Probably the best 59 minutes and 12 seconds I spent on KZitem in a long time.
@tintinsnowyful
Жыл бұрын
Lovely and thoughtful documentary. Thank you. I appreciate that Sebastian didn't really resolve his dilemma. I see from the comments that some felt he was selling out, others had differing interpretations. My feeling is...do both. Do design work for the Chinese factory as an additional income stream. Do custom and commissioned work that wealthy folks can afford. That way you can keep your lovely team of craftsmen & women employed and busy. I'm reminded of a Volvo advertisement from many years ago where they showed the Volvo ethos of small teams constructing a car from start to finish, instead of focusing on 'manufacturing categories'. I don't know if they still do that but it's nice to see the members of your team keeping that tradition alive.
@johnemmett2969
Жыл бұрын
So disappointing when one reads of negative comment, obviously a very blinked view. A most enjoyable and informative program. Brilliant determination of a one off mind….thank goodness for people everywhere like Sebastian. (And his wife of course).
@mariapilarme
Жыл бұрын
I brought a copy of a French famous furniture maker of the 1600’s made by a cabinet maker in the 1960’s it’s a beautiful thing, every day I admire his craftsmanship. It has bronces outside. Furniture makers are fantastic artist. Turning nature in high art.
@davidcchambers
8 ай бұрын
Brilliantly conceiced and beautifully created. Thank you for sharing Sebastian's story here for the broadest of audiences to consume.
@victoriabakersmith9647
3 ай бұрын
From rewilding, no dig, buy what you need, this is a sensitive relative conversation in 24. Now is the time to plant a tree, sow some seed or ask/snip a cutting. Wonderful film, thank you.
@jraglob5924
Жыл бұрын
Excellent, I make things out of cast off wood. A lot from old pallet wood. I am always amazed at what I find when I mill the wood into a usable product. Often times stripping off the "finish" will reveal some real beauty in just the natural wood itself.
@kevbartley8458
3 ай бұрын
done for woodwork sustainablity what Clarkson has done for farming. Amazing.
@davepowell7168
2 ай бұрын
🤣
@GB-mu9ue
2 ай бұрын
Lmao nice back-handed compliment
@wilbertsabido6019
3 ай бұрын
hermoso documental, felicidades a la enorme creatividad del ched de la madera.. saludos desde mexico..
@daniadejonghe4980
Ай бұрын
by making things that are worth having not only for the immediate present buy for future generations... most 'stuff' is crap, no one will miss it when it is gone. Make something truly beautiful.
@denisewascavage209
11 ай бұрын
Thank you! This question about how much more stuff do we need and our obsession with more and how do we sustain our planet is something that I struggle with everyday.
@thefinchworkshop
7 ай бұрын
Thoroughly enjoyed this and was inspired by the message. I'll look at my hobby in a different light now. More please.
@catakyar
2 ай бұрын
Just a lot of company PR and green washing. Most insidious way of entertaining. Beautifully put together marketing ploy. What's not to love...especially the bit at 55:00 talking about sustainable mass production loool
@souslesbombes
Жыл бұрын
The way he thinks about woodworking is radical. I say that in the best way possible.
@MrSzwedowski
Жыл бұрын
Very well documented film. A lot to think about after watching it.
@fionadrake7431
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful film, heart warming and so talented
@wabio
Жыл бұрын
I've subscribed to just about every woodworking channel on KZitem. I just found yours. The production quality of you documentary is outstanding......like sitting in a movie theater.
@wabio
Жыл бұрын
10:28 Interesting fact. William Morris' designs are still widely prevalent today. The Morris chair has become synonymous with craftsmanship, functionality, and aesthetics. In fact, I'm sitting on one right now. It's become such an adopted design that it now goes by many other names. Mission chair, Craftsman chair, Amish chair, etc.
@MartinClimbs
Жыл бұрын
wonderful film, wonderful ppl
@ericchenard8636
Жыл бұрын
Wow! Amazing furniture! Congratulations on your efforts it is truly inspirational!! Thank you for doing your part in saving the planet.
@paulsehstedt6275
Жыл бұрын
Wonderful cinematic photography and great storytelling.
@ohcnap90
Жыл бұрын
what a fine video, thats all I save to say. Your work is unbelievable in a not not common way.
@joellaycock2735
Жыл бұрын
Very inspirational in so many ways, thanks for sharing
@TheFiown
Жыл бұрын
'Sustainability' is also and for me above all in making things so well made and beautiful that they transcend fashion and time. I always buy second hand furniture because it is cheap, well made usually and has real function. I can't see anyone throwing out something well made and beautiful. In grand old homes there is usually a mix of periods because people didn't get rid of beautiful things, they just added to them. For me the last period of well made and well designed furniture is mid century, it fit's in with most styles and is usually really well made.
