Christopher Procter set up Procter-Rihl with Fernando Rihl in 1995. The practice straddles experimental small-scale housing and gardens, exhibitions and furniture design. This range of work has led to interesting invitations to work across disciplines, such as the collaboration on a show garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.

Early furniture was designed and manufactured in the UK and exhibited and sold through the practice. Exhibitions in London, New York, Tokyo, Milan, Melbourne, Paris and Cologne placed the work in select design galleries worldwide such as Colette, Paris, and MoMA Design Shop. Commissioned work was made for Zaha Hadid, the British Council and Blueprint magazine. More recently the practice has designed production furniture for Canadian and Brazilian furniture companies and is currently working with several European firms.

The practice developed an increasing body of residential renovation work in London which led to a series of one-off houses. The Slice House in Brazil was built on a thin 3.5 x 38m strip of urban residual land. This unusual sliver necessitated an open-plan linkage of rooms. Cross-walls were canted to a slight diagonal to increase apparent house width. The swimming pool suspended above the living space acts as a thermal tempering mass. Its glass sidewall onto the room filters strong sunlight to the carefully controlled daylighting of the space. It was the first project in Latin America to receive a RIBA award.

As well as the RIBA Award in 2005 the Slice House was short-listed for Building Design’s Residential Architect of the Year Award in 2005. It also represented Brazil at the IV Ibero-Latin American Architecture Biennale Award in 2004 and was part of the São Paulo Architecture Biennale in 2005. The Chelsea Flower Show Garden received the RHS Gold Medal in 2000.

The Procter-Rihl practice has been widely published in books such as The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture, 2G Dossier, International Design Yearbooks (2000, 2004), Contemporary Architecture in Latin America and in magazines worldwide.