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About MAKER
MAKER is about exploring top-end design, aesthetics and materials and bringing them together with meticulous craftsmanship. The aim is to celebrate an individual quality that commercial production techniques cannot mimic, resulting in items that possess real character and personality of their own.
MAKER’s Mat Macmillan works in wood and other media for his amazing products collection. You will end up with something of lasting beauty and originality for your home, workplace or as a gift to mark a special moment.
Origins
MAKER’s Mat Macmillan has a high regard for traditional hand skills dating back to his apprenticeship to North London carpenter and cabinetmaker Frank Pohorley. Frank’s working methods, rooted in the 1930’s, now represent a bygone era and ethic. Joints were all marked and cut by hand and chisels and irons sharpened on an old India stone.
Trained in carpentry, joinery and shop fitting, Mat blends his respect for traditional skills with a long-standing interest in design. He brings the lasting quality of the past into contemporary mixed media pieces to meet and challenge a new era Origin Story
IO Lighting Range
The iO lighting range was conceived in late 2013. I was influenced by the work of NZ artist Jeff Thompson and his use of basic materials to create beautiful forms, I decided to experiment with plywood.
At the same time, I was interested by the apparent gulf opening up between traditional craft-skills and new digitally based production methods. This led me to design a product that played at the boarders between human and digital fabrication.
The result is a product that is timeless – It’s apparently simple form and precise detailing obscuring the skill and challenges involved in its fabrication.
iO lights bring a simple, calm beauty to any setting, emitting a warm glow while adding substance as a beautifully designed object. Made using premium NZ ply sourced from locally grown trees, iO is a thoroughly sustainable New Zealand product.
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