DKT Artworks, Split Quill
“In the spirit of collaboration, DKT Artworks came together with Hugh Wedderburn of the Master Carvers Association and Parabola Workshops to create an exceptional piece of furniture.
The idea of using a quill pen as the inspiration for a music stand to commemorate the tercentenary of Thomas Chippendale came from Eoin Ryan, one of DKT’s sculptor/designers. His elegant draughtsmanship brilliantly combined the exquisite hand carving of Hugh Wedderburn, which depicts the flowing organic form of the feather, and the technical ingenuity of Parabola Workshops, which enabled the structural demands of the loading to be resolved so elegantly.
All in all, it is very much a piece made in the spirit of Chippendale, a successor of Grinling Gibbons, as it combines traditional hand skills with contemporary technical know how.”
