Engaging the services of Red Deer with a brief of being ‘in charge of uniting food and fashion, with a hand crafted edge’ Native team’s desire to reuse waste materials, champion rising artists and work with British craftspeople and suppliers. This meant negating mass over production and forging parallels between Native’s carbon neutral, less wasteful approach and Red Deer’s ethos of championing home grown artisan producers and artists.

Because of its reputation as a leading specialist in the design and manufacture hand crafted artisan mosaic surfaces for commercial and residential projects throughout the UK Armatile was approached to participate in the project.

In keeping with the period of the Grade II listed building dating from 1720 Red Deer wanted to create a bespoke aged mosaic floor telling the story of Browns’ and Native’s collaboration.