Against The Grain - Documentary Film About Furniture Maker Sebastian Cox

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Discover the life of one of the great innovators of craft.
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Credits:
Executive Producers - Hugo Burge & Alan Martin
‍Director - Duncan Parker
‍Producer - Mo Ahmed
‍Shoot Director - David Marks
‍Researchers - Hattie Elilis & Miles Chandler
‍Associate Production Manger - Alex Rae
‍1st Unit Camera - Declan Burely
‍2nd Unit Camera - Gwilym Evans
‍Editor - Ben King
‍Colourist - Jon Howard
Music - Henry Green
‍Sound Design - Claudio Ahlers
‍Graphics - Robin Littlewood
‍Thanks to - Sebastian Cox, Brogan Cox, Annie Warburton, James Simpson, Indira Esser-Dunbar, Sean Sutcliffe, Benchmark, Forestry England, Tyler Hards, Ikea, Made.com, The Weald & Downland Living Museum, Willow & all the employees of Sebastian Cox Limited
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@jpgregor 5 месяцев назад

Probably the best 59 minutes and 12 seconds I spent on RU-vid in a long time.

@victoriabakersmith9647 3 дня назад

From rewilding, no dig, buy what you need, this is a sensitive relative conversation in 24. Now is the time to plant a tree, sow some seed or ask/snip a cutting. Wonderful film, thank you.

@kevbartley8458 8 дней назад

done for woodwork sustainablity what Clarkson has done for farming. Amazing.

@tintinsnowyful 10 месяцев назад

Lovely and thoughtful documentary. Thank you. I appreciate that Sebastian didn't really resolve his dilemma. I see from the comments that some felt he was selling out, others had differing interpretations. My feeling is...do both. Do design work for the Chinese factory as an additional income stream. Do custom and commissioned work that wealthy folks can afford. That way you can keep your lovely team of craftsmen & women employed and busy. I'm reminded of a Volvo advertisement from many years ago where they showed the Volvo ethos of small teams constructing a car from start to finish, instead of focusing on 'manufacturing categories'. I don't know if they still do that but it's nice to see the members of your team keeping that tradition alive.

@johnemmett2969 9 месяцев назад

So disappointing when one reads of negative comment, obviously a very blinked view. A most enjoyable and informative program. Brilliant determination of a one off mind….thank goodness for people everywhere like Sebastian. (And his wife of course).

@mariapilarme 10 месяцев назад

I brought a copy of a French famous furniture maker of the 1600’s made by a cabinet maker in the 1960’s it’s a beautiful thing, every day I admire his craftsmanship. It has bronces outside. Furniture makers are fantastic artist. Turning nature in high art.

@davidcchambers 5 месяцев назад

Brilliantly conceiced and beautifully created. Thank you for sharing Sebastian's story here for the broadest of audiences to consume.

@wilbertsabido6019 5 дней назад

hermoso documental, felicidades a la enorme creatividad del ched de la madera.. saludos desde mexico..

@jraglob5924 10 месяцев назад

Excellent, I make things out of cast off wood. A lot from old pallet wood. I am always amazed at what I find when I mill the wood into a usable product. Often times stripping off the "finish" will reveal some real beauty in just the natural wood itself.

@jamesmacdonald5881 10 месяцев назад

Was really liking the ethos at the beginning but ended with a real hypocritical contradiction. Can’t blame him for taking the money and pride, creating a successful business, most would do the same. But can’t pretend that he’s kept to the original core beliefs outlined in the beginning.

@akfisher7138 10 месяцев назад

'family owning woodland' tells you he is rather rich boy....hmmm an now cuts down other's woods, and runs a factory.

@fionadrake7431 Год назад

Beautiful film, heart warming and so talented

@wabio 9 месяцев назад

I've subscribed to just about every woodworking channel on RU-vid. I just found yours. The production quality of you documentary is outstanding......like sitting in a movie theater.

@paulsehstedt6275 10 месяцев назад

Wonderful cinematic photography and great storytelling.

@ericchenard8636 9 месяцев назад

Wow! Amazing furniture! Congratulations on your efforts it is truly inspirational!! Thank you for doing your part in saving the planet.

@VitalityMassage 15 дней назад

36:14 He's worrying about "high spots" while people are starving someplace far off or even right there in the UK.

