credit and being restored to its 1968 state in a permanent Hendrix exhibition. As makers of numerous styles of Windsor, we had the good fortune to be contacted about the 23 Brook Street Project. Read more...

On Thursday 16th July 2009 work began on the restoration of Great Haseley Mill. On Wednesday 25th June 2014 the sails and fan-tail were fitted onto the restored mill, two hundred and fifty-four years after the original sails began turning in 1760. Read more...

Notes from a small workshop: Insight Queen’s College Library. An article on the Queen’s College Library refurbishment undertaken by Bates and Lambourne. Read more...