SCP Contents Issue Number Five Welcome to SCP Issue Number Five, published SCP Products: to coincide with the 2014 Salone del Mobile Milan. This issue has new product pages with Upholstery 2 the best of the 2013 Collection now included, while the SCP Milan Supplement has all of our Furniture 10 new 2014 designs. There are products from Faudet-Harrison, Lucy Kurrein, Reiko Kaneko, Accessories 17 Fort Standard, Bec Brittain, Donna Wilson, Mark McGinnis, Andrea Stemmer, Sarah Kay The SCP Collection 19–22 and Peter Marigold. We also have new 2014 editions of designs by Jasper Morrison and Accessories 23 Terence Woodgate. In the editorial section of the newspaper, we Lighting 26 look at the working practice of Reiko Kaneko, strip down one of SCP’s most celebrated designs, Textiles 28 talk to the SCP designers about a changing commercial landscape, discuss the evolving Rugs 30 workplace with Richard Leeks of SCP Contracts, hear the latest trends from our worldwide An overview of the current SCP collection, featuring some on-location photography by stockists, indulge in some light-hearted John Ross and a centre spread pull-out detailing all products currently in production. illustrated selfies from our designers, and our editor celebrates British design in Milan. I am very pleased to be returning to the main Milan with a Plan 32 Fiera for the first time in five years. However, I am growing more concerned that a gap is Our Editor, Duncan Riches, thinks it is time to celebrate British design in Milan. developing between how the larger companies in the industry and the smaller independents, like us, are thinking. Over the last few years, Balzac to the Future 33 we have increased our manufacturing network of small producers, fabricators and factories. It A look under the skin of one of SCP’s most iconic products, the Balzac armchair is a delight to see a renaissance in small-scale, by Matthew Hilton. high-quality British manufacturing. It feels like a return to the mood of the Arts and Crafts movement. Many of our producers are making Habit is your Greatest Treasure 34 things using traditional methods, or are in fact, reviving traditional craft skills. While all The British-Japanese designer Reiko Kaneko is new to SCP. Her first product for the this is going on, I feel that some of the bigger company, the Adderley Works pendant light, was launched in 2013. Now, for the companies in the design sector are just getting 2014 Collection, she has been working on some very special terracotta tableware. more protective and distanced from the actual Our Editor, Duncan Riches, finds out more. art of making. I particularly dislike behemoths threatening everybody and anybody. The UK is currently undergoing a change in copyright Around the World 36 laws, which will strengthen the hand of a small number of large companies who actually believe In this regular feature, we profile a selection of our worldwide stockists, taking a that they are the guardians of good design, but look inside their stores and hearing some views on trends for the forthcoming year. only a small number of them produce anything new of merit. I find it hard to understand why st protectionism and legal action seems to be the 21 Century Designers 38 preferred methodology of some of the larger brands. How did they work out that is how the The role of the designer in the modern world is constantly changing. The formal world progresses? There is a danger that this boundaries in design have shifted and prefixes such as furniture, product, textile kind of attitude will just make designers fearful or graphic are no longer required. SCP’s Lucy James talks to the diverse stable of of making anything new that could be deemed SCP designers to find out how they are adapting to the changing landscape. a copy, when the reality is designers do not work in a vacuum and ideas are often copied, or reinterpreted somehow. Me, Myself and I 40 The design industry is in danger of becoming out of step with the modern world. In the self-obsessed spirit of the “selfie”, a word recently entered into the Oxford A post-internet world that has seen many new English Dictionary, we invited SCP designers to produce an illustrated self-portrait. approaches to design (open-source, co-design, user-generated content design, etc.), surely requires some new thinking. I like the idea that Keeping Ahead 41 designers shouldn’t be constantly employed by companies to make things. Rather that they We talk to SCP Contracts Director Richard Leeks about the ever evolving workplace, should be employed by companies not to make looking at a new project in East London, and some beautiful new products. things, and to use their understanding of design to make the world a better place. We are an independent and passionate British company. We try to keep creativity at the heart of the brand. I hope you enjoy SCP Issue Number Five.

Sheridan Coakley Founder | Owner, SCP Ltd.

SCP Classics Side tables Designed by Jasper Morrison 1 9 8 6 SCP Magazine SCP Head Office SCP Stores To sign up to the SCP mailing list, please April 2014 135–139 Curtain Road visit the registration page on our website. London EC2A 3BX SCP East Re-issued 2014 Lead Writer/Editor: T +44 20 7739 1869 135–139 Curtain Road www.scp.co.uk Duncan Riches at and Associate F +44 20 7729 4224 London EC2A 3BX [email protected] T +44 20 7739 1869 Additional writing: Lucy James and Jodi Moss [email protected] F +44 20 7729 4224 Design and art direction: Farrow [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Photography: John Ross SCP West Additional photography: Jang-Hyeon Choi, 87–93 Westbourne Grove Gareth Hacker, Ellie Laycock, Richard Brine, London W2 4UL Trevor Key, Stockists’ own, Designers’ own. T +44 20 7229 3612 SCP Ltd F +44 20 7243 4821 135–139 Curtain Road London EC2A 3BX Printed at The Guardian Print Centre, [email protected] Rick Roberts Way, London, E15 2GN [email protected] www.scp.co.uk 2 3 Upholstery 1 SCP upholstery is made by hand at our specialist SCP Products factory in Norfolk, England. Each single piece is made to exacting modern standards by utilising time-honoured techniques. We only use renewable materials, with frames made from FSC approved beech and upholstered using natural fibres, animal hair and wool. Design talent, dedication and precise craftsmanship are all used in the making of elegant pieces that live well and live long.

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Armchair Two seat compact sofa Three seat sofa Four seat sofa Sofa system Ottoman: small, large Daybed Bed

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2 Bertha 3 Lucas 4 Lincoln 5 Woodgate Donna Wilson Matthew Hilton Lucy Kurrein Terence Woodgate

Armchair Armchair Three seat sofa Three seat sofa Three seat sofa Sofa system A joint project between SCP and the A particularly comfortable design that has Shorefast Foundation on Fogo Island, The Lucas infuses a traditional design a high back for extra support, a deep-lying The newly updated Woodgate is available as Newfoundland. This design takes typology with modern aesthetics. Subtle seat and elongated front section. The Lincoln a conventional armchair, chaise longue and inspiration from the traditional boat bottleneck curves create comfort, while deft is a piece that brings together a formal sofa, or as a versatile modular sofa system building found on the Island. Rigid and details such as the taper and flare of the legs sensibility with a softened curvaceous look. to allow for L shaped configurations, with strong, the frame has flat sides and four and the slight protrusion of the seat cushion connectors included. A visually light and back panels that gently kick outwards like a give this piece its poise. lean design, progressive in its conception boat’s hull. The feet are also part of the frame and modest in style. design, creating the look of a beautifully crafted continuous line. 6 7 7 9

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6 Wilma 7 Eadie 8 Munro 9 Balzac 10 Mabel Donna Wilson Donna Wilson Donna Wilson Matthew Hilton Donna Wilson

Bench Armchair Three seat sofa Armchair and ottoman Three seat sofa

A small and useful upholstered bench that A curvaceous and comfortably snug A traditional version of the chesterfield Iconic early 90s design with genuine poise The Mabel sofa hints at a North European is light in appearance and in weight. The armchair. The back of the frame gently that uses time-honoured techniques in the and balance. Uses a double saddle-stitch heritage, devoid of superfluous details, design has slightly splayed turned legs that arcs to create a crescent shape for the neatly making. It features two large piped edged on the arms to create the perfect curve. comfortable and serene. It has a rounded give a nod to traditional craft techniques. fitting full feather upholstered cushion. cushions and a deep buttoned and hand- Featured in Taschen’s 1000 chairs, widely frame and large button upholstered Short tapered legs lend a low-profile look to pleated back. Large and robust, the design is used in advertising and considered by many cushions. Available in a specially the design. comfortable, familiar and suitably grand. as the final word in club chairs. A true commissioned Donna Wilson patterned modern classic. linen. 8 9 11 13

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11 Kenneth 12 Arthur 13 Frank, Ernest, Henry 14 This Way That 15 Motley Faudet-Harrison Donna Wilson Donna Wilson Donna Wilson Donna Wilson

Armchair Pouffe Pouffes Bean bag Ottoman Two seat sofa A large drum shaped low-lying pouffe with A playful response to the problem of A new design that brings the original A large-scale deep-buttoned chesterfield A compact armchair and sofa with a small a piping detail at its top edge. This playful occasional seating, Donna Wilson’s pouffes 1970s bean bag idea right up to date. inspired footstool. Available upholstered footprint and subtle 1950s references. The occasional seating is upholstered in either come in three shapes and sizes. They are Made with 100% pure knitted wool with in hand-knitted wool specially designed gently tapered solid ash legs and separate knitted lamb’s wool or woven double cloth. upholstered in either knitted lamb’s wool a fully removable cover, it is constructed by Donna Wilson in three different colour arms and back give the design visual Available in Nos Da, Field Day, Zig Zag and or double cloth woven panels reminiscent with an inner cotton bag filled with ways: Rainbow, Blue Lagoon and Hot Earth, lightness. Braid fabric. of orange segments. Soft, shapely and polystyrene beads. This design is the or in a solid colour wool fabric. robust enough to roll down hills, the pouffe ultimate in occasional seating, exceptionally collection is available in Nos Da, Field Day, comfortable and notably soft due to the Zig Zag and Braid fabric. use of pure wool. Available in two bright colourways, Rose-Olive and Turquoise- Tiger. 10 11 Furniture 2 2 Created by deft design and drafting, highly-skilled makers and the application of advanced manufacturing techniques, SCP furniture is modern, lasting and timeless.