@jamesmacdonald5881
Жыл бұрын
Was really liking the ethos at the beginning but ended with a real hypocritical contradiction. Can’t blame him for taking the money and pride, creating a successful business, most would do the same. But can’t pretend that he’s kept to the original core beliefs outlined in the beginning.
@akfisher7138
Жыл бұрын
'family owning woodland' tells you he is rather rich boy....hmmm an now cuts down other's woods, and runs a factory.
@duggaboy
3 ай бұрын
I always like to listen to someone talk themselves into compromise...i mean justification.
@daniadejonghe4980
22 сағат бұрын
@@duggaboy ahhhh I see you have lived a spotless, compromise free life. Well done!
@TheMickeynatureamok
Жыл бұрын
This is what you call in Germany "Selbstbeweihräucherung" (self-congratulations with incense), the music of this movie and the slow motion of the wood chips give the rest!
@papatinpan
7 ай бұрын
Dude's a hack. His guilt for participating in a craft he "enjoys", is the reason for all this pretense. Roy Underhill, was the first famous Woodworker to promote conservation, reclaimed wood, planting farms in conjunction with sustainable farming. But he was the voice of many woodworkers & craftsman who felt the same way. Honestly Mr. Cox work is pedestrian by many craftsman standard, & there are plenty of amazing craftsman doing amazing work, who hold his views, which he appropriated. His marketing of playing on heart strings of environmentalists & the fine art institution has served him well.
@daniadejonghe4980
22 сағат бұрын
@@papatinpan mean and jealous. how do you know your assumptions about his motivations have any basis in fact? It doesn’t really matter who pays for his furniture. It matters how he takes care of the land, how he does his work and how he provides work for others.
@papatinpan
2 сағат бұрын
@@daniadejonghe4980 Mean? No just don't suffer fools & charlatan Craftsmen. Jealous? HAHAHAHA! Hardly, I've been doing antique restoration/sign work & fabrication over 20years along with communities on wood conservation & urban fauna. I couldn't be happier
@1qazandrew333
9 ай бұрын
Thank you. An insightful film into a very interesting maker.
@ForgeAheadwithMike
Жыл бұрын
Great documentary. I agree - we just have to make things that are less harmful to earth.
@MrChrisWick
Жыл бұрын
As a hobby woodworker who moved from SE London to NZ, I have found that video very interesting. I might have to go visit next time I am back in the UK
@soniawoolley366
Жыл бұрын
What a great story ...
@anoshya
11 ай бұрын
Fascinating documentary ..thanks
@ianforeman4377
Жыл бұрын
This renews my faith in people
@rihanwoodworks7123
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful work! Beautiful film!
@osirisfeliz2390
Жыл бұрын
So many concepts that resonate. Certainly gives me confidence to continue moving in paths that are in sync because it takes the collective to make real change. Peace.
@rupertgale537
Жыл бұрын
Timeless elegance.
@gedreillyhomestead6926
Жыл бұрын
Sebastian's philosophy and furniture reminds me of the work of Tim Stead a great Artist Woodworker. 👍
@akfisher7138
Жыл бұрын
Tim Stead did not get his work made abroad and shipped back to UK to make a bigger profit. The whole film is just justification for making more profit by outsourcing. The film is beautifully made, The furniture on the other hand is just a big contradiction. Diesel ships are not clean.
@dunk101parkls
11 ай бұрын
@@akfisher7138that was one part of the film. Sebs ethos is sustainable, it was made that made the china mass production products not Seb . He was the designer not the maker.
@bertanimation7436
Жыл бұрын
sensational. Making notes the whole way through
@ChickenDinnerz
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this film. Seb was an inspiration to me before. Now even more so!
@alanmatthews9260
Жыл бұрын
Would love to see a tutorial on that cabinet door panel weave!
@andrewwilde1807
Жыл бұрын
Just an hour of marketing bollocks 🤷♂️
@MikeAG333
Жыл бұрын
Perhaps the shallowest, most vacuous, and most disappointing post I have seen on KZitem for days. And when you think of the sheer nonsense posted on KZitem every single second of the day, that really is saying something.
@gbwildlifeuk8269
Жыл бұрын
andrewwilde 1807 the range, dunelm, b&m will be your level.
@dominiccon8967
Жыл бұрын
thank you for the great and inspiring film! at the end a briquette machine is briefly mentioned. which machine is it and are you satisfied with it? thank you in advance ;)
@surferninjakowabunga
Жыл бұрын
Also very interested in this as well and it was just glanced over.
@tomstopper5281
11 ай бұрын
IKEA is not being honest about their sustainability. You better get better informed about how they are using subcontractors that are destroying woodland in Romania.
@davepowell7168
2 ай бұрын
Milling with windpower ?
@johncamp7679
11 ай бұрын
She made the right call not having an undercut on the carved table. It appeared “light” by the carving. My opinion.
