Design Guild Mark Holder
Kitt
Name of Designer:
Mark Gabbertas315
2024
Lyndon
There is little point in designing a chair if it doesn’t work. If it isn’t comfortable. If it doesn’t engender the right emotions and facilitate the right behaviour. With Kitt we obsessed over the ergonomics of the chair right from the project’s inception and refined the form of the two laminations to create an extraordinarily comfortable sit. The form of the chair is guided by a soft engineering approach to find a considered combination of the precise and the fluid. Kitt doesn’t shout, it does what it is meant to do quietly.
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.
