David Truebridge

David Truebridge graduated as a Naval Architect from Newcastle University Britain, but since then he has worked as a furniture designer/maker. He settled in New Zealand after a long yacht voyage with his family. His design process combines innate craft knowledge, sculptural abstraction and computer design technology, as it draws on his life's rich experiences. He is New Zealand's best known furniture designer and his work, which his own company in Hawkes Bay manufactures, is sold and exhibited all around the world.

Over recent years his designs have also featured in countless international publications, including influential Italian magazines and even the Financial Times, as an instigator of the trend of 'raw sophistication'. In 2008 the French magazine Express listed him as one of the top 15 designers in the world. His Body Raft has been voted as iconic in New Zealand and in the best 50 designs of the twentieth century overseas, and his Coral light has been named as one of the top ten lights of the last 100 years by a Singapore magazine.

In 2007 he was given NZ’s highest design award, the John Britten Award, by the Designer’s Institute of NZ. He is also adjunct professor of design at Unitec.  He is invited to speak regularly on sustainable design at conferences and symposia around the world.

Winebox - 2010 2013.

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