leading light

For Canadian-born, London-based Scott Richler, creative director and founder of furniture and lighting brand Gabriel Scott, the satisfaction of design lies in the intricacy of the detail. ‘I often think of a seductive detail before knowing what the object will be,’ he explains as we meet in Gabriel Scott’s elegant, pared-back showroom just a stone’s throw from Mayfair’s Savile Row (the company has another showroom in New York’s SoHo and a manufacturing base in Montreal).

With an earlier career in designing