Douglas & Bec A Family Business Architecture & Design


Douglas & Bec A Family Business Architecture & Design

Douglas and Bec is a furniture and lighting design studio, founded in 2006 as a collaboration between designer Bec Dowie and her father, furniture maker Douglas Snelling.


A Visit to Douglas and Bec

The metamorphosis of Douglas and Bec. After some significant crises, the furniture and light brand formerly known as Douglas and Bec is now known as Snelling. Federico Monsalve spoke to Bec Snelling about what this new phase means.


Designers on my Watchlist Father and Daughter duo Douglas & Bec

Douglas and Bec - first established under the name Workroom Design - has been producing furniture and lighting since 2006. Designer Bec Dowie started the business with her father Douglas Snelling, and the pair were later joined by Bec's husband Paul Dowie.


Keeping it in the family with Douglas and Bec Douglas And Bec

06.15.17 Sighted The New Douglas & Bec Collection is a Study in Modern Glam by Shoko Wanger As of this year, Bec Dowie and her father, Douglas Snelling — founders of the New Zealand-based design studio, Douglas and Bec — have been in business for a decade.


Douglas & Bec A Family Business Architecture & Design

04.26.16 At Home With Douglas and Bec's Beautifully Understated New Zealand Home by Shoko Wanger There are elements of Bec Dowie's northern New Zealand home that are impossible to capture in photographs alone. One may not realize, for instance, the scope of its rural surroundings.


Designers on my Watchlist Father and Daughter duo Douglas & Bec

Douglas and Bec 's new Melbourne showroom is located at 15 Bedford Street Collingwood - visit their website, here. The Auckland based design studio unveils its elegant new Arch collection.


Douglas & Bec A Family Business Architecture & Design

Meet Douglas and Bec, the father and daughter design team with a lifetime of experience designing and making things together. Douglas and Bec may have been in business for 10 years but it is a relationship that has been for a lifetime.


Designers on my Watchlist Father and Daughter duo Douglas & Bec

HKliving Mango Plate. Unearthed Garden Cylinder Planters - White Matte. Minerale / Duvet Cover (Toffee) Flos Gatto. Flos Snoopy - Green. Destroyers/Builders Windows of Bo Bardi Side Table. HKliving 70's Ceramics Pepper & Salt Jar Asteroids/Peat. Iittala Kuru Bowl Glass 13cm Moss Green. Unearthed Garden Baby Stacker.


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The six-piece collection, titled Bedroom, is the latest from father-daughter team Douglas Snelling and Bec Dowie, who continue to successfully grow their furniture and lighting design business in New Zealand and across the ditch. Each piece is made by local craftspeople, and Douglas himself. Inspiration for the design comes from a treasured family possession of Bec's, a mahogany Queen Anne.


Douglas & Bec A Family Business Architecture & Design

Douglas and Bec designs and produces lighting and furniture that is timeless, refined and playful and uses rich natural materials. Their work has simplicity and honesty, which is reflective of their own "less is more" lifestyle as they reside rurally and source locally.


Light Addict Douglas and Bec, Pietro Russo, Serge Mouille! Petra

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Designers on my Watchlist Father and Daughter duo Douglas & Bec

Furniture and Lighting design studio Douglas & Bec have released their latest collection which encompasses a range of freestanding lamps entitled 'Pare' and their first foray into sofa's, the RD sofa and RD half sofa.. The Pare lamps were inspired by the work of regionalist painters Rita Angus and Christopher Perkins, and feature playful geometric proportions, rich materials and a new earthy.


Designers on my Watchlist Father and Daughter duo Douglas & Bec

RD Bar Stool. Home Products Bar & Cellar Stools RD Bar Stool. Designer Douglas & Bec. Collection RD. Dimensions W 450 x D 400 x H 910 mm. Visit Site. From Douglas & Bec's pared-back RD Collection, the RD Bar Stool is a refined combination of beautifully rich materials. Available in American Ash and Oak, with a comfortable premium leather saddle.


Designers on my Watchlist Father and Daughter duo Douglas & Bec

The re-imagined business has been pared back and refined, taking the best lighting designs from Douglas and Bec into the future and adding a more artistic collection of work to the stable one.


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Douglas and Bec now has four locations - a studio, workshop and office in Auckland, and a showroom in Melbourne - with a growing staff of talented individuals. Douglas, now 72, remains at the heart of the production process, alongside a network of local makers who are integral in manufacturing Douglas and Bec's collections. Bec explained:


Douglas & Bec A Family Business Architecture & Design

New Zealand Designers Douglas and Bec - Modern Magazine The Arch vanity chair, 2017, is elevated on casters and upholstered in luxurious duck's egg and Payne's gray velvet. All images courtesy of Douglas and Bec. Feature New Zealand Designers Douglas and Bec By SAMMY DALATI | February 4, 2019

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