Callum Robinson (13:30 BST)

Callum Robinson (13:30 BST)

Sat, May 10, 2025, 12:30 PM UTC

Ingrained is a love letter to trees, timber and craftsmanship - and to finding your own voice. The eldest son of a master woodworker, Callum Robinson spent his childhood surrounded by wood and trees, absorbing craft lessons in his father's workshop and becoming his apprentice, helping to create exquisite bespoke objects.

But eventually the need to find his own path led him to establish his own design business going from commercial success to near-bankruptcy. Faced with its collapse, and the consequent dispersal of his team and everything he had worked so hard to build, he was forced to question what mattered most.

Callum tells the story of returning to his own workshop in a loch-side forest in the Scottish hills and to the world of wood; to handcrafting furniture for people who will love it and pass it on to the next generation - antidotes to a culture where everything seems so easily disposable.

In conversation with Susanna Beaumont


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