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1 Compass 2 Agnes Matthew Hilton Kay+Stemmer

Trestles with tabletop Long, medium and high shelves Wall unit A study in elegance and balance, these Side table trestles are made from steamed solid beech Console with either a natural or black finish. They are designed with practicality and stability A popular collection of shelving, consoles , in mind. Notable for finely drawn details tables and mirrors that have the hallmarks of and the tapered legs that ascend into a mid- classical furniture-making training. Subtle leg curve. Awarded the Design Guildmark details include radius edges, gentle upwards by the Worshipful Company of Furniture tapering and perfect proportion. Designed Makers in 2010. Available with a glass or as solid one piece items, this range comes white laminate top. “out of the box” with no assembly required. Available in oak or walnut. 12 13 3 4 6 7

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Stool Stool Side table Side table Side tables Shelving system Bar stool Coffee table Molly is a four-legged wooden stool. It is Bench A side table that lends itself to a variety of Originally designed for SCP in 1992, the An adaptable and strong component based A stool with a beautifully executed joinery made from solid ash with turned legs and a settings and a number of uses. The tilted Tom Tom and Tam Tam tables were re- shelving system that is very easy to assemble. detail that allows the seat to be constructed solid seat. Practical yet charming, Molly is The Cricket collection is a new interpretation stem and three point base allow the design issued in 2009. This classic pair of adjustable Slim, with ultra-thin pressed steel used for from two separate parts. Full of personality full of Donna Wilson’s distinctive hallmarks of the classic “cricket table” typology, to sit closer and more comfortably next to an tables are both pragmatic in their design all components, this system has an effortless and poise, the design is comfortable, playful, of comfort and warmth. believed to date back to the Jacobean period armchair, sofa or bed. Delicate detailing and and visually fluent. A sensitive application of elegance that fits well in both residential with a wit all its own. in Britain. An outward splay of the legs lends visual balance define this piece. Available in colour and an eloquent use of the square and and commercial environments. Available in the design its stability and strength, while oak or walnut. the circle in the design evokes the spirit of white or rust powder coated finish. an elegant edged tenon joint is used to hold the Bauhaus. the legs in place. A smooth finish on the tops and reverse taper on the legs bring an aesthetic balance to the overall design. 14 15 9 11 11

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Desk Table Coffee table Trestle (x2) Side table Table Simplicity, refinement and deft detailing The Peggy table is designed for both mark out this design for special attention. residential dining and commercial use. An enduring minimal design that has been A refined and cleverly conceived design, Shortlisted in the Best British Design A workbench version is available with updated to include new finishes. The Sax these trestles are both exceptionally sturdy category at the British Design Awards tops in bespoke sizes and optional cable tables are made from bronze or chrome and visually light. The legs are deigned to fit 2009 and described as “a flawless mix management. A refined aesthetic is created plated steel legs and two sheets of toughened neatly into three cross cuts in each piece of of traditional and modern” this piece is through the elliptical shape of the support clear or screen-printed black glass. Simple, steel, making two legs face outwards while beautifully finished and transcends its era. frame and the subtle rotation of the oval refined and functional, this design has the the central leg faces inwards. The trestles Available with either brown or orange legs. timeless modernist touch. are available as a standalone pair or with leather top. the choice of a toughened glass or white laminate top. Available in a cream or rust powder coated finish. 16 17 13 14 Accessories 1 We make smaller, more accessible designs that can be used all around the home. SCP pair the right designers with the right type of product briefs and use high-calibre British and European factories to produce anything from coat-racks to candelabras. Subtle, refined and quietly confident, this expanding collection of accessories is about humble design for real life.

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Bar stool Hod Side table Step stool Small mirror Mirror Wall unit Large mirror A three or four legged bar stool made from Inspired by the bricklayers’ hod, this witty The Lily side table successfully blends A small yet perfectly formed stool that has A rectangular portrait mirror with a solid An oak wall-mounted unit with a polished solid steel bar and an oak seat. The light or book holder and occasional storage item is refined detailing in construction with a multiple uses. Made from solid oak, the Two mirrors to complement the popular oak storage shelf at its base. The shelf is made edged rectangular mirror. It features five dark grey powder-coated tripod configured made from solid oak and powder-coated lack of formal reference to shape. The table, design looks like the letter A in profile and Agnes range. Made in solid oak or walnut, from one piece of wood and is the shape of a large walnut coat hooks, for items such as legs, have a low crossbar for foot support. steel. The book holder itself is made like a made entirely from powder-coated steel, features a step that can be accessed from with a clear matt lacquer finish. The design half-pipe. Practical, well-crafted and simple keys. It sits flush against the wall, with the From above the solid oak seat has a crescent rectangular box missing three sides. This has an organically shaped top and base. either side and a handle detail cut into the has the hallmarks of a classical training in in conception, this design blends top section acting as an enclosed shelf for the shape, slightly beyond a semi-circle, and design has the feel of a contemporary Available in three colours; light grey, navy top. The step is recessed from the frame wood. Deft details and a softened look is straightforward utility with unobtrusive mirror. Understated and utilitarian, Jeeves is features a curved indent for comfort. This sculpture. Available in green or orange. and orange. on either side with a beautifully designed what you want in a mirror. style. as articulate as it is practical. stool is a slim and balanced design with a curve. This stool can be used as a handy step, beautifully contoured seat. somewhere to sit or as a side table. 18 19 4 5 Accessories Lighting

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Boys, Babes The 5K Ruler for Measuring the Growth Adderley Works pendant & Bikes of Human Beings Reiko Kaneko

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W 19 × H 213 × D 1.8 cm Designed and made in Stoke on Trent from fine bone china. Supplied with a 1.8m braided Screen printed by hand on birch plywood with textile cable and a 14W low energy bulb. Agnes mirror split batons for wall mounting. Made in the UK Kay + Stemmer Made in the UK

Small W 50 × H 80 × D 2 cm Large W 50 × H 120 × D 2 cm 6 6 Mirror with solid oak or walnut. Made in the EU Megatropolis mugs Sprue candelabra Mark McGinnis Fort Standard

W 12 × H 9 × D 9 cm W 43 × H 52 × D 10 cm Fine bone china hand finished in Stoke on Sand-cast bronze or aluminium. Trent. Made in the UK Hand-decorated in the UK Subway Boys, Babes & Bikes The 5K

Alphabet mugs Sprig teacup and saucer Mark McGinnis Donna Wilson

W 12 × H 9 × D 9 cm Dia 14 × H 8 cm Fine bone china hand finished in Stoke on Trent. Fine bone china hand finished in Stoke on Trent. Hand-decorated in the UK Blocks and Peaks linen basket Hand-decorated in the UK Axial pendant B-Blow, C-Camel Toe, D-Drive-By, H-Homo, Donna Wilson J-Jah, M-Merkin Red & mint, green and blue Bec Brittain

Small Dia 40 × H 40 cm W 27 × H 24 × D 27 cm Large Dia 50 × H 50 cm Steel cube with a gold passivate finish and a Hand woven palm leaf. Produced by social white powder-coated interior. Suspended from enterprise, People of the Sun. Megatropolis platter a 1.8m grey braided cable. Supplied with a 14W low enery blub. Made in Malawi Mark McGinnis Made in the UK W 36 × H 3 × D 24 cm 6 7 Fine bone china hand finished in Stoke on Trent. Hand-decorated in the UK Standard wall hooks Boys, Babes & Bikes Fort Standard

Dia 5/10/15 × D 5 cm Turned solid oak with a natural oil finish. Available in sets of two large, three medium or Sprig jug four small hooks. Donna Wilson Made in the EU

Dia 10 × H 18 cm Fine bone china hand finished in Stoke on Trent. Blocks and Peaks vase Hand-decorated in the UK Boundary 120 pendant Donna Wilson Red & mint, green and blue Faudet-Harrison

Small Dia 18 × H 30 cm Dia 12 × H 28 cm Large 23 × H 40 cm Powder-coated spun aluminium with small Hand woven palm leaf. Produced by social stainless steel fixings. Suspended by a 1.8m enterprise, People of the Sun. Crosscut hooks Megatropolis bowl white braided textile cable. Supplied with a 14W or 11W low energy bulb. Made in Malawi Faudet-Harrison Mark McGinnis Made in the UK 3 hooks W 36 × H 9 × D 9 cm Dia 23 × H 10 cm 5 hooks W 60 × H 9 × D 9 cm Fine bone china hand finished in Stoke on 7 hooks W 84 × H 9 × D 9 cm Trent. Powder-coated laser-cut rectangular steel Hand-decorated in the UK with cylindrical oak pegs. Downtown Made in the UK & EU Cream and rust

Sprig mug Standard magnets Donna Wilson Fort Standard

Dia 8 × H 8.5 cm Dia 6.5 × D 4 cm Fine bone china hand finished in Stoke on Turned solid oak and walnut with a natural oil Trent. finish. Available in a set of six. Blocks and Peaks bowl Hand-decorated in the UK Made in the EU Boundary 300 pendant Donna Wilson Red & mint, green and blue Faudet-Harrison

Small Dia 30 × H 7 cm Dia 30 × H 18 cm Large Dia 45 × H 10 cm Powder-coated spun aluminium with small Hand woven palm leaf. Produced by social stainless steel fixings. Suspended by a 1.8m enterprise, People of the Sun. white braided textile cable. Supplied with a 14W or 11W low energy bulb. Made in Malawi Made in the UK

Megatropolis pitcher Mark McGinnis

W 11 × H 18 × D 14 cm Fine bone china hand finished in Stoke on Trent. Blocks and Peaks place mat Jeeves wall unit Hand-decorated in the UK Sprig salad bowl Donna Wilson Kay + Stemmer Menagerie Donna Wilson

Small Dia 28 cm W 80 × H 64 × D 15 cm Dia 20 × H 12 cm Large Dia 40cm Solid European oak backboard with solid Fine bone china hand finished in Stoke on Hand woven palm leaf. Produced by social walnut pegs. Polished edged rectangular Trent. enterprise, People of the Sun. mirror with veneered back. Sun Bathers Hand-decorated in the UK SUM shelves Boundary 320 pendant Made in Malawi Made in the EU Red & mint, green and blue Peter Marigold Faudet-Harrison

W 19/29/38 × H 21/31/42 × D 13 cm Dia 32 × H 19 cm Solid cherry with a natural oil finish and brass Powder-coated spun aluminium with small fixings. Available as a set of three. stainless steel fixings. Suspended by a 1.8m white braided textile cable. Supplied with a Made in the EU 14W or 11W low energy bulb. Made in the UK

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4 SUM 5 Timberly 6 Crosscut 7 Ruler for measuring the growth Peter Marigold Rich Brilliant Willing Faudet-Harrison of human beings Rob Ryan Fort trays Jules mirror Megatropolis dinner plate Sprig side plate Timberly hall rack Donna Wilson Andrea Stemmer Mark McGinnis Donna Wilson Rich Brilliant Willing Shelves Hall rack Three coat hooks Five coat hooks Human ruler Dia 38 cm W 42 × H 61 × D 10 cm Dia 27 × H 1 cm Dia 18 cm W 60 × H 20 × D 8.5 cm Laminated plywood with printed pattern. Mirror with solid oak shelf. Fine bone china hand finished in Stoke on Fine bone china hand finished in Stoke on Solid ash or walnut backboard with a natural oil A cherry wall-mounted asymmetrical A neat little utilitarian design that evokes Seven coat hooks Trent. Trent. finish. Two black steel, three aluminium and Made in the EU Made in the EU three brass moveable pegs. shelving system that comes as a set of memories of simple wooden toys and A two colour screen printed ruler in the Hand-decorated in the UK Hand-decorated in the UK Navy/magenta, white/red, white/sky. Made in the EU three. The individual shelves come in three childhood building blocks. The unit An ingeniously minimal design made from distinctive style of Rob Ryan. A poem is Sun Bathers Red & mint, green and blue sizes designed to fit together in an infinite is wall-mounted and features a grid of a single piece of laser-cut rectangular steel interwoven with whimsical imagery in Rush Hour number of ways. Each sized piece is different holes, with eight pegs in three different and three, five or seven cylindrical oak this highly decorative yet functional piece. in shape, with all sides featuring a groove sizes that can be fitted into the grid in any hooks. The hooks fit neatly into cross cuts Traditionally a child’s height is recorded Josiah pendant that allows for flexible configuration. The configuration. A design that is playfully in the steel, creating a design that sits flush with notches on a door frame, but the ruler Terence Woodgate

idea with SUM is that it can be built up to conceived and graphic in nature. Handy for on the wall with upward facing hooks. A allows you to move house or even move Small Dia 9 × H 6 cm Medium Dia 13 × H 16 cm any size; depending on the wall or location the miscellaneous items of life. Available in refined and cleverly conceived design, this rooms and not lose your record. Large Dia 14 × H 24 cm it is placed in. A high-quality geometric ash or walnut. is an unobtrusive piece for domestic and Fine bone china shade, suspended by a 1.8m braided textile cable. Supplied with a 13 Watt shelving system that is both playful and commercial settings. Available in a powder- GXO 113i bulb. bespoke. coated cream or rust finish. The SCP Collection Made in the UK Upholstery Furniture

