The furniture of Thomas Lemut is typified by cool precision, a visual and structural coherence. Chairs are assembled of multiple individual pieces in a range of metals, demonstrating the inherent beauty and qualities of each, and have no welds, nails or glue – they are instead highly engineered, with mechanical fixings. Lounge chairs may be repeat profiles in ash, connected by brass rods. Desks and tables are simple forms rendered in stripes of different coloured metals or woods, or both. Lights are columnar, on tiny bases, but achieve a delicate balance visually and physically; their functional parts may be folded invisibly back into the column when not in use. There is a purity of conce...
