Summer Brings Affordable Accessories
06.07.10 Topic: ODEChair
Summer at ODE brings a range of home grown affordable wooden jewellery, jewellery boxes and accessories
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Spring at ODEChair
23.04.10 Topic: ODEChair
Ryder & Yates features in new RIBA NE Exhibition
21.01.10 Topic: Ryder
& Yates
An initiative by RIBA North East
North East Architectural Heritage
'Reinvigorating the Region' charts the development of architecture in the North East of England in response to economic challenges, social optimism and bold political decisions following the end of the Second World War.
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Savannah Rocker Stars in Play, L'Initiatrice
26.10.09 Topic: ODEChair
Photo : Christopher Louergli
The Savannah Rocker is starring in the play L’Initiatrice by Pietro Pizzuti. The play, Directed by Guy Theunissen stars the actresses Babetida Sadjo and Florence Crick. It runs from 9th September to 31 October, 2009 at Théâtre Le Public in Brussels, Belgium.
”To explain briefly the context, this chair would be the only piece of theatre set, on a naked stage, with 2 beautiful actresses” describes Assistant Director Cachou Kirsch.
“To one of them, the chair represents the only memory she's kept from her deceased lover, who was a cabinet-maker . So it [The Rocking Chair] is nearly a third character, with a very emotional dimension”.
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Peter Yates' Tyneside Cinema Mural: Photographs
25.10.09 Topic: Peter
Yates
Light and Shadows on the Wall; Improving Amusements by Peter Yates
Photographs detailing the recently conserved Peter Yates mural at the Tyneside Cinema Read More ...
Call off the Wolves, Jack !
10.10.09 Topic: General
Design
To Jack Wolfskin GmbH & Co. KGaA
Dear Jack,
Guten Tag !
My name is Jolyon Yates. I live in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northern England.
It’s not as pretty as Idstein .. but we too have a great tea shop and a Black and Decker outlet !
As for my profession, I am a lone designer / maker.
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Dear Jack,
Guten Tag !
My name is Jolyon Yates. I live in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northern England.
It’s not as pretty as Idstein .. but we too have a great tea shop and a Black and Decker outlet !
As for my profession, I am a lone designer / maker.
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'Inspired by Nature, Crafted by Hand'
12.09.09 Topic: ODEChair
Journal Newspaper Article, Karen Wilson
Photo : The Journal www.journallive.co.uk
Jolyon Yates has gone form designing cars and boats to cutting-edge sculptural furniture. Karen Wilson speaks to the Whitley Bay Designer about his new venture ODEChair. At first glance you'd be forgiven for thinking Jolyon Yates's work was simply sculptural art. But the 41 year-old Designer has managed to fuse form and function perfectly with his stunning curved furniture, which is influenced by the natural world around him. After launching ODEChair last year, his designs has created a buzz among the design world on the internet and been picked up by International design publications, winning a Gold award from Craft&Design Magazine. Their also on display at Newcastle's Biscuit Factory. It's no surprise though when you consider his design pedigree ... Read More ...
Photo : The Journal www.journallive.co.uk
Jolyon Yates has gone form designing cars and boats to cutting-edge sculptural furniture. Karen Wilson speaks to the Whitley Bay Designer about his new venture ODEChair. At first glance you'd be forgiven for thinking Jolyon Yates's work was simply sculptural art. But the 41 year-old Designer has managed to fuse form and function perfectly with his stunning curved furniture, which is influenced by the natural world around him. After launching ODEChair last year, his designs has created a buzz among the design world on the internet and been picked up by International design publications, winning a Gold award from Craft&Design Magazine. Their also on display at Newcastle's Biscuit Factory. It's no surprise though when you consider his design pedigree ... Read More ...
