Multi award-winning designer-maker Josey Garbutt (24) is one of the UK’s most promising young designer-makers.  He fostered a passion for creative processes and craftmanship from the age of six, and by sixteen he had designed and built his own workshop where he taught himself to make furniture.  After completing a Fine Art Foundation at the University of Creative Arts, Farnham, Josey went on to attain a First Class BA Honors Degree at Rycotewood Furniture Centre, Oxford.  Josey’s combined interest in maths, engineering, nature and fine art, heavily influences his designs which appear simple but are complex in design.

 

Josey is a furniture designer-maker, inspired by natural forms, creating functional artworks with a preference for local materials.  He has a keen eye for detail and a collaborative spirit.  His design philosophy combines his own eye for structure and detail with the client needs.