“Which designers and consultants have you worked with?”

Stephen and I have worked with many designers, consultants, project managers and architects – professionals who act on behalf of their client, so all our work is channeled through them.

Always the most important things are: a clear brief and clear authority.

And this applies just as much when professionals go between us and our clients, as when we meet our clients face-to-face in Villefranche-sur-Mer, the City, or Morges. A clear brief and clear authority: with that, we can do our work.

We got this clarity from Spencer-Churchill Designs who acted for the owners of Polebrook Hall:

Here, our commission was to design and make two pairs of diamond windows, one set of which you can see here.

On a different occasion we worked with Andrew Moor Associates to design and make a modern window for a bedroom landing:

This window covers the whole face of a modern extension to a Victorian coach house: it comprises nine sections, covering 14 square yards in total (more here).

I must also mention the extraordinary refurbishment of a house on the edge of Hampstead Heath, where the designer-architect known as Misti commissioned us to make a set of 16 stained glass skylights for her client.

Their themes:

A medieval bestiary, and – the virtues.

Here’s an early sketch I made to persuade Misti that we understood her client’s wishes:

See a finished stained glass beast right here.

My point: face-to-face with you, or through your interior designer, consultant or architect – once we have a brief and clear authority, then we can do what you want us to. Write to me here.

“Can you work from other artist’s designs?”

Yes. For instance we can work from a historical stained glass cartoon and copy anything you like.

Another scenario is you have an artist or designer whose work you want us to re-interpret in stained glass: we can do this too.

In 2012 we worked with the Californian artist, Souther Salazar, whom a London client had commissioned to create the original design. When Salazar had finished, we prepared a version that was suitable for glass.

It does not usually reduce costs to work from existing designs. This is because it creates more work in other areas. Specifically, the design will nearly always be prepared with less understanding than is required of the properties of glass, glass paint and transmitted light.

It is simply a different way of making what you want. So, if this approach interests you, write to me here.