New Designers is an annual London showcase for recent design graduates, returning this month for its tenth year.
The New Designer of the Year award went to Tortie Hoare, a furniture, design and craftsmanship student from Bucks University, for her project 'Leatherwork Furniture Collection'.
Judges Comments:
The judges celebrated Tortie’s ‘innovation, personal passion and an incredible sensitivity to materials which has reinvented a lost process from medieval times to produce an outstanding collection of contemporary furniture.’
Now, instead of trying to find a job, Tortie has decided to pursue her leatherwork and see where it takes her. She will be spending some of the prize monies on leather for a new collection.
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“I have never had a reaction like this,’ said Tortie. ‘I have been
shocked by the interest. With all of my furniture I have used the
process of forming leather to dictate the piece. It was not until I came
across the French medieval process of boiled leather that I could
create solid, strong forms in an eco-friendly way. “
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Photographs by Ed Reeve
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