@MrSzwedowski 9 месяцев назад

Very well documented film. A lot to think about after watching it.

@rihanwoodworks7123 10 месяцев назад

Beautiful work! Beautiful film!

@joellaycock2735 10 месяцев назад

Very inspirational in so many ways, thanks for sharing

@soniawoolley366 Год назад

What a great story ...

@denisewascavage209 8 месяцев назад

Thank you! This question about how much more stuff do we need and our obsession with more and how do we sustain our planet is something that I struggle with everyday.

@rupertgale537 10 месяцев назад

Timeless elegance.

@MartinClimbs 9 месяцев назад

wonderful film, wonderful ppl

@ianforeman4377 10 месяцев назад

This renews my faith in people

@anoshya 8 месяцев назад

Fascinating documentary ..thanks

@thefinchworkshop 4 месяца назад

Thoroughly enjoyed this and was inspired by the message. I'll look at my hobby in a different light now. More please.

@1qazandrew333 6 месяцев назад

Thank you. An insightful film into a very interesting maker.

@MrChrisWick 10 месяцев назад

As a hobby woodworker who moved from SE London to NZ, I have found that video very interesting. I might have to go visit next time I am back in the UK

@wabio 9 месяцев назад

10:28 Interesting fact. William Morris' designs are still widely prevalent today. The Morris chair has become synonymous with craftsmanship, functionality, and aesthetics. In fact, I'm sitting on one right now. It's become such an adopted design that it now goes by many other names. Mission chair, Craftsman chair, Amish chair, etc.

@souslesbombes 9 месяцев назад

The way he thinks about woodworking is radical. I say that in the best way possible.

@TheFiown 10 месяцев назад

'Sustainability' is also and for me above all in making things so well made and beautiful that they transcend fashion and time. I always buy second hand furniture because it is cheap, well made usually and has real function. I can't see anyone throwing out something well made and beautiful. In grand old homes there is usually a mix of periods because people didn't get rid of beautiful things, they just added to them. For me the last period of well made and well designed furniture is mid century, it fit's in with most styles and is usually really well made.

@bertanimation7436 9 месяцев назад

sensational. Making notes the whole way through

@ohcnap90 9 месяцев назад

what a fine video, thats all I save to say. Your work is unbelievable in a not not common way.

@smukherje169 8 месяцев назад

Fabulous

@papatinpan 4 месяца назад

Dude's a hack. His guilt for participating in a craft he "enjoys", is the reason for all this pretense. Roy Underhill, was the first famous Woodworker to promote conservation, reclaimed wood, planting farms in conjunction with sustainable farming. But he was the voice of many woodworkers & craftsman who felt the same way. Honestly Mr. Cox work is pedestrian by many craftsman standard, & there are plenty of amazing craftsman doing amazing work, who hold his views, which he appropriated. His marketing of playing on heart strings of environmentalists & the fine art institution has served him well.

@ForgeAheadwithMike 9 месяцев назад

Great documentary. I agree - we just have to make things that are less harmful to earth.

@threestarfancywoodworks1902 4 месяца назад

Very nice ❤

@osirisfeliz2390 10 месяцев назад

So many concepts that resonate. Certainly gives me confidence to continue moving in paths that are in sync because it takes the collective to make real change. Peace.

@josenandorossipr 10 месяцев назад

bravo

@alanmatthews9260 10 месяцев назад

Would love to see a tutorial on that cabinet door panel weave!

@ChickenDinnerz 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for making this film. Seb was an inspiration to me before. Now even more so!

@gedreillyhomestead6926 10 месяцев назад

Sebastian's philosophy and furniture reminds me of the work of Tim Stead a great Artist Woodworker. 👍

@akfisher7138 10 месяцев назад

Tim Stead did not get his work made abroad and shipped back to UK to make a bigger profit. The whole film is just justification for making more profit by outsourcing. The film is beautifully made, The furniture on the other hand is just a big contradiction. Diesel ships are not clean.

@dunk101parkls 8 месяцев назад

@@akfisher7138that was one part of the film. Sebs ethos is sustainable, it was made that made the china mass production products not Seb . He was the designer not the maker.

@duggaboy 3 дня назад

I always like to listen to someone talk themselves into compromise...i mean justification.

