The Tower of London: Ghosts in the Chapels.
- Luke Hughes
- 31.10.2023
- furniture design
Halloween is a good time to revive gruesome stories; many of our clients’ historic buildings have more than their fair share. The Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula at ...
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Rescued Timber: A Tale of Two Trees.
- Luke Hughes
- 20.10.2023
- furniture design
Perhaps the lamentations over the vandalistic felling of the much filmed, much photographed and much loved 300-year old sycamore on Hadrian’s Wall will provoke a ...
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Park Avenue Synagogue (NYC) USA
- Luke Hughes
- 15.06.2023
- furniture design
Park Avenue Synagogue, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, is one of the largest and most influential Conservative synagogues in the U.S. Although the synagogue ...
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Furniture for Westminster Abbey and the Cosmati Pavement
- Luke Hughes
- 30.05.2023
- furniture design
Coronation? Westminster Abbey? Cosmati Pavement? Penny Mordaunt and that sword? All very much in the public eye recently (apparently, there were 450m TV viewers ...
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Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula HM Tower of London | Blog
- Seb Egan
- 24.09.2020
- timber
A site of national and historical significance the Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula at HM Tower of London is perhaps best known as the resting place to many of the ...
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Valparaiso University Chapel Seating | Blog
- Seb Egan
- 17.08.2020
- places of worship
The mid-century modern design of Coventry Cathedral profoundly influenced the design of the Chapel of the Resurrection at Valparaiso. Although separated by many miles ...
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Sheffield Cathedral | Blog
- Seb Egan
- 27.07.2020
- places of worship
In 2,000 years of evolution of ecclesiastical architecture, no one thought about stacking pews until the team at Luke Hughes invented them as the next generation of ...
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Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, New York | Blog
- Seb Egan
- 28.04.2020
- furniture design
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah was a project of considerable significance for Luke Hughes because it was the first synagogue we completed in the US.
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Demountable Altar for Ely Cathedral | Blog
- Seb Egan
- 18.04.2020
- furniture design
Ely Cathedral is one of the finest of all European architectural jewels. This ‘ship of the Fens’, perched in a city of just 20,000 people on an ‘island’ 85 feet above ...
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6 Essential Church Floor Plans to Maximise Your Space | Blog
- Seb Egan
- 07.02.2020
- furniture design
The modern church and its seating Throughout our recent posts we have explored the history of church seating and revisited a defining moment in the design and use of ...
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