@VitalityMassage
3 ай бұрын
36:14 He's worrying about "high spots" while people are starving someplace far off or even right there in the UK.
@amyschneidhorst1384
10 ай бұрын
There is no perfect solution but the art is in creatively pursuing alternative paths, drawing on the past within the limitations and potential of our current systems. If you want perfection and purity, then either we have to return to artists having private patrons or upending the capitalist system.
@PDogB
Жыл бұрын
Please rethink your use of American Ash wood. We are losing these trees rapidly due to the ash borer insects.
@ericsmith8121
Жыл бұрын
Quite a few places are cutting good ash trees at the first sign of ash borer, or even before, in an attempt to slow the spread, so there's quite a bit of it available that might otherwise just be burned or ground up into compost.
@smukherje169
11 ай бұрын
Fabulous
@b.scarpia7159
Жыл бұрын
Rather than destroying your ethos surely it would be better to market to the Proles a $200 kit of saw, chisels, jack plane , sharpening stone, and directions to Burnham Wood.
@gbwildlifeuk8269
Жыл бұрын
A copy of Rob Cosmos you mean!
@UdellYoutube
2 ай бұрын
Sensational, nevertheless thank you for the awareness.
@MrZOMBIE170
Жыл бұрын
23:40 most workshops work that way nothing particularly special about that
@johnparr5879
Жыл бұрын
In truth the docmentery is... With the grain.... Almost touching the sacredness, that truly in a mundane world.... Brings into true focus.... In.... simply being..... Human *
@threestarfancywoodworks1902
7 ай бұрын
Very nice ❤
@carsonforrester3061
9 ай бұрын
Build something nice. The facts of life are some people are able to buy expensive pieces . I am not one of them but that’s just the facts. Not everyone can have high end expensive furniture and that’s ok
@josenandorossipr
Жыл бұрын
bravo
@MagniJoensen
Жыл бұрын
does Sebastian take in apprentices?
@gbwildlifeuk8269
Жыл бұрын
I think thats what the 5 young people there are! (Take on apprentices, not take in.)
@jacobhicks7959
Жыл бұрын
This is so much simpler than folks make it. Governments around the world can control how much wood moves with import and export tariffs. If you want to reduce the landfill foder make it more economical to buy well built stuff that wears well and keep it.
@Chen-gl9hm
Жыл бұрын
Nice marketing trick.....
@lxduc
2 ай бұрын
Everything very romantic and wright, but the prices on the website of this kind gentleman are not in order with the philosophy, we must remind us that they where craftsman not business men
@MH-qy5hh
Жыл бұрын
Loved most of this story, really admire the artistry and ethos. But… you sold out, shame.
@sjc1963
Жыл бұрын
I like what your doing, not so sure about mass production . don't think William Morris would like that . Have you ever looked at all the wood that is taken to the dump .
@laius6047
2 ай бұрын
Its annoying that carpenter/furniture maker is treaded as someone so special. Guys we only make stuff from wood. Calm down
@johncamp7679
11 ай бұрын
I don’t mind paying for quality, I do mind paying for status.
@timeisahumanconstruct9251
Жыл бұрын
bro, not everything has to be available for the masses...we want scarce luxury!
@ukosawpancerny9580
Жыл бұрын
😍😍😍
@jimmyburn1059
Жыл бұрын
should have gone with the undercut
@erichaskell
3 ай бұрын
Sustainability is great, making a lot of money is great. Do not mass produce, do not sell out, the common man can buy Chinese goods.
@David-q8g4n
Жыл бұрын
Great until principles went out of the window. Completely undermined the story and the brand values. Re-think. Seriously.
@liutasuk
11 ай бұрын
Can you just make furniture without promoting marx ideology.
@АлександрСтепанов-ч2ю
11 ай бұрын
Фильм был бы не плохой , если бы в нём не было столько пафоса и пазёрства. Скромнее, скромнее.
@untokyo
Жыл бұрын
Who is this guy?
@andrewpiper2880
Жыл бұрын
I think a lot of these comments are tinged by the green monster..quite mean spirited, by keyboard warriors. Quality lasts through the generations...who said it had to be cheap..? Great movie...well done I say.
@Geraldbux0401
10 ай бұрын
He's got that Prince Harry vibe going... doesn't he!
@bertus-janmeijer5221
25 күн бұрын
Not buying or even making new furniture is the sustainable thing to do here. Buy an old piece in a thriftstore, save it from a skip, and admire the non-ikea quality that easily lasts another generation, if you can handle its uglyness....uh see its beauty I mean....
@Jehrichify
11 ай бұрын
Well, I think there is a contradiction in selling sustainable but highly expensive funiture to rich people who distroy the world with their way of living or businesses. Am I wrong?
