Last year’s Wood Awards demonstrated the hugely varied use of American hardwoods in interiors in UK joinery. Projects as extensive as Their Lordships’ library at Scotland’s High Court designed by Luke Hughes, compared with the master bedroom in Wakelins, a private house in Suffolk. Respectively, these showed off the warmth of cherry and walnut.
The imaginative use of tulipwood by Matthew Lloyd in St Paul’s ‘A New Heart for Bow’ has been much admired through the architectural press.
As the leading American joinery species, white oak has also found many uses. The Wood Awards Small Project Award went to the Flame Feature Staircase. And equally eye-catching was the use made of the contrast between white walls and white oak in the staircase and panelling of the Combe Park Almshouse in Bath by G2 Architects.
