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Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

Our Christmas Opening Times:

Christmas Day - closed

Boxing Day - closed

Tuesday Dec 27th - closed

Wed Dec 28th - Sat Dec 31st - OPEN 11.00 - 5.00

New Year’s Day - closed

Mon Jan 2nd - OPEN 11.00 - 5.00

Enjoy the break and come see us soon!!

All the best for 2012….

Chris

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Colour at Christmas

Friday, November 25th, 2011

“So here it is….Merry Christmas…everybody’s having fun”….actually you can catch ‘The Woodstock Snow Stars’ playing that at ‘A Night of a Thousand Candles’ on Woodstock’s lovely town square, Sat Nov 26th, 6.00pm - turn on of the town’s lights etc…

and .. (it leads on nicely!!)…. they will also be playing at the preview party for December’s ‘art in the furniture store’ exhibition ‘Colour at Christmas’ which will then run throughout December…..

Preview Party:                            Fri Dec 2^nd 6.30 – 10.00.pm:   art, jewellery, gifts, log fire, mulled wine, other wines, nibbles and live music from an array of musicians culminating in a performance by ‘The Woodstock Snow Stars’! 

 

The exhibition introduces you to the wacky world of Joanna Scoones whose colourful fun pictures please little ones and adults alike and are guaranteed to make you smile… Christmas cards, prints that can be personalised on the spot, cute stocking fillers, perfect prezzies for under the tree…. Expect harebrained characters, naughty reindeers, cheeky elves, goofy giraffes, funny elephants, pretty ballerinas, swashbuckling pirates …..and lots more to boot!     

Hotmetal jewellery, designed by Jo Mitchell and featuring brightly coloured metals, glass and silver….     

                                                                

Mary-Lou Crown’s collection of sterling silver fashion accessories - simple, elegant and contemporary jewellery.

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

Also on show, will be a dazzling array of Christmas gifts for all pockets and tastes – candlesticks, clocks, glass, figures, lighting, ceramics, mirrors, platters etc., all tastefully displayed around the room sets of stunning furniture -  the trademark of The Real Wood Furniture Company…

 

 

Some of you may remember that in previous years we have celebrated ‘A Night of Colour’ which last year became ‘A Weekend of Colour’ …and this year to help counter ‘austerity measures and cut backs’ we are pushing the boat out and celebrating for the whole month!!

or visit anytime Mon - Sat 10.30 - 5.30, Sun 11.00- 5.00

Each month we unveil a new ‘furniture piece’ and this month we present a stunning waney edged slab of polished ‘Molave’  from the Philipinnes as a coffee table and a brand new addition to our furniture range - a cheval mirror in  oak and burr oak.

 

Please RSVP for the party to: colour@rwfco.com / tel: 01993 813887        

 Think Christmas, think a visit to The Real Wood Furniture Company…

See you soon…and all the best for the festive season!

Chris

 

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From Wales to Woodstock….

Friday, October 28th, 2011

It’s all art at the moment!!!  Art in Woodstock from Oct 22nd - 30th with 60 artists exhibiting in 25 venues around the town - 8 of them with us!!….and then straight into our November exhibition with the lovely Sarah Moncrieff         

         

 art, wine, log fire (yes…winter has come) and live music from ’tp and woodman’….    

Sarah is a qualified lawyer, teacher of art and an accomplished artist who has exhibited widely. Her work brings a freshness to familiar Oxfordshire scenes and to interpretations of landscapes she discovers, when indulging her passion for trekking in the wilderness.  She will be in the gallery, on the preview evening, to meet guests.  

The exhibition will run throughout November.

Each month we unveil a ‘one off’ furniture piece and this month we present a small coopered oak barrel from France, made to distribute cognac, with its own set of eight shot glasses.  The work won the maker, the accolade of ‘best craftsman in France’ at the time it was made in the 1930s and is truly ‘scrumptious’!!  We will also be offering a superb cherry and chestnut coffer, also made in France around 1750.  It has amazing deep relief diamond panels to the front and sides and a patina that ‘glows’.

 

We hope to see you!  Watch out for news of ‘Colour at Christmas’ …coming this way soon!!

 

 

 

         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All the best

Chris

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The rain in Spain falls mostly on Wales…..

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Well…shock horror…I have been away!!  I spent a week at a fab place near Velez Rubio in Andalucia learning how to watercolour…something I have wanted to do for a while.  You can learn, chill, walk…whatever takes your fancy really, in the middle of nowhere with amazing vistas, great food, eco accommodation etc.  My work will NOT be on display soon, (but checkout www.losgazquez.com) 

We will however be displaying as our  artist for October in the  ’art in the furniture store series’, the work of   

PETER ROSS                                                       

You are warmly invited to the

PRIVATE VIEW PARTY                                      FRI OCT 7th 6.30 - 9.00pm      

in our Woodstock showrooms     

Peter paints about his childhood in the 1950s and 60s in South Wales with the themes of conflict, journeys, faces and cultural/literary figures.  

Peter has had numerous one person and joint shows. He has also taken part in the Royal Academy Summer Show and in the Welsh Artist of the Year Show.  We very much hope to emulate the success of the Rod Craig exhibition, during which we have sold 15 original works!

Our ‘one off’ furniture pieces  to be unveiled Fri Oct 7th are two stunning pieces of antique Chinese elm - a Shanxi dresser base with 3 drawers above 2 doors (about 5ft long) and a lovely low ‘kang’ table about (3ft long, 18″ high).

We hope you will be able to join us for great art, great furniture, fine wines, fun and live music….

Chris, James, Scrumps & the team

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Encore du vin….encore Rod & welcome to ‘HoneyArt’

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

art in the furniture store….

It’s happened again…another month past and another ‘Private View’ party and exhibition  to tell you about…or not quite….        

Due to a great response, some serious sales and the fact that a lot of you have been on holiday, we are extending Rod Craig’s exhibition until the end of September.  New pieces will be unveiled on the evening of :

Friday 2nd September 6.30 - 9.00pm

At the party and over the weekend, between 12.00 and 4.00pm Rod will be ‘painting in the furniture store’…so come along and see ‘art in action’!

We also welcome Georgina Jane Honey, a young artist  who will be ‘debuting’  her work, which she calls ‘HoneyArt’, with us.  She will be showing a small number of selected pieces and in the spirt of ‘art in action’ she will be ‘body painting’ during the party….

add to this mix, some nice wines, Pimms if the weather holds, some cool music and some nice people,  and we hope to have another busy evening.

This month’s ‘feature’ furniture piece will be a stunning burr elm centre piece bowl, hand hollowed, with natural features…a wood person’s delight!

We look forward to seeing you at the party or during the month…..

and don’t forget, we still have some Daren Greenhow sculptures in our garden, guarateed to make you smile…

time for a ‘petit verre’…

 

A Bientot…

Chris

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