Nick Allen offers a design consultancy service to help with refurbishing a room or a complete shop, office or workplace. He can not only advise and design for you but has the workshop facilities to make special pieces such as doors, windows, light fittings, decorative architectural fittings and furniture as required.

Dorchester Chef’s Dining Room Table

The glass top continues a watery theme with its etched, sandblasted and rippled texture in a clear white, toughened 19mm glass. The soft to touch bull nosed edge when seen from the side optically creates a hard deep blue line adding a strong horizontal to the chaotic arterial ‘thicket’ of interesting rods of leafed platinum.

“Set in a capsule within a huge sea of stainless steel which forms the background to the chef’s dining room in the Dorchester the table is needed to have impact, but when set to provide a softer background and reflect the surroundings, the bases had to become discrete and not get in the way”. “They share the dynamic of other work I have been making but in my mind this piece was always going to be an alter for food and needed to have a sense of theatre”.