Derek Jones — Former Editor, Furniture & Cabinetmaking

Derek Jones began working with antique furniture at the age of fourteen as a Saturday boy in a restoration workshop in Brighton. What followed was a couple of decades of design and commercial manufacture within the industry. Nearly forty years later, the skills acquired back in that little workshop have become an important part of his working methodology today: good construction and a careful choice of materials with a nod to the past. As editor of the UK’s premier woodworking magazine, Furniture & Cabinetmaking (2008–2018), Derek managed to combine his flair for making with a passion for sharing a range of skills that if not practised might one day no longer be part of our lives.