Ember House / The archive
A photograph shows the piece at rest. It cannot show the cut being made.
This archive collects short recordings made at the bench and after a piece leaves it. Films are filed under the four headings below as each one is catalogued.
Films are being added as each one is catalogued
At the bench
Clearing the ground, cutting the relief, and the order in which a design is built. What one line costs in time.
In the hand
The finished piece at actual scale: weight, the hinge, the way light moves across a deep cut.
Over time
Brass brightens where it is touched and darkens in the recesses. Short records of that change.
Care & filling
Fuel, flint, wick and cleaning — the practical things owners ask about most.
Questions about what a film shows, or about a piece in the catalogue: about the house, how a piece is made, or get in touch.