We were approached by the Coldplay team to create pianos that embodied the ideas behind their latest album celebrating musicians, makers and lives across generations and cultures.

The central theme was mending. Something of particular potency in these times of social and environmental crisis and a topic very close to the bands’ heart, highlighting the potency of time worn objects from daily life.

The pianos were built up using parts of pre 1900 pianos, pianos that were considered scrap but had originally been exquisitely made by the master craftspeople of their time. The worn and broken sections came together to become renewed, working instruments, still showing the stories of age and the lives they had been part of, just as with Kintsugi. Together our team of piano technicians, visual artists and craftspeople selected, dismantled, repaired and remade a myriad of piano parts and casing, transforming scrap, uniting the old with the new, on a journey of restoration and renewal to make the pianos for Coldplay’s Everyday Life performances.

Find out more about our journey through the design process here.

If you would like to commission your own unique design piano to suit any space, please get in touch.