Lacaze is a bespoke furniture manufacturer that specializes in high end clientele. Their furniture is handcrafted by highly skilled craftsmen, ensuring that every design is expertly produced with meticulous attention to details. Alongside employing traditional methods, they can also use state of the art CNC manufacturing.
I have been having a mostly good experience here at Lacaze. It's a smaller company, with only 5 people working in the showroom/design space, so it has been a tighter knit workplace dynamic than the corporate places I have worked at in the past. All of the employees are very sociable and are great people. The company is located in the Design Center, which is extremely posh as the British would say. It's the place in London for high end furniture; all of the interior designers working for wealthy clients shop for furniture in the Design Center. This lends itself to a bit of a snooty atmosphere, but it’s not unwarranted. When I am asked to go to the workshop, the atmosphere is a more boisterous and lively because of the workers and not having the need to impress the clients. The workplace culture is friendly and welcoming overall. As far as the work goes, my main tasks include creating dimensioned orthographics for client furniture orders and developing their Spring furniture collection. I have almost full autonomy over the design process and creating the orthographic drawings has been a great way to learn about furniture proportions. The position can be a bit stressful at times because I am handling their graphic design material at the same time. Also working with the clients can be tedious at times because they don't always know what they want. But that comes with working with clients in any industry. Overall it's a great position and I have gained plenty of design experience.
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