Twentieth Century Society : Ryder and Yates
10.09.09 Topic: Ryder
& Yates
From the Journals of Twentieth
Century Society
Twentieth Century Architects is a new series of MONOGRAPHS published by Twentieth Century Society, RIBA and English Heritage. The first two books (Powell & Moya by Kenneth Powell, and Ryder and Yates by Rutter Carroll) have been well received and are available at a discount via the Society’s website. We asked a selection of architects and designers for their responses to the stories the books tell about post-war British modernism.
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Twentieth Century Architects is a new series of MONOGRAPHS published by Twentieth Century Society, RIBA and English Heritage. The first two books (Powell & Moya by Kenneth Powell, and Ryder and Yates by Rutter Carroll) have been well received and are available at a discount via the Society’s website. We asked a selection of architects and designers for their responses to the stories the books tell about post-war British modernism.
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Craft&Design Selected Gold Award 2009
20.08.09 Topic: ODEChair
I’m delighted to receive the Craft&Design Selected Gold Award for Wood and Metal 2009
Thank you so much to Craft&Design and all those who voted for ODEChair
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Lost Peter Yates Murals Uncovered
19.08.09 Topic: Peter
Yates
Just as Beacon House boxes in their Peter Yates ‘Shells’ mural, two Peter Yates murals are rediscovered in a Ryder and Yates house in Cumbria. The new owners of Harlequin House, as it was known when built have restored the murals to their 1960’s condition.
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New Book Ends & 'Coffee Perches'
25.07.09 Topic: ODEChair
A new series of ODE designs go on display at The Biscuit Factory this week. The series includes book ends, magazine holders, ‘coffee perches’ and bowls. All are made from satin lacquered wood. The pieces are intended to provide a more accessible series of sculpted wooden designs whilst retaining the great design sense and finish of the classic ODEChair Rocking Chairs and Stools. For prices and availability, please enquire Read More ...
Peter Yates Murals
24.07.09 Topic: Peter
Yates
Clean Face for ODEChair Website
15.07.09 Topic: ODEChair
The ODEChair website is relaunching this week with a simplified format and some useful new features Read More ...
Ryder & Yates, Classic Images
04.07.09 Topic: Ryder
& Yates
Norgas House (1965)
Images from the archives showing some of Ryder & Yates’ architectural highlights
Images retain the copyright of their respective owners
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ODE Wall Decals Store now here at ODEChair !
25.06.09 Topic: ODE
Decals
Six months have passed and we’re now selling ODE Wall and Window Decals here at our own Decal Store at ODEChair
You can also find them at Bouf, Dawanda, MyDeco, Etsy & ArtFire
If you haven’t yet seen our collection of charming craft-made vinyl wall and window decals yet, check them out here !
A small selection below
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ODEChair @ Biscuit Factory Summer Exhibition
08.06.09 Topic: ODEChair
Press Release, 8 June 2009
We're pleased to announce Series 3 of the ODEChairs rocking chairs and stools : the Savannah Rocker III, Ocean Rocker III, Leaf Stool III and various new Stingray Stools. The revisions amount to evolutions in form, utility, construction and finish.
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Ryder & Yates, Pair's Design Still Force for Good
04.06.09 Topic: Ryder
& Yates
Newcastle Journal Live
THE architect Peter Yates once began a lecture with the quote that a city should be “for the convenience of its inhabitants and a surprise to its visitors”.
Well, the Tyneside architectural practice of Peter Yates and Gordon Ryder certainly sprang a few surprises over 30 years from the formation of the partnership in 1953.
Their modernist style produced projects such as the 1965 Norgas House, the first major building in Killingworth New Town in North Tyneside.Two years later they followed up with the award-winning and now listed Engineering Research Station, also in Killingworth, which was later used as offices by North Tyneside Council.
Among Ryder and Yates buildings in Newcastle are MEA House, studios 1 and 5 at the former Tyne Tees TV in City Road, the nearby Salvation Army Men’s Palace overlooking the Tyne and the Vickers factory on Scotswood Road.
The importance of Ryder and Yates has now been recognised by a new book in a series on 20th Century architects by Riba Publishing, English Heritage and the Twentieth Century Society.
