Keystone May 2025 Keystone Academy in Beijing, which has now become one of the major bilingual international schools in China, celebrated its 11th anniversary in May, and saw the graduation of the Class of 2025 (see Keystone graduation 2025) Luke Hughes Designs Ltd is delighted and proud to have been intricately involved with all the [...]

April 2025 Durham Cathedral - Royal thrones for the Maundy Service Luke Hughes Designs was recently commissioned by Durham Cathedral to design and make two new ‘thrones’ and prayer desks in time for the King's visit to distribute the Maundy money on 17 April 2025 - and to serve in future as the official seats [...]

Colorado Rocky Mountain School February 2025 The delivery of 200 new LH42 chairs and stools and 31 Athena tables to the ‘Bar Fork’ dining hall at Colorado Rocky Mountain School (CRMS), in Carbondale (CO), USA went ahead as planned. This remarkable outward-bound educational establishment, under the shadow of Mt Sopris (3952m), offers a rich, broad [...]

Ray Leigh MBE March 2025 Ray Leigh, founding chairman of Luke Hughes & Company from 1990 to 1994, died on 19 March, aged 96.Architect, artist, designer, manufacturer, co-ordinator of the disparate threads of the UK design world, and latterly founder of the Gordon Russell Museum - Ray was a deeply influential figure in the UK’s [...]

Mies van de Rohe may be credited with the remark 'God is in the details'. In this year, the 1700 anniversary of the Council of Nicaea which was convened in 325CE, addressed the theological nature of the relationship between God and Jesus. Against the teaching of Arius, who maintained Jesus was a creation of God, [...]

St Luke’s, Darien (CT) – the chapel of the Primary School Continuing the theme (of creating furniture with relevance to modern liturgy and response to the architecture of the space), December saw the installation of a new altar, lectern, clergy seating and prayer desks and a set of stacking pews for the children’s chapel at [...]