While working in the UK, I was awarded a prestigious 'Bespoke Guild Mark from the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers' for a bed I made from Quilted Maple and Bubinga. Only four pieces of furniture were awarded a Guild Mark that year in the whole of the UK. The award acknowledges excellence in design and making. The bed presented significant technical making problems as the wood is curved simultaneously in two directions. According to textbooks, that's impossible!