@andrewwilde1807 10 месяцев назад

Just an hour of marketing bollocks 🤷‍♂️

@MikeAG333 10 месяцев назад

Perhaps the shallowest, most vacuous, and most disappointing post I have seen on RU-vid for days. And when you think of the sheer nonsense posted on RU-vid every single second of the day, that really is saying something.

@gbwildlifeuk8269 9 месяцев назад

andrewwilde 1807 the range, dunelm, b&m will be your level.

@johncamp7679 8 месяцев назад

She made the right call not having an undercut on the carved table. It appeared “light” by the carving. My opinion.

@MrZOMBIE170 10 месяцев назад

23:40 most workshops work that way nothing particularly special about that

@ukosawpancerny9580 9 месяцев назад

😍😍😍

@amyschneidhorst1384 7 месяцев назад

There is no perfect solution but the art is in creatively pursuing alternative paths, drawing on the past within the limitations and potential of our current systems. If you want perfection and purity, then either we have to return to artists having private patrons or upending the capitalist system.

@johnparr5879 10 месяцев назад

In truth the docmentery is... With the grain.... Almost touching the sacredness, that truly in a mundane world.... Brings into true focus.... In.... simply being..... Human *

@dominiccon8967 10 месяцев назад

thank you for the great and inspiring film! at the end a briquette machine is briefly mentioned. which machine is it and are you satisfied with it? thank you in advance ;)

@surferninjakowabunga 10 месяцев назад

Also very interested in this as well and it was just glanced over.

@b.scarpia7159 10 месяцев назад

Rather than destroying your ethos surely it would be better to market to the Proles a $200 kit of saw, chisels, jack plane , sharpening stone, and directions to Burnham Wood.

@gbwildlifeuk8269 9 месяцев назад

A copy of Rob Cosmos you mean!

@TheMickeynatureamok 10 месяцев назад

This is what you call in Germany "Selbstbeweihräucherung" (self-congratulations with incense), the music of this movie and the slow motion of the wood chips give the rest!

@PDogB 10 месяцев назад

Please rethink your use of American Ash wood. We are losing these trees rapidly due to the ash borer insects.

@ericsmith8121 9 месяцев назад

Quite a few places are cutting good ash trees at the first sign of ash borer, or even before, in an attempt to slow the spread, so there's quite a bit of it available that might otherwise just be burned or ground up into compost.

@Chen-gl9hm 10 месяцев назад

Nice marketing trick.....

@jacobhicks7959 10 месяцев назад

This is so much simpler than folks make it. Governments around the world can control how much wood moves with import and export tariffs. If you want to reduce the landfill foder make it more economical to buy well built stuff that wears well and keep it.

@tomstopper5281 8 месяцев назад

IKEA is not being honest about their sustainability. You better get better informed about how they are using subcontractors that are destroying woodland in Romania.

@Jehrichify 8 месяцев назад

Well, I think there is a contradiction in selling sustainable but highly expensive funiture to rich people who distroy the world with their way of living or businesses. Am I wrong?

@johncamp7679 8 месяцев назад

I don’t mind paying for quality, I do mind paying for status.

@carsonforrester3061 6 месяцев назад

Build something nice. The facts of life are some people are able to buy expensive pieces . I am not one of them but that’s just the facts. Not everyone can have high end expensive furniture and that’s ok

@jimmyburn1059 10 месяцев назад

should have gone with the undercut

@MagniJoensen 9 месяцев назад

does Sebastian take in apprentices?

@gbwildlifeuk8269 9 месяцев назад

I think thats what the 5 young people there are! (Take on apprentices, not take in.)

@user-bz8ee7mj6l 8 месяцев назад

Фильм был бы не плохой , если бы в нём не было столько пафоса и пазёрства. Скромнее, скромнее.

@unknownboulder1205 10 месяцев назад

besides being a reasonable good craftsman, he is a brilliant demagogue :))

@gbwildlifeuk8269 9 месяцев назад

And youre neither!

@unknownboulder1205 9 месяцев назад

and you can't spell " you're" @@gbwildlifeuk8269

@sjc1963 10 месяцев назад

I like what your doing, not so sure about mass production . don't think William Morris would like that . Have you ever looked at all the wood that is taken to the dump .

@untokyo 10 месяцев назад

Who is this guy?

