Furniture pieces developed in close collaboration with Recraft Design Studio, Copenhagen, using found and reclaimed materials from Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens.
Central Grain explores the anteroom within Belsay Hall as a space of transition. Historically a place of waiting, the project reinterprets this condition as one of possibility: between past and present, permanence and change, use and reuse.
The work began by cataloguing available materials, followed by a shared design process over several months led by the Danish practice, whose work transforms construction waste into new, meaningful elements.
Developed through a series of furniture pieces, the project treats architecture and objects as temporary formations rather than fixed outcomes. Marble, timber and reclaimed materials are assembled using simple, improvised methods of construction. Positioned between furniture and architectural fragments, the pieces respond to the layered character of the existing interior rather than competing with it.
As part of Make & Mend exhibition at Belsay Hall, 27th June -- 27th Sept 2026
