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About The Designer, Sasha Sykes

Sasha Sykes (28) is an artist and designer who creates bespoke furniture through her company farm21.

Drawing inspiration from the rural, agricultural heritage of her native Ireland, she works combining modern processes with traditional materials and crafts, and has been developing her style since 1995. Sasha says: "I like to re-present the incredible beauty of the rural world in another context. Working with acrylics and resins allows me to expose the textures and forms (of organic matter) within a familiar overall structure, creating a rural aesthetic for urban times"

Sasha's background is in Architecture (Edinburgh University MA, 1998) which can be seen in the clean, modern lines of her pieces. She also practices as an Interior designer, and worked on a number of high end retail projects at London's Shopworks Design Ltd before going solo.

Her most widely recognized piece of work is the Straw Cube, which was one of the hits of the 100% Design Show in London (2002) and has been featured on the cover of both IDFX and Living etc in the past year alone. Her work has been covered by numerous prestigious publications in the UK and Ireland (Vogue, GQ, Arena, CN Traveller, Gardens Illustrated, Attitude, London Sunday Times, London Telegraph Magazine, London Evening Standard, The Irish Times, and Image Interiors), and The New York Times, Fine Furnishings International and Gotham magazine in the US. Her clients include a number of Collectors and Society players on both sides of The Atlantic.

Sasha is married to the writer Tom Sykes and moved to Manhattan in January 2004. She is now running operations between London, Ireland and New York from her mid-town studio.

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