PERSPECTIVES FROM THE STUDIO
We caught up with Head of Design, Oliver Deadman, to get his perspective from the studio, discussing the use of materials and introducing femininity in design.
It’s refreshingly familiar to once again be looking forward to the upcoming season, one traditionally full of festivities, culture and discovery. We’ve missed much during our unified fight against the pandemic, particularly our freedom to move and inherently our ability to discover. So much of what we do here at Clive Christian Furniture is about materiality and discovering new finishes, techniques and raw materials that allow us to push the boundaries creatively in our client designs.
Something we’ve been working on of late is worktop materials and how we can, via design and skilled artisans, create something inspired and opulent in this space. In the studio we’ve been working with fossils to explore how we can integrate the patterns, textures and fossil itself into a worktop we’re installing for a client bar. We’ve also been experimenting with light and how this might be applied in a worktop context to bring to life the surface texture and material finish.
Clive Christian Furniture is known for proportionality and grandeur. This month one of our New York clients posed a challenge to the studio team by setting the brief of a “grand but feminine dressing room”. We’ve been working diligently to apply the principles of femininity into the design utilising our Architectural cabinetry but playing with the scale, textures, colours and finishes to meet the brief. For this design we’ve been looking at incorporating fabrics within glass to bring layers and depth but also detail and elegance.
All sketch and design work credited to Clive Christian Furniture Scotland. 
It’s been a time of discovery and experimentation in the studio. We wait in earnest for the shows, cultural programmes, galleries and design festivals to start once again, until then however, we will keep experimenting, keeping our material imaginations alive.