A bright living room featuring furniture pieces from The Paddock Collection, including a black coffee table and various end tables. Three abstract gold and gray paintings hang on the white paneled wall.

A Mixed Media Partnership

Lauren Clement has proudly designed a furniture collection produced by Charleston Forge, a manufacturer in Boone, North Carolina. The Paddock Collection combines Clement’s love of natural materials with the equestrian lifestyle, utilizing Charleston Forge’s capabilities in wood, metal, glass and other mixed media.

Interior designer Lauren Clement smiles, standing in a barn doorway next to The Paddock Collection round coffee table styled with a teal vase and fern leaves.

An Equestrian Inspired Collection

Lauren Clement reflects on her inspiration for her furniture designs.

“Paddock, it is the place where horses are the most natural, the most free and often times the most happy. Every day after school when I would walk through the grassy field and would whistle and call my horse’s name and he would lift his head and come at me at a full gallop, there is literally no greater feeling. Likewise when I would turn him back out to his paddock, he would turn, shake his head and prance back to his friends like he was king of the world. I’d stand there and just watch him before the long walk to the barn.

A paddock is a well manicured space that allows the horse to be free, natural, happy, it is their mental rehab so that they can properly perform in the ring.”