Common Design by Conor Hacon
Common Design is an art and design studio founded in 2021 by Conor Hacon. The studio designs and manufactures hardwood furniture from a workshop in East London, while also working on private commissions at a range of scales. / @commondesignuk
Experience:Furniture Designer/Maker
Education:Art, Goldsmiths, Architecture, UCL
"I started out studying Art at Goldsmiths, alongside brilliant people like the painter Issy Wood. For a time after that I set up a theatre on the south coast—a failed project, unfortunately—and I also had work for one of the YBAs, a job that brought me into contact with great talents like the sculptor Holly Hendry. I then went on to study Architecture at the Bartlett, UCL.
I have always been drawn to woodworking, the risk and the craftsmanship. Unlike metalwork. you can’t add matter back on to remedy a mistake; you have to be extremely sensitive to what your materials are inclined to do—the shapes and colours hardwoods can be adapted to. It’s a very intuitive, detailed process.”
— Conor Hacon
