Claudia Surrage and Christian Cowper met while studying at Northumbria University in England, where they both graduated with honors in three-dimensional product and furniture design. After discovering a shared passion for creativity and simply making things, they formed a strong relationship that led to their professional partnership, Studio Claud Christian, based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.<\/p>\n
Their approach to design is bold and honest; celebrating materials for what they are and expressing their beauty through form and proportion. This approach, combined with a sense of human and emotional connection, has allowed the duo to create beautiful works, often with a distilled simplicity. With inspiration and references from modernist icons to ancient crafts and cultures, Christian and Claudia are able to generate rich concepts and refined designs for a breadth of purposes and audiences.<\/p>\n
Their work spans various creative fields \u2013 from furniture, lighting, and product design to ceramics, jewelry, and sculpture. Since collaborating, the duo has received numerous international awards, such as John Lewis x Umbra \u2013 Design for Small Space Living in 2018, IMM Cologne Pure Talents in 2019, and Ein & Zwanzig (One & Twenty) World’s Finest Design Talents by the German Design Council in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40650,"template":"","tags":[203,204,205,206,207,208,209],"class_list":["post-30372","designers","type-designers","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bassa","tag-colmere","tag-dymen","tag-everly","tag-gwyn","tag-lancer","tag-marlowe"],"yoast_head":"\n