12 years of designing, making & fabricating bespoke furniture.

Design & Making

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Design & Making //

Hex - Drinks Cabinet

Designed for functionality, built around sustainability.

Using salvaged brass and reclaimed oak over 200 octagons cover and wrap across it’s tiered design. With transparent shelves and backlights every bottle can be easily found, raised, and decanted into its appropriate glass, stored in the upper section of the unit.

Using the traditional Japanese method of ‘Yakisugi’ (wood preservation through fire), a natural finish captures the grain of the oak.

2018

Peter Marigold & Graduates

For London Design Festival 2020, Peter Marigold curated an exhibition for the Brompton Design district that showcased the work of his previous students.

Re-pot is a research based exploration that began under the ‘Crafting a Circular Economy’ project funded by King’s College London. With a focus on sawdust (an abundant waste stream from my studio) and with the help of project partners Materiom. A variety of recipes exploring various moulds, sawdusts and organic glues were used to create a series of small seedling pots.

Although limited by funding, time and lockdown it was envisioned these pots would provide nutrients supporting seedling growth, breakign down inline with plant growth untill both plant and pot could be replanted.

2020

Mo’ Shoe unit

Designed to nestle under the tread of the stairs, every square foot is utilised its Piet Mondrian inspired doors offer silhouettes a hidden collection of shoes awaiting feet, whilst the sliding doors reframe the stylings of Mondrian when slid open.

A pair of acrylic boxes store the accruements of shoe care.

2017

On Growth & Form

For London Design Festival 2019, Shoreditch district, ‘On Growth & Form’, was a group exhibition that presented the work of five emerging designers, who reflected on how industrial processes and manufactured objects can imitate, adapt or modify the rules of growth and form that shape the natural world. Pinnasect, Hoop & Mesh create a trio of plant units that are designed to support the various stages of plant growth, from seedling to mature plant.

PINNASECT: a compact cylindrical indoor greenhouse designed to nurture seedlings and protect new growth. It’s individual perspex leaves are easily removed, which gently ‘rustle’ in the wind.

HOOP is a tiered plant unit, which utilises negative space to hold various sized plant pots, whilst also providing space for the plants to grow. For indoor or outdoor use, Hoop creates a dedicated space for various young plants.

MESH: is a standalone unit that can be used as a stand for hanging plants or a climbing frame for an for more established plants.

2019

‘Re-frame’ showcased at Material Matters

Re-frame is an exploration of materials and circle design. Focusing on unwanted mirrors, gathered from second-hand sources, paper waste is turned into paper maché then layered around an aluminium framework, bonding mirror to frame in the process.

Re-frame seeks to save unwanted mirrors landfill, whilst also incorporating new functionality into each piece, ensuring that each mirror has a second life.

As an low-cost readily available material paper-mache also allows the piece to be easily repaired or repainted.

2023

Fabrication

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Fabrication //

Creating bespoke pieces for other studios

After graduating with a 2:1 in Furniture & Product Design my early days of making were, in part, fuelled with fabricating work for other design studios, including but not limited to:

Row 1: Les French for Gallery Fumi by Glithero
Row 2: For Hugh Hayden by Sebastian Cox
Row 3: Poly Chairs for Max Lamb
Row 4: Rail for Paul Smith by Peter Marigold
Row 5: Fuzz for Gallery Fumi by Study O Portable
Row 6: ‘Pop up clubhouse’ for Rapha by Tomás Alonso
Row 7: Hull sit-ooterie by Tim Norris

THE UNI YEARS //

2013-2016

Where great years. Fuelled by a desire to explore my time at uni was a spent creating and improving my making skills, exploring various materials and processes and understanding the nature of design. Pictured: