Born and raised in Cornwall, England, amidst an impressive nature Max Lamb still prefers to work in the mountains or at the seaside. A keen traveller by heart he brought back inspirations from India, China and Nigeria and being fascinated by their peoples´ traditional craftmanship he develops his designs with a range of sometimes primitve means and materials.

May it be metal like poured pewter or folded copper and steel sheets, fine stones like granite and bluestone or high-tech materials like polystyren and foamed concrete that he uses for his one-offs everytime he invents designs that occur as simple as consistent. Besides the design itself another focus of Max Lamb´s work is the processing of its creation.

The manufacture of an object is esteemed as worthy as the final product. This is why he started to take photographs or video recordings to document the production process. Without any allure he even invites the

interested public to workshops to tryout by oneself some technics he developed for his work. Traces of the production process are very important for Lamb´s designs, too: The granulated surfaces of the legs of his pewter stools give a hint of being sand-casted in a hole-digging performance on a Cornish beach.

Twice, in China and in the United States, he engaged special machines and workmen to have two series of seats and stools cut out of solid rocks of granite and bluestone. Their backs and seats are straight and polished and in sharp contrast to their roughly carved outlines.

Max Lamb´s aestethics are dialectically in more than one way: He sets raw surfaces against shiny ones, a small stone stool can weight more than a bulky polystyren armchair and his objects made of concrete remind of a well-shaped layer cake.