Largely Made to Measure
‘There’s quite a leap between learning to make furniture, starting a business, and having a sustainable business’, said Josh Carmody in a recent phone conversation. ‘I kind of have big aspirations. My strength is big, made-to-measure projects. It’s a creative side of myself I can’t bury.’
Attention to detail is what many of us strive for, but when that extends to mammoth scale furniture commissions with hard deadlines, that also speak of a handmade ethic, it could all become a bit mindboggling. I asked Josh what the attraction of large-scale work was for him, and how he got one very large commission done in the midst of the world’s longest lockdown.
Josh, last year, in and around Melbourne’s six covid lockdowns you completed a major commission – a solid timber, nine metre long boardroom table plus other tables and items. How does that even happen?
Luck and good timing played a part. In August 2019, after years of subletting, I finally got my own space. Six months later the lockdowns hit, however I now had my own workshop and a number of commissions in the pipeline. This left me with a level of certainty and control at a time when new laws
