User:Sharon Marston

'Sharon Marston is a British designer known internationally for her bespoke light installations and chandeliers.

Notable works include lighting installations for Marina Bay Sands Casino, OC Tanner Flagship Store, House of Fraser and chandeliers featured in the 2012 film 'Mirror Mirror'', ‘Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style’ a Barbican touring exhibition 2012/13, and the V&A’s ‘Brilliant’ exhibition’ 2004, where Marston’s commissioned piece was amongst the first contemporary lighting to be exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Biography
Born in Hereford, Sharon Marston studied jewellery at Middlesex University and went on to design for fashion, theatre and dance for companies such as Bella Freud, Michiko Koshino, Paul Smith and The English National Opera.

Marston established her London-based studio in 1997 and working to an architectural scale, specialises in the design and creation of exclusive light installations and chandeliers using fibre optic technology.

Marston’s designs “fuse materials sampled from a range of industries and craft disciplines crossing boundaries between art, fashion, product design and combining traditional processes and techniques with contemporary design”.

Working with a team of engineers and craftspeople the studio produces lights for a range of high-end applications such as hotels, casinos, restaurants, film and theatre as well as residential projects. The fibre optic filaments are combined with a range of other materials such as fine bone china, hand-blown glass and woven polymers, depending on the project.

Projects

 * All England Lawn Tennis Club VIP bar
 * Aloft Abu Dhabi Bridal Suite
 * Apex Hotel London Wall
 * Apex Hotel Edinburgh
 * Ark Restaurants Sequoia, USA
 * Bellevue Towers
 * Benetti Yachts
 * Carton House, Ireland
 * Charles Rennie Mackintosh Museum
 * Corinthia Hotel
 * Crockfords Casino Mayfair
 * Flame Towers Baku, Azerbaijan
 * Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur
 * Grange Park Opera
 * Hesperia Hotel Barcelona
 * Hilton Hotel Evian
 * Hilton Hotel Munich
 * Hilton Hotel Warsaw
 * Hilton Hotel Vilamoura
 * Hyatt Regency Dushanbe
 * Hyatt Regency New Delhi
 * Intercontinental Hotel Park Lane
 * Le Gray Hotel Beirut
 * Les Ambassadeurs Mayfair
 * Lotte Department Store Pusan, Korea
 * Macy’s Bridal Salon New York
 * Mandarin Oriental Hotel Knightsbridge
 * Marina Bay Sands Casino
 * Mauboussin Stores
 * Mirror Mirror Film
 * No.1 Cornwall Terrace
 * OC Tanner Flagship Store
 * Okura Hotel Amsterdam
 * One Hyde Park
 * Oslo Opera House
 * Ritz Carlton Bangalore
 * Rabban Towers Qatar
 * Saga Rose Cruise Ship
 * St. Regis Hotel Mexico
 * The Barbican Centre
 * The Claridges Hotel New Delhi
 * The Colony Club Mayfair
 * The George Hotel Edinburgh
 * The Langham Hotel
 * The Levin Hotel
 * The Pelham Hotel
 * Tianjin Goldin Metropolitan Polo Club
 * Trump Tower Soho
 * V&A Museum
 * Venetian Sands Macau
 * Westin Hotel Abu Dhabi

Collections

 * V&A, London
 * The Hill House – Charles Rennie Mackintosh Museum

Exhibitions

 * Design Resolutions - Royal Festival Hall, (1998)
 * Home Sweet Home – British Council, Lesley Jackson (2001)
 * Jaeger Flagship Store window display (2003 & 2004)
 * Brilliant, V&A, Jane Pavitt, 2004
 * Daks Flagship Store window display (2004)
 * Aquascutum Flagship Store window display (2005)
 * Collect, V&A (2005)