All over Britain, people drag themselves to jobs they hate, crammed into trains and buses, stewing in traffic, watching the clock and seeing their days tick slowly away - but we get to conjure up treasure! Callum Robinson turns wood into £1m works of art. And now he’s crafted a gem of a book ..
. a hymn to family and living a life you love Click here to visit the Scotland home page for the latest news and sport By ANNIE BROWN FOR THE SCOTTISH DAILY MAIL Published: 21:12 GMT, 29 November 2024 | Updated: 21:12 GMT, 29 November 2024 e-mail 1 View comments From the dusty old workshop of woodcarver Callum Robinson, objects of alluring beauty emerge: the cigar cabinet of cedar and gold, encased in butter-soft Scottish leather destined for Bond Street; a bespoke chest in sculpted oak sourced from the ancestral estate of Princess Diana and commissioned to hold a million-dollar Swiss watch. When Callum stands back and admires a completed piece he is always struck by the incongruity of its elegance against the surroundings of where it was made – a workshop in an old sawmill, its air thick with sawdust and its benches strewn with the detritus of drills, saws and chisels.
‘You can have the blingiest, most luxurious thing and it is being worked on by one of us in filthy overalls and a woolly hat and glue all over him,’ he explains. ‘When something is finished it looks incredible and it seems a contradiction to see it essentially in a shed in the woods.’ The cigar cabinet was t.
