Christopher Boots

BEACHSIDE RETREAT

PHASMIDA introduces an organic counterpoint to the home's orderly architectural rhythm.

Suspended within the open living & dining space, the pair establish sculptural focal points, their branching silhouette echoing the trees and coastline beyond.

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Project: Beachside Retreat by Christian Anderson Architects. Omaha, New Zealand.
Photographer: Thomas Cannings
Lighting: PHASMIDA

DANGER & BEAUTY

The pitcher plant is nature at its most seductive. Sweet-scented, glistening, and lined with nectar. Insects follow the shine in. Few climb back out.

NEPENTHES follows the plant's logic. Hand-blown glass hangs soft and amorphous, inviting and alive with light. Solid brass tendrils hold it in suspension; hard, exact, geometric.

Danger dressed as beauty. Worked in brass and glass instead of leaf and nectar.

Named for the mythical potion said to dissolve all sorrow, NEPENTHES is nature's engineering, reclaimed for interior space.

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Image 1: NEPENTHES Sconce
Image 2: Custom NEPENTHES Complex in Polished Brass for CLD Interiors. Photographer: Anson Smart
Image 3: NEPENTHES Sconce. Photographer: Matthew McQuiggan
Image 4: NEPENTHES and Nepenthes. Photographer: Guy Lavoipierre
Image 5: Nepenthes (left) and NEPENTHES (right). Photographer: Matthew McQuiggan
Image 6: NEPENTHES Sconce. Photographer: Matthew McQuiggan
Image 7: Custom NEPENTHES Tendrils in Brushed Brass for MAEK. Photographer: Traianos Pakioufakis

MIDYEAR

Directly beneath, gazing upwards.

A fitting perspective at the year's midpoint: a moment suspended between reflection and projection, recalibration and emergence.

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Image 1: PHASMIDA at Projekt 3488
Image 2: OURANOS photographed by DMC Electrical & Data
Image 3: THEIA photographed by Guy Lavoipierre
Image 4: DIAMOND RING photographed by Dorothee Junkin
Image 5: PROMETHEUS I photographed by Luke Sandberg

QUIET IMPACT

In this Sydney apartment, Alexandra Brown approached lighting as fundamental to the overall architectural experience, and central to fulfilling the clients’ brief.

The Elizabeth Bay project was designed for a couple with opposing instincts, one drawn to colour and decoration, the other to restraint. The dining room is where those two ideas meet.

“Lighting was considered as an integral part of the architectural experience rather than simply a functional necessity. The PETRA pendant was selected to introduce a sculptural focal point within the dining room, with the soft rose quartz bringing a subtle blush tone that adds warmth, femininity and another layer of material richness to the otherwise restrained palette. It reads as a piece of functional sculpture, anchoring the space with quiet impact.”
— Alexandra Brown

Elizabeth Bay Residence by Alexandra Brown Interiors, as featured recently in Vogue Living.

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Photographer: Dave Wheeler
Styling: Joseph Gardner
Lighting: PETRA II, Rose Quartz

FIELD OF VIEW

For two weeks in May, ASTROLABE transformed the Christopher Boots studio into an immersive retrospective spanning fifteen years of work, process and experimentation.

For Melbourne Design Week, the workspace became a living archive: prototypes, casting experiments, material studies, moving image, printed media and completed pieces gathered within the place they were created.

A rare moment where objects, process and history could be experienced together.

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Photographer: Guy Lavoipierre

SOLSTICE

The old form must dissolve before it can be reborn anew.
Light must reach its weakest point before it can strengthen again.

Here in the Southern Hemisphere, tonight is the longest night of the year. From here, the Sun only grows stronger.
Darkness is the stage before light's return.

Meanwhile, the Northern Hemisphere basks in its longest day; its own seasonal apex, before the gradual shift back toward dark.

Two hemispheres, opposite ends of the same cycle of dissolution and return.

