Sebastian Cox is a furniture designer, maker and environmentalist based in south London. Sebastian founded his carbon-counting, forward-thinking, zero-waste workshop and design studio in 2010 on the principle that the past can be used to design and make the future.. He believes that what we harvest, make and buy can be part of the solutions to our biodiversity and climate crises if we ask ‘what resources does nature want to give us?’ Working to the workshop’s mission of storing 100 tonnes of CO2 in the wooden objects it makes each year, he produces heirloom furniture, lighting and home accessories and collaborates with other material experts who share his vision for a regenerative material future. He has been labelled as one of the most influential designers in London by the London Evening Standard and in 2022 was made a Royal Designer for Industry..
Sebastian Cox Ltd's business mission is to regenerate UK woodlands through good management, brought about by designing furniture and structures made from mixed-quality UK-grown hardwoods. He is deeply motivated by the way generations of craftsmen have used a limited palette of biodegradable and renewable materials, extracted from the land in a responsible and connected way. Harvesting and milling his own British timber, Sebastian uses traditional techniques, without nostalgia but with respectful inventiveness and new technology, to create objects that are functional and understandable and as a result, beautiful.
