Jeremy Duschenes came to Britain from Canada in 1978 to do a PhD in Geophysics at Cambridge,
went from there to opera management, and then to software development, before establishing Sable
Island in 1998. His credentials for running a furniture design company frankly were pretty scant,
limited to having made a lot of furniture as a hobby, and to having visited a lot of wonderful
small furniture-making companies in New England on his travels.
However, he had known Peter Milne
for many years, and in inviting him to collaborate, he decided not to be put off by the
fact that Peter had just lost a three year planning battle with his local council in Kent
and was about to move to Barbados in disgust. In the early days they exchanged a lot of
faxes across the Atlantic but now it’s all done by email.
Jeremy is often asked why the company is called Sable Island. His answer is that in part it makes
a connection with the country of his birth, Sable Island being a small island off the east coast
of Canada, but mostly it just rolls nicely off the tongue.
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