RASKL Limited
Furniture
The principals of RASKL originally came together in 2005 and set up to provide a close-tolerance timber-machining and prototyping service to the furniture and construction trades. Alongside this business the company also began to develop a design & manufacture facility for their own brand of high-end bespoke furniture.
Due to their location the company became involved with the Ouseburn arts scene, with one of the principals sitting on the committee / steering group for Ouseburn Open Studios and became a founding member of North East Art Events when helping to organise and develop the North-East Art Expo.
Demand for RASKL’s highly personalised and individual design work and product increased rapidly, with the company servicing many high-profile and celebrated clients. Due to this company decided to cease advertising their machining and timber services to concentrate wholly on design and manufacture, retaining a small customer base of other designer-makers for machining, prototyping and batch production.
Again due to high demand RASKL have historically had little free time for displaying at shows/producing pieces for galleries. Most work comes from word-of-mouth so this form of advertising has not been necessary.
However to raise the brand’s profile RASKL has exhibited successfully at 100% Design, Design Event Mart (winning an award for Best Interior Product) and Living North Live and has had a wealth of press coverage in magazines such as Grand Designs, Icon & IDFX as well as many local press and timber industry periodicals.
Coming up the company will also have television coverage with a profile on Look North, a considerable amount of work for a house filmed for Grand Designs and for furniture supplied to My Flatpack Homes.
The company is now beginning to move into product design for retail in an effort to have a standard or stock range available while working on one-off commissions.
Q&A's
Describe your creative practice in 20 single words.
Stylish, fun, quirky, succinct, solid, intriguing, tactile, unconventional, modern, long-lasting, uncompromising, innovative, fresh, exciting, intelligent, harmonious, satisfying, logical, engineered, considered, complete, interdisciplinary.
Describe your influences using 30 single words or short phrases.
Our clients, science fiction, architecture, spaces, clothes, cars, our predecessors, engineering, gadgets, neat solutions, new materials/technologies/processes, systems, toys, cartoons, Shaun, innovation, collaboration, music, growing up, big wide world, the future, the past.