Luke Pearson

Portfolio

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  TAKT Cross Collection

  TAKT is a new Danish furniture brand launched in 2019.
  
  Sold online and direct to the consumer, saving on shipping costs and cutting out wholesalers and retailers, the customer has access to a superior quality product without compromising on affordability or sacrificing ethics.
  
  Flat-pack construction allows the pieces to be posted direct to the consumer from the factory, significantly reducing both shipping costs and therefore energy consumption.
  
  The Cross Chair’s design emerged from a search for a form that would immediately communicate to the user how the design should be assembled, almost without instructions.
  
  Arriving as just four pieces of timber and six screws, the Cross Chair requires minimal assembly instruction and a single Allen key, helping the process to be as intuitive as possible and free from the frustration often found with flatpacks.
  
  The Cross Chair is produced using sustainable wood from FSC-certified forests, eco-labelled Kvadrat wool and aniline leather. The compact packaging means 6 products can fit into the same volume as a single assembled chair, minimising CO2 emissions. Designed for disassembly, the Cross-Chair’s components can be easily separated out and worn parts repaired, recycled or replaced.
  
  In spring 2020, the Cross Table and steel Cross Tube chair were added to the collection.

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  City of Bath Wayfinding and Street Furniture

  Our research led to the geometric forms of the city’s predominantly 18th-century architecture and its status as a model city in the Age of Enlightenment. This resulted in the development of a circular, vitreous enamel map, referencing the compass, lens and sundial, which we set within a rectangular bronze monolith. This bold geometric aesthetic is shared by the bus shelters, composed of a series of bronze blocks. Collectively, these products have a powerful, modern presence in Bath’s streetscape, complementing Bath’s local stone and slate roofs through their own materiality; whilst also being easy and cheap to maintain and acquiring a beautiful, rich patina over time.

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  Joseph Joseph Intelligent Waste

  Totem’s innovative horizontal waste separation enables the convenient division of waste without compromising on capacity or encroaching on precious space. It offers a cohesive alternative to awkward domestic improvisations, which often further complicate a household chore. As what we choose to consume, and what we produce as a result of our consumption, grows ever more important, Totem helps us to create positive habits; making responsibly dealing with the by-products of busy lives effortless.

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  Lufthansa A350 Cabin Design

  The colour palette of the design is based on Lufthansa’s ‘colour breeze’ design concept, reflecting the multiple tones of blue in the sky and horizon, rooted in a modified Lufthansa blue. A combination of yarns is mixed in different proportions for different seat covers and creates a gradient that runs from dark blue for seats by the windows, where natural light is strongest, towards lighter tones of the colour breeze for seats at the centre of the cabin. The effect visually stretches the space, making the experience more inviting, calming and dynamic.

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  Teknion Essa

  Designed for Teknion, the Essa task chair takes its name from the word essence, selected to capture its pared down scale and pure, sculptural shape. Essa takes cues from a classic club chair, stressing simplicity, softness and a rich materiality. In essence, the chair looks like the comfort that it is.
  Essa is modern, refined and receptive, with the sweep of the back echoed by the fluid line of molded armrests. Visual and tactile richness is added with fabric that covers the seat and back. In scale and shape, materials and details, Essa is a pleasure to look at, to touch and to use.

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  Allermuir Kin

  In development, we worked with Allermuir’s engineers to make the most elegant possible use of materials, minimising the amount of both plastic and aluminium without sacrificing structural integrity. Kin’s mono-shell tub, arm, side and stool shells are designed to accept the same set of base types and parts, thus minimising inventory and tooling and further optimising the collection.

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  Teknion Zones

  Zones brings together a mix of postures and ergonomics, tech-enabled but with a comfort, elegance and craft that enhances a sense of wellbeing for its users. Design for productivity, they are nonetheless highly social and informal.
  
  The collection encompasses seating, tabling, enclosures, storage and accessories, and mixes traditional and modern manufacturing to truly reflects Teknion’s history of making.

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  Andreu World Rap

  Named after the laminated veneer wrap that contains each seat space, Rap is warm and architectural in its presence. A refined steel frame contains an architectural shell for the soft internal upholstery and provides anchor points for a range of ancillary surfaces and tablets. Whether in workplace or hospitality settings, the fixed circular and articulating rectangular tablets bring a new dimension of functionality by aiding relaxation, collaboration and personal work. This optimises shared space and enables laptop use for extended periods of time away from a desk. Rap illustrates Pearson Lloyd’s continued exploration into informal work settings, and the creation of supportive and flexible environments that promotes both productivity and wellbeing.