A birch and steel office in a beautifully preserved 1930’s modernist flat in Belsize Park. The client wanted an uncluttered, functional space with storage for books, office equipment and the ability for the room to double as a guest bedroom. To make it feel as light as possible and to emphasise the separation of the […]

A fully custom hardwood kitchen in a mansion flat in Belsize Park. Oak counters and wall joinery, doveltailed solid oak drawers with painted plywood doors, solid ash face frame and table, several one-off pieces of furniture design including the main table, an oak open slatted vegetable larder, minimal wall units and the pegboard wall with […]

A CNC-cut desk and shelving unit with lower cabinetry and bike racks in custom laminated birch plywood and a 6m solid sapele picture rail installed in a converted Victorian school in Kennington. A chamfered edge detail runs throughout the plywood pieces, dictating the offsets between all the panel joints.

A compact kitchen with cherry counters, birch ply cabinetry, a glass shelving unit set into a window, and appliances hidden under counter flaps. Aside from the challenge of fitting a full-function kitchen into a modest space, my main design goal was to maximize the feeling of space in the room by avoiding interruptions of the […]

Furniture commission for musician, DJ and producer Jamie Smith for his flat in Hoxton. The staircase takes most of it’s rigidity from it’s own joinery so that it can be fixed to the wall just on one side and suspended from the mezzanine by steel posts bolted to the top tread. The point being to […]

A bookcase using the tall wall above a flight of stairs in a flat in central London, with a ladder which hangs like a sculpture when not in use. I went through several variations of split counterweighted sliding ladders before settling on this simpler solution, which needed a prototype stage for the ladder to find […]

A centrepiece library, reading sofa and storage cabinet for a modern London flat finished in cherry, sapele, sycamore and steel. The focus of this design is the carefully weighted relationship between the elements and the free space surrounding them. The dual-purpose ladder and the book display shelves are intended to accommodate a constantly changing, visually […]

Working for Russell Sage Studio, I was senior designer for the recent refurbishment of the Savoy Grill at the historic Savoy Hotel in London. The design was part of a major refurbishment completed in 2010. Our brief was to provide a new and lavish interior which reconnects with the restaurant’s history while preserving the existing […]

Conversion of an open plan loft-style space in London to a 2 bedroom apartment, with a staircase and joinery in solid walnut. Design, project co-ordination, cabinetry. August – September 2009.

Interior designer Russell Sage brought me in to design furniture after winning this prestigious interiors contract with Gordon Ramsay Holdings. The York & Albany is a ten suite boutique hotel, restaurant, bar and delicatessen on the edge of Regent’s Park in London, housed in a Grade II listed inn and coach house built by John […]