Wrongwoods Tray

Artist Richard Woods is a graduate of The Slade School of Fine Art. His well-documented work crosses boundaries between art, architecture and design and is most often made up of exaggerated, garish representations of traditional British architectural and interior motifs, such as wooden flooring, chintz wallpapers, crazy paving or red bricks. These ‘logos of reality’ are created using traditional woodblock techniques and then applied to walls as a second skin covering interior floors and walls. It was applied to a courtyard in the Henry Moore Project at the Venice Biennale 2004, to a residential building in upstate New York 2006, and a store interior for Comme des Garçons in Osaka in 2003. In these instances, Woods’ art expresses an extreme version of Englishness by taking over a space and saturating it with iconography. Woods has also recently produced work for the London Underground, Paul Smith, collaborated on architectural projects in Sicily and Tokyo and is currently working on a host of projects including a solo show in Athens, plus further architectural commissions in New York and London.

Sebastian Wrong is not only a founding member and Operations Director of Established & Sons, but also one of the company’s celebrated designers. His inventiveness and quirky take on the objects he designs have garnered attention from around the world. Wrong studied sculpture before establishing his own successful manufacturing company in 1995. The ‘Spun’ lamp made a huge impact when first exhibited internationally in 2002. It has since won the prestigious Red Dot design award and is currently being produced by Flos. Together with Mark Holmes Wrong formed the multifaceted organisation ‘The Lane’ in 2003 and produced a collection of design products, graphic identities and exhibition designs.