A freestanding shelving system distinguished by its soft curved edges and rotating internal components. Made from solid douglas fir timber, it’s horizontal shelves are held in place between alternating vertical sections that allow for storage on both sides. Internal components can then rotate 360 degrees, altering how much light can pass through the shelves and what can be displayed on them. The overall form can scale up or down in size depending on the environment and the same system can be used to make a two shelf sideboard.
Douglas fur
Dimensions variable
A series of powder coated steel stools that are assembled from a range of circular, square and oval tubular sections. Each of the tubes are cut along their lengths and arranged around a set diameter before being capped and finished in different powder coated colours. Embracing an element of chance and variation in their design, this series of stools offers an ongoing iterative approach to making unique forms that all have a similar common language.
Powder coated steal
Dimensions variable
The car photographed by a previous owner some time circa 2003
Part Exchange tells the life story of a scrapped car through a series of objects inspired by the people whose lives it touched over the course of 25 years. Drawing on conversations with its previous owners, the disassembled components of an Alfa Romeo Cloverleaf 145 have been reconfigured into domestic objects of furniture.
Installation views in the Design 1900 - Now galleries, Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington
Purchasing the car at the end of its usable life, then seeking out all of its previous owners in order to better understand what the car meant to the people who lived with it. Through a series of conversations and exchanges seen in the accompanying film, I imagined new ways that the life of the car could live beyond its time on the road. Moving between Richmond (Yorkshire), Manchester, Blackburn & Walsall before finally ending up in East Sussex, the stories gathered were used as a basis for designing new objects of furniture from the materials of the car that once was.
Exhibitited as part of London Design festival 2023
September 2023 - Janurary 2024
A container for flowers that holds a 10oz glass
An armchair assembled from four components that come together through the use of countersunk threaded bolts and custom made powdercoated brackets. Made from solid douglas fir timber with large radius edges, simple forms and an open ended forward facing profile.
Douglar fur, powder coated steel brackeets
685 x 825 x 680mm