@boooshes
Жыл бұрын
When you focus on sustainability and hand craftsmanship your products are expensive, your customers are wealthy and they actually need nothing that they buy. You are making trinkets for the rich which then is a waste of resources. When you determine a means of producing a widely affordable product, it will be purchased, used, and thrown away by the middle class because it doesn't have enough value to pass from generation to generation. The only answer to sustainable products is to hand make high quality products and sell them affordably and accept your own poverty as a maker.
@matt818
Жыл бұрын
Seems like the conclusion of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
@joshjenkinson1929
Жыл бұрын
As a woodworker, my aim is to enjoy the worthwhile endeavour of creating quality long lasting pieces without getting too much into environmental cork sniffing. Do the best you can whilst realising we are all consumers and users of materials and don’t get too obsessed or pretentious about it!
@joshjenkinson1929
Жыл бұрын
A good answer for true sustainability would be to make woodwork compulsory in schools and encourage people to be more self sufficient and to craft what they need for themselves, rather than relying on corporations. Hand built furniture would last for generations and the need for places like IKEA would be a lot less.
@esterhudson5104
Жыл бұрын
I’ll pass.
@matt818
Жыл бұрын
The answer is a multifaceted approach that aims to rewire the consumer understanding of reality in a complex capitalist consumerist society. The entire framework of this system is often hidden and needs further exposure through gradual, transparent education by makers. 'Affordability' is misunderstood when the true nature of mass produced products compromises durability. The maker must encourage the shift in thinking from short-term savings to long-term value. Also, the idea of 'accepting your own poverty as a maker' is redundant because to do so would be... unsustainable.
@davepage6428
2 ай бұрын
Lovely video but twaddle. What he should really do that would benefit the planet is take all his copied wood and turn it into biochar which can then benefit the soil. An example of someone really making a difference is the musician Andy Cato whom is one half of Groove Armada whom decided to get involved with regenerative agriculture.
@mightymcduff2056
10 ай бұрын
Furniture making has gone so far up it's own arse, it's painful to watch.
@andrewgaul
Жыл бұрын
This is like a coming of age tale of a young idealist, growing up and realising that the world is more complex than can be described by one philosophical idea. A very well made advertisement for this privileged guys furniture company. No matter how he tries to convince himself, he is trying to get rich off the backs of underprivileged Chinese workers. It was a great film until we find out at the end that the main dude is a massive hypocrite.
@rollinrock6696
Жыл бұрын
Ra ra ra
@bubuche1886
Жыл бұрын
greenwashing
@Michael-mr3rv
Ай бұрын
Sorry I should have spelt aggrandizing correctly, PS as for the notion that this video "Discover(s) the life of one of the great innovators of craft" ..... I am speechless. Well nearly. Look on KZitem and you will find countless numbers of unpretentious artisans who fit the billing better.
@kullerko
11 ай бұрын
21:16 Drawers opening not smooth at all and you using it for display.
@rossanctuary5238
10 ай бұрын
Hello, are you hiring. You can throw me into the deep end also.. 😅
@bluevabank
11 ай бұрын
Bs
@ianforeman4377
Жыл бұрын
Cops. Not copis
@gbwildlifeuk8269
Жыл бұрын
Its not cops - its copse, a small group of trees. Its not copis - its coppice, a pruning technique where a tree or shrub is cut to ground level, resulting in regeneration of new stems from the base thats left. So as he said, he is using coppiced timber. In other words timber that is regenerated.
@brendanrobinson6860
9 ай бұрын
Mmm. a marketing video? Selling out for money and pretending to be noble. I am not convinced; but yes, the video, like the original furniture is beautiful and well made. But then again so is deception.
@georgecavanaugh8757
10 ай бұрын
Get off of it already. You can’t have a damn furniture documentary without the tree hugging talk.
@dougmcdonald300
6 ай бұрын
Does he pay for the coppiced wood from the forestry commision? Good to use other peoples land and wood instead of your own, ha ha
@stevedemartini9411
8 ай бұрын
Sustainability is non-sense.
@Dirhfifkshdi
2 ай бұрын
Lovely documentary. Absolutely shit furniture
@васядядя-л8ч
10 ай бұрын
@Michael-mr3rv
Ай бұрын
Pretentious and self-agrandiandising! I commenced watching this video expecting it would demonstrate something new or extraordinary relating to woodworking craft. Indeed 20 minutes in I determined to look at the website only to be truly disappointed (see for example the "Woodwose' range - Habitat of years ago, Heals today)
@unknownboulder1205
Жыл бұрын
besides being a reasonable good craftsman, he is a brilliant demagogue :))
@gbwildlifeuk8269
Жыл бұрын
And youre neither!
@unknownboulder1205
Жыл бұрын
and you can't spell " you're" @@gbwildlifeuk8269
@MH-qy5hh
Жыл бұрын
Loved most of this story, really admire the artistry and ethos. But… you sold out, shame.
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