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Finally the printable version is available as an E-craftbook. Print these repeatable units on paper (old or new paper). Requirements: A printer, scissors, paper glue and time to relax.

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 E-craftbook presents the inspiration, technique, simple making step by step guide and the all important printable templates for making the JW 002 wall display in various sizes.

Workshop at The Museum of Copenhagen for Culture Night 2011.

Fantasy Design in the Community workshop, Gent, Belgium 2011.

The download includes a printable template in two different sizes. These can be printed on various types of paper, old and new.

Extracts from book.

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INVITATION

THE MUSEUM OF COPENHAGEN, VESTERBROGADE 59.

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 TrampArt making workshop. Here my milk carton wall displays will be on show and people passing through the museum will be able to cut up milk cartons and contribute to a new wall display. Plus make their own mini wall displays using left over brochures that have been collecting dust in the museum store rooms.

TRASH OPENING – FRIDAY OCTOBER 14TH 2011 AT 2.30 PM

CULTURE NIGHT – FRIDAY OCTOBER 14TH 2011 AT 19 – 21 PM

Washing of milk cartons collected from the coffee shops around Enghave Plads in Copenhagen; Kaffeplantagen, kaffeslabberasen and The One With No Name. Along with some much appreciated help from the Business Creatives from KEA D&B.

Nearly finished

Cutting of earlier Water Drop from 2007. I forgot how long it took.

Old account books that went to waste that year.

old routes never travelled.

Dialogue stool from 2009.

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 on my way home, slowly collecting the many legs that I needed.

The chair was originally for an exhibition, for which I had deadlines. As time ran out, I got on my bike and went and collected up the remaining legs. This was the last trip I made on this particular bike, as it went missing later that same day and since then, I have not come home with any more legs for building.

Information from The Museum of Copenhagen. http://www.copenhagen.dk/en/

Mayors Pia Allerslev, Culture and Leisure Administration and Ayfer Baykal, Technical and Environmental Administration, will open the exhibition. Musician Martin Ullits Dahl will perform a work composed especially for the occasion: An interaction of real sounds recorded at rubbish dumps and incineration plants. As a part of the performance children of all ages are invited to create music on home made instruments made from trash. There will be served “studenterbrød”, rubbish dump sweets, snacks, organic juice and beer.

Trash is integral to city life. We live daily with and alongside rubbish. We reuse and recycle, we throw away and scrap. TRASH! is an exhibition for children and adults on how Copenhagen throughout  the ages has treated it’s rubbish and waste. Take a dive with a dumpster into the depths of a supermarket rubbish bin, hear city teenagers speak of their own consumption, tell us your own throw away stories and meet the dust man on his early morning route through Copenhagen.

Enter a universe of city rubbish, dump stories and trashed building materials.

SE is coming of age – 30 rich and eventful summers have gone by, and that calls for celebration!

For this years SE Autumn Exhibition 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 gift. I have asked myself what could be the furniture equivalent of donating a goat to a third party. I have worked with Københavns MøbelSnedkeri and the result is a Goat of a Gift, consisting of Goat as well as a Kid offspring. This Goat and Kid can be seen at Designmuseum Danmark, 68 Bredgade in Copenhagen.

Dates / 13-30 October 2011. Hours / Tuesday through Sunday 11 – 17 / Mondays closed

Shaving Goat, based on the traditional Folk Art Shaving Horse tool. (Cut by CNC, hand finished by whittling knife)

Kid goat offspring, home spun from the Shaving Goat.

Process starts with a walk in the woods. Slowly collecting sticks. If I’m thinking this could be done as a weekend break, it will require a couple of weekends.

Making process, some whittling and knotting.

Early testing of the weaving process. If a seven year old can, we all can.

Small scale testing of the theory.

See the result at the Opening – Thursday, 13 October at 17:00.



FOLLOWING TEXT FROM SE ABOUT THE OPENING AND EXHIBITION..

The party is held in a tent, so please bring a warm sweater.

The SE members have been asked to bring a gift of a piece of furniture. It’ll be fun to see what they have come up with. I know that there is going to be a goat, a flying carpet and other exciting things, so do come and join us in celebrating the new furniture, the love of the craft, the cooperation, the association and the community.

Happy birthday greetings

SE – the Cabinetmakers’ Autumn Exhibition

The Cabinetmakers’ Autumn Exhibition is under the protection of HRH Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark

After the commissioned Diamond Lamp for ‘Billiedskolen’ and the ‘Wednesday 5 o’clock Class’ making their own lamps, their work caught the attention of ’Fantasy Design in community’ resulting in an invite to talk at the Fantasy Design Conference on design Education – ‘Involving Children and young people in designing the future’. Held in an old monastery in Gent, Belgium. I was asked to talk about the theme ’Design for all’ so I spoke about my desirers to be Robyn Hood.

