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. 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.
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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. 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. 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 Douglas and Bec: Two Generations of Design An unusual take on the family business model, Douglas and Bec is a story of natural creative partners. A self-taught handyman and a savvy fine-arts graduate, the duo have found common ground making furniture that is simple, beautiful and will last a lifetime. Photography: Tom Ross 1/14
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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. 15 Bedford Street, Collingwood Melbourne, Australia Mon - Fri 10am - 6pm +61 (0) 3 9419 1146 Auckland Showroom:. See more 0 people follow this http://www.douglasandbec.com/ +64 9-551 3685
[email protected] Price range · $$$ Shopping & Retail Page transparency See all 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. Federico Monsalve: Congratulations on a new, exciting chapter to your creative life! How does it feel? 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.
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Originally established in 2007 by collaborative father-daughter team Douglas and Bec Snelling, the new direction for the studio symbolises an amalgamation of creativity, design and manufacturing. As Douglas takes a step back into retirement, the global operation continues now with Bec at the helm. A Visit to Douglas and Bec We're virtually headed to New Zealand this month to talk with Bec Dowie of Douglas and Bec, a pair of stores full of beautiful wood furnishings and lighting that they've been designing and making for around 10 years.
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 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.
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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. YES! It was a fortuitous email from Melbourne fashion retailer Julia Pound of Dagmar Rousset in January this year which provided the impetus for Douglas and Bec 's recent move to Melbourne.
