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featuring balanced architectural silhouettes. Roll features work in clay, Bend focuses on the technique of slump glass, which uses gravity in the kiln to create curved forms; Cut examines cut glass; and Glaze is an exploration of crackle- glazed ceramics. “For us, everything is about making,” said Berman’s fellow co-founder Andrew Kotchen. “Ultimately what we gravitate towards are things that are simple, refined, edited, curated and composed, and that are based on the qualities of certain materials. When you reduce design down to those foundational elements you are ultimately going to create something that feels more timeless. That’s what we try and bring to everything we do.” Design that pushes the limits of a material can be elevated to the status of functional sculpture. For Jessica
Barrington of stonemasons The Refined Workshop, making limited edition pieces by Staffan Tollgård and Filippo Castellani was an exciting proposition. The Wave collection features a dining table, console, bench and coffee table with a distinctive wavy edge. The look is one of fluidity, which contrasts with the solidity of stone. Seamlessly slotting together, it achieves extraordinary complexity with apparent simplicity. Each piece is made from Grand Antique marble, a rare stone found in the Pyrenees that has an unusual history: used from Roman times onwards, it was popular with art deco designers before the quarry closed. Now reopened, the quarry is now once again supplying this prized marble, which has a distinctive black and white appearance. “We were lucky to source this incredible piece of marble. It’s difficult to
work with, but that’s part of the challenge,” Barrington explained at an online Creative Collaboration session. To create art from this fragile material, the experienced team at The Refined Workshop merged creativity with engineering using five-point CNC machinery for high speed precision cutting. Technical excellence allowed for a visually impossible effect, with the slimmest of supports holding upwards of 400kg of marble top. “A lot of designers can be quite timid when they are using stone. We need someone to push us,” said Simon Brown of The Refined Workshop about the project. Always looking to challenge the conventional norms
of the design sphere, these brands are just some of the design houses at Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour that experiment, refine and continuously redefine
ABOVE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Arteriors worked with US design and architecture firm Workshop APD on a new collection whose starting point was a series of hand-crafted manufacturing techniques, from sump glass to crackle-glazed ceramics; ‘Roll’ porcelain trays from the Workshops APD and Arteriors collection; the ‘Wave’ bench, made from rare Grand Antique marble and designed by Staffan Tollgård and Filippo Castellani alongside stonemason The Refined Workshop; Tollgård, Castellani and The Refined Workshop’s Jessica Barrington during the Wave collection’s development
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