Richard Buckingham
Richard Buckingham trained at Buckinghamshire College, High Wycombe in furniture Design and Craftsmanship. On Graduating in 1994, he worked as a Cabinetmaker for Waywood Furniture, an established company specializing in bespoke hardwood furniture.
In 1996 he joined Pendrym Furniture of Looe, Cornwall, where he worked as a part of a two-man team producing one-off designs and a wide range of subcontract projects for some of Britain's leading furniture companies.
Now working from the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, he is producing work to his own designs, using European hardwoods and other appropriate materials inspired by his Cornish surroundings. Whilst concentrating on natural colour and texture, he aims to produce practical furniture, which is only intended to become precious through use.