News 2008

NEWS 2008

APRIL 2008

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF MAKING FURNITURE FOR OXBRIDGE COLLEGES

On 28 April, Luke Hughes & Company celebrated 20 years designing and making furniture for Oxbridge colleges by hosting a drinks party in the spectacular setting of the Old Divinity School in the Bodleian Library. Over those two decades, Luke Hughes & Company have now worked for 54 out of the 68 colleges and halls in Oxford and Cambridge. For the most part, this has meant furniture for the public spaces of college and university buildings including dining halls, chapels, libraries, accommodation and special meeting rooms. It was especially poignant to introduce to the distinguished guests Alan Harvey, who has been working alongside Luke Hughes & Company for nearly a quarter of a century and whose team has been responsible for a lot of the fine craftsmanship made during that time. Guests included those from Christ Church and Merton (both amongst the company's earliest and longest-standing clients), as well as All Souls, Balliol College, Brasenose College, Corpus Christi College, Harris Manchester College, Keble College, Lady Margaret Hall, Lincoln College, New College, Hertford, St Antony's College, St Cross, St Hugh's, Trinity College, University College and the University Estates Department.


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MARCH 2008

ST MARY'S WOODBRIDGE - ARTICLE IN 'CHURCH BUILDING' MAGAZINE

This feature describes the re-ordering of the east end of one of the finest churches in Suffolk. Almost entirely 15th century, this tall and beautifully elegant parish church had undergone numerous changes that, over time, had left the east end in a 'bit of a muddle'. The space was cramped and cluttered and did not suit today's pattern of worship were flexibility and wider community issues are increasingly important.

The article describes the close collaboration of both the architect and client with Luke Hughes and Company in realising a space that reflected the original simplicity and elegance of the church, whilst providing a setting for contemporary use.

Luke Hughes & Company provided portable choir stands, benches, clergy seating, choir seating, and a nave altar and altar rails that all combined to create a harmonious group that could be reconfigured to suit the demands of modern worship and secular activity.

Full article from 'Church Building' magazine


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FEBRUARY 2008

The brief from PROVIDENCE EQUITY was to design and manufacture 'the best table in London'.

TDA Interiors created a contemporary interior which perfectly complemented the Providence Equity's classic Georgian building in George Street. London. Luke Hughes & Company supplied a series of large and small Capital meeting tables, Athena dining tables and smaller Curzon meeting tables.

The brief for the Capital meeting tables included a reconfiguration facility were 2 individual meeting tables in adjoining rooms could be combined to create a massive 34 seater boardroom table. Reconfiguration involves opening the divider screen beween rooms and connecting tables in each room by additional table leaves.

The tables were finished in american black walnut with a maple profile edge and a glass textured decorative centre panel.
All tables were AV compatible.

TDA Interiors


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FEBRUARY 2008

Update on THE THEATRE ROYAL, BURY ST EDMUNDS from an article in COUNTRY LIFE

David Ashstead writes in this month's Country Life about the restoration of the Theatre Royal, the sole surviving Regency playhouse in England. Dating from 1819 the theatre spent it's last 80 years as beer store with a brief period of reprieve in the 60's and 70's when an attempt was made to reopen it as a theatre. In 1987 the National Trust took an interest and the theatre re-opened in 2007 following a £5.3 refurbishment.

There is no better way to describe the involvement and role of Luke Hughes and Company in this project than to paraphrase David Ashstead in Country Life:

"... One of the greatest triumphs has been the design of the elegant, continuous seating in the Pit and the new seats in the boxes of the Dress and Upper Circles. Luke Hughes's impossibly slim hardwood seating, with its subtle upholstered surfaces, is a product of 21st century engineering and craftsmanship, yet its form was guided by extensive research into the benches that 18th and 19th century theatregoers endured..."

Full article from 'Country Life' magazine


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