Balzac sofa Kenneth sofa Lincoln sofa Oscar armchair Oscar daybed Wing armchair Matthew Hilton Faudet-Harrison Lucy Kurrein Matthew Hilton Matthew Hilton Matthew Hilton

Two seat sofa W 155 × H 80 × D 102 cm Two seat sofa W 172 × H 75 × D 77 cm Three seat sofa W 200 × H 87 × D 95 cm Armchair W 101 × H74 × D 104 Daybed W 180 × H 33 × D 90 cm Armchair W 71 × H 110 × D 83 cm Three seat sofa W 218 × H 80 × D 102 cm Solid beech frame, jute webbing, hessian Solid beech frame, jute webbing, hessian Solid beech frame with webbed seat and Solid beech frame with a webbed seat. Solid beech frame with a zigzag sprung back Solid beech frame with multi-density foam and straps and zigzag sprung back. Upholstered in straps and zigzag sprung back and seat. zigzag sprung back. Upholstered in natural Upholstered in natural fibres, animal hair and and multi-density foam upholstery. Flat fronted foam/feather cushions. Sustainable version natural fibres, animal hair and wool with feather Upholstered in natural fibres, animal hair and fibres, animal hair and wool with a feather filled wool. Walnut stained, turned beech legs. arms on brushed stainless steel legs, or also available with jute webbing and zigzag filled seat cushions and solid oak legs. Also wool with black powder-coated steel legs. cushion. Walnut stained, turned beech legs. domed arms on turned beech legs. Made in the UK springs. Upholstered in natural fibres, animal available with a coil sprung seat. Made in the UK Made in the UK Made in the UK hair and wool with a feather filled seat cushion. Made in the UK American oak legs. Made in the UK Agnes shelves Crosscut table Parallel shelving system Kay + Stemmer Faudet-Harrison Terence Woodgate

High W 80 × H 175 × D 40 cm W 180 × H 74 × D 90 cm Uprights W 3 × H 215 × D 33 cm Small shelf W 63 × H 1 × D 25 cm Medium W 80 × H 103 × D 34 cm Powder-coated rectangular steel with oak legs Large shelf W 93 × H 1 × D 25 cm Long W 160 × H 68 × D 31 cm and cork pads. Available with a toughened Wall mounted W 80 × H 50 × D 25 cm glass or laminate top (black or white) in various Pressed steel with a matt white or rust CNC cut solid oak or walnut with a natural oil sizes. powder-coated finish. Systems are built using a combination of uprights, 60cm shelves and finish. Made in the UK & EU 90cm shelves. Shelves sold in a pair. Assembly Made in the EU Cream and rust required. Made in the UK Lucas sofa Oscar sofa Oscar bed Woodgate sofa White and rust Matthew Hilton Matthew Hilton Matthew Hilton Terence Woodgate

Three seat sofa W 213 × H 70 × D 91 cm Two seat sofa W 163 × H 74 × D 104 cm Single W 110 × H 84 × L 228 cm Armchair W 96 × H 68 × D 78 cm Three seat sofa W 219 × H 74 × D 104 cm Double W 155 × H 84 × L 228 cm Two seat sofa W 154 × H 68 × D 78 cm Solid beech frame, jute webbing and zigzag Four seat sofa W 274 × H 74 × D 104 cm King Size W 173 × H 84 × L 234 cm Three seat sofa W 215 × H 68 × D 78 cm sprung back. Upholstered in natural fibres, Super King Size W 200 × H 84 × L 234 cm Four seat sofa W 270 × H 68 × D 78 cm animal hair and wool with a feather filled Solid beech frame with webbed seat and cushion and turned oak legs. zigzag sprung back. Upholstered in natural Solid beech frame with a zigzag sprung Solid beech frame with webbed seat and fibres, animal hair and wool with a feather filled headboard and separate slats. Upholstered in zigzag sprung back. Upholstered with natural Made in the UK cushion. Walnut stained, turned beech legs. natural fibres, animal hair and wool. Walnut fibres, animal hair and wool with horse hair and stained, turned beech legs. Available as a duck feather cushions. Bronze plated or Made in the UK single, double, king size and super king. polished steel legs. Assembly required. Made in the UK Made in the UK Agnes side table Compass trestles Crosscut trestles Kay + Stemmer Matthew Hilton Faudet-Harrison

W 43 × H 50 × D 33 cm W 38 × H 63/84 × D 73 cm W 70 × H 73 × D 28 cm CNC cut solid oak or walnut with a natural oil Steamed solid beech with a natural oil or Powder-coated rectangular steel with three finish. stained finish. Available with a toughened cylindrical oak legs and cork pads. glass or laminate top (black or white) in various Balzac armchair + ottoman Made in the EU Made in the UK & EU Peggy table Sax low table Two three four table system sizes. Matthew Hilton Cream and rust PearsonLloyd Terence Woodgate Terence Woodgate Made in the EU Armchair W 85 × H 80 × D 102 cm Black and natural Small W 120 × H 72 × D 120 cm W 120 × H 35 × D 60 cm Small W 100 × H 72 × D 100 cm Ottoman W 72 × H 39 × D 55 cm Medium W 150 × H 72 × D 150 cm Medium W 120 × H 72 × D 120 cm Bronze plated or stainless steel legs with a Large W 180 × H 72 × D 180 cm Large W 150 × H 72 × D 150 cm Solid beech frame with multi-density foam and 12mm toughened clear glass top and shelf. foam/feather cushions. Sustainable version Available with a square, circular or squond top. Available with a square or circular top, as a Lucas armchair Oscar compact sofa Made in the EU also available with jute webbing and zigzag Solid ash legs with a white laminated top and table or desk system. Polished chrome, mild springs. Upholstered in natural fibres, animal Matthew Hilton Matthew Hilton solid ash lipping. Available in standard or steel column bases with three or four legs. hair and wool with a feather filled seat cushion. bespoke sizes and finishes. Available with a solid core laminate or American oak legs. Armchair W 88 × H 70 × D 90 cm Two seat sofa W 163 × H 82 × D 94 cm veneered top . Available in standard or Three seat sofa W 219 × H 82 × D 94 cm Made in the EU Solid beech frame, jute webbing and zigzag bespoke sizes and finishes. Made in the UK Four seat sofa W 274 × H 82 × D 94 cm sprung back. Upholstered in natural fibres, Made in the UK animal hair and wool with a feather filled Solid beech frame with webbed seat and Reading armchair Woodgate system cushion and turned oak legs. zigzag sprung back. Upholstered in natural fibres, animal hair and wool with a feather filled Matthew Hilton Terence Woodgate Made in the UK cushion. Walnut stained, turned beech legs. Armchair W 68 × H 74 × D 74 cm W 215 × H 68 × D 271 cm Made in the UK Two seat sofa W 127 × H 74 × D 74 cm Systems are built using any combination of no Solid oak frame with multi-density foam pads. arm, one arm and two arm sofas, all available in Available in natural oak. one, two, three or four seat versions. Agnes console Flipper low table Made in the UK Made in the UK Kay + Stemmer Matthew Hilton

W 80 × H 80 × D 38 cm W 115 × H 30 × D 77 cm CNC cut solid oak or walnut with a natural oil Polished die-cast aluminium legs with a 12mm finish. Available with or without leather-lined toughened glass top. draw. Compass table Made in the EU Peggy table Made in the EU Matthew Hilton PearsonLloyd

W 180 × H 63/84 × D 90 cm Small W 180 × H 72 × D 90 cm Medium W 200 × H 72 × D 100 cm Steamed solid beech with a natural oil or Large W 300 × H 72 × D 120 cm stained finish. Available with a toughened Bertha armchair Mabel sofa Oscar sectional sofa glass or laminate top (black or white) in various A rectangular top, with or without a built in Sax side table Two three four table system sizes. cable management trough. Solid ash legs with Donna Wilson Donna Wilson Matthew Hilton a white laminated top and solid ash lipping. Terence Woodgate Terence Woodgate Made in the EU Available in standard or bespoke sizes and Armchair W 82 × H 83 × D 83 cm Two seat sofa W 214 × H 83 × D 86 cm Sectional sofa W 221 × H74 × D 166 cm Black or natural trestles finishes. Also available with an elliptical top. Dia 70 x H 46 cm Small W 180 × H 72 × D 100 cm Large W 200 × H 72 × D 100 cm Solid ash frame with elasticated webbing. Solid beech frame with jute webbing, hessian Solid beech frame with webbed seat and Made in the EU Bronze plated or stainless steel legs with a Duck feather filled seat and back cushions. straps and a zigzag sprung back. Covered with zigzag sprung back. Upholstered in natural 12mm toughened clear glass top and shelf. Available as a table or desk system. Polished a mix of natural fibres, animal hair and wool. fibres, animal hair and wool with a feather filled chrome, mild steel column bases with three or Made in the UK Kenneth armchair Wilma bench Motley ottoman Made in the EU The seat and back cushions are feather filled cushion. Walnut stained, turned beech legs. four legs. Available with a solid core laminate Faudet-Harrison and the legs are made from turned beech. Donna Wilson Donna Wilson or veneered top. Available in standard or Made in the UK bespoke sizes and finishes. Armchair W 82 × H 76 × D 80 cm Made in the UK W 85 × H 38 × D 48 cm W 112 × H 40 × D 120 cm Made in the UK Solid beech frame, jute webbing, hessian Upholstered seat using jute webbing, Solid beech frame covered with multi density straps and zigzag sprung back. Upholstered in rubberised coconut hair and wool. Solid beech foam and deep-buttoned. Upholstered in natural fibres, animal hair and wool with a frame and turned oak legs. multi-coloured knitted wool. Lily side table feather filled seat cushion and solid oak legs. Made in the UK Made in the UK Also available with a coil sprung seat. Lucy Kurrein Rainbow, Blue Lagoon and Hot Earth Made in the UK W 46 × H 48 × D 40 cm Powder-coated steel top and base. Made in UK Nos Da Field Day Book hod Cricket bench Peter Marigold Kay + Stemmer Light grey, navy and orange

W 40 × H 90 × D 40 cm W 130 × H 43 × D 30 cm Solid oak and powder-coated steel. Solid oak seat with solid American walnut legs with a natural oil finish. Made in the UK & EU Bertha sofa Munro sofa Oscar chaise Made in the EU Donna Wilson Donna Wilson Matthew Hilton Orange and green

