Hello, From: Dr Joseph Hemingway

                                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                                                    MY TASK TODAY.

                                                                                         In producing this new website: is to bring to everyone's Attention! 

                                                                                                                                  THE HIGH VOLUME

                                                                                                                                              Of

                                                                                                                               ROCOCO  FURNITURE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                      WORLD ICON

                                                                                                                   THOMAS CHIPPENDALE

                                                                                                       1718-1779

                                                                                                       

                                                                                                                              Statue in Otley,England.

 

 Who Made'The GREATEST MISTAKE IN HIS LIFE: When He & Wlliam Vile, Stole all  off 'William Halletts ' Copper Plates, made in 1730.  For  printing a book on Rococo Design. Named: ' The Director'  printed in 1732.

 

Chippendale  needed to save money. On printing Costs: ' The Gentleman & Cabinetmakers Director, 1754 '.  And when Mattias Darly found out about his theft? His workshop was Set a Blaze : Saturday :5th April 1755? Lookily his partner : James Rannie ' Had payed for the Insurace,  and there workshop was rebuild again, 1755-1756. Note: Mathius Darley moved on to ' Ince & Mayhew ' to etch there new Book 'THE UNIVERSAL SYSTEM OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE '- 1759-1762 . 

 

 

                                                                              The Original Advertisement from Chippendale said "Supplying Antick (Antique) furniture today for tomorrow's use" 

  As you will find!  From the photographs (my website) I can produce some of the finest chairs, tables, cabinets, plaques, carvings and various other pieces of fine furniture and period pieces. In fact, if it can be made from wood? I can make it to any design you require.

                                                                                                                           

                                                                                                                                

                                                                                                                                        The Director

                                                                                      

                                 

                                                    ..                                    I have taken  ' Specialist Orders ' from collectors for carved pieces.

                                                                                                             and have done so for over Forty Years.

                                                                                                         To order: josephhemingway@btconnect.com

 

                                                                                                                      - SUCCESS IN 2012-

                      The ' Editors ' of ' Woodworking Magazine ' AMERICA. ' Who picked out ' My carving of ' Thomas Chippendale' 'Ribban- back- Chair'

                                                    As ' Open Category ' Best Carving Design Contest '

                                                                       Nominee ' Winner '                                                    The Ribban- Back Chair

 

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The Impossible  Chair, Followed close : The Ribbon- back Chair , Followed close by my own designed Wine Table? Which managed to get   my: STUDIO 

                                                                                                                                    DEMOLISHED

 

                                                                                                                                 23rd January 2007

 

                                                                                                                           

 

                                                                                                                             West Yorkshie Police

                                                                                                                                 Ref: DC/00474/07 

                                                                                                                                19th March 2008

Please contact me if you require any quality pieces of any type made to your own requirements. E/mail: josephhemingway@btconnect.com 
                                                                                                                  For Quality Guaranteed Funiture

 

So how did such a great amount of Furniture get made. other makers of that day.

Note?There were many serious competitors in the 1750s to Chippendale, and we might start here with William Hallett, and his later partners William Vile and John Cobb. None of them  subscribed to the Director, so as to avoid,they had copied (as many of lesser status did) its attractive designs. They had sufficient ability  to survive by their own merits. senior partner, William Hallett (1707-81) had been successful with his accomplished with mahogany furniture, and by an advantageous marriage to an heiress had no need, . William Vile trained under Hallett, and in 1751, together with a Norfolk-born upholsterer, John Cobb, he set up in partnership near to Chippendale in St. Martin's Lane. Hallett acted as their financial backer and continued to support them for the rest of their lives. He outlived Vile, who died in 1767,and Cobb, died in 1778. Examples of oval beads on furniture attributed to Vile in the early 1750s show the hazards of crediting authorship without documentation. The mahogany table press made by Benjamin Goodison for the Earl of Leicester at Holkham in 1751 also has applied ovals on each side. There are indications that the freelance carver Sefferin Alken supplied them to several makers, including Vile. But the latter does seem to have made some furniture.

There were other able contenders for a patron's purse and interest-in particular, Note: William and John Linnell, both: William Inca and John Mayhews Rivals. 

 

                                                                                                                       The 'Impossible' Chair's. 

 

                                                                                      

                                                                                                                                     The Design

 

                                                                                                                        

                                                                                            Dr J  Hemingway. carving the first ever. Impossible Chair.

                                                                                                                                      in 1999.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

                                                                      

                                                                                                                       Thomas  Johnson

                                                                                                    1714-1779

                                                                                 

                                                                                                          

 

                                                                                                  

                                                                                                                       

                                                                                                        The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale: 1906

                                                                                                                                  Chistopher Gillbert:

                                                                                                                                              Most

                                                                                                                                           UNTRUE 

 

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About Joseph

At the early age of 4 years old, Joseph Hemingway found himself studying a carved panelled door on a sideboard in his parents' front room. A few days later his mother brought home a copy of "The Director" which illustrated the designs of the Master Carver, Thomas Chippendale.

It was from this that Joseph's interest in carving evolved. His skills found him continuously receiving top marks in his woodwork classes at school, often winning woodworking books.  which continued through to college where he achieved a "First Class City and Guilds" in 'Cabinet- Making, Furniture design.

Upon leaving school he worked for: Taylor & Hobson Ltd Huddersfieid, Mechanics in Wood'  (1851-1991) and worked his way through all there  departments, ( just the same departments that Thomas Chippendale had in 1754? according to: Christopher Gilbert,in his book: 'The  Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale', published in:1978?( Note: all his records are lost) Departments  in three locations, in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK.gaining skills and experience in the art of cabinetmaking. products what the customer are longing to Pocure.After eleven years of Cabinet work & Restoration, Joseph decided to start his own business in 1968, as a Cabinet maker, Wood-carver and Furniture Restorer.
 The is when Joseph started to take specialist orders from "The Director", Producing: Thomas Chippendale, Furniture to the highest order. After many years of studying Thomas Chippendale's work there was one particular design that had challenged every master carver, but no-one had ever succeeded in creating this designs - not even Thomas Chippendale himself - until: 2000. Dr Hemingway, Hand Carved,  The ' Impossible Chair'in: 2010 : The 'Ribban-back' Chair.

Dr Hemingway has  patented these 2  designs, from Thomas Chippendale's "The Directors" 1754 - 1762.
The Impossible Chair


 

 


Read about:The Impossible Chair and how Jo has created it in 2000,(348 years after it conseption in 1762)