From March 30th to April 5th, 9 designers "went back to the furniture." They lived for a week in the Herefordshire woods and practiced the traditional woodturning craft of Bodging, where unseasoned wood is transformed into chair legs and stretcher bars using a pole-lathe, as seen in Windsor Chairs.
The nine participants were led by Gudrun Leitz and her assistant; "they all got out of the studio, away from drawing boards, computer screens and mechanised equipment into the hands-on world of the original country-chair makers working without electricity with pole lathes, steam benders and hand tools."