I’ve been bending bars together with inmates working in the metal workshop at The Institution at Herstedvester in Copenhagen. Exploring what gives meaning to the maker.
I am exhibiting ‘Untitled Bent Bars’ (quite literally) at this years SE exhibition in Copenhagen. The exhibition theme is Sculptural Furniture.
The printable version of the original JW001 milk carton version is now layed out and ready to download as an craft ebook. Available at www.DesignYouMake.com
My Dialogue stools will be finding a home amongst the trash at The Museum of Copenhagen’s exhibitionabout trash in the city. On the night of the opening, coinciding with Copenhagen Culture Night, I shall be running a Neo Tramp Art making workshop.
SE is coming of age – 30 rich and eventful summers have gone by, and that calls for celebration! For this years SE Autumn Exhibition 2011 the theme is giving a gift,Gifting, as it is SE’s 30 year anniversary. From this theme I have worked on the community action of giving a goat instead of …
A Stone in Hand I have heard about an old rural principal, how farmers always came home with a stone in hand. In this way, over time, their field is cleared of one more stone while providing one more stone for building. Over a period of a few weeks, I picked up discarded chairs while …
Fantasy design in Community and Fantasy Design Conference on design Education 2011. Photos showing the lamps of ’Billiedskolen i Tvillinghallen Wednesday 5 o’clock class’. After doing the commissioned Diamond Shade for ‘Billiedskolen’ the ‘Wednesday 5 o’clock Class’ helped in making their own lamp shades, their work caught the attention of ’Fantasy Design in Community’. Resulting in an …
THE WHITEOUT EXHIBITION GOES TO TOKYO DESIGN CENTER 2. – 8. APRIL 2011 SE release: ‘For the first time ever, the Cabinetmakers` Autumn Exhibition (SE) is taking an entire exhibition abroad to show its special take on Danish furniture design. Tokyo Design Centre will provide the perfect framework for Whiteout, SE`s latest exhibition consisting of …
Commissioned Diamond Shade – Handmade by Jeremy Walton, 2010. Using the craft ebook JW006 Dimension 80cm x 60cm x 60cm. Various selected paper, salvaged books and some Folk Art magic. ‘Billedskolen i Tvillingehallen’ commissioned the making of a Diamond Shade for their meeting room. I based the lamp on traditional landscape painting, (rectangle landscape, green at the bottom, …
A project utilising local skills, pride & passion. By Jeremy Walton. (Københavns Møbelsnedkeri & Mai-Britt Eschen) 2010 Made with Corian, Wool, Old Woollen Jumpers, Pride & Passion. As part the SE 2010 WHITE OUT exhibition. I’ll cover the longer story behind the chair below, the most important thing about the project for me, was asking …
The Cabinetmaker’s Autumn Exhibition 2010. Opens in Copenhagen. Ordrupgaard 29. oktober 2010 – 23. januar 2011 White is the new black in the Cabinetmakers Autumn Exhibition 2010, where the theme “Whiteout” refers both to the colour white and to the weather phenomenon, where snow, fog or haze reduces visibility. But the Cabinetmakers´ Autumn Exhibition promises …
Craft eBook available to download and make Designed by Jeremy Walton, 2009. DesignYouMake Craft eBook presenting the ‘download and make’ JW oo5 Neo Tramp Art light shade. It is about love and commitment, it is a simple and repetitive process that takes ages to make. The craft ebook presents the inspiration, technique, simple making step by step …
A process of beading by Jeremy Walton and Jette Mellgren 2009 Chairs made using the simple process of threading beads on a string. Exploring the enjoyment, pride and passion in the production process. Originally made for the 2009 Dialogue exhibition at The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen to coincide with the COP 15 climate change summit. …
The Cabinetmakers’ Autumn Exhibition 2009 invites you to attend the opening of the exhibition Dialogue # a chair that is up for negotiation. Lighting designer Jesper Kongshaug has set the stage for the 35 chairs with an interactive sensory experience of light, shadows, graphics and furniture in the beautiful and historic venue of The Ny …
Handmade Wall Display by Jeremy Walton, 2009. craft ebook jw 003 Out of date road maps of Great Briton. These wall displays use the craft ebook jw 002 available to download at www.DesignYouMake.com
Handmade Diamond shade by Jeremy Walton, 2009. E-craftbook jw 006 Dimension 55 cm x 55 cm x 70 cm. Various selected paper and milk cartons. Lampshade made as part of the Made personally exhibition at Mooment shop. This lampshade uses the e-craftbook jw 006 (available to down load and make your own at designyoumake.com, just $10. Or …
Handmade wall display by Jeremy Walton, 2009. E-craftbook jw 002 Each quarter measurers 50 cm x 50 cm x 7 cm. 100 hundread units. Wall Display using the DesignYouMake E-craftbook jw 002 available to down load and make yourself. (available soon). This is a wall display made up of a single unit that can be rotated to …
Craft eBook available to download and make Designed by Jeremy Walton, 2009. DesignYouMake craft ebook presenting the ‘download and make’ JW oo6 Diamond Shade. The E-craftbook presents the inspiration, technique, simple making step by step guide and the all important templates and A4 print for making the JW oo6 Diamond lampshade.
