James Patmore Studio launches debut homeware collection
London Design Festival 2014: designer James Patmore presented his first homeware collection, showing handmade wooden pieces and a table lamp made from a circular screen as part of an installation in an east London cafe (+ slideshow).
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James Patmore Studio's Luna range includes a set of shallow wooden bowls and candle holders, while Umbra is an aluminium desk lamp.
The Umbra Table Light is a white circular screen of laser-cut aluminium attached to a weighted base. The screen deflects light onto the surface behind the lamp rather than into the room and creates a peripheral glow around the circular deflector. The design is intended to give "a softer ambient light".
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"Reducing the table lamp to its essence using geometric shapes I am able to utilise the naked bulb to project light off its surrounding surfaces, creating a soft omnipresent glow without a direct, imposing light-source," Patmore told Dezeen.
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Hexagonal wooden candle holders and a set of wooden dishes in ash, beech and oak make up the Luna range.
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"I have always played with geometric shapes in my work; the Luna range came from playful experiments of manipulating wood whilst using a hexagon as its common theme," said Patmore.
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Solid pieces of wood have been whittled into hexagonal domes of three varying heights to produce the Luna Candlesticks.
"I sand the facets of the candle holders by eye from a turned piece of wood – although they follow a template, it does retain its hand-made feel," Patmore told Dezeen.
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The Luna Shallow Bowls have been machine lathed with an angled edge and a shallow hollow.
"The range is finished using natural beeswax to give a matte finish that compliments the tonal range and grain of the wood," he said.
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These are first stand-alone products by the London based designer who has worked under both Tom Dixon and Rolf Sachs.
The release of the items coincided with an installation called Horizon at east-London coffee shop The Liberty of Norton Folgate.
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"I am building my own aesthetic as a designer and hope this could lead to interesting projects," Patmore told Dezeen. "I would love to work with retailers who appreciate the importance of self/local production on a batch scale."
Patmore suspended lengths of blue hand-dyed rope from the frame of the cafe's street-facing windows to provide privacy from the street outside and a calming atmosphere for diners.
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"Knowing the space beforehand, I have always been aware that a customer sitting in a narrow space with such large windows may feel a little intimidated with the city passing by right outside, so I felt the need to break up the vast windows without taking way the cafe's visibility," said Patmore.
The rope was dyed on a gradient that faded towards the ceiling. Attached to the upper ledge, the ends were left free to dangle adding a sense of movement that contrasted the hard lines of the glass and steel architecture.
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"I feel that the rope echoes the feeling of being in a field amongst the long grass and acts as subtle visual stimulant that gives you space to think whilst providing a subconscious barrier from the world outside," Patmore said.
He presented the homeware during this year's London Design Festival, which concluded on Sunday. Catch up with our coverage of the event »