Design Guild Mark Holder
Haven seating system
Name of Designer:
Mark Gabbertas040
2011
Allermuir
Designed by Mark Gabbertas, Haven creates personal privacy within a busy environment. The cushion detailing is deliberately softer and casual, a contrast to the formal structure of the outer shell. Comprising of modular elements including arm chairs and sofas, all available with and without a headrest.
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.
