Conversations with Colin Cawthorne

Today we’d like to introduce you to Colin Cawthorne.

Hi Colin, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
This has been a very slow process but has also weirdly all happened very fast. Initially, I started making small, one off objects with the tools that I had access to. Eventually, I started growing, getting different projects of different scales, adding more tools as each project came to me. Eventually, I just knew that this was what I wanted to do.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
It’s been relatively smooth. I am very lucky that I’ve had support from my loved ones and those closest to me. I’m still learning how to truly hustle, and go out there and find business and push my designs and abilities on people. The work I receive can come in heavy waves, where I barely am able to juggle it all at once. But it can also come in really slowly, and I feel very idle and don’t know what my next move is.

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I studied architecture at Pratt, and that does inform my designs and sensibilities. I have this somewhat concrete mission statement for what I want this studio and this endeavor to be about; LAG represents a multifaceted office; contextualizing architectural and aesthetic discourse into art and object — be it large-scale intervention or small-scale device. So I use that to inform my designs and focus me. I’m still figuring out what I am, or what I want to be known for. But for now, I am proud of the way I am focusing my passions and trying to turn them into something greater than the sum of there parts.

So maybe we end on discussing what matters most to you and why?
I love the idea of what I do, or what I create, being useful or being treasured by others. In the same way that I have certain objects or utensils or pieces of furniture that I cherish and revere. I very much would like to impact people’s lives in the way that these things and these designers have done for me.

Contact Info:

• Website: lagoffice.com
• Instagram: lag.office

Image Credits
Max Rubins