Furniture maker Laurent Peacock studied Industrial Design at university but felt uninspired by the prospect of designing plastic parts for mass production. Furniture making offered him a way to satisfy his need for personal creativity in both technical and manual realms. Today he observes that “Very few made objects in our world fulfill quite as many roles at a personal level as does a good piece of furniture.” Laurent retrained with influential designer and sculptor Marc Fish and now designs and handcrafts high quality furniture which fuses traditional and contemporary materials, techniques and processes, focusing on tactile form, texture and pattern. Laurent mainly works with wood and where possible uses local materials, which help ground his objects in their environment.
Laurent Peacock