WAYS OF SEEING: Waldo Works
Launched for London Design Festival and London Craft Week 2020 by The New Craftsmen, WAYS OF SEEING is a collaborative project that brought together maker and interior designer to celebrate new collections from The New Craftsmen and their makers.
\n \nWe invited three prestigious interior design studios to explore their interpretation of these new collections within an interior. They included:
\n \nMaria Speake, Founder of Retrouvius
\nEmma Burns, Senior Design Director at Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler; and
\nSasha von Meister and Tom Bartlett, Directors of Waldo Works
Each interior designer developed their own unique scheme and room concept that showcased their individual personality and exquisite taste, whilst highlighting new pieces from The New Craftsmen makers’ collections.
\n \nOver a 6-week period we explored these three imagined interiors, the collections they celebrate and the distinct viewpoints on craft they represent. \n
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Waldo Works is a design studio founded by Tom Bartlett with partners Sasha von Meister and Andrew Treverton, recognised for its modern British design output. The studio strives to connect their work to the heritage of a place, while remaining tied to the present.
\n \nWaldo Works chose to design an entrance hall encased in handmade glazed tiles from Matthew Raw’s new Rustication Tile Collection - a collaboration with Surrey-based company, Froyle Tiles, who Matthew worked alongside to develop new textures and experiment with different ways of applying glaze.
\n \nTo further develop their ideas, Waldo Works looked to the work of Spanish architect, Ricardo Boffil - whose love of tiled interiors is evident in his various projects and the extraordinary orientalist hall of Fredric Leighton’s Holland Park home, Leighton House; where walls are enveloped in underglaze tiles.
\n \nAs well as using tiles architecturally, Waldo Works’ space features the tile-clad Welcome Cupboard also designed by Matthew Raw. The design studio was particularly drawn to the three-dimensional form of the cabinet and the intrinsic and almost mathematical application of the tiles hugging every surface and corner.
\n \nWaldo Works then looked to pieces that shared a similar graphic clarity and a focus on materiality such as the Articulate Table by Matthew Cox, a three-legged table made from sheeted copper and the Lichen Mirror made from patinated bronze by Charlotte Kingsnorth.
\n \n‘We imagined this space cool and inviting, leading in from a hot city outside. Perhaps it would equally work in the winter with a fire sending warm reflection over the richly glazed walls. It's something we would like to build one day.’
\n \n Tom Bartlett – Director of Waldo Works
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