There is probably something in your home that you would never have bought. Perhaps it is a picture, an ornament or a chair that matters to someone else.
Why awkward furniture, temporary decisions and ordinary life slowly reshape a home, until the rooms begin to reflect the people who actually live there.
A real home, a gallery wall of photographs, and the objects whose reasons matter more than their looks, together creating a place that could only belong to the people who live there.
“The details that make a home impossible to reproduce are often the details that make it impossible to forget.”
SANKEY SPECIAL
Artificial Grass, Staple Guns and Bad Music
Scott Bell started upholstering furniture at John Sankey 26 years ago.
In that time, he has learned how different fabrics behave, how much tension something needs, and the small adjustments that separate work that is nearly right from work that is right.
Then there is the knowledge nobody expects to collect.
One exhibition sofa had to be upholstered in artificial grass. It was awkward, unusual and not especially interested in behaving like fabric. But Scott discovered one very useful thing: artificial grass hides staples beautifully.
There are sounds that become part of working somewhere for decades too. Asked what sound he most associated with upholstery, Scott answered simply: “Tacking guns.”
