Contract: Designers Guild UK – Working in colour 1986-1998.
1986 – 2025
Above: Tricia Guild CEO of DG UK casting her eye over the selection of salads in the HO staff canteen. My tables and benches were commissioned to add a sense of passion to the room and dull Wormwood urban backdrop.
The original rustic finishes of Designers Guild UK
The beauty of erosion
25 years of superb, authentic ‘Driftwood’ furniture
IN TOWN – HISTORY MEETS PURE MODERNISM
A truly contemporary feel was further created by me , with bright-bold, heavy rustic crazed finishes, for the 1987 Designers Guild book ‘In Town’.
In the Brixton workshop. I thrived making this collection which ran for 9 years.
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INSPIRATION
Our original distressed inspiration came from the Santa Fe furniture, London Dockland Wharfs, beach and barn-house styles.
The cupboard below came about in a moment of pure abstraction.
THE LOVE OF RUSTICA
Above: An NGS Signwriting Ghost sign wall panel CHECK THIS NGS ‘GHOST SIGN’ ARTICLE
The Spirit of Paint
Le Labo Collection and Virgin Media O2
CREATING WEATHER-WORN DRIFTWOODS AND GHOST SIGNS
Cracking and distressing the paint became an obsession that carries on today with NGS London.
Yet the materials I discovered that worked best on furniture were traditional gum Arabic and plaster based paints. These were strapped down with fine damar varnish with a hint of colour to enhance the final bees waxed patina.
The result… the birth of shabby chic.
NGS AGED FINISHES
Santa Fe Beachcomber
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