Melbourne Product Designer
Kain Lucas first started a furniture design studio in 1999 in his hometown
Mount Macedon, producing custom made solid timber pieces for local clients.
Kain Studied Furniture Making with Victoria University and later went on to study
Building Design at RMIT. During 2004 Kain lived and worked in London where he
landed a job with fashion house Stella McCartney in her Mayfair press office
and later worked for UK design guru Terence Conran in his flagship Conran Shop
store in Chelsea. Upon his return to
Melbourne Kain started producing various furniture pieces which were included
in numerous design exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney, and in 2007 was short
listed for the prestigious IDEA Awards with his Bottlebrick modular wine storage
concept. Realising the increasing recognition of Australian design and the huge
idealistic gap lying between designers and large manufacturers, Kain conceived
the idea to create a manufacturing company specialising in the production of
Australian designed home accessories and furnishings. In the winter of 2007 Arko Design (then Ute
Australian Design) was born.