About Studio Custhom

Custhom is a research-based design practice working with handmade processes.

By experimenting with tactility and graphic-led design the studio has created a collection of wallpapers, ceramics, textiles and designed products that are all sold internationally.

Custhom has a detailed approach to materials and processes. This means that the subtleties of material properties are explored in response to each product or brief.

The studio was established by Nathan Philpott and Jemma Ooi in 2010 and now works with clients on concepts for branding, retail spaces, restaurants and domestic projects, often in collaboration with respected architects and interior designers.

Jemma and Nathan met at the Royal College of Art (RCA) and both run programmes at the RCA and the University of the Arts, London, respectively. They set up Studio Custhom to respond to a growing interest in larger design consultancy projects. The studio has an intellectually rich and creatively strong approach to solving each brief independently.

PROCESS

Reflect

We have designed a process of hot and cold hand foiling techniques, to create repetitive and non-repetitive graphics, which can explore the use of scale, without standard wallpaper manufacturing size limitations, should your project require.

The subtle texture created through the printing process of the high gloss finish, reflects natural and artificial light from the walls back into the space it covers. The finishes range from transparent to jet black gloss, including high shine and matt metalics.

Tactile

Experiments and explorations of tactile surfaces have lead us to develop a hard wearing stitch techniques through paper. Working with a British embroidery factory, we are able to embroider directly onto non-woven wallpaper, using polyester for high shine to ceramic cotton threads for a flat Matt finish.

The multi head needlework provides a delicate and intricate aesthetic to the wall coverings. Inviting to the touch and adding tonal elements of a single thread colour dependent on the angle of the viewer. This process has considerably less wastage than any print method and is solely made in the United Kingdom.

Texture

Custhom specialise in hand silk screen printed wall coverings. Using traditional methods of printing for a crisp graphic finish, in a huge ranges of colours and print finishes. Printing inks through a variety of mesh counts, allows us to explore fine layers of colour to thicker and heavier print pastes, dependent in the finish required.

Interiors and products

PROJECTS

With a keen understanding of processes and materials, CUSTHOM draw on the wealth of British craftsmen who underpin their vision and expertise increating their work.
Being fluent across textiles, print, ceramics and furniture each product is tailor-made to fit both the budget and brief.

IGNEOUS_GRANITE_Warehouse Home