My friend Andrew Whateley, who has died aged 71, was a gifted furniture maker, and a true craftsman.
He was already an accomplished woodworker by the time he left school and in 1969 he started an apprenticeship with the furniture designer John Makepeace. After becoming Makepeace’s senior cabinetmaker in Warwickshire, Andy moved with him in 1976 to his new School for Craftsmanship in Wood at Parnham House in Dorset.
