One Foot Taller has always believed in matching good design with a clear conscience. A heady old mix of playing with manufacturing, loving elegance, needing fair production and getting excited by things that work well for people's lives is what makes One Foot Taller tick.

There have been welcome comments and critiques from many exhibitions and publications over the years, of which winning the Peugeot Design Awards and being given Millennium Product status for the Chasm Chair are the most memorable. The Queen has invited us to tea a couple of times and you’ll find One Foot Taller work in The International Design Yearbook and Conran Octopus Contemporary Furniture.

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The company was founded by Katty Barac and Will White (who is one-foot-taller than Katty) when they graduated with degrees in Product Design from Glasgow School of Art in 1995. Will later became head of Dyson's Product Innovation before deciding to become a jeweller. Starting out producing furniture as well as lighting, Katty now loves the focus of designing and producing just lighting for interiors, concentrating on timeless decorative lighting for home and commercial settings.

A range of One Foot Taller products are available to buy on the shop page of this site, and they're also sold by discerning retailers around the world. For interior contracts both these standard and also bespoke products are produced for ambient and feature lighting.

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Оne Foot Taller is based in Glasgow, GB, but Katty also now designs from her studio and workshops in rural France, where she lives with her husband Quinny and their two children Ella and Dylan. This environment is great for seeing far too many birds and sheep out of the studio window. It's also why you might receive products from a small factory in UK, or from a rather smaller workshop in France.