All articles by Emily Martin
Emily Martin
Peter Thonet – Profile
Peter Thonet is the latest in the family-run eponyomous German furniture design business, in family hands since it started in 1819. Now a brand ambassador, with younger family members well established at Thonet, Peter has welcomed new blood being introduced, with Thorsten Muck recently appointed as CEO. They talk to FX about all things Thonet.
Dispatches from Design Lighting Tokyo (part two)
FX assistant editor Emily Martin reports from the third Design Lighting Tokyo exhibition, Tokyo, Japan.
Dispatches from Design Lighting Tokyo (part one)
FX assistant editor Emily Martin reports from the third Design Lighting Tokyo exhibition, Tokyo, Japan.
One to watch – Alexander Waterworth Interiors
Alexander Waterworth Interiors clinches UK and American awards
Design Lighting Tokyo 2015 – what to see at this year’s show
Nicely timed to lift us out of the post-festive doldrums, Japan’s capital is lighting up in January with
the third edition of its three-day lighting show.
Lynn Jones – interview
So why did Dr Lynn Jones, now head of furniture at Buckinghamshire New University in the historic furniture town of High Wycombe, chose to continue studying despite having two job offers made during her graduate show?
John Small – interview
History and art graduate turned school teacher, John Small took himself back to the classroom to study design. Now, after 25 years with Foster + Partner, he is design director for Steelcase.
Ptolemy Mann – interview
Weaver and colour consultant Ptolemy Mann has bridged what to many is a chasm between craft and industrial design, with large-scale commissions from the NHS and Johnson, the latter working in collaboration to present a mural at the Clerkenwell Design Week.
Marc Sadler – profile
A self-professed ‘citizen of the world’, inventive designer Marc Sadler tells Emily Martin how a skiing accident started him off in sports footwear, leading on to kitchens, lighting, furniture and other adventures…
John Miller – interview
While many have gone from working in a practice to teaching, John Miller went the other way round. He talks to Emily Martin about his passion for making, and the design students he has nurtured.