![]() I worked for Roy for a couple of years starting in the fall of 1980, after completing my basic training in traditional furniture making through the City & Guilds system. I wanted to go with this design in part as an homage to my first woodworking employer, Roy Griffiths, from whom I learned a lot about proportions and design, as well as the realities of making a living as a full-time woodworker. The stained cypress plate rack in our former kitchen. Then someone asked about the more elaborate design of the example I made for the kitchen at our previous home. ![]() When the editors and I were trying to nail down a design for this project article (which is not yet scheduled for a particular issue), we initially thought we’d go with a simple design I made up a few years ago for my book Kitchen Think. A number of people have commented on the design following Instagram posts, so I’d like to share the backstory, which goes back to my first professional job as a woodworker in 1980. ![]() It’s a simple piece with lots of hand-cut joinery and will hold a variety of stuff. Last week, Senior Editor Anissa Kapsales and I completed a long-delayed photo shoot for an article about how to build the plate rack pictured at the top of this post. It may be pegged - I hope it’s pegged, because without some type of reinforcement it would not make for a secure way to support heavy, breakable dishware! (A detail shot, below, shows this feature more clearly.) Please don’t ask about the tenon at front bottom that comes through the stiles. Nor did it originally have the circular section at the top, which allows for storage and drainage of glassware and mugs. The original plate rack did not have notches above the plates on the lower level those were added to make room for Claudia’s plates. Historically, they were simple affairs, pared down to basics, such as this Irish example: Woodworker, author, and historian of Irish vernacular furniture Claudia Kinmonth inherited this simple plate rack from her grandmother. But they can also be decorative objects in their own right. Plate racks are handy for draining dishes and storing everyday dishware. The world of plate racks is rich in varied examples - and nowhere more so than among the works of English kitchen designer Johnny Grey.
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