Faudet - Harrison Product Furniture Interior for Tracey Neuls Redchurch Street
Pioneering and of a single mind, Tracey Neuls chooses her shop where there is great spirit and individuality
not unlike her original footwear. Building on the success of her West London Marylebone shop, she
had embarked on her second space - Eastside!
The eclectic mix of shops found on her flagship Marylebone Lane spans from elderly gentlemen
specialising and selling buttons to a bespoke Sausage maker – all a stroll from Bond St. It is this
juxtaposition that can also be seen on Redchurch St - just minutes from Liverpool Street Station.
Shunning homogenous high street formula, boutiques mingle with small galleries, cafes and residential dwellings.
Drawing upon inspiration from the carefully selected ‘neighbourhoods’ - Tracey’s shoes are about the
individual wearer and have no boundaries as to age or fashion preference setting her designs apart.
For London Design Week 2011 this idea of ‘community’ will be pushed from carboot to closet distilling a
database of interesting ‘every day’ objects. Faudet-Harrison who have their design studio in Shoreditch have been invited to alter, amalgamate and
redesign these objects in a way that they could only do. Previous design alterations are so clever and
eortless; for example, a matchbox where one side of the slide drawer is empty, serving as a place to put
the spent matches. This idea is placed in the same genre as sticky notes, where it begs the question...
why it hadn’t been done before?
With ease and wit these two different design practices come together for this years Design Week
collaboration. A found school desk table leg becomes the wall bracket for a shop light.
Cabinet draws are replaced with mirrors and situated for the perfect shoe viewing.
the 'TN Tower' stands proud on top of an old fashioned foot stand but what steals the show of 'combined object' charm and functionality has to be the shoe horn coat hanger.