British designer Max Lamb has turned his hand to ecclesiastical objects, creating an altar, candles and floor for a church in London.
Lamb produced the pieces for the St John Chrysostom Parish Church in Peckham, south London, which was designed in a modernist style by the architect David Bush and built in 1966.
Commissioned as part of an upgrade to the whole church, Lamb's designs include a monolithic Portland limestone altar and a repaired sanctuary floor made of materials that reflect the building's history.
Max Lamb's designs for St John Chrysostom Church are focused on the altar and floor
"The 1966 church interior has a minimalist design approach," said Lamb. "I sought to delicately reconcile the space and the existing elements with my new additions, while still retaining the character of this powerful space." Lamb took inspiration from the Anglican church's material palette of brick, concrete, painted steel, block flooring and iroko hardwood seating for his designs.
He also looked to the earlier buildings on the site, the parishes of St Chrysostom and St Jude, which had been bombed during the second world war and then demolished and amalgamated.
The altar is made from a Portland limestone closely matched to the one in the church's font
The Portland stone font in the current church is carved from one of those buildings' columns, creating what Lamb describes as a symbolically important direct link with its history.
Lamb made his minimalist altar of th...