Furniture Designs for Unusual Buildings
We were fascinated to read recently that the Church of England is running a competition to design a new congregation chair or pew.
The challenges facing the designers involved reflects many of the decisions that we at Designer Makers regularly come up against in our work.
Designing a piece of furniture for use in an historic building such as a church inspires the designer to find out more about the environment in which the finished piece will be placed.
As with any piece of furniture, its purpose is as important as its context and the joy of designing something from scratch is that a consideration of both these elements is central to the creation of the piece.
As church furniture designer Luke Hughes says, designing seating for churches is “less about producing a product than it is about furnishing some of the greatest architectural interiors of all time”.
People come to us at Designer Makers for many reasons but it is usually because they are looking for something unique, in a particular style, or designed to fit a particular space or unusual building.
Each commission is a new challenge and, as the designers of the new Church of England pew will discover, a rewarding journey.
