Design Guild Mark Holder
William Dining Chair
Name of Designer:
Mark Gabbertas153
2016
Gloster
William was developed around the idea that outdoor furniture can have the same elegance and lightness of touch as its interior counterparts. Gabbertas explored the potential of three-dimensionally shaping solid teak sections to achieve a visually striking profile and an ergonomically correct one. William utilises a hidden and almost invisible fixing system which was developed especially for this chair.
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.
