West Beach Cafe

Littlehampton, 2008

Asif's first project was a cafe in the English seaside town of Littlehampton commissioned on his graduation from the AA. His clients Jane Wood and Sophie Murray had previously commissioned Thomas Heatherwick's East Beach Cafe.
The building opens its facade like a dolls house, integrating the use of the beach with its own flexible dining space. It is a building that changes through the seasons. It can offer a sheltered room outside, an auditorium for concerts, or instantly double the visible frontage of the building. During the winter and high wind the facade is closed and full height windows provide views across the english channel.

Harvest

Design Museum, London 2010

Commissioned by the Design Museum for the Designers in Residence programme, Harvest is a reseach project using London's flowering foliage as a raw material for furniture production.
Installed in the Design Museum Tank, Jan-March 2010, and at Sawaya & Moroni, Milan April 2010

Video at Sawaya and Moroni 2010

Article in Domus 04.10

Tetra Light

Collaboration with artist Peter Liversidge, 2008

A modular light fitting designed with Peter Liversidge and is the first product from a series of on-going collaborations between Khan and Liversidge.
The light can be hung as a single pendant, sit on the floor, on a table, lean against a wall, connect to become a chandelier, multiply to fill an atrium. project site

WBC Table

180cm x 60cm x 2.5cm 2008

The canteen version of this table was developed for the West Beach Cafe interior.
Lacquered birch plywood top and powder-coated tubular steel legs.

ExA Table

Expanded Aluminium folding Table 2008

A table developed for exteriors and in use at West Beach Cafe and East Beach Cafe, Littlehampton. Though measuring 180cm in length each table can be lifted with two fingers.
Lacquered alumimium and tubular stainless steel legs.

Shading Canopy

Recife, Brazil 2006

A low cost public space shading canopy in the blighted Favela Do Pilar settlement within the historic quarter of Recife. A collaborative work between Asif Khan, Omid Kamvari and Pavlos Sideris of the Architectural Association School, London and Andre Moraes, Cynthia Pereira and Adryana Rozendo of Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife.

Confetti Paper

Laser cut Zerkall paper, 2005

A series of laser cut stationary designed with twin purposes. Here a wedding invitation is perforated into heart-shaped confetti for throwing at a wedding

Heart Textile

90cm x 30cm Tenugui, limited edition, Japan 2005

We designed this tessellated heart pattern for a traditional multi-purpose Japanese textile called a Tenugui. The cloth is 2 stage hand dyed with natural pigments.

Swivel

Mobile for Osman Yousefzada
Mirror polished stainless steel, 2009

A mobile designed for fashion designer Osman Yousefzada as a site specific piece to complement his autumn/winter 2009 collection which was entitled Cosmic Mughal. Shown at On|Off during London Fashion Week 24.02.09.
Swivel featured in the exhibtion Subject:Matter at the Cass Sculpture Foundation.

Catwalk Video - at London Fashion Week

Closeup Video - at Cass Sculpture Foundation

Isomer Table

A low coffee table which shuffles its top,
London Design Week, 2009

The table's name,'Isomer' is borrowed from chemistry. It designates molecules that have rearranged their structure. The table top follows this idea, being made from stacked plates so allowing its final appearance/composition to chosen by the user.
First presented at Book a Table, an exhibition of contemporary coffee tables and minimalist 1960s art books, Rocket Gallery, London Design Week 2009.

Foam Shell Chair

A chair to share
Salone Satellite, Milan Salone Del Mobile, 2009

This press moulded chair is designed for sharing or stacking, inside or outside. Made from a proprietary rigid open-celled foam. A stack of 8 shells makes an easy-chair for one person which then can be split and shared as low-seats when friends come round, or taken outside for picnics.

