Goodwin Hartshorn Storage
Commercial (Office / co-working)
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Edward Goodwin and his partner Richard Hartshorn, founded their eponymous company Goodwin Hartshorn in 2002. The pair initially set up their studio in Dalston, then an up-and-coming area in the east of the city. However, as it gentrified rents shot up and they decided to look at other places, including nearby Bethnal Green, before alighting on their current space in Deptford, south of the Thames. The double-aspect studio, adjacent to the award-winning Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, was shell and core when they first found it and as Hartshorn explains: ‘Because it was so much cheaper than we’d previously been paying, we could afford to do it up nicely.’
The pair have specified two long, low-slung, storage cabinets (in yellow) as well as a set of white shelves which they’ve festooned with pot plants. They also like the open space between the main draws and the tops of the storage units, using them to lay out material samples and create mini-displays – something that goes down well with clients apparently.