Installation by Jeremy Walton June 2009. Roskilde Festival The story of the human cannon ball. After 40 years in the business he had the accuracy to propel himself into a bathtub from 300 meters. One final night he over loaded his cannon and created a cloud of smoke that took eight days to clear. It was some …
Lampshades handmade by Jeremy Walton June 2009. Roskilde Festival The lampshades are made of folded panels joined together with virgin clips. A single metal ring sets the shade into its circular form. Unlike my standard Panel Shades these ‘Virgin Trapese Shades’ use salvaged lampshade frames for the metal ring and the rest of the old …
Silent Circus a quiet approach by Jeremy Walton 2009. Roskilde Festival 09 I shall be making lamps in the SoupaNatural tent in the Climate Community of Roskilde Festival 09. All handmade with a knife, metal rule and hours of love. Using waste paper from a local printing firm, waste packaging and selected craft papers. Can production be clean, quiet …
JW 001 Wall Display ‘Making’ by Jeremy Walton 26th April 2009. Kl 12:00 Jeremy Walton and SoupaNatural have teamed up to create a special Sunday afternoon event, a ‘Making’. Come along for Sunday soup and celebrate the process of making on Sunday the 26th April 2009. In groups there will be time for socialising over a …
An open event at SoupaNatural by Jeremy Walton, I shall be making Neo Tramp Art, a lampshade following the soul and ideology of the 19th Century Tramp Art phenomenon. Using commonly found and readily available tools and materials, combined with self invented techniques, I shall be making design creations that rejoice commitment more than perfection. The …
A definition in progress by Jeremy Walton. 2009 A definition of ‘A Do’. To invite some friends around and lay on some sort of appropriate hospitality, such as brunch, lunch or dinner, suitable to the time of day and worthy of the task in hand. Besides everyone lending a helping hand with food preparation, everyone …
The Cabinetmaker’s Autumn Exhibition 2008. Opening on 21 November 2008 at 17:00. All welcome. Exhibition runs from the 22nd November 2008 to the 4th January 2009 at Rundetaarn, Copenhagen. I shall be exhibiting the GlobalMadelocal project, a result of the Fifty Fifty partnership between PP Møbler, København MøbelSnedkeri and Jeremy Walton for the forthcoming SE exhibition Fifty Fifty.
Design by Jeremy Walton, 2008. Developed together with København Møbelsnedkeri. Designed as part of the Global Made Local project and exhibited at SE Fifty fifty. Here space is at a primium and if you can’t fit a pair of step ladders into a broom cupboard, then fit the broom cupboard into the step ladders. The unit consists of …
Design by Jeremy Walton, 2008. Developed together with København Møbelsnedkeri. Designed as part of the Global Made Local project and exhibited at SE Fifty fifty. From the larger area of the room the beams look to be rough beams, while on the inner sides the beams are open shelving, suitable for books and what you might keep on …
Around the globe in 80 chairs, by Jeremy Walton. Islands Brygge has often been referred to as the Manhattan of Copenhagen. It is the home of Københavns MøbelSnedkeri, situated in a road that is probably the last outpost of inner city industry in the area. The lease is short, but while it lasts, the small …
Design by Jeremy Walton, 2008. Developed together with PP Møbler Designed as part of the Global Made Local project and exhibited at SE Fifty Fifty. The Allerød Slant stacking chair is a solid wood chair, designed for single unit production. Developed for the GlobalMadeLocal project. All the angles for a stacking chair that can be made by local …
Around the globe in 80 chairs, by Jeremy Walton. The journey starts in the Danish town of Allerød, or as the locals prefer to write it, Alleryd. [1] There has been much debate in Allerød over the English spelling of Alleryd, with the majority in favour of the spelling that gives the more Danish phonetic …
Around the globe in 80 chairs by Jeremy Walton. Start of a long slow journey. Why do projects need to be completed instantly? I’m looking to develop 80 chairs across the globe following the GlobalMadeLocal ideology, which is to design the item locally in a way that it can be made globally by cabinetmakers. Designed for …
