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“We have tried to cross a line between the romantic concepts of the countryside and its slightly darker side,” explains Emma Peascod, pointing towards a circular mirror whose glass is green, supported in verdigre copper. “It is an oxidation process on which I have been working on for a long time,” she says.
The mirror is shifted on each side with tufts of ivy, sculpted in Jesmonite – a composite made from non -toxic resin – by her husband, Tobias. “There is a very British theme Browse conceptions“, He said about their new collection – their first” joint demonstration “as Cood de Peas.” They are a bit baroque; They are not symmetrical – it is very important – and I put them a lot of details. »»
The couple began to live and work side by side in 2011, sharing a warehouse at Stoke Newington, northern London, and practicing their respective profession – Emma in chosen glass (Gilding in reverse glass) and Tobias in Bas -relief sculpture. They were ordered for tailor -made Claridge's, Raffles London projects at the Owo and the Skye Gyngell Skye restaurant, as well as private houses around the world. Along the way, their separate practices began to overlap organically.
Tobias grew up in Wiltshire. “When I was at art school, I never did anything about something,” he recalls. “Everything was pontifier on glasses of water and stuff like that.” In 2012, a commission for the creation of decorative elements for the Alexander McQueen stores turned out to be crucial; He discovered the love of sculpture of realistic forms, which were used on a fireplace and wall panels, as well as to create feet for furniture and coat hooks.
Emma, who is half Japanese and was raised between Cumbria, Edinburgh, Tokyo and Sydney, worked in the graphic design and the illustration before discovering the art of chosen glass. A year spent in Japan in 2010 – “I followed a three -month course in Washi paper manufacturing; A little calligraphy and nihonga painting, including domination ” – has had a significant impact on his profession.
A visit to their current studio, in the old Anglo-Bavarian brewery built in 1864, in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, reveals a catalog of current projects. A table is dispersed with delicate leaves of gold leaves, coming from Florence; Another holds a large mirror in swirling gold, the last section of a bars bar bar intended for a club of members of London. On a wall, a bas-relief of swallows and ivy dragging is a test for a ceiling design. There are shapes, mussels and prototypes carved in wax strewn everywhere.
And there are mirrors in all free spaces available. The series, launched this month at London craft weekIncludes a crown of feathers with black tones surrounding burnt golden glass and an atmospheric marble arc shape hung with curtains carved with fabric. Most poetic “frames” are sunk in Jesmonite, some in bronze, which is produced at the foundry next door. On a design with a tangle of brambles, the thorns are tilted in gold.
“We work a lot to order, but with this collection, no one dictates what we are doing,” explains Emma. She and Tobias savor freedom, and they already provide other additions to the Peascod Cood line on order. “It's a chance to create something we would like to have with us.”
Peascod.studio; tailor -made commissions from £ 25,000; The mirrors (from £ 22,000) are exhibited at Lavery, London, from May 12 to 18
London Craft Week, May 12-18
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