---

Jonathan Blayney and Tom Whiteway are product designers who set up their business two years ago to create products and furniture, and are now branching out into interior design

---

Words by: Emily Martin

Who

Jonathan Blayney and Tom Whiteway are product designers who set up Dome Studio in 2014. They met on the BA product design course at Central Saint Martins and graduated in design furniture, products and homeware. Dome Studio’s first collection, Copper, was furniture. ‘We were experimenting with moulded wooden components and those experiments translated into the furniture range,’ say Blayney and Whiteway.

Edit is a wall tile made using American walnut. ‘It’s one of our favourite projects,’ Dome Studio says. ‘We put into practice all that we learned while producing our furniture. We built our own vacuum jig and worked with two manufacturers to get it right.’

‘This project was a real labour of love. It took nearly a year to realise and became more about the design and construction of the complex jigs and machines to make the furniture, rather than the pieces themselves.’ Now in its third year of business, Dome Studio has branched out to include interior design.

Why

A’clock takes a citrus fruit form with the clock face changing to align with daylight. ‘It took about two years to get it right,’ the duo says. Opting for Jesomite as the material for this product Dome Studio has also produced a concrete version of the clock for Heals.

While at university, the duo spent many hours in the workshop together. When setting up their studio they decided that the workshop would be its core, as they share a love of machinery. ‘We began working together mainly making prototypes and models for other studios,’ they say. The work included an airline interior mock-up for Tangerine Studio. ‘Through our model-making work we began to learn about many different materials and processes, which helped inspire some of our later projects. We really enjoy finding a new process and seeing how we can use it in a new way,’ they say.

Airspace entailed the design and fit-out of six floors of co-working space in eight months ‘with a tight budget’. Given free rein by the client ‘we wanted to create a relaxing and understated working environment. So our interventions are subtle’, says Dome Studio.

Where
www.domestudio.co.uk