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Image: Rosarium Philosophorum, Czech translation by Jaroš Griemiller, Prague, c. 1578

BY HAND

The work begins long before a piece reaches a Cartier boutique. It begins with raw materials; crystal in its unprocessed, irregular state. The stone's natural variation resists automation and efficiency, requiring the meticulous eye and hand of a skilled artisan to bring it to life.

This handcraft underpins our working relationship with Cartier, which now spans ten boutiques across the globe. For a maison defined by precision and material truth, choosing a relatively small Melbourne studio says something about what they value: craft and enduring form, always.

Cartier's Winter Masterpieces exhibition, on now at the National Gallery of Victoria, is a study in timelessness and the enduring cultural value of heirloom objects. Across jewellery, objects and architecture alike, there is a shared belief that craftsmanship still matters; that the things made slowly and carefully are often the things whose value remains.



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Image 1: Final polish on custom Cartier STALACTITE rods
Image 2: Material selection for PETRA
Image 3: Fastening quartz slices on PETRA
Image 4: Crystal composition on STALACTITE
Image 5: Crystal points prepared for assembly
Image 6: Crystal composition on PROMETHEUS
Image 7: Fastening custom Cartier STALACTITE rods
Image 8: Fastening quartz slices on PETRA

Photography: Guy Lavoipierre and Matthew McQuiggan

ABACUS by Christopher Boots

Inspired by the ancient tool of balance and calculation, ABACUS is a sculptural study in proportion, material, and light. Faceted quartz is suspended along a refined horizontal beam, creating a composition of rhythm, tension, and harmony.

As light diffuses through the stone, the piece transforms the atmosphere around it — bringing warmth, depth, and quiet architectural presence to the space.

Each piece is assembled by hand at the studio in Melbourne, Australia, with configurations tailored to the scale and intent of each project.

Now on view at YDF Interiors.

For designers, architects, and collectors looking to introduce statement pieces with true artistic presence into their projects — our team is ready to assist with specification, sourcing, and integration.

OPENING TOMORROW

Tomorrow, ASTROLABE is unveiled at the Christopher Boots studio for Melbourne Design Week.

Completed works, early prototypes, image-making and material explorations from across fifteen years are brought into focused view.

May 14–23
Weekdays 2–6pm, Saturdays 12–5pm
Opening night event May 21
324–328 Napier Street, Fitzroy

Explore ASTROLABE here: https://bit.ly/astrolabe_mdw26fb

National Gallery of Victoria, Creative Victoria


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Photographer: Matthew McQuiggan
Artwork: John Tsiavis

DRAWN IN

A vessel that lures.

The NEPENTHES purse, derived from its carnivorous namesake plant. Beautiful, patient, enveloping.

One of many relationships brought into view at ASTROLABE during Melbourne Design Week.

May 14–23
Opening night event May 21

Explore the exhibition here:
https://bit.ly/astrolabe_mdw26fb

National Gallery of Victoria

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Photographer: Matthew McQuiggan

IN LONDON

Christopher Boots is featured at YDF Interiors, a contemporary interiors destination spanning 20,000 square feet in the heart of Knightsbridge, directly opposite Harrods.

Selected pieces are on view throughout the showroom, with access to the full collection and custom commissions through YDF’s expert team.

If you’re in London, visit YDF to experience the work in person.

Explore the London showroom page here:
https://christopherboots.com/news/ydf-interiors/

MILAN: A LIVING ARCHIVE

As this year’s Milan Design Week draws to a close, we’re reflecting on five Christopher Boots presentations across the fair between 2017 and 2024.

From group exhibitions and international recognition, to TROVE with Lost Profile Studio and our first solo showcase, CRUX, Milan has been an important part of the studio’s international story.

These chapters continue to inform our evolving practice and dialogue with the wider design world.

Explore the archive via the link in bio.

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Image 1: Local Milan No. 3 — 2018
Image 2: Moments from Milan
Image 3: TROVE — 2019
Image 4: Moments from Milan
Image 5: Local Milan — 2017
Image 6: TROVE — 2019
Image 7: TROVE 2.0 — 2022
Image 8: TROVE 2.0 — 2022
Image 9: CRUX — 2024
Image 10: CRUX — 2024