RESIDENTIAL COURSE: Design a Kachelofen Masonry Stove
Details
Dates: 11 September 2023 to 15 September 2023
Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Price
£600 – £800
Key information
Daily Workshops are 10am to 4pm.
£800 — Full board & meals
£600 — Non-residential but inc. meals
If you are travelling by train, we will offer a shuttle service to and from the nearest station, Ulverston. Pickup time on Monday will be 1pm and drop off time on Friday will be 4pm.
Venue
The Farmer’s Arms, Lowick Green – LA12 8DT
Acclaimed London-based British artist and designer of Argentine and Japanese heritage, Adam Nathaniel Furman, shares his inventive and flamboyant approach in this not-to-be-missed 5-day course.
Places limited to 6 students, price includes full board at The Farmer’s Arms, staying in our accommodation with food cooked by Chef Alistair Debling.
Join this residential course designing a kachelofen masonry stove with a team of expert makers. Over 5-days, you’ll focus on both the design and making process developing a clay kachelofen stove maquette which could become a design for either The Farmer’s Arms or your own home.
The ancient technology of a masonry stove dates back to the 14th century and is still in widespread use throughout Northern Europe. These stoves provide solutions to both environmental and cost related problems being a highly efficient way to burn small amounts of wood to create the largest amount of heat. Unlike brick finished or rendered stoves, kachelofens usually have a higher surface temperature, depending on their design characteristics.
The Programme
Alongside Adam Nathaniel Furman, you’ll work with The Farmer’s Arms workshop team, who will introduce new techniques and skills to support students to develop their designs. Workshop manager Tom Philipson, pub potter Francis Lloyd-Jones and Grizedale Arts director Adam Sutherland will all offer help and instruction with materials and techniques. Filling us in on the mechanics of the stove, there’ll also be a zoom workshop with Andreas Von Knobloch.
In the evenings, a series of optional talks, relevant films and off-site visits are programmed to keep you busy:
- Soup Talk: Adam Nathaniel Furman presents a public talk about his work.
- Adam Sutherland tells all about The Farmer’s Arms project and it’s local, national and international aims.
- Film Night: In The Farmer’s Arms’ Dining Room, a screening of a relevant film chosen by Adam Nathaniel Furman.
- A group visit to Levens Hall to view the pargetting/plaster work, leather embossed wall paper and their world famous topiary gardens.
The Farmer’s Arms kitchens will cater with a delicious menu of local and seasonal food throughout the week. The wider facilities of the site will also be open for use including the bar, café and gardens. The workshop will remain open for the duration of the course.
About the workshop leaders:
Adam Nathaniel Furman is a London-based artist, designer, writer, and academic. Furman is a leading critical voice in British architecture. Much of Furman’s work focuses on the importance of aesthetic and demographic diversity and representation in architecture.
Adam Sutherland is the director of Grizedale Arts and will be leading visits, talks and discussion throughout the week.
Tom Philipson is by training a cabinet maker, he received a Crafts Council development award in 2015 and has for the past five years been working with Grizedale Arts developing design projects with a practical application ranging from The Farmer’s Arms to projects in Japan.
Francis Lloyd-Jones joined The Farmer’s Arms team in February 2022 as Pub Potter. His work has been exhibited widely with recent exhibitions at Make: Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Clay College Stoke and Joanna Bird Contemporary.
