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Daniel Schofield is an award-winning British furniture and product designer hailing from the Midlands and based in London.

Daniel takes a reductive approach to materials, form and function. His designs are distilled to create useful and timeless products that remove superfluous elements and celebrate honest design. The fusion of graphics, construction and design is central to Daniel’s design ethos and all three areas have informed his visual language and creative direction.

His design process was honed early on in his career, which began with the study of art and design at Warwickshire College. Following this he undertook a carpentry apprenticeship building homes, offices and restoring historic and listed buildings.

culminated in a degree in furniture and product design at Sheffield Hallam University.

Since then Daniel has gone on to become one of the UK’s most promising design talents, utilising his diverse creative output to collaborate with a selection of British and world- leading brands and manufacturers including Conran, Benchmark, Decode, Woud. In addition, Daniel is currently working with ercol, Hayche, Deadgood, Very Good & Proper and Please Wait to be Seated on new products for 2019.

Daniel has also been the recipient of several awards including Elle Decoration’s British Design Award, a New Design Britain Award and the World Interior News winner for Furniture Design.