&cDisp=About David Trubridge&

&tDisp=David Trubridge graduated as a Naval Architect from Newcastle University Britain, but since then he has worked as a furniture designer/maker. He settled in New Zealand after a long yacht voyage with his family. His design process combines innate craft knowledge, sculptural abstraction and computer design technology, as it draws on his life's rich experiences. He is New Zealand's best known furniture designer and his work is regularly exhibited all around the world.

Over recent years his designs have also featured in countless international publications, including influential Italian magazines and even the Financial Times, as an instigator of the trend of 'raw sophistication'.  In 2008 the French magazine Express listed him as one of the top 15 designers in the world.  

In 2007 he was given NZ's highest design award, the John Britten Award, by the Designer's Institute of NZ.

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