Mark Brazier-Jones is an internationally celebrated artist, master furniture and lighting designer, engineer, and sculptor. His patrons are film and rock royalty, and art collectors all over the world. Since the commencement of his career in 1983 as a founding member of the Creative Salvage Group, Brazier-Jones has honed a collection and philosophy unique within the concept of functional art. His work is classical, surreal, futuristic, and spiritual. Commentators have tried to categorize his visionary art as neo classical or space-age baroque, even as “post nuclear antiques.” Despite the flamboyance of his artifacts Brazier-Jones works under a strict code that honors functionality above all. “Form does follow function,” he says, “but part of furniture’s function is decorative, an attribute many designers seem to overlook.” With that said, Brazier-Jones believes in a type of practical art that facilitates direct engagement. Art with a message that can—even subliminally—penetrate an observer’s understanding. Brazier-Jones’s field of influence is very self-contained—he pays little heed to current designers and trends. He has said of his work: “It’s a broad scan of nature, sacred geometry, and cultures across the ages. I like objects with lasting qualities. An engine that still does its job after 100 years excites me, something that is so well made you never need to replace it—that is worthy of respect. I am making objects of desire from noble enduring materials. These works will still speak in hundreds of years. I have no need to be declared fashionable; I am working to a different timescale.” Today Brazier-jones works from a rustic 16th century barn an hour north of London in rural Hertfordshire. Here he and a small team of craftsmen develop his work. He believes this self-imposed isolation to be essential to the process of consequential creativity. He only occasionally ventures abroad on research, or to visit his clients. Examples of his work are held in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; le Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum of Art and Design, New York; and the Decorative Arts Collection of the Brooklyn Museum. Contemporary design sales at auction houses such as Sotheby’s; Philips, Bonhams, and Christie’s show a consistent rise in the prices of his work, and a growing demand from collectors, especially for early pieces.