Contact Details

E-mail: r.jones_08@btinternet.com

3 Carrholm Mount , Leeds, West Yorkshire , LS7 2NW

Telephone: 0113 266 9896

Mobile: 0776 960 0912

Web: www.richardjonesfurniture.com

I have been in the furniture making business since the early 1970's, initially as a trainee followed by qualifying as a designer and furniture maker with City and Guilds at Shrewsbury Technical College . During the period from 1973 to 1995 I worked for small to medium furniture and joinery companies, as a self-employed furniture maker, for Edinburgh College of Art, and for The Children's Museum of Houston . I undertook diverse roles in these jobs that included cabinetmaker, furniture maker, joiner, designer, restorer, furniture technician and workshop manager.

I started and ran my own full-time furniture business during the years I lived in Texas from 1993 to 2003 providing a design and make service complemented by commercial work, furniture repair and restoration projects for private and business clients, interior designers and architects.

I was offered the chance to return to the UK in 2003 to teach Furniture Design and Making at Rycotewood College , Oxford . In 2005 I moved to Leeds College of Art and Design as Course Leader of the Foundation Degree in Furniture.