Design Guild Mark Holder
Nuno Chair
Name of Designer:
Mark Gabbertas152
2016
Allermuir
The concept for this design was born out of a desire to approach a traditional multipurpose stacking chair from a new perspective.The defining characteristic of the design is how the lamination and the frame are interdependent and provide strength for each other, which allows both these elements to be pared down to a minimum.
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.
