January 2025
Mies van de Rohe may be credited with the remark 'God is in the details'. In this year, the 1700 anniversary of the Council of Nicaea which was convened in 325CE, addressed the theological nature of the relationship between God and Jesus. Against the teaching of Arius, who maintained Jesus was a creation of God, the Council of Nicaea declared that God and Christ were of ‘one substance’ and therefore equal. Perhaps Mies van de Rohe might thus maintain the 'Holy Trinity is in the details', now exquisitely carved by Georgy Mkrtichian, for our new gilt and walnut crucifix for[...]
December 2024
St Luke’s, Darien (CT) – the chapel of the Primary School Continuing the theme (of creating furniture with relevance to modern liturgy and response to the architecture of the space), December saw the installation of a new altar, lectern, clergy seating and prayer desks and a set of stacking pews for the children’s chapel at St Luke’s, Darien in Connecticut, USA. The chapel is used as children’s worship space, and the furniture now includes some stacking benches for the younger members of the congregation, all of which can be re-arranged for different types of service. Working closely with the Rector,[...]
November 2024
Folio We are delighted to report that, this year alone, the Luke Hughes Designs 'Folio' chair was installed as the readers’ chairs for the Radcliffe Camera at the Bodleian Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC, the L&B Reading Room in the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University and new library fit-out at Exeter College, Oxford. Originally designed for the Folio Society in 1993, the design has now become a design classic. It has been specified for the British Library, Cambridge University Library, Selwyn College Library, Edinburgh University Library, Trinity College (Cambridge), Trinity College (Oxford) Tower of London and[...]