Two seat sofa W 146 × H 83 × D 83 cm Two seat sofa W 191 × H 74 × D 85 cm Chaise W 81 × H74 × D 166 cm Three seat sofa W 248 × H 74 × D 85 cm Solid ash frame with elasticated webbing. Solid beech frame with webbed seat and Duck feather filled seat and back cushions. Solid beech frame with zigzag springs. zigzag sprung back. Upholstered in natural Upholstered in natural fibres, animal hair and fibres, animal hair and wool with a feather filled Made in the UK Lansdowne sofa Zig Zag Braid Two three four table system wool with a feather seat cushion. Deep cushion. Walnut stained, turned beech legs. Terence Woodgate buttoned and hand-pleated. Turned beech Available as a left or right armed chaise. Terence Woodgate legs with dark stain and brass plated wheels. Armchair W 96 × H 68 × D 78 cm Made in the UK W 300 × H 72 × D 120 cm Two seat sofa W 154 × H 68 × D 78 cm Made in the UK D-ended table available as a table or desk Three seat sofa W 215 × H 68 × D 78 cm system. Polished chrome, mild steel column Four seat sofa W 270 × H 68 × D 78 cm Peggy table system bases with three or four legs. Available with a Solid beech frame with jute and elasticated PearsonLloyd solid core laminate or veneered top. Available webbing and zigzag sprung back. Upholstered in standard or bespoke sizes and finishes. with natural fibres, animal hair and wool with 2 part top W 320 × H 72 × D 150 cm Made in the UK horse hair and duck feather cushions. Bronze 3 part top W 480 × H 72 × D 150 cm plated or polished steel legs. 4 part top W 640 × H 72 × D 150 cm Made in the UK Available as a table or desk system with or Frank, Ernest, Henry pouffes Nos Da, Field Day, Zig Zag or Braid Calvo side table Cricket side table Max bar stool without a built in cable management trough. Nos Da: Blush, Licorice, Mint, Moss, Blue Solid ash legs with a white laminated top and Donna Wilson Moon, Coral Almond, Blush reverse, Licorice Lee Kirkbride Kay + Stemmer Andrea Stemmer solid ash lipping.Available in standard or reverse, Mint reverse, Moss reverse, Blue bespoke sizes and finishes. Frank Dia 80 × H 40 cm Moon reverse and Coral Almond reverse. Dia 42 × H 58 cm W 48 × H 62 × D 48 cm W 46 × H 73 × D 40 cm Ernest Dia 60 × H 30 cm Made in the EU Solid oak or walnut with a natural oil finish. Solid oak seat with solid American walnut legs CNC shaped solid oak seat with a natural oil Henry Dia 45 × H 45 cm Field Day: Black Forest, Dusk, Spring, Dew with a natural oil finish. finish and a powder-coated mild steel bar Drop, Black Forest reverse, Dusk reverse, Made in the EU Calico bags filled with recycled polyester fibre. frame with black rubber feet. Haggerston sofa Orford system Spring reverse and Dew Drop reverse Made in the EU Upholstered in knitted wool or double cloth Made in UK & EU Matthew Hilton Matthew Hilton woven panels. Zig Zag: Red, black and green Light grey and dark grey Two seat sofa W 160 × H 67 × D 94 cm Ottoman W 98 × H32 × D 98 cm Made in the UK Three seat sofa W 228 × H 67 × D 94 cm Two seat sofa W 207 × H64 × D 104 cm Three seat sofa W 265 × H64 × D 104 cm Solid beech frame with elasticated webbing Sofa system W 196 × H64 × D 345 cm covered in multi-density foam seat cushions. Sustainable version also available with jute Solid beech frame with elasticated webbing webbing and zigzag springs. Upholstered in covered in multi-density foam. Anodised natural fibres, animal hair and wool. Two aluminium legs. Systems are built using a feather arm cushions and turned aluminium combination of one arm and two arm sofas, all legs. available in one, two or three seat versions. Made in the UK Lansdowne system Made in the UK Oscar ottoman Ulrik stools Terence Woodgate Matthew Hilton Alex Hellum

Sofa system W 215 × H 68 × D 271 cm Small W 74 × H 33 × D 54 cm Stool Dia 35 × H 43 cm Large W 120 × H 33 × D 54 cm Bar stool Dia 35 × H 70 cm Systems are built using a combination of no arm, one arm and two arm sofas, all available in Solid beech frame with a webbed seat. Solid ash seat and turned ash legs with a one, two, three or four seat versions. Upholstered in natural fibres, animal hair and This Way That bean bag Arthur pouffe Cedric desk Cricket coffee table Molly stool Quick-step stool Tam Tam and Tom Tom natural oil finish. wool. Walnut stained, turned beech legs. Made in the UK Donna Wilson Donna Wilson Kay + Stemmer Kay + Stemmer Donna Wilson Sarah Kay side tables Made in the EU Made in the UK H45 × Dia 110 cm Dia 70 × H 30 cm W 125 × H 75 × D 55 cm W 120 × H 40 × D 50 cm Dia 32 × H 43 cm W 40 × H 40 × D 40 cm Konstantin Grcic

Polystyrene bean bag upholstered in Calico bag filled with recycled polyester fibre. Solid European walnut with a natural oil finish Solid oak seat with solid American walnut legs Solid beech seat and turned soil beech legs Solid oak in a natural oil finish. W 44 × H 47.5/74 × D44 cm multi-coloured knitted wool. Upholstered in knitted wool or double cloth with an orange or dark brown leather top and with a natural oil finish. with a natural oil finish. Made in the EU woven panels. two leather lined drawers. Mild steel base with a chocolate brown Made in the UK Made in the EU Made in the EU powder-coated finish, solid beech columns Made in the UK Made in the EU Rose-Olive and Turquoise-Tiger finished in matt lacquer and an MDF top Nos Da, Bora Da, Field Day, Zig Zag or Braid Orange and brown powder-coated purple or light green. Made in the EU 22 23 Textiles Rugs 8

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Fairisle rug Donna Wilson & SCP

W 140 × L 200 cm W 170 × L 240 cm W 200 × L 300 cm Coral Almond Coral Almond Licorice Licorice reverse Bora Da cushion Hand loomed, knitted rug using 100% New Zealand wool. reverse Donna Wilson 10mm yarn, pile height of 20mm. Made in India W 45 × H 45cm Peacock/orange, Natural/brown, Mineral Grey and Rose Cloud. W 30 × H 60cm 100% British single ply wool, spun and dyed in England and woven in Wales using a traditional double cloth, weaving technique. Feather cushion pad. Made in the UK Forest, Smartie, Peach, Pink Slate, Willow, Forest reverse, Smartie reverse, Peach Mint Mint reverse Moss Moss reverse reverse, Pink Slate reverse, Willow reverse

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Nos Da cushion Donna Wilson & SCP

W 50 × H 50 cm 100% British single ply wool, spun and dyed in England and woven in Wales to produce a traditional heavy weight double cloth. Feather Smartie Willow cushion pad. Made in the UK Blush, Licorice, Mint, Moss, Blue Moon, Coral Almond, Blush reverse, Licorice reverse, Mint reverse, Moss reverse, Blue Moon reverse and Coral Almond reverse. Purl rug Donna Wilson & SCP

W 140 × L 200 cm W 170 × L 240 cm Hand loomed, knitted rug using 100% New Blue Moon Blush Bora Da throw Zealand wool. 10mm yarn, pile height of 20mm. Donna Wilson Made in India Coral, Duck Egg, Olive and Two-tone grey W 150 × L 180 cm 100% British single ply wool, spun and dyed in England and woven in Wales using a traditional double cloth, weaving technique. Made in the UK Forest, Smartie, Peach, Pink Slate and Willow

Coral Almond Licorice Mint Moss

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Nos Da throw Donna Wilson & SCP

W 150 × L 180 cm 100% British single ply wool, spun and dyed in England and woven in Wales to produce a traditional heavy weight double cloth. Made in the UK Blush, Licorice, Mint, Moss, Blue Moon and Coral Almond

Mountain Spot kilim Donna Wilson & SCP

W 120 × L 180 cm W 170 × L 240 cm Flat weave kilim made from 80% New Zealand Black Forest Dew Drop Black Forest Black Forest reverse Dew Drop Dew Drop reverse wool / 20% cotton (2 ply). Made in India Blue, Grey, Mustard Dust and Warm Autumn

Dusk Spring Dusk Dusk reverse Spring Spring reverse

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Emerald Pine Papaya China collection Candelabra Wall hooks Magnets Braid kilim Donna Wilson & SCP A china collection with inventive, original Something of a beautiful brute, this Wall hooks made from solid oak in three Small elegant wooden turned magnets Field Day throw Field Day cushion W 120 × L 180 cm and decorative artwork by Scottish designer candelabra is made from bronze or different sizes. The face on each hook available in assorted sets of six. Made Donna Wilson & SCP Donna Wilson & SCP W 170 × L 240 cm Flat weave kilim made from 80% New Zealand Donna Wilson. The collection comprises a aluminium, and takes its raw looking finish appears perfectly circular, but a side-view from solid oak or walnut with very strong W 150 × L 170 cm W 45 × H 45 cm wool / 20% cotton (2 ply). mug, cup and saucer, jug, side plate and a from the sand-casting process used to create reveals small angular detailing that really rare-earth magnets. Sanded and oiled, 100% British single ply wool, spun and dyed in 100% British single ply wool, spun and dyed in Made in India salad bowl available in three colourways. it. It is a reassuringly heavy single-cast piece gives them character. these curvaceous little items add a touch of England and woven in Wales to produce a England and woven in Wales to produce a Papaya and Emerald Pine traditional heavy weight double cloth. traditional heavy weight double cloth. Feather that with oxidation will take on a different sophistication to your refrigerator or office. cushion pad. Made in the UK Made in the UK patina over time. Black Forest, Dusk, Dew Drop and Spring Black Forest, Dusk, Dew Drop, Spring, Black Forest reverse, Dusk reverse, Dew Drop reverse and Spring reverse 24 25 12 14

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Mug Mug: Subway, Boys, Babes and Bikes, The 5K Linen basket with lid: small/large Tray Dinner plate: Sun Bathers, Rush Hour Place mat: small/large A range of fine bone china mugs that Platter: Boys, Babes and Bikes Bowl: small/large Swedish made trays that feature one are hand decorated in Stoke-on-Trent. Salad bowl: Downtown Vase: small/large distinctive fort inspired pattern in three Lighthearted and funny, they feature six Pitcher: Menagerie different colourways. Made from laminated different letter and picture designs: B-Blow, Designed by Donna Wilson and produced ply, they are bright, bold and beautiful in the C-Camel Toe, D-Drive-By, H-Homo, J-Jah A specially commissioned range of fine by the People of the Sun, a non-profit social home. and M-Merkin. bone china pieces that are hand decorated enterprise based in Malawi. These unique in Stoke-on-Trent. American designer and domestic objects are hand-woven to an illustrator Mark McGinnis has created a exceptionally high standard and feature series of images based around the idea of two different designs. Blocks and Peaks are urban lifestyles. Full of colour, humour practical, colourful and modern, the result and exhaustive detail, the designs are both of a delightful cross-continent collaboration. playful and reflective of our modern lives. 26 27 1 Lighting 3 Made in a number of locations across the UK, the SCP collection of pendant lighting represents the best in understated functional elegance. With a focus on form and finish, the collection includes pieces in bone china, passivated steel and spun aluminium. Beautiful timeless design to light up our lives.