A concept in progress by Jeremy Walton 2008. GlobalMade Local is a proposal presented at the SE 2008 Exhibition in Copenhagen. The ideology while generally considered as too ideological in 2008 is still in progress, slowly, Maybe one day, i’ll pick it up again. If you like the idea of it, or would like to …
DesignYouMake Craft eBook. Design by Jeremy Walton, 2007. The JW001 milk carton version is now layed out and ready to download as a craft ebook. Available at www.DesignYouMake.com A wall display for small treasure. A modern day version of the old recycled Type Case drawers that people hang on their walls and keep small memories in. The craft ebook …
The Cabinetmakers´ Autumn Exhibition 2007 ‘Furniture for when you are old’ I shall be exhibiting ‘Water Drop’ as well as ‘Dance Floor for the Homed’ When are you old? When does old age begin? Are you ever old yourself, or is it only something that happens to other people? Is old age good or bad? …
Design By Jeremy Walton, 2007. Produced with PP Møbler.
As a housebound father, dance-floor nights with my girlfriend are suddenly distant memories. ‘Fight the armchair culture, die on a dance-floor’.
Five day workshop at Krabbesholm art school, based on the DesignYouMake principals. 2007 Workshop based on the DesignYouMake principals, introducing the students to the ideas and possibilities of design as knowledge.´The theme for the workshop will be to design a piece of furniture, where the focus is on the value of creativity.
Design by Jeremy Walton, 2007. Designed to be made by people at home using 484 milk cartons. Dimensions: 160 cm x 160 cm. “A life time of memories in a year’s worth of milk cartons” Designed and made especially for the SE 2007 Autumn Exhibition.
Design by Claus Bjerre, Ditte Hammerstrøm and Jeremy Walton. 2006.
Honey I’m Home exhibition, Danish Design Centre, 2006.
Within a room, a three sided technical drawing of a chair and ceiling lamp is laid out on the side walls and the back wall using hooks. String is then used to draw within the space and the possibilities laidout by the original 2d drawing.
This year, we step outside. Outside the museum space and into a public park that radiates history, beauty and life.
This year’s exhibition focuses on the bold and the welcoming. We set formalities aside for awhile and throw ourselves headlong into a popular public space.
Design by Jeremy Walton 2006
Designed and made for SE 2006 ‘Vennelyst’, Frederiksberg Gardens and The Palaces and Properties agency.
‘Inspired by an appreciation of real Danish life, the humour and personality of the people in Denmark. The ‘Hygge’ in birthdays, family gatherings and raising the flag. The dinner speeches and flag waving. The shorts and the long one at the end.’
The focus was on the students not to ask for appraisal for their individual efforts but to give themselves to the project, to observe the overall picture, allow one thing to lead to another and embody the unpredictable.
CC+ for MoMA, Exhibition 2006. The HyggeLys candle is part of the CC+ for Moma exhibition and will be included in the forthcoming Moma spring catalogue. MoMA Design Store Soho, New York, February 2006 Exhibition Architect: Karen Kjærgaard Text from Danish Crafts Danish Crafts collection CC+ for MoMA brought modern Danish craft and …
‘Design is knowledge, craftsmanship is a state of mind.’
DesignYouMake is about people-led design, it is about involving people in design. It positions design as knowledge rather than an object and craftsmanship as something to be appreciated not judged.
Design by Jeremy Walton, 2005. Candle Collection. The Vintage Candle includes a matchbox that is placed with the printed side visible and uses original vintage and all very different matchbox labels. Adding to the HyggeLys ‘candle with matchbox’ and Colour Match candles. “The labels themselves are brought from matchbox collectors, I only buy the ones …
Design by Jeremy Walton, 2005. Candle Collection The Colour Match consist of colours that vary in relation to season and stock. The colour match candles join the Hyggelys – candle with matchbox extending the range and matching the season. The matchbox in the colour match candles is positioned at the base of the candle. …
Line drawings 0004 to 0006
Design by Claus Bjerre, Ditte Hammerstrøm and Jeremy Walton. 2004.
