Ingrained

A collection of seats exploring timber through craft, form, and material-led design.

Ingrained is a collection by designer and artist Romeo Mignot Hodges. The project investigates how traditional craft techniques can shape timber into functional, sculptural forms, highlighting material qualities, variation, and the intentionality of process in contemporary design
Canal
Sustainability
This project is part of
Forward Furniture
G10
De Caai
De Kade, Kanaaldijk-Zuid 1 D
5613LH

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By

Romeo Mignot Hodges

Hosted by

DDW X Liv Vaisberg
romeo@hodges.com
+44 7379093768
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Tactile
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Toilets Toilets available
Wheelchair Friendly Partially wheelchair accessible

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Material and Form

Ingrained explores how timber informs design through its natural properties. Each seat is shaped in response to the timber, allowing the material to guide form, structure, and scale. The collection balances simplicity and refinement, producing objects that are both functional and sculptural while reflecting the dialogue between timber and its shaping process.

Craft and Technique

The seats are crafted exclusively with hand tools and pre-industrial techniques, emphasising deliberation in every cut, split, and carved surface. Bespoke natural coatings refine the forms and bring out the timber’s character, reinforcing the dialogue between process, material, and design while respecting the inherent qualities of the wood.

Design Intent

Positioned between functional object and sculptural form, Ingrained demonstrates how craft-led making can generate contemporary design outcomes. The collection embraces variation and imperfection as integral to process, showing how material, technique, and form can be inseparably linked to propose new directions for furniture design.

Little-Red Stool
Little-Red Stool
Romeo Mignot Hodges
Long-Blue
Long-Blue
Romeo Mignot Hodges
Burnt Bottle-O Stool
Burnt Bottle-O Stool
Romeo Mignot Hodges
Detail of Little-Red
Detail of Little-Red
Romeo Mignot Hodges

Hosted by Romeo Mignot Hodges

I am a designer and artist whose practice explores furniture, objects, and sculpture. Working directly with timber and traditional techniques, I create pieces that reveal the memory and narrative of materials, bridging the functional and sculptural through a contemporary lens of craft and process.