Rachel Hutchinson
Chair
Sycamore
Rachel creates sculptural furniture that sits between contemporary craft and collectible design, exploring the relationship between natural growth and constructed geometry in wood. Working primarily with solid timber and constructional veneers, her practice moves between two parallel strands. One develops furniture through processes such as lamination, steam bending and digital modelling, producing forms that emerge from engineered structure. Alongside this, she creates sculptural works from naturally fallen oak limbs, allowing the growth patterns of the tree to guide the composition. Smaller-scale objects extend this enquiry, exploring surface, repetition and concentric form through carved oak. Across the work, an interest in structure, curvature and material intelligence connects the pieces, combining traditional craft knowledge with contemporary design processes.
