Not all gardeners are as lucky—or as plucky—as Ingrid Donat. Forty-one years ago, she got a knock on her back door from the workmen she’d hired to excavate a plot at her new home outside Paris.

The work of sculptural furniture designer Ingrid Donat needs to be seen – and touched – to be truly understood. Lucky for us then that her latest bronze pieces have arrived at London’s Carpenters ...

Ingrid Donat was born in Paris in 1957 into a family of artists. Her grandfather was an architect and her father a painter. Raised in Sweden, she returned to Paris in 1975 to study at the Ecole des ...