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Philip Watts Graduated from Nottingham Trent University in 1992.
In 1993 Peta Levi invited Philip to join her group of young designers called The New Designers in Business (today Levi runs the Design Trust).
The sponsored group took their work to exhibitions in London and across Europe. The exposure and positive reaction to his work crystallised his decision to start up the business.
The first company head quarters were a converted toilet and in the grounds of Philip's flat, where early batch produced products took shape.
Early products included, the Amoeba mirror, various cast aluminium candlesticks and handmade furniture.
In 1994 Philip Watts Design moved to their current studio in Shakespeare Street. Exhibiting at shows in London gave the company vital contact with commissioning clients in the capital.
Commissions followed the sculptural content of the furniture exhibited; particularly popular were the Space Invader benches and the Mercury barstools.
It is for the dramatic three-dimensional interior features that Philip Watts Design is best known. In particular their staircases; today the scale of projects is vast and the focus is very specific, but in may of the projects you can still see the visual cues from Philips early furniture pieces.
As well as the large-scale commissions the company has always produced a range of products.
As the commissioned work became more architectural, so the product range evolved from retail to the contract interior market. Today Philip Watts Design's most famous product is their Portholes for doors, a product that didn't exist before the Nottingham Company invented it four years ago, now it is almost iconographic within the landscape of the contemporary bar.
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