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Just finished Roger Bennett’s book! This was definitely a great read. Even if your not a fan of @meninblazers you’d still enjoy this book! Makes me want to be bffs with Rog! Highly recommended! On to the next one. #rebornintheusa #rogerbennett #bookworm (at Mount Joy, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CR7rz4vtEWL/?utm_medium=tumblr
#Quadrille #nesttables in #afrormosiawood designed by #RogerBennett for #GPlan and first featured in the New Models Folder of 1967. Roger Bennett attended High Wycombe Technical College where Gordon Gray and Richard Young were also students. Lucian Ercolani of Ercol Furniture taught there. Bennett's student designs of 1956 led to him receiving a bursory from the Royal Society of Arts. Roger Bennett joined G-Plan as a designer in 1962. Sales were low for G-Plan at the time and Bennett's Quadrille Range of 1965 was a line the public liked, so those sales saved G-Plan. Bennett designed the Dragonfly Group sofa and chair for G-Plan in 1966. In 1967 Bennett worked on the initial designs for Form Five, but left G-Plan in 1970. After the success of his tub chair he designed for the Gogo Range from Evans Intl., Bennett worked for Evans from 1975 through 1980. Contact #danishmodernsandiego for purchase and delivery information. For our corporate clients: we have four sets in stock! Call us for delivery to your business. #ebenezergomme #HighWycombe #vintagefurniture #furniturehistory #nestingtables #utilityfurniture #ukmcm #danishmodern #midcenturymodern #homedecor #interiordecor @littleitalysd @best.of.sandiego #ilobsterit (at India Street Antiques / Danish Modern San Diego) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1zqC8rnwJX/?igshid=btvol1kc4mnt
#midcenturymodern #teak #nesttables designed by #RogerBennett for the #Quadrille Range by #GPlan 1967 ~ available now at #danishmodernsandiego in @littleitalysd (at India Street Antiques / Danish Modern San Diego) https://www.instagram.com/indiastreetantiques/p/BwuzvU9HiL_/?igshid=3kd39dan2y0f
Man in blazer Roger Bennett goes back to camp! INTERVIEW
|Woodturner of the Week: Roger BENNETT
Bennett’s bowls in the PORTFOLIO @ Solomon gallery venue on opening night
PORTFOLIO: BASKETRY & WOODTURNING 4 - 26 Sep
"I love wood, the uniqueness of each piece, the history of the tree’s life preserved in the ring patterns and figuring. I delight in the daily interaction between maker and material, the magic of shaping, turning argument into conversation.”
I dream of making a bowl as strong as an eggshell, as heavy as a whisper. Of capturing and fixing my favourite colours – drake mallard green, oil on water, midnight in midsummer, frosty night skies.
Roger Bennett, Indigo Bowl #2, coloured sycamore bowl (indigo), inlaid with silver dots in a spiral pattern
And with silver I can indulge my love of order, imposing my markings on the wood’s surface, complementing the natural flows and eddies of the grain with my precise patterns of dots.
Roger Bennett, Grey Bowl, coloured sycamore bowl (grey), inlaid with silver dots in a plume like pattern
“A completed bowl should satisfy all our senses. Line and form above all else, traced by eye and hand, from rim to base and all around. The smell of wood and oil. And whenever a bowl is right, it sings."
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
National Museum of Ireland
Ulster Museum
Crafts Council of Ireland
Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland
Office of Public Works, Ireland
Dublin Airport Authority
Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii, USA
Columbus State University, Georgia, USA
Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama, USA
Roger Bennett, Blue Bowl, coloured sycamore bowl (blue), inlaid with 6 undulating lines of silver dots
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS SINCE 2007
2014 Is it wood?, Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales
Bravura, Blue Egg Gallery, Wexford
2013-14 Irish Craft Portfolio at RHA, Dublin
2012 Crafts Council Purchase Award, RDS National Crafts
Competition
My Place, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool
Vessels, Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, Co. Kerry
2011 Solo Exhibition, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Conversations with Wood, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2005-13 Irish Craft Portfolio selection
2009 Contemporary Craft Fair, Bovey Tracey, Devon
2008, 2010-12 CraftBoston, International Invited Artist
2007 SOFA New York
2007-11 Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles
Roger Bennett, Indigo Bowl #1, coloured sycamore bowl (indigo), central well inlaid with silver dots in a controlled random pattern
Roger Bennett, Green Bowl, coloured cherry bowl (green), inlaid with 6 undulating lines of silver dots
Opening night for Roger Bennett at PORTFOLIO @ Solomon
Any plans to be in Jerusalem on July 9 and 10? If you happened to see Sukkah City, the 2010 exhibition in Union Square of twelve winning sukkahs, the world premiere of this feature length documentary film at the Jerusalem International Film Festival is not to be missed. It chronicles the design project (conceived by bestselling author Joshua Foer (Moonwalking with Einstein), produced by Roger Bennett and directed by filmmaker Jason Hutt), which challenged architects and designers to rethink the sukkah, an ancient structure whose parameters are laid out in the Bible but which has become, over time, pretty uninspiring and box-like. The film's cast includes architects, scholars, artists and critics including Thom Mayne, Paul Goldberger, Ron Arad, Maira Kalman, and Michael Arad.
