In this movie filmed by Dezeen, east London designer Roger Arquer talks about the benches he made for the Stepney Green Design Collection using materials sourced from his local family-run hardware shop just before it closed down.
The thick planks of wood and coffee-table-legs used to make the benches plus the screws, sandpaper and oil used to finish them were all bought from the General Woodwork shop.
The store in Stoke Newington was close to Roger Arquer's studio as well as the Dezeen office and sold hardware for over 60 years before it closed down in 2012.
"The shop was family run and quite useful for me and other designers and makers in north or east London," says Arquer. "I would go there quite often to buy lots of bits I would need to build prototypes or projects."
The Stepney Green Design Collection consists of 10 products selected by Marcus Fairs of Dezeen from creatives who live near to VIVO, a new housing development in the east London district. The project also includes objects chosen by east London bloggers Pete Stean of Londoneer and Kate Antoniou of Run Riot.
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