Bodging Milano was an enterprising venture by 9 UK furniture designers headed up by Rory Dodd of Designersblock. They came together to learn the art of greenwood work from Gudrun Leitz (see www.greenwoodwork.co.uk) and in 6 days made a chair each. Within days the entire collection was shown in the Milan furniture fair

  William Warren  Steam bending  Amos Marchant with teacher

  a very cold designer

  Amos Marchant, Carl Clerkin, Dave Green

  They worked into the night

  Day 5 – like colts the chairs were on their legs

  Rory Dodd  Chris Eckersley  Gitta Gschwendtner, Amos Marchant, Suzanne Barnes

off to Milano before the glue is dry

  we always eat well in Clissett Wood

Broomstick bodge

This was eventually followed up by a night of mayhem at the V&A where pairs of visitors were coached to make a love seat in one evening, using broomsticks as chair legs , all part of the London Design Festival (see Designersblock)