Design Guild Mark Holder
CoCo
Name of Designer:
Mark Gabbertas139
2015
Oasiq
Designed primarily for outdoor use, the chair was inspired by a desire to explore the potential of using two simple and graphic planes in juxtaposition and to consider how these slightly different forms relate to each other. Gently referencing mid-century typologies via the frame structure, the design allows for an appealing combination – the forgiving nature of wood with the stiffness of steel.
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.
