London Design Festival 2011: designer Max Lamb has created a series of furniture made entirely from standard sized dowl rods.
The collection comprises a lounge chair, dining chair, daybed, bed, coffee table and console made from a selection of English hardwoods including ash, maple, beech, birch and oak.
Lamb’s intention was to design a range of furniture so simple that any artisan would be able to recreate it should he wish to expand production.
The pieces reference traditional English furniture in their simple construction.
Woodware is part of a presentation entitled Studio Ware at Gallery Fumi.
The show also features work by Studio Glithero and Johannes Nagel and is part of the Shoreditch Design Triangle.
See all of our stories on Max Lamb here and all our stories about this year’s London Design Festival here.
Here is some more information from Gallery Fumi:
Max Lamb’s new collection is called Woodware. It is a series of apparently utilitarian furniture made out of standard dowl rods in classic English timbers, including ash, maple, beech, birch and oak. Pieces include a lounge chair, dining chair, daybed, bed, coffee table and console. Max’s idea is that these pieces could be recreated by other artisans outside of his Tottenham studio, such is the simplicity and clarity of their design, should he wish to expand production. Their aesthetic refers to traditional English furniture, the ladder-back chair for example, while making a nod to contemporary preoccupa- tions of lightness, both physically and aesthetically.
Max Lamb (b.1980) studied three-dimensional design at the University of Northumbria, and a Masters in Design Products at the Royal College of Art in London, where he graduated in 2006.
Studio Ware runs until 30 November 2011
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