LONDON.- Luke Hughes® - furniture designers to 5 Royal palaces, 21 cathedrals, 15 international museums, over 50 Oxbridge colleges and 900 boardrooms - has recently finished its reseating of the historic Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of London. This project is the latest in a series of high profile commissions including bespoke choir and clergy furniture for Leicester Cathedral and dining room seating for Yale’s new campus (in collaboration with the National University of Singapore).

Burial place to three Queens of England and two saints, the chapel sees over 100,000 visitors a month, rivalling nearby St Paul’s Cathedral. To mark its 500th Anniversary the site underwent an extensive restoration to its stone flooring and organ, parts of which date back to 1699, as well as a comprehensive reseating by Luke Hughes®.

Crafted from solid English oak supplied by Vastern Timber - the same oak used for the Tower’s recently restored drawbridge - the commission includes congregation seating, choir furniture and altar as well as bespoke furniture crafted in solid walnut for the Chapel’s adjacent St Thomas More crypt.

The project brought together specialists from across the world and was co-ordinated by Historic Royal Palaces and Carden & Godfrey Architects. Luke Hughes® will soon return to the Tower of London to begin work on the Chapel of St John within the iconic White Tower.

‘It felt right for the furniture to be designed in our studios in Covent Garden, three miles from the Tower and for all the furniture to be made by specialists around the country, using techniques which are not so dissimilar from those used all those years ago.’ - Luke Barton, Senior Client Manager

‘There was no harmony in the place before, but now, for the first time, you walk in and there is a real sense of complete harmony. It’s beautiful.’ - The Reverend Roger J Hall MBE Chaplain, HM Tower of London