Meetings

Cassie Rowland and Henry Tovey are the co-founders of Gather Design, a young British furniture company on a mission to rethink how furniture is designed, made and sold. Gather designs and sells tables, seating and storage crafted from sustainably sourced native UK ash, and works through a regional network of independent makers so that every piece is built within sixty miles of the customer's home. The pair have built the business around values of transparency, craftsmanship and environmental responsibility — each piece carries a scannable chip tracing its journey from woodland to home — and a percentage of every sale is reinvested into a grant scheme that funds tools, training and apprenticeships for the makers in their community. Their aim is to move customers away from cheap, anonymous imports and to help revive the legacy of British cabinetmaking, one locally made piece at a time.

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 for retail customers and end users. Nearly forty years later, and 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 Jones managed to combine his flare for making with a passion for sharing a range of skills that if not practiced might one day no longer be part of our lives. Time spent making things by hand today is perhaps the single most important investment we can make for our future. Make things well and build them to last using materials and techniques that complement our natural resources.

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