Design Guild Mark Holder
Maya
Name of Designer:
Mark Gabbertas252
2021
Gloster
Maya is a modular outdoor seating and table system and is an update and redesign of the original and sector defining ‘Cloud’ programme. The range comprises seating elements in various sizes which use a series of specially developed 3d knitted fabrics exclusive to Gloster. A range of tables have been added using a patterned teak or ceramic top which then can be placed together in contrasting scales and materials. This principle extends to the console tables which can incorporate planting trays to further give variety to a living landscape. All these elements are carried by a minimal aluminium frame connected to cast aluminium corner leg.
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.
