Farm 21 products

farm21 was formed in 2001 to create contemporary rural furniture and art, as I felt at the time it was an area of ‘modern design’ that was being neglected.

Our signature farm21 item is the straw-packed plexiglas cube, originally created as a present for my father’s 60th birthday. To this day, the bulk of farm21 organic material (straw, wood, lichen etc) is sourced from my family’s farm in County Carlow, Ireland.The original concept has been developed into a range of cubes packed with various straws and mosses, grains, barks, french lavender and rosebuds, functioning as stools, benches and tables. We also have a selection of fantastic coffee tables and stylish lamps incorporating these materials, and have been making wall-panels and screens based around this idea of ‘exposed organic materials’ cased within acrylic. We are working on our diffusion lighting range, and hope to have this available from summer this year.The latest farm21 products, which have been extremely well received with both Press and the design community, incorporate an exciting new laminating process which allows our organic material to be literally suspended (or encased) within the acrylic, creating truly eye-catching pieces. We have been using this process for lamp bases, tables and screens, encasing lichen and rosebuds in particular for their wonderful colours which are stabilised in this process. Currently we are pushing the possibilities of scale with bespoke pieces such as sink-surrounds and shower panels for Interiors projects in London and New York. We are also developing a range of lamps and table options for London-based Tempus Stet which we hope to have on the shelves early 2006.

farm21’s ’unique take on the natural world’ has received extensive recognition and has been featured in prestigious publications such as the New York Times, Wallpaper, Vogue, GQ, IDFX (cover), Living Etc (cover), London Telegraph Magazine and London Sunday Times. We have provided installations for corporate headquarters such as the Bank of America in Dublin, as well as bringing the farm21 concept to bars, hotels and offices, and many happy individuals on both sides of the Atlantic.