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Design yourself a custom piece with highly skilled makers

Post author By Olivia Shead
Post date May 26, 2015
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Connecting with the right designer to create a one-off custom piece can be time-consuming and frustrating! So much so, that you may find yourself going for the cheaper, ‘good enough’, mass-produced option to save yourself both money and heartache. But, do so no more!

New online marketplace, Makers Lane aims to make collaborating easy. With a community of award-winning craftspeople and artisans on call (such as Lee Gratton and Emma Clark of Gratton Design and Emma Veiga-Malta of My Bespoke Chair), they are skilled in the creation of bespoke furniture, jewellery, metalwork, polished concrete pieces and unique lighting fixtures.

But how does it work? Well, it’s actually pretty simple. To start the process search the vast array of maker portfolios and bespoke items in the database for ideas and inspiration. Then, either reach out to a specific maker or post your proposal to the broader maker community, and in a matter of hours you will receive a number of proposals from interested artisans. Once you’ve picked your artisan, the design and creation process begins and soon you’ll have a beautiful piece that reflects your individual taste, desire and character!

Makers Lane’s community of makers is expanding daily, with the artisans from around Australia all bringing with them a range of diverse and refined talents. You’re bound to find exactly what you want!

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Tags custom pieces, design, emma clark, emma veiga malta, furniture, gratton design, interiors, lee gratton, Makers Lane, market lane, my bespoke chair

Furniture

I Love My Chair: a new lease of life for your tired chairs

Post author By Olivia Shead
Post date January 16, 2015
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After winning a pitch contest, Emma Veiga-Malta was flown to Silicon Valley to talk about expanding her successful online design-it-yourself chair business, My Bespoke Chair, to the US.

However, while she thoroughly enjoyed the experience, what she realised was that by expanding her business she’d lose the core element of what she loved to do, and that was create beautiful things. “By expanding my business, all of sudden I would lose touch with my clients, I wouldn’t be creating fabrics myself or doing my chairs myself and that all made me quite sad,” explains Emma. “So I thought, no! I need to use everything I learnt in Silicon Valley and pivot my business so that I’m adding services that I love to give my clients. And I know that my clients need.”

So began Emma’s new venture, I Love My Chair, which with six different services, offers custom fabric design, fabric sourcing, chair sourcing, chair repairs, ready-to-buy chairs (designed by Emma herself), and design-it-yourself chairs under the umbrella of My Bespoke Chair. “While working on My Bespoke Chair, I realised a lot of people actually already owned chairs they wanted to have redesigned rather than buying new. Customers were coming to me asking if I could help with their redesign; so I thought hang on, there’s a real business here! Now My Bespoke Chair has become one of the services I offer, instead of being the only service.”

Based in Sydney, I Love My Chair is very much a collaborative process between designer and customer, with Emma seeing herself as a style advisor. “People come to me and we work together to get their chair looking beautiful again. I’m really a style advisor for their chairs. So instead of being an online business, it’s a collaborative business. People have that one-on-one with me and that’s what gets me really excited!”

With a degree in fashion and textiles and having worked as an artist and designer for the last 16 years, Emma is very familiar with the creative industries. Whether it be painting and designing fabrics, or giving a new lease of life to that heirloom chair, Emma’s main drive is transforming something you hid in the garage into a piece that is worthy of centre stage. “The creative process is what gets me really excited. I just love what I do and I think you can really tell that through my work.”

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Tags chair repairs, chair sourcing, design, emma veiga malta, fabric sourcing, furniture, furniture repairs, furniture upcycling, heirloom furniture, I Love My Chair, my bespoke chair, repairs, upcycle, upcycling

Interiors Addict

New cushions from My Bespoke Chair

Post author By Jen Bishop
Post date February 19, 2014

Emma Veiga-Malta, the woman behind My Bespoke Chair, has launched a range of equally customisable, made-to-order cushions.

This means you can now mix ‘n match your dream chair (or any chair, bed or sofa you already have) with the perfect cushion! And who doesn’t love a good cushion (most men, actually, but still!)?

Tags australian made, chairs, cushions, customised, emma veiga malta, furniture, homewares, interiors, my bespoke chair