Nicholas Denney Studio is founded by artist, designer and maker Nicholas Denney.

Based in Fife, Nicholas Denney Studio provide fine concrete design and fabrication for private clients, architects and cultural institutions. With over 20 years experience working with industry leading landscape, interior and art fabrication companies, the experience gained allows us to to realise increasingly ambitious projects.

We offer a full design, fabrication and installation service. This can range from entire kitchens and bathrooms to individual elements such as worktops and sinks. Whatever the scale we can offer an original, quality, design led service for kitchens, bathrooms, fitted furniture or bespoke stand alone objects. Nicholas Denney Studio specialise in fine concrete production whilst also working in other materials, including hardwoods, softwoods and cork.  

Led by award winning artist, designer and maker Nicholas Denney, the Studio draws on Nicholas’ family background in construction and his art and design practice informed by Brutalism, Modernism and 20th Century architecture. The clean lines, bold shapes and quality materials draw inspiration from designers and architects such as Carlos Scarpa and Jean Prouvé. An interest in how the built environment relates to the natural world has inspired an exploration of  naturalised form and pattern, referencing abstract expressionism. 

Play and experimentation have always been at the core of our product development, resulting in our original technique for colouring concrete. Innovation is driven by a continual creative practice.  We pride ourselves in our growing knowledge of concrete and skill in application which allows us to offer something truly unique, executed perfectly. 

Concrete has the ability to be formed and shaped to whatever imagination and skill allow, with its strength allowing us to achieve dramatic architectural features, such as large cantilevered surfaces. Concrete has a huge range of colouring and finishing possibilities, from decorative polished stone with exposed aggregate to a characterful rough texture.

Our process usually starts with an initial consultation and a discussion about possibilities, budgets and we begin the sampling process. From here we move onto the design phase where consultations with structural engineers, architects and local authorities happen for large projects. We then produce a series of drawings to consolidate and formalise any ideas.  Our skilled team in the workshop then take over and the realisation begins. 

Awards include; Scottish Furniture Makers Association and Visual Arts Scotland Prize for Design Innovation; Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society Silver Medal for show garden ‘Succession’. The Studio has also created features for a number of Gold Medal winning gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show and Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival.

Nicholas Denney Studio design projects and furniture pieces have been featured in; Homes and Interiors Scotland, Living Etc, STIRpad, Design Milk and House and Garden Magazine.

Get in touch to find out more and discuss your project by emailing info@nicholasdenneystudio.co.uk

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