Design Guild Mark Holder
Mir
Name of Designer:
Mark Gabbertas084
2013
Chorus Furniture
MIR is public area modular seating; molecular in concept, and highly flexible, utilising 1500mm round ‘hubs’ with or without a central back support, and having one, two or three exit points from which straight benches emerge to link to other hub units or to additional benches. These configurations can be accompanied by the complementary low stools or aluminium table, absolutely suited to notebook and laptop use or for resting drinks.
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.
