In Sight

Life’s ironies don’t let up. Left legally blind with only five percent of his vision some 15 years ago, Duncan Meerding, 32 has become a leading light.

Duncan is a lighting and furniture designer/maker. He operates his own business producing his own designs and commissions, predominantly in timber. He has a workshop, machinery, power and hand tools, and like many others makes, markets and sells things.

Last year was a watershed. His design won Best Floor Light at the 2018 London DARC Awards over and above entries from lighting designers from all over the world. And that was the judgement of not one small judging panel, but of a strictly vetted peer-to-peer