Humour in design: furniture maker explains how wit helps creativity

How would you describe your style? “Playful, clean, reduced to an essence.”

What influences do you seek out? “Influences from the environment – materials, quality, sustainability and influence from people and culture – behaviour, practice, craft. I am influenced daily by music and musicians – listening to the message, its freedom, its ability to be meditative and thoughtful at the same moment.”  

What is your favourite material to work with? “Metals. Their  workability, the character of their stresses, the theatre of transform­ation, melting,  bending, punching, creasing …”

“My Wrinkle table and Tangle stool designs both share the same bent-steel-tube detail. When a tube is bent we usually work hard to prevent deformation, but with these projects I sought to use the deformation in a decorative way.”