About
Founder of Object Studio, Tom Vaughan is an artist-maker who trained in Cabinet Making at London Guildhall University and in Three-dimensional Design at Brighton University. This led to a Masters in Contemporary Product Design at the Royal College of Art under the tutelage of Ron Arad (Tom is himself now a visiting lecturer at the RCA). He is a QEST Scholar, who used the experience to investigate the casting of metals and associated crafts such as welding, chasing, figuring and patinating. This resulted, among other things, in a reworking of his Goldsmiths Chair, originally commissioned by The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and made in black ash as a foil to exquisite British silverware. As Object Studio, he and his team of specialist craftspeople take on ambitious commissions for galleries, public institutions and private clients, including the fabrication of complex three-dimensional structures in woods, metals and synthetics.
His furniture pieces are sculptural, but are also functional objects that are made to be used and enjoyed – beautiful to the eye and pleasing to the touch. Behind the organic forms is the constant development of his fabricating processes, which is a convergence of traditional crafts combined with modern cutting-edge digital design and production techniques.
