Susan Ferrier for Baker | McGuire —
where earth meets form.
A first look at Ferrier's debut seventy-two-piece collection for Baker | McGuire — bronze, stone, volcanic geometry and a measured American formality. Words by Daphne Thompson.
Some designers work in line, others in colour. Susan Ferrier works closer to atmosphere — the temperature of a room, the weight of a piece, the pause between objects.
Her debut furniture collection for Baker | McGuire, shown for Spring 2025, brings that discipline into sculptural form. Seventy-two pieces drawn from volcanic landscape and archaeological geometry — fluid bronze against honed stone, soft upholstery against a raw edge.
“Furniture touches the body. It holds you, it grounds you. It should feel like a conversation — intimate, generous, completely personal.”
“I was drawn to the power of the earth — how time and heat shape material. The cracks in volcanic rock, the flow of lava, the textures left by ancient civilisations. It became the language of the collection.”
Named for landscape, drawn at architectural scale.
Each piece is named for a place — Fira, Teide, Otago, Akrotiri. The Lahar Sideboard reads almost as geologic notation. The Fosser Bed sets volcanic fissures into sculpted pleats. The Pele Console pairs an ombré bronze with Namibia White marble.
The pieces are drawn at the proportion of architectural furniture rather than seasonal cabinetry — specified, in other words, to be lived with for decades.
A piece that gives a room its breath.
The Lull Sofa carries the scheme — generous in proportion, with a tufted bench cushion and leather-strapped bolsters, specified at residential rather than showroom scale. It sits as a structural element more than a centrepiece.
“A room shouldn't be filled with things. It should be filled with feeling.”
Bronze curve, mirrored edge, stone weight.
Ferrier has spoken before about her interest in brutalist jewellery, and the reference reads through clearly here — applied at the scale of furniture rather than ornament. The Caldera Swivel Chair, the Malia Bedside Table and the Onyx Table Lamp share the same vocabulary of softened metal and weighted stone.
The result reads as restraint rather than minimalism. Material is doing the work of decoration: bronze, marble and hide carrying the surface in place of pattern.
“This collection is where my stories live — the travel, the silences, the wonder. I want it to be felt before it is seen.”
Susan Ferrier