Dame Stephanie Shirley CH
Nick and Sarah Allen worked on furniture and lighting for Dame Stephanie Shirley (Steve) for almost 30 years, as well as reworking the entire interior of her apartment, to provide a special place and sanctuary where she could work, plan and conjure her campaigns.
After her son Giles passed away, Steve wanted nothing dark in her life, so Nick worked to create a sense of flow with her duplex.
Below is a small selection of commissioned pieces.
Oval chest of drawers in sycamore. Wave fronted bookcase and olive green cast glass bowl.
Desk with companion meeting table. Cast bronze, textured and toughened glass with sycamore drawer and leather inlay.
Mirror with lead crystal glass 'rock formation' and hand engraved edges. Sycamore and figured ash jewellery chest.
Wave fronted side cabinet in sycamore.
Oval dressing table with gilded copper and cast bronze 'branch' base and gilded cast bronze 'tree' for displaying jewellery. Oval stool. Verre eglomise sliding wardrobe doors with cast bronze inset handles.
'Eclipse' wall mirror, golden yellow kiln formed glass mirror frame. Bone china hand basin.
Carved stone basin and pedestal with gold leaf
Oval dining table, sycamore top inset with captain leafed etched and toughened glass. Thicket base in captain leafed beaten copper and cast bronze.
A wave form mirror with applied opaque glass relief and hand engraved edge detail.
Cast bronze Tree form hat stand.