Bio

Tom Vaughan, founder of Object Studio, is a visionary designer-maker who trained in Cabinet Making at London Guildhall University and in Three-Dimensional Design at Brighton University. He then took a Masters in Contemporary Product Design at the Royal College of Art under the tutelage of Ron Arad (he himself is now a visiting tutor at the RCA). He is a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) Scholar, who used the opportunity to investigate the casting of metals and associated crafts such as welding, chasing, figuring and patinating. As Object Studio, he and his team of specialist craftspeople take on ambitious commissions globally including complex three-dimensional structures in timbers and metals.

“My furniture pieces, however sculptural, are functional objects that are made to be used and enjoyed - beautiful to the eye and pleasing to the touch.”