Design Guild Mark Holder
Markant
Name of Designer:
Mark Gabbertas024
2010
Mirodan
The Markant range of tables appear to be improbably and precariously supported by four curved wooden legs at each corner. These are in fact high-pressure laminated veneer mouldings which are attached to the edge of the 12mm glass top using ultra violet bonding technology. The resulting table is extremely strong and visually intriguing, as the efficiency of the design has made all other structures like frames and support rails superfluous.
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.
