She also creates technical architectural drawings and details for clients:
electrical, lighting, joinery, furniture layouts. As well as excellent
drawing, sketching and drafting skills, Georgie works extensively with
Autocad, Archicad, VectorWorks, 3D Studio Max and Adobe Photoshop.
CURRENT WORK
Currently projects include a beautiful and unique apartment in Chelsea,
2 houses in Fulham, a cottage in Gloucestershire, House in Somerset, bedroom
in Nottinghill, (the rest of the house has been completed over the past
4 years with Georgie’s consultations), apartment in Knightbridge
and soft furnishing for numerous clients in London, Somerset and Gloucestershire.
She also consults various restaurateurs on bars and restaurant design
in London.
STYLE
Maw’s styles, while varied, tend towards the natural, homely, groovy,
chic, a stylish visual economy of clean, precise lines, elegant woods
and stones, and rare, personally sourced materials. The priority is always
to seek furnishings, fabrics and textures that blend flawlessly with her
clients and their spaces. Georgie’s work is also notable for its
intelligent use of lighting, a form-enhancing interplay of light and shadow.
Fluent in artistic and architectural theory, Georgie Maw designs are aimed
at enhancing the aesthetic and functional value of her clients’
surroundings.
TRADE
Georgie has trade accounts with all soft furnishing companies: fabrics
and furniture, she also works closely with a range of reliable and top
quality contractors: builders, tradesmen, curtain makers, upholsterers
to name but a few… In particular Elysius
www.elysius.co.uk
PAST EXPERIENCE
In brief, her first employers during her time at Chelsea Art College:
Nick Allen (furniture and interior designer), John Stefinidis (interior
designer). Georgie graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design with
a 2,1 in Interior and Spatial Architecture and worked for the exclusive
Candy and Candy Property Developers as an assistant Interior Designer.
Following this Georgie was taken on by a private client working on a huge
renovation project in Kensington, which included 2 extensions, loft conversion,
installation of a new limestone spiral staircase, new room layout throughout,
hidden wine cellar, creation of 100 sq m Gym, sauna, hot tub complex beneath
the garden in a new space created beneath the garden. Working with Granit
Chartered Architects on this job was a valuable learning curve as due
to the in-depth introduced and involvement in the building/engineering
processes. At this stage Georgie began to do other smaller freelance jobs
alone and with Lucy Lauder; LauderMaw Design. in 2003 she was employed
by John D. Wood & Co. to launch an in-house interior design department,
specializing in consultancy, renovations and redecorations, and design
drawing.
In a previous life she attended the London Institute’s Chelsea College
of Art Design to pursue a vocation in the creative arts, and in 2001 gained
a 2’1” BA in Interior and Spatial Architectural Design. Prior
to this she trained for two years at Birmingham University Medical School
as a doctor!! At an even earlier stage, Georgie was born in Bristol and
raised in Somerset’s beautiful Chew Valley.
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