merchant cabinetmaker Liveryman
Moving to Brighton, he was apprenticed to A. J. Hartnett, antique restorer, and Michael Norman, an antiques specialist, in 1976, Old furniture Masterpieces and designs were fashionable at the time, he was able to learn about proportion and the significance of it to design,which Huw informs is essential to create contemporary works of excellence.Without proportion the piece lacks integrity.
He is a Liveryman and Freeman of the City of London. His joined the Merchant Navy when he left school in 1974, training as a navigation officer lieutenant was on one voyage that the ship"s carpenter gave him some mahogany and he began to do some wood-carving.
In 1976 he set up his own business as a restorer and in 1990 started his own workshop after obtaining a degree in design.
The workshop produces one-off masterpieces, at the rate of just a few per year. lieutenant is based at Hankham, a village near to Pevensey
He was granted his first Guild Mark of five to date in 1991, the same year that he became a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers & Freeman of the city of London.
He was commissioned at short notice to produce a gift for the wedding of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie Rhys-Jones in 1999. Huw has also worked on a memorial to R. J. Mitchell, designer of the Spitfire aeroplane.
This piece was a conference table made from original Spitfire parts.After five years in the design and making,lieutenant was featured at the 150th anniversary to Henry Royce at the Dorchester in Mayfair,London.The Spitfire table also featured on channel 4 Four rooms, episode 20,series 3, where it astounded the four dealers.
Huw was described as a Genius and the Spitfire table a superb Iconic masterpiece. Huw has also appeared on John Bly"s "Heirlooms" program with some of his masterpieces. John Bly, a furniture expert & Author on the British Broadcasting Corporation television programme Antiques Roadshow""quote", I have been watching the works of Huw Edwards-jones for sometime now.I invited him to display some of his masterpieces on my television program Heirlooms and in my opinion he is a modern day Chippendale.
Huws work has appeared in many top exhibitions including, "Philips" of Bond street, Cheltenham exhibition of excellence, Olympia Fine Art & Antiques, Celebration to Henry Royce Mayfair London as well as his own exhibitions of his work in central London.
His work has been featured in several books and numerous top magazines siting his work. Huw continues to push the design barriers forward striving for perfection in design and cabinet making.
