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Jeremy Broun

Jeremy Broun is a British furniture designer-maker, woodworking author, filmmaker, and creative educator based in Bath, England. Active since the early 1970s, he was part of the 1970s British Craft Furniture Revival. His work is guided by a modernist "less is more" philosophy, drawing influence from Finnish and Italian design.

Broun began his career as a full-time independent furniture designer-maker in the early 1970s, with a style rooted in material integrity. In 1980, he was invited to submit a cabinet for the Sotheby's First Sale of Contemporary British Crafts, which was sold to a private collector. That same year, he was elected to the Crafts Council Index of Selected Makers.

In the mid-1980s, Broun was invited by the Crafts Council to submit two of his furniture designs among ten chosen from the United Kingdom for a Royal Family viewing at Kensington Palace, initiated by the then Prince Charles and Lady Diana.

A long-time advocate for sustainable design, in 1990 Broun was one of five makers given an ash tree from the Great Storm of 1987 by Kew Gardens to create contemporary furniture pieces — an early example of environmentally conscious making in British craft. Provided by Wikipedia