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Pendant light Pendant light Pendant light 120, 300, 320 pendant light

A pendant light made from steel with a gold A fine bone china pendant lamp designed Fine bone china pendant lights that have Spun aluminium pendant lights in different passivate external finish and white powder- and made in Stoke-on-Trent. Reminiscent been tailor-made to accommodate the latest sizes and configurations. Each light has two coated interior. The light is the shape of a of a classic factory lamp, this elegant design low-energy, long-life compact fluorescent parts that are joined with small stainless cube with an angled cross-section cut on the shines translucent white when the bulb is light bulbs. A forward thinking design, steel fixings. The internal spun section in underside. It is hung from a grey braided on, and the fine bone china looks equally as notable for its paired down aesthetic. It each light is finished in pebble grey and has cable. It issues a soft diffuse light and has a beautiful when the light is off. Hung from a comes in small, medium and large and a gentle inward curve at each end. A simple, raw industrial elegance. simple black braided textile cable, the light is suspended by a braided textile cable restrained and effortlessly graceful design has a gently stepped circular shape with an available in white, red or grey. When unlit that hangs on a white braided cable. overhanging lip. Ideal for both domestic and the shades have a high-gloss super white commercial environments. presence and when lit they provide a soft warm glow. 28 29 Textiles 2 2 A passion for locally-made handcrafted products informs these collections. Our textiles are specially spun and dyed in England and then woven in Wales by a century old mill. We bring harmony of process, pattern and colour to the home.

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Cushion Blanket Throw

This trio of traditionally made Welsh textiles, designed by Donna Wilson and SCP, come in a range of blankets, throws and cushions. These textile collections use wool that is specially spun and dyed in England and then woven in Wales by a traditional Mill. Wilson has created a vibrant multi-layered aesthetic by using a traditional double cloth weaving technique and each range comes in a variety of colourways. The double cloth weaving achieves a different pattern on each side of the fabric. Nos Da and Field Day are slightly more heavy-weight whereas Bora Da uses a soft and strong single-ply fine wool, which results in a lighter and finer fabric. With these textiles, SCP and Donna Wilson continue the rich threads of British textile history. 30 31 Rugs 2 A desire to experiment, the spirit of adventure and a fascination with production techniques have all contributed to the development of the SCP and Donna Wilson Rug Collection.

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Hand-loomed rug Flat-weave kilim

This range of rugs and kilims are hand-made in India by exceptional craftsmen and women who use flat-weaving and hand-looming techniques. Tactile and technically-accomplished, this colourful collection expresses a character all its own. 32 33 Milan with a Plan Balzac to the Future

Our Editor, Duncan Riches, thinks it is time to celebrate. A look under the skin of one of SCP’s most iconic products.

Slatted stool by Jasper Morrison for SCP (1986) SCP Milan Invitation (1991) SCP at Paul Smith Milan (1994) Sometime in mid-2008, while the fallout high-quality, design led manufacturing in the from the global financial crisis dominated UK. SCP is delighted to see so many companies the media, SCP company founder, Sheridan take up the making mantel. For those with a Coakley, decided it was time to phase out shared appreciation of the made object and in chemically treated fire-retardant foams from homage to car adverts and technical drawings, the core range of SCP upholstery. we thought it would be good to see under the It may have seemed like an odd decision skin of one of SCP’s most iconic products, the at the time. This would be an expensive, Balzac armchair by Matthew Hilton. time-consuming and labour intensive change Launched in 1991, the Balzac was one of to the way SCP were making upholstery. It SCP’s first forays into upholstery making. The would also likely result in a cost increase to idea to create it came from a desire to make a the consumer, but Coakley was determined to contemporary version of the classic English initiate the change and his rationale then was club chair. Working with the factory in quite simple: “Foams themselves are petro- Norfolk that SCP would later take over, getting chemical based, require a lot of energy to make, the first prototype correct was a lengthy and and have become more expensive in recent arduous process. It took nearly two years of years. They are not sustainable.” The company development to achieve the perfect curves that brought in the expertise of Anne Marie Black, a Hilton’s design required, and re-making the well-known expert and lecturer on upholstery Balzac in sustainable materials also proved to techniques. Her role was to assist them in be a particularly challenging project. So here, making the products in more traditional ways, for the first time, SCP are pleased to present the using sustainable materials. This process not anatomy of a Balzac. Made in a responsible way, only involved retraining all of the factory with skill, thought and care. Here is a modern staff, but also took a lot of trial and error icon of chair design, laid bare. Span shelving by James Irvine for SCP (1993) SCP Milan (1995) with substitute materials such as horsehair, rubberised coconut fibre and various different wools. It also required the patience of learning how to remake products that had already been mastered. The purpose of the whole exercise was not about adhering to a fashion for the sustainable, but rather because Coakley felt that Balzac materials a responsible manufacturer should actually act responsibly. That meant nurturing skills, Solid beech frame especially tried and tested craft-based skills that Oak turned feet had remained unchanged for many generations. Cambric covered feather cushion It also meant more material research and Felt on typar development. He foresaw a marketplace where Rubberised hair manufacturers would be duty-bound to reveal Horsehair Mono tables by Konstantin Grcic for SCP (1995) their production methods, with measures like Cocolock carbon units coming into play. This may not Needled wool have become a reality just yet, but the modern Leather consumer is undoubtedly better informed Recycled foam and expects a level of transparency about the Serpentine springs provenance of products that was unheard of, Zig zag springs even a decade ago. Consumers are still swayed Seat springs by aesthetics, function and feel, but they also Steel flexi tack strip like to know exactly how things are made. Hessian Since 2008 and the rather gloomy Twine predictions about future growth in industry, Jute webbing there has been a clear renaissance in small-scale, Spring clips

The architecture and cultural critic, It was with this kind of joyous international of Established & Sons in Zona Tortona, where SCP back at Paul Smith Milan (2002) Jonathan Meades, remarked in the mid-90s outlook that SCP first ventured onto Italian seasoned British observers balked at the price of that designers of British pubs were, “in the shores, or rather streets and trade-halls, back in Zaha Hadid’s Aqua table, failing to understand anachronism business, which is an English 1986. Sheridan Coakley took his newly created that this kind of extravagance was welcomed speciality, perhaps the English speciality.” designs to the old Fiera Milano building and in Milan, as were the parties. The continued This made me wonder if the English, or more SCP became one of the first companies to show importance and value of working in Italy was generally the British, are forever out of step a little front, a little ambition and break some well illustrated more recently by Sam Hecht with time. Do we have a predisposition for of the preconceptions about British design. of Industrial Facility, with the launch of the objects and places that are conspicuously Coakley had plenty of faith in the new design technologically marvellous Branca chair for old-fashioned? vernacular that was emerging in London at the Mattiazzi in 2010. It would be true to say that If so, does this go some way to explain the time, and his confidence was proved right. The since the financial crisis, there have been a lot tangible sense of tension that descends on the early SCP designers such as Jasper Morrison, less extravagant parties and a certain degree of British design industry each year when the Konstantin Grcic, Matthew Hilton and Terence reassessment as to where and how to show, but Salone del Mobile Milan comes around. This Woodgate all went on to design products for that shouldn’t put anyone off, the Salone just lavish cultural event, which retains a near major international brands and have become keeps evolving. fever pitch for a whole week, is awash with leading lights of their generation. We should always treasure those that dare ostentation, extravagance and grand gesture. It With SCP returning to the Fiera in 2014 to believe, especially in the British design is uncompromisingly modern, or post-modern, after a year away, it seemed like an appropriate industry, a sector that has consistently proved or perhaps even post-post modern, and you can moment to celebrate British design in Milan. itself as the most inept of all European nations be sure not to find much anachronistic design Since those early SCP forays, a number of at collaborating with each other when working SCP at Superstudio Piu (2005) on the ground. Could this be why it seems to designers and companies have shown how internationally. Isn’t it time to collectively inspire fear and a sense of inferiority in many to make a mark in the city. James Irvine was celebrate what British design brings to the table? on the British scene? Maybe, but the reality is one of the first, becoming a fixture in Milan Or perhaps acknowledge that our independent that Milan and the Salone have a long history after moving there in 1984 to work with and non-collaborative spirit is what makes of providing an incredible platform to British Ettore Sottsass at Olivetti. He opened up the our offering to the design world interesting designers and companies, but only to those city for many other British designers with his in the first place (we can celebrate that too). who show no fear. incredibly hospitable nature, one that will be Either way, if you love design, enjoy the sheer My view is that the British have two options greatly missed. Jasper Morrison, Tom Dixon possibility of human endeavour, and if you have when going to the Salone. Either take the and Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby all had any sense of the adventure at all, love the Salone, “small islander” approach and go with fear in success with products for Cappellini during it’s good for you. one’s heart and a ready list of complaints about the 1990s, at a time when the company was accommodation, transport, costs, permits, red- experiencing something of a purple patch. tape, or worse of all, the Italians themselves. Or The early 2000s saw a number of exceptional alternatively, take the “small island big world shows by Designersblock. Their punk spirit out there” approach and go with joy in one’s and generosity provided a first platform for heart and appreciation of spectacle, of ideas, of many British-based designers to flourish in audacity and perhaps most of all, of risk. Milan. 2005 witnessed the controversial launch 34 35 Habit is your Greatest Treasure

Duncan Riches talks to designer Reiko Kaneko.

