So we teamed up with local talents, Sarah Colson (award-winning lighting designer based in Forest Hill) and William & Co (porcelain artist based in Peckham) to make a super squad of designer/makers.

We have been following both of their work for ages and had always wanted to do something with them. This felt like the perfect opportunity.

As soon as we met up for a long black and some cake at Peckham Refreshment Rooms, we knew it was a match made in heaven. It’s always a nervy moment when you get to know each other on Instagram then meet up in the real world to make something together.

There was mutual respect in abundance and quickly the laughter and the creative ideas flowed.

We shared our geeky passion for Superman’s Fortress of Solitude and talked extensively about Stalactites and Stalagmites, Futurism and Cityscapes. As you do.

We also discussed the similarities between glass and porcelain, both made from silica, and how we wanted to bring them together and show off their beauty as a pairing.

William with his extruded porcelain chain links, a constant motif in his art and fine objects. Sarah with her glass rods and fine fluted tubes. From there we began sketching and sharing ideas.

We had a very strong idea of how we wanted these lights to look and drew up the technical drawings in the studio once we had honed the ideas from our initial meetings.

It’s all about the components coming together to make something more beautiful than the sum of its parts. Just like this collaboration, a meeting of minds and materials and skills.

You will have to wait and see them in situ in our newly renovated bathroom once we have got through the prototype stage. We cant wait to share them with you.