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The centre path and how to tread it
It takes a lot of resolve to be interested in politics, in politicians. I voted, but I haven’t a clue who or what for. Some shiny bloke with rolled up sleeves, that I will never meet, who is meant to work for me but thinks I work for him, who could quite possibly be a … Continue reading twentyfourteen
You can’t wrap an app
I don’t know if you watch Game Of Thrones but in it is a huge wall of ice called not unreasonably The Wall. It is a man and magic made folly, three hundred miles long, seven hundred feet high, forever looming. On this side a near insurmountable climb, on the other permanent winter. I have … Continue reading twentyfourteen
Sugs and the birth of a notion
Okay yes it is true, I have been away. I could pretend that it was only a matter of days, just casually pick up where I left off but that would seem disingenuous, a bit like the guilty emails I send to my mother that read as a seamless spontaneous outpouring but actually take three … Continue reading twentyfourteen
The leopard skin conundrum
I like my fabric plain. Not boring plain, texture is good, handle, nap, colour but I have always felt that patterned fabric overwhelms form and dates rapidly. This is especially apparent if a chair or sofa has beautiful proportion then very often the line that makes them desirable is obscured by converging, colliding pattern. You … Continue reading twentyfourteen
Remains of the lush interior
Fashion is unfamiliarity. The reason that fashion doesn’t last is simple. It preys on a very basic human mechanism. Curiosity. We are hardwired to notice the unfamiliar, for good reason. Can I eat it? Can I sleep with it? Can it kill me? Once we have identified it as a rock, a sheep and a … Continue reading twentyfourteen
Designer beards and how to wear them
Designers wear beards. There I’ve said it, I wasn’t going to because I’m not sure anyone else has noticed. I know Hipsters wear beards but this is different, this is professional. It used to be those skinny rectangular glasses and scarves in summer but now it is beards. I don’t mean goatees, I mean proper, … Continue reading twentyfourteen
Nine Things: The family business and how to survive it
Working with family is never easy but when you are running a family business it is difficult to avoid. Not only do I have a brother as a main supplier but I also work with my wife and my two youngest sons are currently in the shop basement stuffing cushions (my oldest, the nine year … Continue reading twentyfourteen
From the prosaic to the mosaic
Inspiration is a funny old thing, subject as it now is to the prosaic. Even the word itself has become pedestrian. No longer the sole province of divine influence, inspiration can now refer to the inexplicable impulse you felt just before covering your entire car in pink polyester fur. You can even blame it for … Continue reading twentyfourteen
Nine Things you don’t necessarily need to know about sofas
There follows a little digression. It was meant to be nine tips on buying a sofa but as per usual something strange happened on the way to the topic. There are still nine things but they are less than succinct and probably don’t contain anything like enough keywords. Helen is losing patience with me. With … Continue reading twentyfourteen
Where the sun shines and the rain falls
If Cornwall didn’t exist then someone would have to invent it. God maybe. It is a place of ineffable beauty, a land of savage seascape, rolling hills, cumulus woodland, hidden churches and horizontal weather. It has some of the most gorgeous empty beaches you will ever see, assuming a local tells you where they are. … Continue reading twentyfourteen
Nine Things: Mugs & Cushions
What was I saying? Oh yes mugs and cushions. As it is highly unlikely that any of this is being read in the order in which it is being written I will now, as promised, open a small sunlit window onto the dark and mysterious world of mugs and cushions. How something that is basically … Continue reading twentyfourteen
The empty Rume and how to fill it. Part One
As I mentioned earlier it is very important to choose the right name for your company. You have to think it through, make sure it is relevant to what you do, at least in an abstract way, that it sums you up, describes you, if not literally then as a kind of mnemonic. That is … Continue reading twentyfourteen
The empty Rume and how to fill it. Part Two
Finding objects to go with our sofas and chairs was always going to be tricky. We make probably the most beautiful sofas in the country and I say probably just to be kind. They are perfectly proportioned, restrained, buttoned down English gorgeousness and, as far as we are concerned, can comfortably sit in any environ, they … Continue reading twentyfourteen
Nine Things: Opening a shop
At this point I have been reminded by Heather (our girl Monday to Friday) that a blog should occasionally contain useful information and not just the witterings of an aspiring egomaniac. So there follows my top nine tips on opening a shop because I couldn’t think of ten. I know if you have only read … Continue reading twentyfourteen
Chair Making for beginners
By the time Libby and I returned from Australia my father had stepped back from the day to day running of the company and had passed the reins to my elder brother Kevin. My father still made most of the decisions but he let my brother think that he did, at least he thought he … Continue reading twentyfourteen
Hello? Hello? Is this thing on?
Hello and welcome to Rume’s lovely new blog, no, exciting new blog, er, informative blog, sneaky means to push product blog. No. Hello and welcome to Rume’s blog. Perfect. For someone for whom words come easy I am finding opening this rather tricky, a bit like trying to get into one of those new fangled … Continue reading twentyfourteen
