Bodging Milano came about when artist and designer Chris Eckersley was asked to design a chair for Dave Green's furniture company. The resulting chairs - called 'Arden' - were a development on the standard English Windsor Chair.
The Arden project led to an interest in traditional chair making and production, so when Chris came across Gudrun Leitz's chairmaking courses on the internet he thought he should go green-woodworking (a.k.a 'bodging') himself to see what it was like. He sent some pictures from the week's activities to Rory Dodd at Designersblock who said: wouldn't it be great to do something like that and present it at the most important furniture fair in the world, the Salone del Mobile in Milano? So Bodging Milano was born. Gudrun agreed to begin her programme of courses a week early, Chris told his furniture friends, and before we knew it we had a group of the UK's finest designers ready to bodge at Clissett Wood, in deepest Herefordshire.
The Arden project led to an interest in traditional chair making and production, so when Chris came across Gudrun Leitz's chairmaking courses on the internet he thought he should go green-woodworking (a.k.a 'bodging') himself to see what it was like. He sent some pictures from the week's activities to Rory Dodd at Designersblock who said: wouldn't it be great to do something like that and present it at the most important furniture fair in the world, the Salone del Mobile in Milano? So Bodging Milano was born. Gudrun agreed to begin her programme of courses a week early, Chris told his furniture friends, and before we knew it we had a group of the UK's finest designers ready to bodge at Clissett Wood, in deepest Herefordshire.