Each person leaving their own mark, filling in, making patterns, random tying, etc. One person would respond to another, creating often predictable ‘I am going to do something different’ or surprising details of concentration and commitment.
Design by Jeremy Walton 2004 Design and made especially for the SE 2004 – Furniture Haute Couture Exhibition at Danish Design Centre, Copenhagen and Vandalorum Art museum, Smålands Sweden. A chest of drawers. ‘Memorable. I want this chest of drawers to be what no other chest of drawers has ever been before. I want the …
Design by Jeremy Walton Reworked urban driftwood, 2004
Inspiration is taken from found objects. Not only the objects but also the process used to make the components of the furnishings around our homes. These observations are reworked to create something new that can be repeatedly reproduced.
The Fake Dane Collection
A Design process by Jeremy Walton 2004
A slowly expanding collection of objects made using a designed process, where locally found furniture parts (urban drift wood) get used to determine variable end results.
Biennalen 2004.
Curators: Arkitekt Karen Kjærgaard, Guldsmed Ulrik Jungersen and Tekstildesigner Astrid Krogh.
Trapholt from 9/9 to 21/11 2004
Nordjyllands Art Museum from 4/12 2004 to 16/1 2005.
Includes Objects of desire and Shelf Portraits.
Shelf Portraits
Design by Claus Bjerre, Ditte Hammerstrøm and Jeremy Walton. 2004.
Ten people were invited to give a selection of objects from their lofts or cellars storage, in exchange for a nominal payment, of about £15. The objects were to fit a shelf 1 meter long, 28 cm high and 15 cm in depth.
These objects were wrapped together with and onto the shelf, creating a shelf as a new object. The form is predicted by the person, the object becomes a portrait of the person.
Objects of Desire
Design by Claus Bjerre, Ditte Hammerstrøm and Jeremy Walton. 2004.
Shrink plastic has been used to wrap a Jaguar E-type, the plastic has been peeled from the car like a facial mask. The plastic is made up of several layers melted together, creating a laminate that holds the form of the car. The form is obscured by negative space and distortion, similar to a dream the form comes and goes.
Derfor exhibition at Paustian in Copenhagen.
Exhibition by Danish Crafts and curator Louise Campbell. 2003
Exhibition includes the Hyggelys candles, Culture Shrink lampshades and The bench is yours III.
Culture Shrink
Design by Claus Bjerre, Ditte Hammerstrøm and Jeremy Walton. 2003.
The material is polyolefin that shrinks when heated. The most common use of the material is for electrical insulation. Insulation is an important element of lighting that is most often disregarded and hidden.
The bench is yours III
Design by Claus Bjerre, Ditte Hammerstrøm and Jeremy Walton. 2003.
The organisers of Glentavej Plads felt the ‘Bench is yours’ concept fitted their park project and commissioned the starting block to be placed in the park. The local residents built the bench further.
Built at Glentavejplads, Nørrebro, Copenhagen
The organisers of Glentavej Plads felt the ‘Bench Is Yours’ concept fitted their park project and commissioned the starting block to be placed in the park. The local residents built the bench further.
The bench is yours II
Starting with an archetypal chair form, waste and found wood is added on to the bench following the archetype of a basic chair, needing legs, seat and back. Any one can add to the bench with the waste wood. It is a democratic project that cannot be designed in advance. We create the base, there after it is up to the people that use the park to continue where the last person stopped.
The Bench is yours II filmed at Fabbrikken by CYF, 2002. A Culture Corporation project by Claus Bjerre, Ditte Hammerstrøm and Jeremy Walton. A starting block is laid and people use waste wood to add to the bench where the last person left off.
Jeremy Walton has been inspired by matchboxes since moving to Denmark. “The use of candles is an essential ingredient for what in Danish is called ‘Hyggeligt’ – cosy togetherness perfected by Scandinavians. The regular burning of candles results in a noticeable amount of matchboxes in peoples homes”
Design by Jeremy Walton, 2000. Laser cut stainless steel. Dimensions: mm x mm x mm Fold inner section out to create a standing picture frame that can be used portrait or landscape. Keep flat for hanging on the wall. Insert photo and change regularly. Fits standard size photos and postcards.
Design by Jeremy Walton, 2000. Laser cut stainless steel. Dimensions: 10cm x 25cm x 6cm Fold inner sections up to create a special place for keeping small important items, notes and letters to remember.