SPRUCE FLOOR LAMP
The Spruce Floor Lamp is a new piece, working with a familiar palette in aluminium and hand-made mulberry paper, creating a soft and gentle glow.
The design takes a more decorative turn to Richard's previous work, taking inspiration from the stepped and flowing shapes found in temples in Southeast Asia, and merging with Art Deco influences closer to home. The resulting language of this piece feels both organic and architectural.
KRADAT TABLE LAMP
Richard designed the Kradat lamp after living in Bangkok, where he spent six months observing and documenting the shapes, materials and atmosphere around him. He particularly loved the way that man-made metallic surfaces collided with older, softer materials, such as paper lanterns and old illustrated prints.
The lampshade is created using hand-made mulberry paper, carefully collected from the Bo Sang umbrella-making community in Chiang Mai. It is painted with ink and wrapped around a metal frame. The lamp base is made by hand in sanded aluminium.
YOU CAN SIT WITH US
- London Design Festival 2025
At last year's London Design Festival, Richard exhibited work in 'You Can Sit With Us - Green Carnation', a group show curated by 2LG Studio at Shoreditch Town Hall. The exhibition centred specifically on queer designers, and took the form of a 'salon' that also held space for talks and conversation.
The show received positive press from House & Garden, Wallpaper and Dezeen, with Dezeen naming Richard as one of the '12 emerging designers that stole the show'.
Photos: Megan Taylor
STUDIO 88
At the start of 2024, Richard was invited to take part in the Studio 88 residency programme in rural Chiang Mai, Thailand, to focus on craft connections with local artisans.
Here, he met and exchanged ideas with a community of skilled Thai craftspeople, with whom he was able to explore local techniques in ceramics, natural dye fabrics and teak wood, and develop a small collection of prototype lamp designs.
CHIANG MAI DESIGN WEEK
As a result of his involvement in the residency programme, Richard exhibited my work with Studio 88 and my collaborators in Chiang Mai Design Week in December 2024.
The exhibition design engaged viewers with the origins of the raw materials from which the lamps were constructed, an awareness which felt strongly prevalent in local design practices.
