GAVIN HAUGHTON

Gavin Haughton’s creative brilliance spans ceramics, interior design, painting and art direction. Influences for his interiors rest somewhere between The Bloomsbury Group, Nancy Lancaster and David Hicks. Gavin’s ability to turn his hand to multiple techniques and areas of art and design led him to take up ceramics in 2018. With a desire to hand make plates, he began to shape and glaze plates taking ideas from his interiors work and the time he spends in Tangiers. Nothing should be too perfect, everything has a playful feel.

“For me, anything that is overly laboured loses its energy. I like things to look as if they’ve happened by mistake.”

Born in Hertfordshire, Gavin Houghton left art school in London to work in fashion, designing menswear. He then joined the World of Interiors magazine as an editorial stylist, when the illustrious Min Hogg was editor. Headhunted by David Collins Studios, for a stint helping the Bar and Restaurant Interior Designer, he was then lured back to Condé Nast, as the Art Director of Vogue Promotions working for clients such as Moet & Chandon, Chanel, Estée Lauder and Crème de la Mer. Gavin then launched his interior practise in 2008.