Nick Heath

Nick Heath has combined his love of architecture and design with his love as a producer of contemporary music for over thirty years. 

Heath has never worked for any other architect; his work cannot be pigeonholed with the High Tech camp, the Postmodernists, or anybody else and, as such, his work is difficult to define in terms of any of the prevailing stylistic camps at the time. Amongst many influences picked up from a life of travel and involvement in the arts, together with an early mentor in British designer Terence Conran in particular, there were the Saxon/Norman ruins at Glastonbury Abbey, near where he went to school in Somerset; an abiding interest in light and the integral influence of the adjoining landscape; and a deep regard for the work of Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen, Louis Kahn, Richard Neutra and Charles Eames. Heath is refreshingly open-minded when talking about his work. His approach is deeply felt, but never presented as a universal solution.

In all of the best images of his work you find yourself looking at his holistic approach, whether in designing a 18th Century farmhouse or a 21st Century loft that encompasses art; music and literature. Spaces that allow and encourage creative thought and peace away from the pressure of everyday life. Whilst he finds the natural play of light on a white wall as interesting as a piece of art, his design has a different sensibility. Technique matters a great deal; the sensual properties of materials and the calculations of proportion matter even more. In many ways it is a highly traditional view of what architecture and design is about. 

Nick Heath is unusual as a designer. Described by The Times of London as a master of re-invention, he manages to create an interior architecture that pre-supposes a whole way of life.