Events
UK Companies Show Inspiration & Creativity at MEDHW, DUBAI
Middle East Design and Hospitality Week, held at Dubai World Trade Centre from 17-19 September, will be the biggest and most important celebration of all things Design and Hospitality in the GCC. Through 7 co-located events including Index, Leisure and The Hotel Show, MEDHW will showcase the most important brands from the international design and… Read More >
GROHE sustainability at Bournemouth Air Festival
This summer, from Thursday 29th August to Sunday 1st September, GROHE will be making its debut at the UK’s largest air festival and well-loved family event, Bournemouth Air Festival. As a major event and stop off as part of its 2019 Truck Tour, GROHE will use the picturesque seaside setting to launch a campaign focused… Read More >
Paris Design Week
As September gets underway, the city of Paris will be staking its claim as one of the world’s major design hubs with greater passion than ever. Over the course of 10 days, from September 5th to 14th 2019, the French capital will be playing host to PARIS DESIGN WEEK, inaugurating and accompanying the MAISON&OBJET trade fair. This ninth edition will boast… Read More >
New Designers with Tess Grant
New Designers is an event that provides a platform for emerging designers to showcase their talent as well as an opportunity to make new connections, collaborate and exchange ideas. It is held in two parts; Part 1 was 26-29th June and Part 2 was 3-6th July. Many great designers were discovered at New Designers, it’s… Read More >
One Year In with Jim Biddulph
Whilst New Designers celebrates those who have very recently graduated from their creative degree course, the show also houses One Year In; an exhibition of some of last years highlights and one’s to watch. This year the event, which is split across both weeks of the show, is curated by Emily Skinner of Evan James… Read More >
New Designers: Colour in Design Award
With students making the leap up to the level of Graduate across the country, June is always a prosperous time for design here in the UK. Many will have already completed their studies, handed in portfolios, hung shows and had their work marked by this stage of the month. All of their hard work, research… Read More >
Camira celebrates Jens Risom and Sonus at NeoCon 2019
Camira’s NeoCon showroom highlighted the textile innovator’s exciting new partnership with Jens Risom, the prolific Danish-American mid-century designer who died in 2016 at the age of 100. Risom, best known for his iconic furniture pieces, also designed and manufactured a range of textiles. His mid-century textile designs, beginning with Zap and Armadillo, have been reimagined… Read More >
NeoCon continues to shine
Now in it’s 51st edition, NeoCon is still fresh in the mind, especially for some of our partaking BCFA members including Boss Design, Decca Contract, Camira Fabrics and Orangebox. Taking place across numerous floors of The Mart in Chicago, the show is one of the standout exhibitions of commercial interiors to take place across the… Read More >
Trend Report: Clerkenwell Design Week 2019
For the last 10 years Clerkenwell Design Week has been an engaging, industry leading and joyful highlight of my design calendar. Within this report I hope that you enjoy a flavour of Clerkenwell Design Week’s 10th event as well as an insight in to a selection of specific trends. Download our full Clerkenwell Design Week… Read More >
Designing with nature: RHS Chelsea Flower Show
A growing awareness of design’s potential in helping to improve our overall wellbeing and state of mind via the spaces in which we live and work has been well documented over the past couple of years. The principles of Biophilic Design, namely the referencing of and ‘bringing in’ of nature, have been explored and put… Read More >
Gallery: Clerkenwell Design Week
I have enjoyed visiting Clerkenwell Design Week every May for the last 10 years! Their 10th year was as sunny as we have grown to expect and the Media10 team again commissioned a series of engaging installations which carefully drew the dispersed event together. The showroom program was extensive this year and I greatly enjoyed the considerable… Read More >
Happy Birthday Clerkenwell Design Week
As the days get longer and brighter and nature pops back into life, bringing with it some welcome colour and fruitful vibrancy, Springtime never fails to offer a renewed sense of hope. Going hand-in-hand with this annual reinvigoration, and now for the past decade, is Clerkenwell Design Week. The 3-day festival brings together a series… Read More >
Clerkenwell: Morgan Inspires
Morgan, contract furniture designer and manufacturer, will showcase two new collaborative projects at its London showroom during Clerkenwell Design Week. Product Watch The architectural Rakino lounge collection, by designer Tim Rundle, juxtaposes soft sculpted upholstery with a strong, low line frame. The clean linear structure emphasizes crisp timber detailing born from a dialogue between the… Read More >