Design Guild Mark Holder
Diabolo
Name of Designer:
Mark Gabbertas082
2013
Chorus Furniture
Diabolo is a collection of tables with a deceptive difference, available in four heights combined with four sizes of round tops. Created as a universally applicable range it will aptly accompany Drum, Jonty, and MIR seating ranges. Diabolo in its own right is a refined, pared back and elegantly simple table programme.
Low tables, side tables, dining height tables, and bar height poseur tables. The emphasis is on colour and the mix and match capability of the two elements of top with top section of column, and bottom section of column with disc base, offering the opportunity for both colourful as well as more sober combinations when called for.
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.