@erichaskell 28 дней назад

Sustainability is great, making a lot of money is great. Do not mass produce, do not sell out, the common man can buy Chinese goods.

@rollinrock6696 10 месяцев назад

Ra ra ra

@andrewpiper2880 9 месяцев назад

I think a lot of these comments are tinged by the green monster..quite mean spirited, by keyboard warriors. Quality lasts through the generations...who said it had to be cheap..? Great movie...well done I say.

@timeisahumanconstruct9251 9 месяцев назад

bro, not everything has to be available for the masses...we want scarce luxury!

@theimplacableauthoritarian2938 7 месяцев назад

He's got that Prince Harry vibe going... doesn't he!

@user-uh6hi8xs1f 10 месяцев назад

Great until principles went out of the window. Completely undermined the story and the brand values. Re-think. Seriously.

@sandygrant5203 10 месяцев назад

How come furniture makers are all really posh with names like Sebastian?

@boooshes 10 месяцев назад

When you focus on sustainability and hand craftsmanship your products are expensive, your customers are wealthy and they actually need nothing that they buy. You are making trinkets for the rich which then is a waste of resources. When you determine a means of producing a widely affordable product, it will be purchased, used, and thrown away by the middle class because it doesn't have enough value to pass from generation to generation. The only answer to sustainable products is to hand make high quality products and sell them affordably and accept your own poverty as a maker.

@matt818 10 месяцев назад

Seems like the conclusion of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

@joshjenkinson1929 10 месяцев назад

As a woodworker, my aim is to enjoy the worthwhile endeavour of creating quality long lasting pieces without getting too much into environmental cork sniffing. Do the best you can whilst realising we are all consumers and users of materials and don’t get too obsessed or pretentious about it!

@joshjenkinson1929 10 месяцев назад

A good answer for true sustainability would be to make woodwork compulsory in schools and encourage people to be more self sufficient and to craft what they need for themselves, rather than relying on corporations. Hand built furniture would last for generations and the need for places like IKEA would be a lot less.

@esterhudson5104 10 месяцев назад

I’ll pass.

@matt818 10 месяцев назад

The answer is a multifaceted approach that aims to rewire the consumer understanding of reality in a complex capitalist consumerist society. The entire framework of this system is often hidden and needs further exposure through gradual, transparent education by makers. 'Affordability' is misunderstood when the true nature of mass produced products compromises durability. The maker must encourage the shift in thinking from short-term savings to long-term value. Also, the idea of 'accepting your own poverty as a maker' is redundant because to do so would be... unsustainable.

@MH-qy5hh 9 месяцев назад

Loved most of this story, really admire the artistry and ethos. But… you sold out, shame.

@kullerko 8 месяцев назад

21:16 Drawers opening not smooth at all and you using it for display.

@rossanctuary5238 7 месяцев назад

Hello, are you hiring. You can throw me into the deep end also.. 😅

@andrewgaul 9 месяцев назад

This is like a coming of age tale of a young idealist, growing up and realising that the world is more complex than can be described by one philosophical idea. A very well made advertisement for this privileged guys furniture company. No matter how he tries to convince himself, he is trying to get rich off the backs of underprivileged Chinese workers. It was a great film until we find out at the end that the main dude is a massive hypocrite.

@ianforeman4377 10 месяцев назад

Cops. Not copis

@gbwildlifeuk8269 9 месяцев назад

Its not cops - its copse, a small group of trees. Its not copis - its coppice, a pruning technique where a tree or shrub is cut to ground level, resulting in regeneration of new stems from the base thats left. So as he said, he is using coppiced timber. In other words timber that is regenerated.

@bluevabank 8 месяцев назад

@liutasuk 8 месяцев назад

Can you just make furniture without promoting marx ideology.

@bubuche1886 9 месяцев назад

greenwashing

@mightymcduff2056 8 месяцев назад

Furniture making has gone so far up it's own arse, it's painful to watch.

@dougmcdonald300 3 месяца назад

Does he pay for the coppiced wood from the forestry commision? Good to use other peoples land and wood instead of your own, ha ha

@brendanrobinson6860 6 месяцев назад

Mmm. a marketing video? Selling out for money and pretending to be noble. I am not convinced; but yes, the video, like the original furniture is beautiful and well made. But then again so is deception.