Moo Design is a creative collaboration between artist Angus McDonald and furniture maker John Madden. It is a partnership which aspires to produce beautifully finished, high quality furniture and objects of visual and functional integrity.

McDonald and Madden conceived Moo furniture originally as an aesthetically gestural homage to the bull, whose low centre of gravity and overall proportions McDonald finds compelling as an artist. The artist and the furniture maker worked together to replicate the form and design of the bull in their first piece, the ‘Moo Arm-Chair’. The Moo range has now expanded to include more bull inspired pieces of furniture and other objects.

Moo Design are creating contemporary furniture and objects grounded in classical elements of design and traditional methods of handmade construction. The objective with every new piece is that it be supremely functional and sculpturally elegant with a strong emphasis on finish and the use of sturdy and natural materials.

Moo design creates its own pieces which are sold direct and through galleries. It also creates pieces and installations on a commission basis as well as working with like minded designers/artists in collaboration.

What we are doing represents a step toward the new era of the hand made, the rediscovery and celebration of the human element within the manufacturing process, all within the beautiful realm of contemporary design.