Max Lamb designs sophisticated and personal bodies of work, particular to material, location, and tradition. The works of this British designer are made with simple and direct actions: cutting, carving, sand casting, moulding, and folding. Lamb insists that he is not a craftsman, but that he is good at making, and his facility with a range of materials has led him to seek collaborations with different craftspeople and industries. There is a consistent form with which he switches from one process to the next, retaining a Max-style of form and concept while taking a pragmatic view of production. Max Lamb is a consistent exemplar of an artist or designer who can maintain unique forms which refer to themselves as icons; they emphasise their materiality through difference and repetition. Lamb’s works are collected by numerous public institutions around the world, including the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, the Design Museum Gent in Belgium, SFMOMA in San Francisco, and the Odunpazarı Modern Museum in Eskişehir, Turkey. In 2018, he had his first Institutional solo show, “Max Lamb: Exercises in Seating at the Art Institute of Chicago”.