Lawrence Neal

Welcome to this website, which I will hope will inform you about my beautiful, traditional, hand made rush seated chairs. Each step of the manufacturing process is carried out by myself, from gathering and preparing rushes cut from selected rivers locally, through the aquisition of the best traditional timbers from managed woodland, to the working of the wood and finishing of the chairs themselves. My workshop is along traditional lines, using tools and patterns some of which were used by Gimson almost a century ago.