Link to Billiedskol i Tvillinghallen 

Link to Fantasy Design in Community

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 38 new chairs centring on a white colour theme’.

‘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, moody sky at the top). Besides coloured paper I used old books about planes, so parts of planes now fly through the sky. In referance to the history of Tvillingehallen, the building was once a slaughterhouse, I found an appropriate book and used it to make the sky a little overcast and to dot the landscape with cattle.

The Art School is for children and young adults who come into the school on different days of the week. I set up the Silent Circus in the entrance and slowly made the lamp, spread over a week, so all  the students got to see the lamp in progress. I then had to take it home to finish it, these things are not quick to make, plus the children kept interrupting me.

Besides me making a lamp for the school, I also introduced the JW006 E-craftbook to the Wednesday 5 o’clock class, who all made their-own Diamond Shade lamps over the following couple of Wednesdays. I’ll post the results of that seperatly.

Almost forgot, this lamp can be downloaded as an E-craftbook, you can make your own.

http://www.walton.dk/walton/lamps/diamond-shades/jw-006-diamond-shade-e-craftbook/

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 if the pride and passion of the local needle felting artisan can be utilised in the process of furniture making? Can local hobby artists be utilised by larger industry? The result of the project is a time consuming Zen like process of drilling holes and then pulling loops of wool through them, followed by the freedom to sculpt wool.

The longer story.

It may need explaining that the original title of the SE exhibition, when the brief first came out, was DANISH NOW – WHITE OUT. For graphic simplicity the exhibition title was cropped to WHITE OUT.

The overall form of the ‘We Love Freedom’ chair is a combination of perfect milking stool and honest big beautiful butt. This was some deeper elaborated personal reflection about my own view of Scandinavia. After 14+ years I am pretty much resigned to being DANISH NOW.

The milking stool reflects my original, probably naive, typecast and limited image of Scandinavia, based on beautiful milkmaids, perfection, naturists and an energetic freedom of running through long grass. (I’ve since learnt Denmark is not part of Switzerland and milk stools are in fact much lower to the ground, to enable one to get under the cow and milk it).

The felted arse part of the stool is a reflection of knowing better. The exhibition WHITEOUT rules, (under the guise of being a theme), lead me to thinking along the lines of ‘the Danes relaxed attitude to exposing their white bits’.

So that all make sense now, yes?

oh well.

The looping process involves taking pleasure in drilling holes. A loop of wool is pulled through the hole; this is enough to keep it in place. Anyone is welcome to use the Looping technique as a folk art technique. One day I’ll get around to illustrating Looping as a folk art technique, but until then, get in touch and I will be happy to talk you through some tips. I have some projects in mind.

It is a simple, yet time consuming pleasure. I like to think that the process could be passed on from generation to generation with each generation felting their old woollen jumpers into the chair. It is basically a simple upholstery process that anyone can quite easily and affordably get involved with.

For more practical use, the looping process is better reversed, so the loops are on the outside and the layered area, that can be replenished and patched, is used to sit on as padding.

I was lucky, in that it turned out that Københavns Møbelsnedkeri had contacts in their families that are fans of needle felting, not only on their door step, but living with them. So they put us in touch with Mai-Britt Eschen. She had never done anything quite as big as this before, but we got some advice from Denmark’s professional needle felt artisans and we worked things out.

The brief for the Butt was to make a big beautiful butt, it is meant to be a well formed arse that is scaled up a little. Like a big stone sculptural arse. We could have used a slightly cheaper wool in building up the form, had we know at the time. We did however use old jumpers to help build up the form. Plus we used the old jumpers and some black wool to give the Butt a slight texture. It is also soaped, which all helps to prevent it from looking like a big teddy bear butt.

For developing commercial designs involving free forming and felt looping please also get in touch. Even better if it will utilise local passion and improve the enjoyment of furniture production.

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 a clear outlook and 38 white chairs measuring 80 x 80 x 120 cm. Again this year, the association´s members and the guest exhibitors have unfolded their playful side and developed 38 innovative prototypes condensed from a sea of snow-white concepts, technical challenges and painstaking detailing.

As always with the Cabinetmakers´ Autumn Exhibition, the association´s furniture manufacturers team up with the association´s designers to create experimenting furniture in a non-commercial forum – with the goal of setting innovation free and working from a non-profit-oriented agenda. In the Cabinetmakers´ Autumn Exhibition ANYTHING is possible. We are proud to be able to present some 40 crisp, innovative and adventurous furniture pieces every year that lead the industry down new paths that may or may not point to a way for commercial exploration.

DesignYouMake E-craftbook presenting the ‘download and make’ JW oo5 Neo Tramp Art lampshade. The NeoTramp Art lampshade is about love and commitment, it is a simple and repetitive process that takes ages to make.

