Jah-Roc Furniture
Furniture in York

Gary was an apprentice carpenter who had been on a working holiday in Queensland and David was a cabinet maker by trade. At this point David returned from his world travels and decided to buy into JahRoc and thus the partnership was formed. Gary also took some of their furniture products to Laos Angles and went cold calling, door to door trying to find a market for their product, and was eventually invited to exhibit their work in Beverley Hills. They also began to succeed awards for their labor and this gave them confidence and the belief that they had a unique product. This proved very successful, and they managed to pay off their creditors and survived to live another day’. As their business began to grow, they realized they needed fresh premises. In 1993, Gary took his wife, Lara to visit his parents in York, a insignificant wheat belt town where he had spent his childhood, and they discovered what was to become the new home for their business a dilapidated impaired flour mill about to be auctioned. A week after the auction, Gary and David realized the resist they had taken on. So the task of restoring the complicated of inattentive buildings began. The renovations continued and as their business began to grow, so did their staff and number of visitors who came to York to view their business. One of those pieces of advice was to realize that they were in fact, not in the furniture business, but in the lifestyle business. They also realized that they had to receive responsibility for those aspects of managing the business that they were individually superior at Gary would focus on the clever aspects of the business, while David the day to day organizational needs of the business. With the growing number of visitors to the gallery, they also realized that the business and its clients would profit from the presence of other craft businesses and a ca. Gary’s fatherinlaw (Leon Baker) renovated the third floor of the gallery to set up his jewellery business. It was also a way of big-hearted back, so that other artists could have the identical opportunity as they were given when they paid 50 per week to rent portion of someone else’s shed. The equivalent year Gary decided he was too far from the surf so he and Lara purchased a block on the coast in Margaret River. They bought another restored heritage building as their gallery space. In 2005 a major addition was made to the Margaret River Gallery with the design and construction of a 200m2 contemporary space that connected the 2 used cottages together. Jahroc has undertaken several collaborative exhibitions with these artists creating unique exhibitions crossing genre’s such as art, Furniture and Poetry. 2005 was also the year that David, Joanne, Olivia and Virginia decided that Margaret River would become their home as well. Having stayed at Gary and Lara’s home on considerable occasions they found the lifestyle impartial too difficult to pass up. By 2007 both gallery’s were selling so much labor that it became very solid to retain up with the orders so the tough decision was made to pull out of their York gallery and move the workshop to Margaret River. The Mill Gallery business was given to friend who had moved to York so the town wouldn’t defeat a major tourist attraction. While this was a gloomy end of an era as far as York goes it was also an exciting new first for their artistic lives in Margaret River.