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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT
‘Aston Chair’ paperweight
from the 30th Anniversary
Collection, £85. ‘Noon’
bureau, £120,000.
David in a workshop

FIR S T PER S O N

David Hunt

Known for his beautifully crafted
lighting furniture, this year DAVID LINLEY

is celebrating 30 years in design
‘ My parents introduced me furniture as well as I could.
I didn’t know what I was
doing when I started.
to design and encouraged
an appreciation for fine
I was fresh out of college
things. My father was
and trying to make
particularly influential,
Designers like Alidad,
and, when I was a boy, we
spent many days tinkering Nina Campbell, Joanna
with cars, trying to make Wood and Stephen Ryan
things work better. were all amazingly kind
and loyal by continuing to
I also remember him commission me. It was the
referring to “ghastly good lifeblood of the business.
taste”, and I’ve always
been careful when I’ve become increasingly
designing a room at home interested in antiques
to have a piece of furniture and restoration, and I
that is a little quirky and have utilised restorers’
has a sense of joie de vie, techniques to create
but is also comfortable. a new look and feel in
the pieces we make.
If you were to go back 30
years to Pimlico Road, I still have one of the first
you’d see a tremendous pieces of furniture I made
difference. When we when I was 13 years old,
opened there, we were kept in our house in
the only design and Provence. It’s a desk made
Handcrafted in the Cotswolds manufacturing company. using the joints my great
And, with the Grosvenor teacher [at Bedales] David
Estate, we have grown and Butcher taught me and ‘
fostered what has become features inlay, which has PAUL STUART
sales@davidhuntlighting.co.uk a design street. become our trademark

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