First Presented at Salone Satellite, Milan Salone Del Mobile 2009. Received nomination for Design Report award 2009

BBchair

Salone Satellite, Milan Salone Del Mobile, 2009

BBchair is a simple chair moulded from small plastic spheres and formed in a one-step process. Natural variations in settling or 'packing' of the balls create uniqueness through an industrial process.
Each version of the chair gets its personality by being an imperfect facsimile of the last. First Presented at Salone Satellite, Milan Salone Del Mobile 2009.
Feaured in Interni Magazine 11.09

HiRise

Food storage stacks
Salone Satellite, Milan Salone Del Mobile, 2009

A stacking system of food containers which combines chopping boards with simple rings or rectangular extrusions to create little storage towers.
First Presented at Salone Satellite, Milan Salone Del Mobile 2009.
Feaured in Wallpaper W*House

Tip

for Sawaya & Moroni 2010 collection
Sterling Silver centrepiece

'Tip' is a table centrepiece which describes an arc in polished silver. It is a simple object which invites exploration, a playful study into the mass and balance of precious metal.

Video at Sawaya and Moroni 2010
Launched at Milan Salone del Mobile 2010

Pavilion Cafe

Victoria Park, London 2009-10

Completed new interior and on-going design collaboration with Chef Brett Redman and Borough Market Tea Merchant Rob Green on their lake-side cafe in Victoria Park, East London.
Graphic elements and identity are by RINZEN the renowned graphic design/illustration collective.
Pavilion Cafe website
To launch our new restaurant project Elliots Borough Market in 2010, a pop-up restuaurant at the Pavilion every friday evening summer 2010 with Chef Isaac Mchale. Elliots Borough Market More details on Elliots soon...

Profile

Asif Khan

Asif was born and raised in London, England and studied Architecture at both the Architectural Association and Bartlett School, University College London. He is excited by craftsmanship, high technology, low technology, innovation and wit in design.

Press

07.10 Ecocolo Magazine, Japan
21.05.10 La Tribune
04.10 Domus - NEW!
01.10 The Independent - NEW!
11.09 Interni
08.10 The Observer
07.09 Wallpaper W*House
04.09 Abitare - NEW
06.03.09 Vogue Online
02.09 Art4D Magazine
02.09 Pasajes Diseno
02.09 Icon Magazine
12.08 Vogue
12.08 Harper's Bazaar
11.08 Mark Magazine
11.08 Wallpaper Online
10.08 World of Interiors Magazine
09.08 Grand Designs Magazine
16.08.08 Saturday Telegraph Magazine
06.06.08 Building Design
05.06.08 The Guardian newspaper
30.05.08 Design Week
27.08.07Architects Journal
10.08.07 Building Design
07.07 Art4D Magazine
Design for the Other 90%, Cynthia E. Smith
Dezeen.com Public Space Shading Canopy
Morpho-Ecologies, M.Hensel& A.Menges
10.06 Mark Magazine Autumn/Winter
08.06 Domus Magazine
07.08.06 Icon Magazine
15.07.04 Architects Journal

Awards and other things

2010 Design Museum, Designer in Residence
2009 D&AD Awards, West Beach Cafe
2008 RIBA ICE McAslan Bursary
2007 Building Design Magazine Class of 2007 2007 RIBA ICE McAslan Bursary
2007 British Council grant
2007 AADIP, Architectural Association School
2006 Full Scholarship, Arch. Association Sch.
2004 RIBA / UCL Donaldson Medal
2004 UCL Faculty Prize
2004 BSc First Class Honours, Bartlett School

About / Contact

Launched 2008

We are a design office based in London working across architecure, products, interiors and furniture, particularly projects which combine these in new and unexpected ways.
Current projects include a church spire in East London, a cafe pavilion in a London park, and zero carbon plastic school furniture with Julia King and John McAslan Partnership for the Clinton Foundation Primary School Programme in Malawi.

Contact: studio@asif-khan.com
+44(0)7986-935-128
Asif Khan Ltd.
1-5 Vyner Street,
London E2 9DG

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