author douglas coupland designs a new furniture collection
Douglas Coupland, seated at his lacquer-coloured 'Bento Box Escritoire'. Says the author-turned-designer: 'I like escritoires because they exist purely for writing and nothing else'. Portrait photography: Ema Peter
The checker pattern and periwinkle colour of Coupland's 'Ryoan Ji Lamps' are inspired by those on the sliding door of a Japanese temple he saw in 1986. The shades of the lamps are simple wire frames wrapped with a translucent shoji-type material.
'The beige smaller lamp seemed like a nice accompaniment piece,' explains the designer. 'Small lamps like this are friendly presences in any room'
Coupland's bookshelves are crafted for three sizes of books: paperback, hardcover and oversize. 'Anything larger than that and a book becomes a discrete object on a table or shelf,' he says