“Historically, the chef and potter have always worked in tandem because the chef would say to the potter, ‘I can’t cook my beans properly, can you narrow the neck of the pot?’ We’re doing this in the 21st-century-style.”
Having foregone a possible future as a designer of idiosyncratic jewellery, Alexander turned his creative talents to the forging of artisan knives, working solo in his south London workshop since 2016 to craft razor-sharp knives with harmonious wood and buffalo horn handles.
Read MoreA fallen plane tree in London’s Russell Square provided Hampson Woods founder Jonty with the raw material for his original range of serving boards, now exported everywhere from Sweden to San Francisco.
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