Here, we ask designers to take a selfie and give us an inside look at their life.
Age: 37
Occupation: Design.
Instagram: @charlottekingsnorth
Hometown: London
Studio location: London.
Describe what you make: Furniture, objects, and some things in between.
The most important thing you’ve designed to date: Important to who? For me, probably the first thing I ever made and the last.
Describe the problem your work solves: I don’t make work to solve problems.
Describe the project you are working on now: I just finished the work for my solo show with Objective Gallery, which was an involved and intensely creative few months. Now we’re catching up with some private commissions at a more regular pace. Currently a lichen bronze table and a bunch of hi!breed chairs.
A new or forthcoming project we should know about: My solo show with Objective Gallery, titled “Animalistic Tendencies,” which opens May 4 at their New York gallery.
What you absolutely must have in your studio: Just the tools I need to make. Artists learn to be pretty resilient. Everything else is a distraction (sometimes welcomed!) although if I’m doing something repetitive, I like to listen to a podcast or music.
What you do when you’re not working: My aim has always been for work to not feel like “work,” but it’s good to escape. It’s very hard to completely break free though. I think a trait of being an artist is that you’re always thinking about your work.
Sources of creative envy: I respect female artists and designers from the past who had to tough it out when no one would give them recognition and their male counterparts often took the credit.
The distraction you want to eliminate: Low-level procrastination is often welcomed.
Concrete or marble? How about something new?
High-rise or townhouse? Thanks, yes please.
Remember or forget? Meh.
Aliens or ghosts? Lol, aliens.
Dark or light? Both in equal measure.
