Here, we ask designers to take a selfie and give us an inside look at their life.
Occupation: Furniture and lighting designer.
Instagram: @pinch_london
Hometown: London.
Studio location: A Victorian railway workshop in Clapham, London.
Describe what you make: We design and make furniture and lighting that we’d want to live with—for us, the magic is in the combination of strong shape, elegant materiality, and expert making. We like to make furniture that contributes a dimensionality to a space that makes you feel good when you’re in it—be that country or concrete. We all know those spaces that you enter and think “this feels really lovely.” If it’s not the ley lines, it’s the furniture, and that’s our ambition.
The most important thing you’ve designed to date: Our Anders light series; its overall impact is greater than the sum of its parts when it comes to lights that contribute positively to how a space feels, and therefore how you feel. It’s probably the best example of our intention as designers.
Describe the problem your work solves: Keeping craft-based workshops and their valuable skill sets from dying out. Making sure our designs and making offer longevity to provide a reason for chopping a tree down in the first place.
Describe the project you are working on now: Designing a new collection to both mark the moment of our business celebrating being 20 years old, and also to gift ourselves the opportunity to design a series of new work.
A new or forthcoming project we should know about: In mid September, we’ll be installing ourselves at the Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery in Tribeca for a month, which will mean for the first time stateside, our clients will be able to see a wide selection of our collection all in one place.
What you absolutely must have in your studio: Good music, from Talking Heads to Jon Hopkins, malty crema crowned generous amounts of coffee, too many milk options for a normal fridge size, model making workshop, full stack of Tombow brush pens, watercolor paper, a lot of laughter, plants and propagated plant babies.
What you do when you’re not working: Sea swimming in South Devon, cooking, gardening, Joni dog cuddling, dancing and card playing with the fam.
Sources of creative envy: Brancusi, Prada ready-to-wear collection Autumn 2013, Ben Nicholson.
The distraction you want to eliminate: Company overheads and financial constraints when product developing.
Concrete or marble? Concrete.
High-rise or townhouse? Townhouse.
Remember or forget? Remember.
Aliens or ghosts? Aliens.
Dark or light? Both. Contrast is everything.