Reiko’s Stoke-on-Trent based studio The Adderley Works pendant light

Reiko visits Suffolk based terracotta maker

The British-Japanese designer Reiko Kaneko On rare occasions, an interview will leave you sense of being a bit of an outsider; her brown she would likely have to move to Stoke-on- might hear), “You wouldn’t believe how helpful she was greatly inspired by the riverside work in his approach, but she acknowledged that my instrument that I can just mess about with. is new to SCP. Her first product for the with a feeling a little like you get after watching hair being a feature to be marvelled at by other Trent. This real respect for the minor details, people are here.” It’s certainly a change from of Santiago Calatrava. How different details doing something new is always a challenge I quite like working with the contrast of the company, the Adderley Works pendant light, a decent film. Not in a good beginning, middle kids. However, most vividly she recalls the the unglamorous things like delivery times and the competitive environment of London, where would catch your eye and then completely to skilled makers. To a certain extent you are perfect and tight form of bone china against the was launched in 2013. Now, for the 2014 and end kind of way, but rather that sensory light. It was brighter there, somehow clearer, packaging, is one of her very Japanese traits. kindness and generosity are more thin on the change depending on your perspective. “It’s asking them to break their habits, and Reiko has unpredictable and reactive glazes.” The ability Collection, she has been working on some feeling that makes you want to do something somehow more pure. When she described this, it brought to mind ground. just a shame he is getting sued now” she says. a great respect for habit. “Habit is your greatest to experiment and to make private mistakes very special terracotta tableware. Our Editor, active afterwards. You recall some minor plot After her father died, she returned with her the level of interconnectedness I experienced Perhaps even more important than the “When you see something that is difficult and treasure,” she says, O’Brian Sensei told her so. in the studio is important to her. She believes Duncan Riches, finds out more. detail the next day, or something about how mother to the UK, and they settled in London. when visiting Tokyo ten years ago. I was struck kindness of her colleagues, is their great new, there is always that possibility that people I later find out that O’Brien Sensei is Reiko’s it will help her push the boundaries of her a character behaves is pure inspiration and it Again, she was initially cast as an outsider at by the sight of a team of Japanese workers knowledge and the level of exchange that she just won’t like it.” I get the impression that these Kyudo trainer. Kyudo is the Japanese archery commercial work, while also satisfying the resides with you for the rest of the week. It was school, with her English lagging behind her patrolling the road entrance to a large building can now have with them. Initially, when she kinds of barriers in taste are something she based martial art known as “the way of the basic need to create and to play. I get the strong thus after my telephone interview with Reiko contemporaries when she first arrived from site with industrial sized hoses. They washed took certain products to the model makers, like would happily tear down, but there is a patience bow”. He taught her that we should respect impression from Reiko that her working life Kaneko about her new design work for SCP. Japan. However, the open and tolerant attitude down every truck that left the site so that no The Boat or the Fold plate, they expressed total to her approach. A quiet acknowledgement habit, but we may also need to break it, in order is really increasing in complexity and richness On a relaxed Friday, one which preceded the of London soon got under her skin. It’s where dirt would be taken onto the road. This level of shock and told her, “No, that’s not really going that to make progress with new ideas, you have to both learn and to progress. Another area of at the moment. It’s enjoyable to hear such a first bright sunlit spring weekend in London, “no-one bothers to ask where you are from,” joined up thought is something one comes to to work.” Reiko thinks this was more to do with to somehow bring people round to your way study in her life comes as no surprise. It’s clear positive perspective from a designer. She is her thoughts on place, structure, form, habit, and this clearly appeals to her, as does the sheer expect in Japan. the newness of the objects to the model makers, of thinking, rather than imposing something that learning is one of the key tenets of her life. very much in for the long-haul, understanding technique and finish reflected an almost vibrancy of the place. Her accent is brilliantly Making the decision to move her studio their obvious difference to the traditional unfamiliar and unwanted onto them. “I have totally geeky conversations with Steve that if you want to make people familiar with existential approach to life, one which was hard varied. When she speaks about serious things, was not an easy one, but she is now quite shapes people tend to make and buy in England, For the latest project with SCP, a range of who throws the terracotta pieces, so I am trying new and different forms, you will need plenty not to be impressed by. she sounds rather posh, but in a flash she can settled into a working rhythm. “I have my “the spherical, the round, and the curved.” terracotta tableware designs: a jug, platter and to learn about firing temperatures and what he patience. It’s refreshing to hear someone who We begin by talking about place. Reiko was fall into a noticeable North London slang, morning room and my afternoon room. We’ve However, many of her more challenging bowl; Reiko has had to work in a new way, puts in the glazes and things like that, and he’s doesn’t want everything yesterday, someone born, for want of a better term, in transit, to which is exactly what she does when she got loads of windows in the workshop and shapes, like The Boat, faired quite well in the from the ground up. “With ceramics, you have finding out about fine bone china from me. It’s willing to treat life as the marathon it is, rather an English mother and Japanese father. “Not asserts, “It’s like a drug, isn’t it, London. I still do the office, so there are two rooms, well three kiln, the angles actually helping with structural to think about how it is going to be cast. I am good to work with different knowledge bases, than a mad sprint. Reiko Kaneko is an outsider the usual way round,” she explains, but then need it.” That may be so, but she gets a little less with the warehouse bit, the workshop and the rigidity. It’s a case of the more different shapes always trying to hide the foot. That’s the bit I really enjoy that, it’s fun.” She has brought a who understands that to affect real change, you nothing is particularly usual in her life. The of it these days, since she moved her studio to studio. You get a lot of light in the morning in you experiment with, the better you get at that gives me the most trouble to be honest, the lightness of touch from her bone china work must do it from within. early part of her childhood, until she was about Stoke-on-Trent in 2012, maybe a few days every the workshop, so I tend to work on creative it, the more feel for it you have. Now she is ground. Getting that right in a lot of the bowls to the terracotta pieces, making them lighter in seven years old, was lived in rural northern two weeks. things in the morning, then the sun comes revelling in being more connected to process. and the plates is hard.” Working in terracotta, structure than normal. “Terracotta can be quite Japan. Her father had built his own house After studying design at Central Saint round to the office and I tend to work there in “It’s like having a problem solving team. I’ve everything begins there. “It’s literally from the chunky, and tends to be a bit utilitarian looking, there, before she was born. She remembers Martins she first set up her studio in the East the afternoon.” Of her new set of colleagues, been to the mould maker to talk about the bottom up because it is hand thrown from a so we wanted to bring in that height and the the house, and in fact all the houses in the area, End in 2007, but as ceramics is her chosen she says “They are amazed that anyone from moulds, and then to the model maker, and then lump of clay.” This departure from working curve, so it looks lighter.” As we speak, the final being a bit “ramshackle”. This was due, in part, discipline, working predominantly in fine bone London would move up here, but they do to the people who are going to be making it. It with bone china offered up new possibilities. “I decisions are being made on the glazes. All she to the price of land, which wouldn’t change china, she soon found herself feeling slightly want the area to get better, and I do want to is a conversation that is essential when you are design on 3D programmes, but with a thrown will tell me is that they have a quite modern regardless of what was built on it, so buildings too removed from the intimacy of process. help out a little bit.” Making the move would doing a new shape, and it takes a lot of time. I piece I really wanted to work with the slight looking “milky glaze” as a possibility, but we were often erected for twenty to thirty years of As she gradually developed her products, not have been possible without the good set of love that part of it, I think the most.” finger marks and the rings you get when you are will have to wait to see when the first pieces use only. Yet, any sense of the temporary didn’t her clients and a network of producers in the relationships that she had already developed Considering the non-conformist shapes throwing it, and also how the body pulls when launch next month. curtail her father’s love of modern objects. The Potteries, she began to want more control over with the industry there. Reiko is still amazed she creates, I ask about where she looks for pulling out the spout, or all the different things Her approach to glaze and colour is to try house was filled with various items of Bauhaus details. Inspired by the perfection of a takeaway at the generosity with which she has been inspiration. She acknowledges that the Japanese that are evidence of it being made by hand. “to bring a little of that Japanese sensitivity into furniture, things he really treasured. Aside bento box on a trip to Japan, she realised that if received, “you forget that people are kind side of her bears some responsibility for her use I was looking forward to that.” The Suffolk it, adding a natural feel to things.” She explains from the house, she recalls the nearby lakes, the she wanted to take control of the whole service sometimes.” She then goes on to whisper quite of angles, but she also looks at other fields like based terracotta maker is Steve Harold. Reiko further, “The glaze side of things I have found mountains, a rural setting in which she had the she was providing, not just the design itself, charmingly (in case any of the studio assistants architecture for ideas. On a visit to Valencia, found him to be very flexible and generous so liberating. It’s like I have found my guitar, 36 37 La Fabrika, Belgium Pure Déco launched online in 2005 and with The Fine Store, Netherlands The Artilleriet showroom, based in Mölndal, its store in Toulouse in 2011. The store offers offers a dynamic and diverse collection of home a wide variety of lighting, storage, decorative furnishings, furniture and accessories. With objects, small pieces of furniture and toys. its roots in Dutch, French and Danish design, Around the World Pure Déco travels the globe, unearthing stylish the product range comprises a diverse blend of objects, limited designs and eco-conscious vintage classics, contemporary products and pieces. objects from around the world.

Trends for 2014: 2014 will see the return of Trends for 2014: This year is the year of silver. natural materials and gently rounded lines. I’m sure we will still see a lot of brass and gold, Mixing styles of furniture is also a growing but there is no doubt that everyone is longing Based in Shoreditch, stocked internationally, SCP wouldn’t be trend, an endeavour to avoid the ‘total look’ for something a bit colder. There will be a effect. People are looking for a touch of The Fine Store is all about slow design. Owned continued love for products with a sense of where we are today without our great network of worldwide extravagance in their homes by introducing by designer, Eveline Maat, the store offers a personality and individuality, especially when large, impressive pieces to cosy settings. range of responsibly made interior products. they are made with love and effort. stockists and their hard work and dedication. Main picture: Sourcing European craftsmanship, Maat is Bob & Friends, Luv, Germany well aware that her audience is looking for Eureka Creativity, Taiwan New Zealand timeless, well-made pieces. Besides working with authentic European labels that share this Since its opening in 2010, La Fabrika has ideal, The Fine Store also represents work from become a well-known fixture in the lively independent Dutch designers. Brussels Dansaert neighbourhood. La Fabrika offers a very personal mix of design classics Trends for 2014: Quality and authenticity and innovative products by young designers. matters. We believe that customers are looking The team consists of three specialised interior for products that last and ones that are timeless architects who hold the belief that design and personal. Textiles are still becoming more should contribute to a better quality of life. important in interiors. Designers are developing interesting fabrics and pay a lot of attention Based in the Xitun district in Taichung city, Trends for 2014: Discreet and responsible Luv is located in an old Blacksmith’s shop, to natural materials and the way things are Eureka Creativity works on the philosophy that designs with a focus on quality and rational one of the oldest buildings in the heart of produced. The celebration of craftsmanship design should be fun. They stock products by production. We have found that more and more Hamburg’s Schanzen district. The founders continues. designers with creative sprit including, Donna manufacturers are focusing on the use of high of Luv Interior opened the doors of their Wilson, Maya Selway, Naomi Ryder, Muuto, quality, durable materials. showroom three years ago. From curious Narata, Spain Pantone and Thorsten Van Elten. Their product design highlights and accessories to functional range includes ceramics, soft furnishings, small Galerie CO, Canada writing desks and swivel chairs, the concept of pieces of furniture and a good selection of toys. Luv Interior appeals to customers who require an individual and design orientated standard for Trends for 2014: Make it simple and then life is their interior design. easy.

