Design, Research,
Objects, Furniture,
Spaces
t: +44 [0] 77 9887 5334
e: hello@studioaltshift.com
ROTU, Max & Benito, Vienna, Austria, - 2019
Commercial Interior // Furniture, Lighting, Fitting Design and Production
Rear Extension, Basement and Loft Conversion, Planning Permission, Full Interior Refurbishment. Project Management.
WIMI, Max & Benito, Vienna, Austria, - 2018
Commercial interior // Furniture, Lighting, Fitting Design and Production
TBC-2 Lighting And Furniture, London - 2017
Bar Interior, Exterior Design, Direction and Installation. Furniture and Lighting Design and Fabrication.
Patterns, Bar, Club and Terrace, Brighton, UK, 2015
Bar Interior, Exterior Design, Direction and Installation. Furniture and Lighting Design and Fabrication.
AHEC with Okay Studio, Exhibition, London, UK, September 2014
Exhibition Design, Fabrication and Installation
The Book Club, Restaurant and Bar, London, UK, 2010
Creative Direction, Interior, Furniture and Lighting design.
GAP, Visual Merchandising, Milan, Italy 2012
Design, Fabrication and Installation(in collaboration with Oscar Narud)
Tolou Screen, AHEC, London, UK, September 2014
Kinetic Installation (In collaboration with Peter Marigold)
Marking the Forest, Architectural Association Visiting School, Oregon, USA, August 2012
Invited Designers
Shodoshima Pavillion, July 2014 (In collaboration with Hiroko Shiratori and Markus Bergstrom)
Creators in Residency, Design East Trienalle
Chin Chin Laboratory, Nitrogen Ice-Cream Shop, Camden, London, UK 2010
Interior, Furniture, Lighting and Design Direction
You’re Getting On My N.U.R.B.s, Corian Furniture, Padova, Italy 2011
(Sponsored by DuPont and in collaboration with Jordi Canudas)
Furniture Design and Manufacturing Strategy,
Stories, Co-Working environment and Café Bar, Broadway Market, London, May 2013
Design Direction, Signage, Interior, Furniture and Lighting
FOLD, Lighting, Loose Threads Exhibition 2013
Invited designers, Material Experimentation and Fabrication.
Studio Alt Shift is a design and research studio for spaces, furniture and lighting.
We cover all stages of projects from design direction and concept development to on-site installation, fabrication and project management.
The studio specialises in translating abstract ideas into physical proposals, and works across a range of audiences covering residential, commercial and temporary interior spaces such as experimental installations and exhibition design.
Studio Alt Shift is a london based practice founded in 2006 by Shai Akram and Andrew Haythornthwaite.
Projects actively seek to uncover visual, spatial and material languages that are specific and particular to our clients. We are able to achieve these results by working directly with fabrication industries, collaborating to discover new contexts, applications and audiences for their processes and materials. The outcomes form the unique narratives of the spaces we design.
We have been invited to discuss this approach in an interview by LSN Global and shared this ideology at international conferences and workshops – most recently Moscow Design week, by the British Council.
Our clients range from private commissions, to independent businesses, to established manufacturers. The design studio works with clients across the entire process from conceptual direction to final production and installation. Completed projects range from physical outcomes such as commercial interiors (The Chin Chin Laboratories, London), furniture ranges, (Bench Seats and Things, produced for The Book Club with Turners and Moore), exhibition design (AHEC | SKN gallery) and product ranges (Acland Homeware, NZ). Research-based projects include conceptual / visualisation proposals (ThinkDO Camp – Marks and Spencers, UK), invited residencies (ARCO Furniture, NL) and experimental material research (Corian DuPont, IT).
Works are held in the permanent collection of the Design Museum, London and MoMA, New York and has been published extensively internationally. Akram and Haythornthwaite also enjoy teaching onto under-graduate and Masters programs at a range of institutions including University of the Arts London and the Royal College of Art.
t: +44 [0] 77 9887 5334
e: hello@studioaltshift.com
Unit B, 2 Leswin Place, Stoke Newington, London, UK, N16 7NJ