'In 2015 I moved into my own house in Hart Street in the Edinburgh New Town. The house itself became fairly well known in Edinburgh due to featuring in the RSA Annual Exhibition Home in 2016 and then later that year, featuring prominently on Channel 4 TV as the winner of the UK RIBA House of the Year competition.

The house has very little of what might be called loose furniture; beds, desks and bench seating are all part of the fabric of the house I suppose responding subliminally to the arts and crafts inspirations behind the project. I am terrified of designing a chair (especially one that looks good AND is comfortable!) but I needed a dining table to exactly fit a space I had designed for it. The expression of the steel structure of the house figures prominently in the interior and exterior so the design had to be steel with the function of ‘meeting the floor’ and ‘meeting the glass top’ expressed as two intertwining elements of steel angles.

I’m still designing the chairs to accompany it...'