Kitchen design including designers Mark Lewis, architects Sir Terry Farrell and Michael Graves for Charles Jencks
Kitchen, bathroom and office furniture exhibition at the Design Centre in London
Mark can furnish a classical style from reclaimed antiques such as wrought iron baths, timber and steel.
Mark Lewis began his design career at Kingston Polytechnic, now a University. Other better-known designers, his fellow students such as Matthew Hilton and Jasper Morrison, graduated a year before and a year after, in the early eighties. Marks first commercial design endeavour was with Johnny Grey on a project having been introduced to him by the director of the Design Centre in London. He first noticed Mark at his end of year show. This involved Charles Jencks the client, Sir Terry Farrell and Michael Graves the other Architects on the job and enabled Mark to infuse his talent with theirs producing the stuff that became known and post modernism, a parallel design phenomena to the Memphis movement in Milan led by Attora Sottsass and George Sowdan together with James Irving and Simon Morgan, other fellow students from Kingston.
Those that went to Milan worked for Olivetti during the day and designed the Memphis stuff in the evenings and at the weekends. Mark stayed in London and later opened his own Furniture Emporium in Covent Garden. At that time Ron Arad and Danny Lane were around the corner in their own workshops and studios whilst Philip Stark was developing his stuff in Paris. Sir Richard Rogers and his partner at the time, Renzo Piano, had just finished the Centre Pompidou. On one memorable evening we all sat on the plastic chairs Stark had just put into production in a bar in Milan.
Mark originally founded his own company Lewis & Horning in 1983. In those days he had showrooms in Drury Lane and the Business Design Centre, Islington and a large Studio and workshop in Wandsworth. The enterprise was conceived as an up-market kitchen and bathroom design emporium but quickly diversified into renovating restaurants and other commercial projects.
In the 80’s Mark won several design awards for his innovative and creative work in the field of furniture and interiors and found himself contributing to a number of design journals in addition to his work being featured in the household and fashion magazines of that era. A series of projects, completed to a very high standard added up to a substantial body of work over the years some of which, the most resent, are illustrated in the leaves of this web site.
Mark has worked with board-level members of large corporations and with individuals attending to their domestic design requirements.
He now operates from his home in North London trading as Mark Lewis Design. Combining his skills with those of a network of colleagues, Mark develops the homes of particularly discerning clients who seek his innovative but practical design input as well as his ability to manage and implement the projects realization.
Starting off…
Mark, having had a chat with you on the phone, will come and see you and run through the various services he can provide.
He will take in to account the dynamics of your intended project and listen to the ideas and aspirations you have in mind.
Consideration is given to the potential design options, materials, fittings and finishes with a view to establishing a budget for the proposal.
In some instances he may bring into the consultation process one or two of his colleagues so that they may bring their skills to the project. These may include other specialist designers, technicians & quite often the craftsmen who may be called upon to implement the work.
