nicktudor.co.uk

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Sustainability is a continuous and ongoing concern. It’s also an exciting framework to design and make, providing a challenge that needs to be met, and offers more scope for ingenuity than limitation. Using timber doesn’t resolve the sustainability problem, but it is an excellent place to start. It is regenerative, sequesters carbon as it grows, and stores it once in use. It is incredibly versatile, lending itself to every scale I work at, from buildings to door knobs.

Working with timber today sees you working as a medieval carpenter or on the cutting edge of current technology, and allows a choice in where energy is best spent. Its historic use enriches the design phase too, with centuries of reference material to work with and inform both construction and aesthetic. I am always reviewing how I source timber, working with local arborists and forestry contractors where possible for solid timbers, and local importers for sheet materials.

However, timber can’t be used for everything, but where this is the case, it offers an opportunity to select materials best suited for the job. This could be the case for a building’s foundations or a wardrobe’s hinges, in any case I endeavour to use the best quality materials, hardware, fixings and fasteners, to ensure longevity and efficient outcomes.

Sustainability can represent an expensive choice in comparison to mass manufacture; it requires us to think more carefully about what we buy, what we value and how we look after things. For me these choices have always been enriching; well made things have longevity, a narrative, a sense of value, and a resistance to the disposable consumerism we are so used to.

Nick Tudor is a designer and carpenter living and working on the Dengie peninsula, Essex. His work responds to site and necessity, informed by his research into material, historic carpentry practice and design theory. Arts and crafts for the minimalist.

To discuss a project, idea or an order, please get in touch. Please note that lead-times are approximately 6-8 weeks from time of order.

a: The Cowshed,
Wallums Farm,
Maldon Road,
Bradwell-on-Sea,
Essex,
CM0 7HR

e: info@nicktudor.co.uk
t: +44 (0) 7769 553127
i: @nick_tudor