Trends for 2014: The trend to create an individual and unique surrounding is ongoing Moleta Munro, UK but it takes a lot of work for us to find new real products that don’t look self-made or handcrafted. We are looking for producers and designers that are specialists in their work, Narata is a furniture and contemporary art like SCP, and offer products that are made by space, a concept store where the quality, intelligent new materials and techniques. function and freshness of the products are the highest priority. The store was opened in July Galerie CO is the culmination of a lifelong love Avenue 636, South Korea 2010, in the heart of Bilbao, a store aimed to fill affair with the arts coupled with a commitment the gap in the Bilbao design scene. It is a place to the values of sustainable development. where interesting and unusual pieces can be Galerie CO is interested in the exploration that found. Breaking the concept of the traditional leads to the soul of an object. shop, Narata work with international brands as Founded in 2007 by Justin Baddon and Juliet well as local designers. Moleta, Moleta Munro has evolved from a Trends for 2014: Natural materials, rich small design store into one of the North’s finest chocolate and cream tones and dark woods Trends for 2014: One trend for 2014 is stories, a furniture and lighting showrooms based in like walnut. I expect contemporary wallpaper collection of products with the same narrative, the heart of Edinburgh. As designers, Justin will also continue to be popular this season; that together tell a story. We are also seeing and Juliet have always followed a creative weathered trompe l’oeil finishes or bold simple materials and compositions coupled path mixing a love of the classic modern and patterns on simple white backgrounds. with bold ideas, echoing the modernist, contemporary, largely driven by a Scandinavian Bauhaus ideas & materials. aesthetic. Moleta Munro now operates across Pure Déco, France Avenue 636 is a new design store in Seoul’s several platforms from their London Street HQ well-known Gangnam district. Laid out over Artilleriet, Sweden that include an online store, a contracts division four floors, the building was purpose built to and newly added design services department. house the design store and exhibition space, which celebrates design from all over the world, Trends for 2014: The love of warm metallic chiefly Europe. hues is something that is firmly entrenched and can be considered by many to be more than Trends for 2014: Dark woods such as walnut just a trend. It’s still growing, and the potential and paler woods stained a dark colour. Also, is huge as a new generation yearns for a move handcrafted fabrics such as knitted wool, hand- away from chromes and brushed stainless steel. woven tapestry and embroidery are making a Stones and marbles are really coming through big comeback. Recently, there had been a shift as well, though we would like to see this having of interest from functional to aesthetic design. some permanence too.

Germany Korea Spain Cimmermann, Harrogate The Home, Bradford www.cimmermann.co.uk www.thehomeonline.co.uk SCP Stockists Blanket Store, Frankfurt Avenue 636, Seoul Doméstico Shop, Cadiz/Barcelona www.blanketstore.de www.avenue636.com www.domesticoshop.com Donna Wilson online shop Tinsmiths, Herefordshire www.donnawilson.com www.tinsmiths.co.uk A–Z Casa Nova, Wiesbaden Hpix, Seoul Narata, Bilbao www.casa-nova-wiesbaden.de www.hpix.co.kr www.naratashop.blogspot.com Geoffrey Drayton, Essex Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield www.geoffreydrayton.com www.ysp.co.uk Australia Funktion, Frankfurt Since 1985, SCP has been a leading figurehead Hub, Australia The Future Perfect, USA Bob & Friends, New Zealand www.funktiondesignstore.com Netherlands Sweden Heal’s, stores nationwide V&A Museum, London in the manufacture and supply of Hub, Melbourne/Sydney www.heals.co.uk www.vandashop.com www.hubfurniture.com.au Homestories, Kampen By Mölle, Hoonhorst Artilleriet, Gothenburg contemporary British design. Over the past A wonderland of home design, Hub presents The Future Perfect was born from a desire to Bob & Friends is a shop within a shop. Set up www.homestories.cc www.bymolle.com www.artilleriet.se Indish, London www.indish.co.uk USA three decades, we have built close relationships inspiring contemporary furniture, lighting create a showcase for exceptional decorative by Ron Redel, it has brought SCP products to a ImmerimZimmer, Hamburg DOTShop, Amsterdam Hipstore, Malmö Austria www.immerimzimmer.de www.dot-shop.nl www.hipstore.se Ivor Innes, Yorkshire A plus R Store, Venice with over one hundred and thirty retailers and accessories from major European brands. arts and design. In September of 2003, founder new market, New Zealand. Bob & Friends stock Laden 21, Graz www.innes.co.uk www.aplusrstore.com across the globe who share our passion for With a Melbourne and Sydney showroom, David Alhadeff opened the original store in an eclectic mix of uncommonly interesting www.laden21.at Luv Interior Hamburg, Hamburg Friday Next, Amsterdam Home Company, Karlkrona www.luv-hamburg.com www.fridaynext.com www.homecompany.se John Lewis, London Design Within Reach, functional, beautiful design that is built to last. this family run company has been delivering Brooklyn. Though still involved with the homewares & collectables within Homage, a www.johnlewis.com stores nationwide Manufactum, Waltrop Frozen Fountain, Amsterdam Malmö Modern, Malmö www.dwr.com SCP products are now available in twenty- internationally acclaimed design solutions to Brooklyn design scene, The Future Perfect has furniture design store in the lovely Auckland. Belgium www.manufactum.de www.frozenfountain.com www.malmomodern.se Liberty, London three countries, spanning America, Europe, both residential and commercial projects for recently moved on from its Brooklyn roots, La Fabrika, Brussels www.liberty.co.uk Dwell online shop www.lafabrika.be Sommer, Ludwigsburg Hal2, Eindhoven NK Inredning, Stockholm www.dwell.com Oceania and the Far East. SCP’s Jodi Moss over ten years. Hub source their products from becoming a platform for design from around Trends for 2014: New Zealand appears to be www.sommer-einrichtungen.de www.hal-2.nl www.nk.se Michael Wright Furniture, North Yorkshire Fort Standard online shop speaks to some of our stockists to get the all corners of the globe including Australia, the world at its two locations in Manhattan changing. Over the last few years people have OXO Woonwinkel, Amsterdam R.O.O.M, Stockholm Canada www.michaelwrightfurniture.co.uk www.fortstandard.com Hong Kong www.oxowoonwinkel.nl www.room.se insiders information on global trends for 2014. New Zealand, UK, Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, and San Francisco. The showrooms feature been starting to experiment more with colour Galerie CO, Québec Moleta Munro, Edinburgh Gretel Home online shop Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Czech many unique and special edition objects and I think the biggest trend this year will www.galerie-co.com Archetypal Strandwest, Utrecht www.moletamunro.com www.gretelhome.com www.archetypal.hk www.strandwest.nl Switzerland Republic, Tunisia, Canada and the US. and furnishings from a diverse group of be a relaxing of people’s colour pallet. There Nest, Sheffield Hemingway and Pickett, Lane Crawford The Fine Store, The Hague Détail, Geneva www.nest.co.uk Los Angeles distinguished designers. Some work is by seems to be genuine excitement about colour Denmark www.lanecrawford.com www.bymolle.com www.detail-geneve.ch Trends for 2014: I have an aversion to trends. established figures in the design world while as people are becoming braver. A lot of people Hay House, Copenhagen Oskar Furniture, Bristol www.hemingwayandpickett.com www.hay.dk Meubles & Cie, Geneva www.oskarfurniture.co.uk Horne online shop I’d prefer to look for things that are inspiring; other pieces are by emerging talents. Taken who come into Bob & Friends are excited by the Italy New Zealand www.meubles-cie.ch things that buck the trend, that are somehow together, they present a rich and compelling eclectic mix of colour that I employ throughout Paul Hodgkiss Designs, Glasgow www.shophorne.com Eire Emporio Roma, Rome Bob & Friends, Auckland www.paulhodgkissdesigns.co.uk Lawson-Fenning, Los Angeles creating it or even better, go beyond it. That’s tapestry of dazzling possibility. the shop. www.emporioroma.it www.bobandfriends.co.nz Taiwan Makers & Brothers, Dublin Rume, Hove www.lawsonfenning.com why I love SCP. My favourite pieces include www.makersandbrothers.com Èurema Interni, Dolo Eureka Creativity, Taiwan www.rume.co.uk Magpie and Rye, San Francisco www.euremainterni.it Portugal www.facebook.com/eurekacindy their work with Donna Wilson and classics like Trends for 2014: I believe that a continued Smug, London www.magpieandrye.com the Balzac or Oscar. I don’t ever want to leave appreciation of greige (untreated cloth or yarn) MIA, Rome Mundano Objectos, Porto WOOW International Co Ltd, Taipei www.ifeelsmug.com Mark McGinnis online shop France www.miaviadiripetta.com www.mundano.pt www.woow.tw these anchor pieces behind just because there and an interest in craftsmanship and product Home Autour du Monde, Paris So Furniture, Bournemouth www.mistermcginnis.com www.autourdumonde.com Rossana Orlandi, Milan www.sofurniture.co.uk Nannie Inez, Austin is a trend that says a form should be ‘current’. I origin will continue to be strong, on-going www.rossanaorlandi.com Romania UK honestly think I’d creatively suffocate if a trend trends. Aesthetically speaking, traditional lines Le Bon Marché, Paris Soma Gallery, Bristol www.nannieinez.com www.lebonmarche.fr Zerogloss s.r.l, Vicenza Intro Design, Bucharest Abode, Brighton www.somagallery.co.uk Ten Over Six, Los Angeles actually mattered. and familiar form will define what’s truly www.zerogloss.it www.introdesign.ro www.abodeliving.co.uk modern. In essence, if you want to see what Pure Déco, Toulouse Tangram, Edinburgh shop.tenover6.com www.pure-deco.com Amara, Essex www.tangramfurnishers.co.uk The Future Perfect, will be modern next, look backwards. Japan Singapore www.amara.co.uk Silvera Mobilier, Paris The Cold Store, Norwich New York / San Francisco www.silvera.fr Living Motif, Tokyo Foundry Atomic Furniture, Nottingham www.thecoldpress.com www.thefutureperfect.com www.livingmotif.com www.foundry-store.com www.atomicinteriors.co.uk The Conran Shop, London Woonwinkel, Portland Trico International, Tokyo Central, Oxford www.conranshop.co.uk www.woonwinkelhome.com www.bytrico.com www.central-furniture.co.uk 38 39 st Fort Standard Reiko Kaneko “It was always an ambition of Greg’s and mine In the near future, Fort Standard hope to With a background in three-dimensional enjoy. You’re building up something that means to be making our own ideas. I think this desire focus the majority of their efforts on their own design, Reiko Kaneko left Central Saint Martins so much more than just the aesthetics of an 21 Century Designers and ambition to be creating our own ideas from design work but don’t discount the value of in 2004 with a clear objective in mind. “I left object, like the employment side of things.” the very beginning, led us in a very particular having a hand in every aspect of their business university knowing that I wanted to work for Kaneko is keen to employ more people in the path,” says Ian Collings, one half of Brooklyn- “It is very appealing and rewarding because all myself and I just wanted to sell what I could area. Her future plans include setting up a based design duo Fort Standard. Collings met the different aspects of our studio inform the make,” says Kaneko. design consultancy as well as creating an open Gregory Buntain while studying at the Pratt others. Having so many different avenues of Whilst taking on several internships and workshop in Stoke-on-Trent. “The plan for the Institute and in 2008, the pair went on to work exploration, allows us to have a much wider “bad part-time jobs”, Kaneko started producing moment is to create a workshop that people can together, producing beautifully simple yet scope,” explains Collings. “We are getting her own range of products including cushions, visit. I want to show how ceramics are made,” functional products, characteristically pairing to the point where we are able to spend the cards and knitted objects. It wasn’t until a few she says. “And keep pushing what my idea of timeless materials with modern day processes, a majority of our time working on our own years later, in 2007, that she finally took the beauty in ceramics is.” methodology they learnt and developed during designs and that’s exactly where we want to be. plunge and set up her own company. It was their time at Pratt. We are super excited about producing a lot of around this period that Kaneko had started SCP’s Lucy James in conversation with the SCP designers. Fort Standard not only design and new work.” experimenting with ceramics, a subject that, Main picture: manufacture their own line of products and at the time, she knew little about. “I wanted to Fort Standard furniture, they also work on interior design make something in England and found a couple projects, offer a consultancy service and design of places in Stoke-on-Trent to produce the bone The role of the designer in the modern products for other companies including SCP. china. At the time, I didn’t even know that world is constantly changing. The formal “The product of our time is that it’s very easy Stoke was known as The Potteries,” she laughs, boundaries in design have shifted and for a small company to compete with larger referring to the name affectionately given to the prefixes such as furniture, product, textile companies,” says Collings. “There was this region. or graphic are no longer required. Designers veil in past generations that you had to kind In 2012, Kaneko, frustrated by the lack of are now choosing to play a more multifaceted of penetrate in order to play this intermediary space in London, relocated to Stoke-on-Trent. role, becoming not only the designer and role between how things are made and the This enabled her to tap into over two hundred the maker, but also taking control of the consumer. But now you can put an idea to years worth of knowledge in fine bone china marketing and selling of their designs. SCP’s the world so much more quickly.” Producing production. “Everything I learnt about ceramics Lucy James talks to the diverse stable of SCP products in-house and in smaller batches allows has been through the people I work with,” she designers to find out how they are adapting Fort Standard to re-energise their collection on says. “It’s just about asking questions and being to the changing landscape. a regular basis. It also gives them the ability to insistent about what you want.” take a product from idea to market in a couple Being involved in all aspects of the design of months, a business model which is proving and development process is important to to be extremely successful. Kaneko. “I think I would go completely mad if I only designed. Production is interesting because it puts you in touch with other businesses and interesting people. That side of things I really

