Jeremy Broun
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Jeremy Brounis a Britishfurniture designer maker,writer, film maker and musician.
His Caterpillar Rocking Chair in 1984 was described as, 'visually stunning, a good combination of colour, structure and practicality... and has the advantage of being a truly original idea: just asSaarinenand his pedestal chairs converted four chairlegs into one' (An Encyclopedia of Chairs- The Apple Press).
He won aWinston ChurchillTravel Scholarship toSweden,FinlandandItalyin 1979 and in the same year was elected a Fellow of The Society of Designer Craftsmen, the originalArts and CraftsExhibition Society founded byWilliam Morris.Since 1980 he has been a member of theCrafts CouncilIndex of Selected Makers.
He has exhibited at theRoyal Society of Artsand the Ars Nova Museum inFinland.
His work was included in the 'First Sale of Contemporary British Crafts' atSotheby'sin 1980 and in 2002 at the Centenary exhibition celebrating theHill Housedesigned byCharles Rennie Mackintosh.In 1989 he gained TheWorshipful Company of Furniture MakersAmbrose Heal Award for his craft documentary films. He has written numerous articles on woodworking and design including "Furniture Today" anda History of (Furniture) Designer Makersin 2005. In 2006 Broun was voted 'Professional Woodworker of the year 2005' by The Woodworker magazine. In 2007 Broun set up his own publishing company and launched The Revised Bespoke edition of his first book 'The Incredible Router'. In 2008 he was invited to become a freelance inspector for TheBritish Accreditation Councilfor independent further and higher education. As a musician Jeremy plays theelectro-acousticguitarsthat he makes and can occasionally be heard busking on the streets of his home town Bath and has performed at theBath Fringe Festival.In 2009 he was elected a Fellow ofThe Royal Society of Artsand in 2015 he resigned expressing concern that he felt the Society had drifted from its core aims to promote the Arts and Manufacturing. Since 2010 he has been a judge for theAlan Peters[1]Award for Excellence for furniture makers under 30 years of age.
List of selected books by Jeremy Broun
[edit]- Electric Woodwork: Power Tool Woodworking(ISBN0-946819-26-2)
- The Encyclopedia of Woodworking Techniques(ISBN0-7472-7845-8)
- The Incredible Router(ISBN0-946819-17-3)
- Woodwork Now: The Best of Old and New Methods(ISBN0-7134-7269-3)
- The Revised Bespoke Edition of The Incredible Router+ CD-Rom. Published 2007.
- Alan Peters - The Makers' Maker.Published 2009.
References
[edit]- ^"Alan Peters".Telegraph.co.uk.Retrieved10 June2017.