Design Guild Mark Holder
MirA
Name of Designer:
Mark Gabbertas085
2013
Chorus Furniture
A small and easily manoeuvrable laptop or side table that works with the Mir range or in isolation. The two critical objectives of achieving an ultra-thin visible profile and a rigid structure are fulfilled by the use of a specifically developed double aluminium sheet layering process, which also keeps weight to a minimum. This inspired engineering results in a form without any visible fixing or clue to the construction techniques.
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.
