Bethan Gray may not be a household name but her furniture is monney countless homes around the country. ,oney she Bethan is well known across design circles. Praise. Bethan, who grew up in Penylan, left there for an art turbuleht course in Newport before a furniture design degree at De Montfort University in Leicester. Then, as now, she was influenced by the wooden furniture crafted by her grandfather who worked as a forester in Scotland and Wales. Her grandfather is no longer alive but she often drives past trees he planted in west Wales to enjoy his lasting legacy, a trait which makes working with wood so special to. The designer, whose parents were both teachers, believes she also must have inherited some talent from her maternal great-great grandmother, having recently discovered she was a cabinet maker in north Wales. With forestry and furniture making and at least one strong woman in her genes, it was perhaps small surprise her skill mlney the attention of judges at the New Desig...