Mark McGinnis Bec Brittain Donna Wilson Lucy Kurrein

Mark McGinnis is an illustrator and designer Having set up his own company in 2007, Brooklyn based designer, Bec Brittain, has Brittain takes inspiration from the Textile designer, Donna Wilson, launched Wilson admits to getting bored easily and After working for some of Britain’s most Now that Kurrein is self-employed, she based in Brooklyn. His stylised illustrations McGinnis now enjoys the diversity of running followed a varied path throughout her training work ethic of Silicone Valley start-ups. “It’s her career with a range of odd hand-knitted always likes to keep her fingers in several pies. celebrated designers including Matthew Hilton is enjoying the freedom of controlling the use iconography and archetypes to explore the his own company and the flexibility of hopping and career. She is formally trained in product inspirational to see how the successful ones deal creatures, created during her time at The “It’s the only way I know how to work now,” and PearsonLloyd, Lucy Kurrein set up her own work that she is pursuing. “Securing work is relationships between people and the cultural from one project to another on a daily basis. design, architecture and philosophy, opening with failure, which always involves persevering. Royal College of Art. Wilson studied on the she says. “I want to have control of the business studio in March 2013, launching the Lincoln an important part of being a designer, and it stereotypes associated with them. Last year “I think it makes you a better designer if you up the door to a wide number of career options. It’s a helpful thing to remember both as a Mixed Media Textiles pathway, but it was her side of things but also the design. They go hand sofa and Lily side table for SCP in September last does take up valuable design time of course, McGinnis made his first foray into product understand the different components of the To follow suit, Brittain’s work experience has business owner and as a designer,” she says. collaboration with a design products student in hand really. When the business gets stressful, year. but too much design isn’t healthy either. A few design with the Megatropolis and Alphabet business,” he says. “I would get bored very been as diverse as her education. “While I’ve Despite her interest in the high-tech industries, which gave her a taste for three-dimensional I sometimes think it would be lovely to just On completing a degree in Contemporary distractions through the day keep everything in collections, a range of ceramics designed for quickly if I was stuck to a desk, designing every been working in one design field or another Brittain takes a more traditional approach to design. “I really loved being in the design design for another company but realistically, I Furniture Design at Buckinghamshire perspective.” SCP. day for years on end.” since I left university, the disciplines have design, preferring to get initial ideas down product department.” recalls Wilson. “I really enjoy being able to forge my own path. I University, Kurrein had a very clear idea of Following a nomadic childhood, McGinnis Mark continues to evolve his already been quite varied, from interior design, to through hand drawings. When asked how she think every designer should collaborate with want to have the freedom to design something the direction in which she wanted to head. attended a liberal arts college, which extensive skill set, recently taking up classes in architecture, to door hardware.” After three would like to work in the future, her reply was another from a different discipline, it’s always because I love it. I don’t want to be constricted “It was never a conscious decision, but I did encouraged students to learn several disciplines. TIG welding and woodwork. He is also open to years acting as Design Director at Lindsey simple. “With no wires. I’m sick of wires.” surprising.” by sales figures.” seem to focus on furniture very early on” she “I had to take shop and design and perspective the idea of teaching, following a workshop he Adelman studio, Brittain set up her own Wilson’s range of creatures, cushions and Of the future, Wilson says, “I’d love to have says. “After university, all I wanted to do was classes, basic sculpture and metal classes, ran at a university in Switzerland last December. product design studio in 2011. Her work focuses throws proved to be very popular, both in UK more time to focus on just designing, but I design furniture and in that respect, I am on the among others.” recalls McGinnis. “I used my “I think as long as I’m trying new things, then primarily on dramatic high-end lighting, and abroad. “At that time, there weren’t many know I couldn’t do it any other way. I think that same path. I didn’t feel I could plan any more electives to explore outside my discipline, for that works for me.” which clearly reflect the modes of thinking and people doing that,” she says of her first product I will always work in this way.” than that at the beginning of a career in such a inspiration and to push my boundaries.” making acquired throughout her earlier career. range. “Now there are so many people in my competitive industry. Only now am I starting Following his training, McGinnis continued Brittain not only drives the design and field, so I try to develop other products that add to consider how I can direct my work in the his nomadic lifestyle working for a number of development of her products, she is involved something to the collection.” Today Wilson’s future, but furniture will always be at the heart advertising agencies located across America and in all aspects of running her business. “I product collection spans ceramics, glassware, of it.” found himself quickly moving up the ranks. love running a business,” she declares. “It’s a stationery, tableware and clothing and is sold in Kurrein’s furniture combines the rigour of “I didn’t mind delegating the projects at first, fulltime job in itself, but it’s so satisfying to see twenty-five countries over the world. industrial design with the softer qualities of but then I realized I really liked being more growth. I don’t need to design all the time, I’m For Wilson, the design and production furniture design. Factory visits are her favourite hands on. Later, I just thought I’d be happier fine with taking it a bit slower.” Despite a love processes are closely intertwined. The knitting part of the design process and she gets great to come up with my own ideas and make my for the diverse and fluid working life, Brittain machine in her studio, allows Wilson to satisfaction out of seeing how products are own things. I feel that was a good move,” says feels a need for consistency and stability, and develop as well as produce designs quickly made, be it a simple upholstery process or McGinnis. keeping to a normal working pattern is her way in-house. “I really like the hands-on side of the construction techniques of sculptures by of achieving this. “What happens during those design” she says. “I’m not a computer designer. Richard Deacon. “I recently visited the Richard hours changes, and that keeps me from getting I like to be able to run tests and produce samples Deacon exhibition at the Tate Britain and was bored.” of designs that I’m working on. It’s a lot easier completely in awe. I felt like he summarised, and quicker to work in this way.” without words, exactly what I was trying to say with a chair I’ve been working on recently. After seeing this exhibition I got really inspired about how I could expand the range, and how I might work next.” 40 41 Me, Myself and I Keeping Ahead

In the spirit of the current trend for ‘selfies’, we asked the SCP We talk to SCP Contracts Director, Richard Leeks, about the ever designers to produce illustrated self-portraits. evolving workplace.

Bec Brittain Ineke Hans Jon Harrison Mark McGinnis The division of SCP that works directly with SCP Contracts Director Richard Leeks views Having a nose for exceptional brands helps architects and interior designers, SCP the need to understand both changing spaces SCP Contracts push the boundaries of what the SCP Contracts Project Contracts operates in the fast moving world and products as a real motivating factor in the next generation of interior spaces will look like. of corporate and public sector interiors. They company. “The design industry is a fluid and Richard believes that the evolution of interiors Client: work across a wide spectrum of projects, colourful sector, it’s fast paced. That’s no bad and how they are used is something that can Central Working Whitechapel including galleries, reception areas, offices, thing, we just have to make sure we keep certainly be relied upon to continue. He points show flats, restaurants, cafés, hotels, schools, well-informed and can keep developing good to the recent local development known Interior: colleges and hospitals. With this variety ideas.” He also highlights the importance of colloquially as the “Silicone Roundabout” and Paul Crofts Studio & Born Design comes the need for both a diverse portfolio of SCP Contracts having its own design sensibility officially as “Tech City”, as an example of this product typologies, and a real understanding and style, one which their clients recognise evolution in action. This government-backed Location: of how these products can work together. and identify with. This is primarily expressed project has seen a proliferation of new Whitechapel, London In many ways, SCP Contracts are the face of through the SCP brand product portfolio, to technology companies seeking low-rents in the company that is most exposed to prevailing which SCP Contracts have exclusive access. shared office space in East London. These new Date: Andrea Stemmer trends within the design industry. While Their ability to work directly with the SCP office spaces, such as Central Working featured March 2014 domestic taste and style is a gently evolving designers and factory to produce bespoke below, are required to be more collaborative paradigm, the whole idea of newness, or maybe upholstery pieces, often developments of and are intended to foster interaction between Project Product Highlights: nowness, has far more currency in corporate or current designs, is another area they can express users. They are often inhabited by small start-up Kenneth sofa by Faudet-Harrison (SCP) public settings. Therefore, SCP Contracts have to the house style. However, their style is also companies actively looking to pool resources Cricket bench by Kay+Stemmer (SCP) be fluent in “the new”, in terms of products, about the portfolio of other non-SCP design and work closely with their neighbours. The Reading armchair by Matthew Hilton (SCP) colours, textures and finishes, while also brands that they supply. This carefully selected furniture, lighting and design products understanding something of how modern use range has grown over time and is a constantly incorporated in these spaces are absolutely SCP Contracts Product Selection: Peter Marigold of space is evolving. changing palette of products. With the team crucial for collaborative visions of this sort to Agnes chandelier by Lindsey Adams Adelman visiting all the major design events across the work, and that’s where SCP Contracts come in. for Roll & Hill Ian Collings calendar, they get the chance to develop “When working closely with architects and Waste table in Scrapwood by Piet Hein Eek partnerships with companies they feel have designers, we need to provide an in-depth and something special to offer. Over the last year sensitive understanding of which products will they have added to the portfolio the New York work in their particular project. From the very based brand, Roll & Hill, who produce some starting point we must be in step with them”, spectacular lighting, and the Dutch master of explains Richard. It seems that in this sector scrap wood, Piet Hein Eek, whose impressive keeping pace with change might just be Lee Kirkbride collection has been very well received in enough, but if at all possible, you keep ahead Alex Hellum London. of it.

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