#david pye

[carpentrix]

Quality in craftwork depends on three things, according to furniture designer David Pye. Care, judgement, and dexterity. He repeats the words over and over in The Nature and Art of Workmanship. With care, I take it to mean attention, a focused tuning in, the ultimate form of care. With judgement, I take it to mean honest discernment, an ability to look, openly, and assess, to see not what you want to see but to see what is, and in doing so, thereby see the possible routes to what you want. And with dexterity, I take it to mean, be it in carving a spoon, or in love, how intention is translated to touch.

[philipmitton]

workmanship using any kind of technique or apparatus, in which the quality of the result is not predetermined, but depends on the judgment, dexterity, and care which the maker exercises as he works

David Pye on The Workmanship of Risk

[puyette]

One of hilarious reads 😅

[progressiveartstudios]

John Hartman

Material in the raw is nothing much. Only worked material has quality, and pieces of worked material are made to show their quality by men, or put together to so that together they show a quality which singly they had not. “Good material” is a myth. English walnut is not good material. Most of the tree is leaf-mold and firewood. It is only because of workmanlike felling and converting and drying and selection and machining and setting out and cutting and fitting and assembly and finishing - particularly finishing - that a very small proportion of the tree comes to be thought of as good material.

    - David Pye, The Nature and Art of Workmanship

John Hartman skillfully works within the tangible, tactile boundaries of a small-scale process and commitment to good workmanship. Within this intimate context, he engages wood without conceptual boundaries, exploring utility, mimesis, and sculptural invention freely. Through the tradition of woodworking, Hartman is able to realize a wide range of possessable objects that evoke a sense of elegance and great integrity.

Hartman is a Manhattan-based artist who has been working in Pure Vision’s studio since 2013. From Pure Vision: 

Hartman’s “main passion is woodcarving. John was introduced to the craft at the age of eleven, in wood shop at The Rudolph Steiner School. He began by crafting a cherrywood flour scoop. Instantly drawn to the medium, he slowly started teaching himself how to make more complicated objects. Collecting rare woods from around the world such as ebony, zebra wood, Philippine mahogany and bloodwood, John now spends hours in the studio and at home carving, whittling, sanding and polishing each piece. Inspired by visits to his family’s seaside home on Fire Island, his subjects often reference birds and sea creatures.” (more)

[leliosworld]

[alltomorrowmusic]

stream: The Soft - 'Uncanny Valley' EP

Suffolk three-piece audio/ visual outfit The Soft are streaming their debut EP, Uncanny Valley, in full online. Set to drop on September 24 via Brooklyn imprint Ceremony, the four-track collection was co-produced by veteran Luke Abbott and David Pye, who engineered the last Wild Beasts record. Check it out below and pre-order it here. (via)

[wwwchamck-blog]

Written by Blaenavon Produced, Recorded and Mixed by David Pye at the Fish Factory, London Mastered by Guy Davie at Electric "They might not be old enough to buy booze just yet but Blaenavon prove, when it comes to making beautiful, understated gems, age really is just a number"

[cookemonster]