Eoghann Menzies Design specialises in designing Scottish Arts and Crafts furniture and architectural joinery. With his years of experience, Eoghann uses his unique eye and insight into early 20th-century design – in particular the Arts and Crafts movement, Art Nouveau and Jungendstil – to design and produce exceptional furniture and functional art. Each item is created from a passion to transform even the most ordinary objects into something beautiful, while also achieving harmony in our homes and creating pieces that will last a lifetime.
Eoghann views imbuing objects with meanings as essential, over the past 10 years has been continuing traditional crafts and design methods, that are integral to his process. To learn what has already been learned, drawing from the past, and seeing our advances and mistakes. The ingenuity and influence of great minds of past generations refines his work to its highest level. The pursuit of love, imagination and compassion; it breathes life into traditional skills, with perpetual respect for the material and the object, and refines the legacy and ingenuity of experienced design.
Eoghann uses his unique eye and insight into early 20th-century design to design and produce exceptional furniture and functional art. Each item is created from a passion to transform even the most ordinary objects into something beautiful.
Selected Commissions
- Private collection, The Croabh Armchair, Two of, Oak, Cheshire, 2021
- Private collection, The Samson Rose Side cabinet, Oak, Switzerland, 2021
- Private Collection, Grand Library and ladder, Oak, Aberdeen, 2021
- Private collection, The Legacy of Time wall Clock, Walnut and Copper, Aberfeldy, 2021
- Private Collection, Travellers bench, Three of, Glen Morangie Hotel, 2021
- Private Collection, Celtic Tree mirror, Copper, Glasgow, 2020
- Private Collection, The MacAilein bookcase, Oak, Biggar, 2020
- Private collection, The Welsh Sea front door, Oak, Llanfigael, 2020
Education
City of Glasgow College, HND in Furniture Craftsmanship with Design, 2013
University of Glasgow, MA in European Civilization, 2011
Professional Experience
Eoghann Menzies Design, 2016 till present
Trustee for The Aberfeldy Workshop Social enterprise, Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Jan 2021 till present
Commissions Manager, Galgael Social Enterprise, Govan, Glasgow, 2018 – 2019
Public Commissions
Armoury Display Cabinet, for Menzies Castle Museum, Menzies Clan Charitable Trust, August 2019
website: www.menziesdesign.co.uk
email: enquiries@menziesdesign.com