The E-craftbook presents the inspiration, technique, simple making step by step guide and hanging directions.

JW oo5. Neo Tramp Art Shade.

The NeoTramp Art lampshade is about love and commitment, it is a simple and repetitive process that takes ages to make.

The process is simple to master and can be quickly demonstrated to a friend. So the making of this lamp can be done with the help of some friends, who may have thought they were just popping around for coffee.

The E-craftbook, JW oo5 NeoTramp Art lampshade, presents the directions about how to make a ‘Trunk Folding Press Tool’ for use to manufacture tubes from postcards. It also includes directions for hanging the lamp using fishing wire, plus some unsubstantiated misconceptions about original Tramp Art by Jeremy Walton. Adding to the gossip and hearsay, where misconceptions become truths.

You are looking at about 20 hours making time, so relax and enjoy.

Traditional Tramp Art

The technique is based on the ideology behind Traditional Tramp Art, the use of readily available materials and tools that are freely available today. It also requires the Tramp Art techniques of repetition, dedication and love. Making the shade is a celebration, so the fact they take ages to make is a bonus, why rush a good thing.

Example screen shots from the 24 page JW oo5 Neo Tramp Art Lampshade E-craftbook

Includes: 24 page pdf with: inspiration, technique, simple making step by step guide and tips.

Materials:

• Post cards.
• Wood Glue.
• Fishing wire.

Tools and Techniques:

• Scissors.
• Clothes pegs.

$6 Download and make

Text Extracts

‘Design is knowledge, Craftsmanship is a state of mind.’

It is not an intention of mine to find ways to recycle materials, as waste materials should be recycled in larger quantities and used again in industry. But when you see these materials used, an appreciation of their beauty and value as a usable material is gained. This helps people to appreciate a little more of what they normally discard as waste.

I want to include people in the process, to inspire people to make things themselves and subsequently appreciate such home-made craftsmanship. Through making things themselves, people will better appreciate, materials and the craftsmanship of other objects. That’s my theory.

Inspiration

The Copenhagen office workers lamp  The original KKA (København Kontor Arbejdere) lamp started out in 2007 and was inspired by experience with the square structure of the milk carton ‘Water Drop’ wall Display. This, coupled with the big issue of the time, office workers suffering with stress, lead to the idea of developing a lampshade that could relieve stress and allow for smuggling office supplies out of the office, under the guise of being a healthy office worker. Due to the lamp taking ages to make, development of the lamp was slow and eventually narrowed down to the current use of postcards, thus losing the office stockroom connection and taking on a coffee house direction, as this is where the free postcards are found. Along with the aforementioned office workers.  Inspiration is a starting point and that is generally how it came about, but did not end up, for the time being.

Technique

Traditional Tramp Art

The technique is based on the ideology behind Traditional Tramp Art, the use of readily available materials and tools that are freely available today.

It also requires the Tramp Art techniques of repetition, dedication and love. Making the shade is a celebration, so the fact they take ages to make is a bonus, why rush a good thing.

The trunk folding press.

A simple tool that clamps sheet metal firmly in position and then, with the help of pivotal leverage, creates a controlled straight fold.

This trunk tooling press principal will be used on a mini scale. In part 2 we shall make our own ‘Mini Trunk Folding Press’, made of card. We then use this tool to fold more cards, these are in fact almost identical to the ‘Mini Trunk Folding Press’.

Seen from an industrial view point, we shall first make one ‘Mini Trunk Folding Press’ that will help make many ‘Mini Trunk Folding Press’ tools. The whole lamp is made of ‘Mini Trunk Folding Press’ tools, made to the rhythm of industry.

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.

Jette Mellgren is an expert at weaving anything that can bend.

The chair is made of urban drift wood, reclaimed cables, beads, willow, pride and passion.

The original concept was to make the leg beads from scratch after a set design. These legs are then tied together using extra beads as spacers. The original leg beads allow the easy weaving of various materials on to the frame.

The original leg beads never happened (not yet anyway, one day) The idea was to work with an industrial furniture producer and explore how to make the process of making furniture can incorporate a little more skill and passion for their workers. We are still working on that idea. So in the mean time old chair parts have been used to get started and move one step closer to testing out the overall idea of producing chairs using the process of beading.

No one makes water fountains anymore.

As if the whole pride and passion and threading beads on a string thing is not complicated enough, there is also a now slightly forgotten and left behind story behind the actual quarter form of the chair. Originating from the dialogue theme of the exhibition, the starting point of the whole project. This is in some way explained in the following story extracts. But basically the chair is meant to be a long forgotten relic from a larger, much larger object. That object being a giant tea cake stand or a little more acceptable, a water fountain. This goes some way to explain why some parts of the chair are broken or missing. Each quarter, has an outward view and room can be given for more than one person to join the dialogue. I leave it there.