Design Guild Mark Holder
Deco Screens
Name of Designer:
Mark Gabbertas251
2021
Gloster
The outdoor screens use universally sized solid teak components that are all made from offcuts normally too small to be used in furniture. The frame uses a number of specially developed interlocking aluminium extrusions. The result is a series of gentle enclosures that are not as limiting or constraining as a room, but which allow for open vistas, virtual doorways and the gentle suggestion of distinct spaces. The screens are high enough to provide privacy, but avoid a sense of confinement and are designed to filter light in intriguing patterns. They are essentially self-supporting as the result of each unit incorporating a right angle, and can also be reconfigured. Within these transparent walls, different ambiences can be created that reflect and intensify the outdoor living experience.
Mark Gabbertas was born in Yorkshire in 1962 and came to the world of furniture design in a circuitous way having started his working life in advertising before changing career path to train as a cabinet maker. Apprenticed to Codrington Furniture and then with Stemmer and Sharp in the acclaimed Oblique Workshops in Hackney, it was Hackney he chose to found his own design/making studio in 1994. In 2001, he established the Gabbertas Studio in West London to focus on furniture design, before moving the main studio to the Oxfordshire countryside in 2016.
