Jenny Dalton talks about the opulence available from steel, stone and brass and how to add your personality with translucent minerals, back lighting and leather lined drawers.

Halstock has been complimented on our hand turned recess pillars to replicate columns of light.

Halstock are pleased to announce that our CAD Manager, Paul
Munford has been asked to join Autodesk’s new ‘Expert Elite’ program. The
program recognizes Autodesk Community members for exceptional leadership and
contribution to others.

‘Autodesk Discussion Forums Expert Elites are Experts
because they master one or more Autodesk products. And they are Elites because
they contribute above and beyond to our online support community’

As an Autodesk Expert Elite member, Paul is recognized as a
leader in the Autodesk Community. Members are selected after a close review of
their Autodesk Community contributions. These contributions include assisting
customers by sharing product knowledge, exemplifying an engaging style of
collaborated support leading to positive sentiment from Autodesk customers. The
members of the Elite share their enthusiasm for Autodesk with their community,
as well as representing the voice of the customer back to Autodesk.

In addition, Paul also received the highly regarded
‘Manufacturing community achievement award’ this year which was presented at
Autodesk University 2012, in recognition of his support of the Autodesk
Inventor community.

‘I’d like to thank all at Halstock for their continued
support. It means a lot to me to be working in an environment that supports my
goals of producing high quality drawings, using whichever tools are appropriate
to the problem at hand’ – Paul

‘Autodesk are able to pick the best and most knowledgeable
speakers from around the world to present at AU. I am extremely proud to be
included in their ranks – and a little nervous’, said Paul.

You can find out more about Paul’s class on the AU 2012
website:

https://www.autodeskuniversity2012.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=2288

On 24 October 2012, London’s top architects and interior designers gathered at Holland & Holland’s Bruton Street showroom to hear about a new association between Halstock Cabinet Makers and Holland & Holland.  The two companies will be working closely together to design and create bespoke gunrooms for clients in the UK and overseas.

British Olympic Gold Medallist (Shooting, Double Trap) Peter Wilson was at the event on 24 October.

Richard Miller, Managing Director of Halstock says “We are delighted to be working with Holland & Holland; their worldwide reputation for excellence is second to none.  The knowledge and experience of Holland &Holland’s craftsmen and craftswomen will underpin our aspiration to create the world’s most beautiful gunrooms.”
Daryl Greatrex, Managing Director of Holland & Holland says, “At Holland & Holland British craftsmanship is paramount so we look forward to working in association with Halstock.  This is a great opportunity to pool together our separate areas of expertise and create some unique gunrooms.”

Linda Paget, our regular caterer, provided a sumptuous BBQ buffet, enjoyed in temperatures of 24 degrees. The merrymaking went on well into the early hours including the live music and a fire show after dark. Many staff camped over and carried on the party on Sunday morning with a full cooked breakfast and BBQ leftovers.

“Halstock offers a great working environment, and this is exactly what we are about – working hard together and having fun after work” was the feedback from some of the staff.

Created to merge contemporary stone carving and traditional cabinet making, using classic materials in new ways.  The cabinet has been designed as a fun extravagant showpiece of style and opulence, layered with surprises to delight and entertain.
The concept of backlighting the alabaster and the internal ‘bleached burr madrona’ was intended to maximise the impact of the piece and showcase the materials unique aesthetic qualities.

A brief description of the materials…

Exterior Side panels – Matt finished Welsh Slate carved with horizontal and vertical grooves to create a unique textured surface.  This was chosen to give interest and depth to the large expanse of side
panel. Backlit door tiles – Blue Alabaster, this was chosen because of its translucent properties which allowed us to maximise the impact of its amazing inherent veining and marbling.Exterior & Interior Mirror – Antiqued Silver Mirror, chosen to add interest and texture to the large areas of mirrored surface.

Internal Backlit tiered shelving – TABU 46.050 Burr Madrona Veneer.  We wanted the interior of the cabinet and the tiered shelves to look incredible whether they had wonderful spirit bottles on
them or not, how better to do this than to backlit the veneer by veneering over clear Perspex, thus emphasising the swirling grain pattern to great effect.

Halstock are incredibly proud of their second Guild Mark awarded and look forward to the possibility of applying for more in the future.

Halstock celebrated Christmas with an afternoon of “Choreographed Christmas Celebrations”

The Halstock team  arrived at a local venue with all members of staff not knowing at all what was planned for them. The whole business joined in with hair, make-up and learned the routine from the famous Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

Nigel Cheeseman, Simon Elliott and Dan Eastment “stepped up” to be the leading men for the evening. Nigel securing first place in the Michael Jackson dance off offered extra entertainment to all who attended.

A performance to all partners later in the evening allowed the entire team to meet and celebrate what, for Halstock, has been a great year!

Created to merge contemporary stone carving and traditional cabinet making, using classic materials in new ways.  The cabinet has
been designed as a fun extravagant showpiece of style and opulence, layered with surprises to delight and entertain.
The concept of backlighting the alabaster and the internal ‘bleachedburr madrona’ was intended to maximise the impact of the piece and showcase the materials unique aesthetic qualities.

Created by seamlessly integrating both design and engineering, sketches, CAD and above all teamwork.  Notice that the interior working area where cocktails will be mixed is set at pub bar height whilst not compromising the square alabaster door tiles on the exterior, in this cabinet form does indeed follow function.

The team Captain Ben Symonds confirmed that now we have taken part this year we plan to be involved every year and beat the astonishing number that we raised this year.

Around 112,000 people take part from the UK in Movember and the team at Halstock have been pleased to be part of that number. The Movember Charity is hoping to beat its 11.7million raised during 2010 from the UK alone.

The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with their strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

For more information on the programmes we are funding please visit the following:
The Prostate Cancer Charity
The Institute of Cancer Research
Awareness & Education
Global Action Plan