MARC-RICHARD
SIT ON YOUR ART
Enhancing Spaces, Inspiring Minds
EVERY KING & QUEEN
DESERVES
A THRONE
CREATED WITH A LOVE OF METAL
We take joy in creating unique pieces of functional art. Every work is specifically custom built, proudly signed and numbered.
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THE PROCESS
Many of the range of human emotions find their way into this. Birth is challenging.
Each project is unique. The single most challenging aspect is the idea, Inspiration arrives on its own schedule at the most bizare moments, creating a flurry of sketches; but not quite right is nothing at all. More often than not the solution arrives in a dream.
The creative mind is strange.
Having established the basic parameters, such as the materials to be used and practical considerations, like can it fit through the doorways, the process begins. Initially, drawings, crude models from card and glue and then finally, working scale maquettes. Often these are made of metal, when complex curves are involved you need to be certain its actually doable.
Finally, full scale mock ups are made with a person seated inside to check it's comfortable and it works and so the metal is chosen, checked for flaws and the basic cutting begins, This is a slow process of metal and cardboard, patience and cursing. Then it's welding, welding, welding and grinding and welding. The piece is coming to life and suddenly it's there. A fantastic moment.
There are imperfections, tiny but they are there, like a painter's brush or a sculptor's chisel. The pieces will be damaged over the years the metal will patinate, the leather will age, this is part of their being.
The upholstery, a magical part of the creation, it's clean, it's nice, it doesn't involve masks and respirators, gloves and noise and sparks, it's foam and leather and fabric and the radio on in the background, it's peaceful. Scissors and foam and sewing machines.
Leather is a wonderful choice it goes so well with unpainted metal but equally there are a myriad of incredible fabrics that can be imagined and commissioned..and finally should it be lacquered, or painted or wrapped or left bare?
Decisions. Again.
Finally, after a genuine labour of love it's done.
The work is signed and numbered and sent to begin life in a new home.
We hope you love it. We do.
THE WORK
Introducing our sculpted metal furniture, a blend of art and functionality.
THE STORY
An appreciation of only living once & needing to achieve what drives you.
THE STORY
An appreciation of only living once and needing to achieve what drives you.
I’ve always liked making things. As a child growing up in London, I was the one forever taking things apart, not to break them, but to understand them. Donald, our local handyman, built me a folding carpenter’s bench with a vice, I must have been 9 or 10. It was the best gift I have ever received.
We lived on a hill, so we built go-karts. My hard drinking next-door neighbor was always restoring something a MK II Jag, a VW camper, an MGB, scotch in hand, something on the radio. I was mesmerized, his eager helper. First bikes, then engines, then metal , I wanted to know how everything worked. And once you understand that, you realise: if you can see the objective clearly enough, you can make anything. Including food, particuarly food, especially food.
Making is making.
But it was always about beauty too. That old rusting Jag, gunmetal grey, cracked red leather, a peeling wooden dashboard was still one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. I never understood how ugliness made it into cars or buildings. And then, ironically, I became a building surveyor, drawing up plans and project managing exactly the constructions I didn’t believe in.
How did Gaudí get away with it? Not in London. Not then.
So I left.
I turned to drawing. painting and cooking. But mostly, I turned to sculpture.
Sculpture is it for me. I want to hold it, walk around it, set light to it, freeze it, burn it. It’s three-dimensional. It’s physical, tactile and very real.
Metal is my language. I adore it, every kind, every form. Casting molten bronze is visceral, primeval and dangerous. Working with sheet metal, not in factories but with hammers, is a dying art. Most modern alloys hate being shaped this way, they tear and crack and fight you. But that’s part of it. If the hammer isn’t heavy enough, make a bigger one. Build a better anvil. Invent tools. Invent a language.
Begrunzle. Bejesus. Begorence. You don’t just make metal forms, you make stories, sounds, and scars. The machines and equipment are modern and old, new ultra hightech welding masks and heavy leather gloves, plasma cutters and hammers.
Forging is never a solo effort. It’s violent. It causes injury, bruises, cuts and burns. It demands rhythm and instinct and reflexes. What comes from it can be extraordinary.
My sculptures are often figurative but never literal. I’m interested in form, in the memory of muscle, the erosion of time, the tension between fragility and strength. I have installed torsos in many places, I like to see them tranform with weather and time. However nothing matches my great passion, the sea. The tide embraces them like ancient relics. They are bodies of metal, but they are also vessels of everything else I carry, love, risk, strength, permanence.
Furniture came next. Practical, useful yet also poetic. When my first child was born, I made the most delicate crib from metal. The cats claimed it before he arrived. The chairs have been swimming around in my mind since childhood: sketches, models, years of quiet obsession. A lifelong pursuit of the marriage between design, materials, art, and function.
Now, finally I also make this crazy furniture, each piece the product of years of imagination and contemplation. Sculptural, functional, and made with passion.
Marc
SERVICES
PROFESSIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
CUSTOM DESIGNS
QUALITY
ASSURANCE
ART CONSULTATION SERVICES
We offer professional partnerships with architects, interior designers, and those involved in the hospitality, aviation and marine industries. If you are designing a luxurious hotel, a chic restaurant, or a stunning yacht, we would be delighted to collaborate and turn your concept into breathtaking pieces of art furniture.
REALIZING DREAMS
How often in life do you get to do that?
All of our pieces of furniture are totally hand built and unique. We aim to achieve the outstanding.
Providing design services tailored to your specific requirements and situation.
Guaranteeing exceptional craftsmanship and premium materials.
Providing expert advice and guidance on the perfect art solutions for your space.
THE SERIES
THE SERIES
Welcome to 'The Series' by Marc-Richard, where each piece of custom sculptural metal furniture embodies a perfect blend of beauty and functionality. Our work draws inspiration from the wonders of nature, mechanical marvels, stunning architecture, machines of war and the elegance of racing cars. Dive into a journey of artistic design and unashamed opulence that transforms spaces while celebrating craftsmanship.
If it looks right it is right. The Spitfire, the P51 Mustang, the Bugatti 35, the E & D type Jags and the beautiful Lambos of Marcello Gandini. The B2 Spirit and the Blower Bentleys and of course the delicate Dino. Form follows function, but it does it best when its beautiful. The SR71 Blackbird..incredible.
We like incredible, think outside the box. Be alive.
SPEED.
Cooling fins on motorbike engines, the ribs on giant transformers and those amazing ceramic insulators that connect high tension lines. Industrial design at it's functional best.
We like BLADES..energise your enviroment. Feel the charge.
VOLT.
When it comes to making amazing things plenty of talented individuals spring to mind but Mother Nature has them licked. From whales to jellyfish, fawns to falcons, giraffes to peacocks, Nature is astonishing in it's majestic diversity.
Then of course there are butterflies. Celebrate our magical planet.
NATURE.
The Pagoda series, inspired by the grandeur of Chinese architecture and challenging the mundane. This is the beginning of a series exploring the beauty of buildings, the onion domes of St. Basil's Basilica, Sydney Opera House Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower.
Simple and dramatic. Bring incredible architecture inside.
PAGODA.
The ultimate terror creation of war. First used In World War I, tanks were thus named to disguise their true use. They were masquerading as water carriers. Designed to kill, dehumanising monsters in the battle of man vs machine. Awesome.
Giant chunks of moving metal. Beautifully created with rivets.
TANK.