Not only is it the first book in the series, but Ryder and Yates is the only practice outside London to be featured.
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Mk III Savannah Rocker & Ocean Rockers
01.06.09 Topic: ODEChair
Today, I’m very proud to announce 2 new chairs : the Savannah Rocker Mk III and the Ocean Rocker Mk III
Whilst the Ocean Rocker incorporates only evolutionary changes to construction and finish, revisions to the Savannah Rocker are more significant. Moving to Mk III has provided an opportunity to tidy up several issues with form and construction that had been holding the chair back. I believe the Savannah Rocker has now come of age and I hope you will agree !
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Ryder and Yates Book Launch
23.04.09 Topic: Ryder
& Yates
The long awaited Ryder and Yates book was finally launched at the RIBA HQ in London last night. A second launch tonight at the newly renovated Tyneside Cinema in Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne was enjoyed by perhaps 150 people.
The first ever comprehensive account of the outstanding work of Ryder and Yates has been chronicled in this new book by Tyneside architect Rutter Carroll. Formed by Gordon Ryder and Peter Yates and heavily influenced by Le Corbusier and Berthold Lubetkin, the practice dominated the development of modern architecture in the North East of England from the early 1950s, where their visually astounding modernism put them in stark contrast to their contemporaries.
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Restored Peter Yates Mural Unveiled at the Tyneside Cinema
23.04.09 Topic: Peter
Yates
Photograph : E Ganzert
WC Fields features in this distorted image of the mural.
Also on the night of April the 23rd, Peter Yates’ freshly renovated 1976 mural entitled “Shadows and Light” was unveiled at the newly reopened Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle. “It portrays a potted history of moving pictures, starting with a Victorian zoetrope machine and ending with an Andy Warhol-inspired portrait of Marilyn Monroe”.
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Ryder and Yates Northumberland Hideaway
20.04.09 Topic: Ryder
& Yates
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Jolyon Yates launches ODEChair Project
02.05.08 Topic: ODEChair
Press Release : 2/5/08
ODEChair
by Jolyon Yates
An ODE is a lyrical poem that pays respect to that which inspired it
The subject of that respect is those who have lent thoughts, inspiration or kindness in the development of these pieces; friends and family, mother nature; the Atlantic Ocean; Northumberland; New Zealand; the rain
Specifically, this ODE is to those that we meet and learn from on our journeys
In a world of loveless volume manufacturing, ODEChair products display soul by reflecting the care and honesty with which they have been conceived and crafted
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An ODE is a lyrical poem that pays respect to that which inspired it
The subject of that respect is those who have lent thoughts, inspiration or kindness in the development of these pieces; friends and family, mother nature; the Atlantic Ocean; Northumberland; New Zealand; the rain
Specifically, this ODE is to those that we meet and learn from on our journeys
In a world of loveless volume manufacturing, ODEChair products display soul by reflecting the care and honesty with which they have been conceived and crafted
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Industrial Arts moves from NZ to England
01.03.08 Topic: Industrial
Arts
Leaving the Land of the Long White Cloud for the .. well, silvery one ?
I miss New Zealand and my good friends there every day
Sadly I wasn’t able to do what I want to there
But I’ll be back one day New Zealand ..
.. that’s a promise !
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'Processions of Shells' Mural by Peter Yates
01.04.07 Topic: Peter
Yates
On popping into Beacon House in Whitley Bay, I was surprised and delighted to see the Peter Yates “Processions of Shells” mural still intact and in great condition after almost 50 years !
They have clearly been cherished and decorated around with great care ever since they were painted in 1959.
4.3.2009 : UPDATE ... I am sad to report that after 50 years, the "Shells" Mural has sadly been lost to the evils of Magnolia emulsion.
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'Cinema's Classic Pictures see the Light'
15.12.06 Topic: Peter
Yates
Article, David Whetstone, Newcastle Journal, December 15th, 2006
‘Cinema's Classic Pictures see the Light’
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