Simon Doyle

Simon Doyle is a furniture designer and maker interested in the exploration of form, structure, void, symmetry, asymmetry, balance and simplicity. He cites the Shakers as an early influence on his work.

Doyle approaches each piece of furniture in the context of craft and industry – where the two intersect and where they are at their most distant, whether that is through visible joinery and the traditional techniques of craft or through metalwork and the contemporary manufacturing techniques of modern industry.

Chair was designed to be an object that could only be made by hand. It is an investigation into pure craft areas and as such focusses on visible joinery and traditional techniques, with very deliberate elements intersecting and interacting. The seat and backrest are coopered, with heights and depths of the vertical pieces offset; an idea of something chaotic within the rigid conformity and strictness of woodworking joinery.

Doyle graduated from GMIT Letterfrack with and has worked for Stevan Hartung Furniture. Based in Dublin, he works mainly to commission. He is also developing products aimed at larger scale production.