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sebastian cox

“Recently, a customer, now in her 60s, asked us to make a table from an old tree she remembers climbing as a young girl”

hen it comes to making a big noise about the beauty of British timber, Sebastian Cox is a man on a mission. The furniture maker and designer is one of the design world’s youngest but most powerful advocates for the use of local wood. After a sell-out show at Tent London in

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