Events
BCFA Open Dublin is Back!
This year the BCFA will be hosting their third ‘BCFA Open Dublin’ Exhibition on Thursday 13th June at the stylish Alex Hotel, from 2pm-8pm, and you’re invited! This event showcases over 30 exhibitors, highlighting the very best in contract interior products, suitable for a wide variety of sectors which include hospitality, healthcare, education, office and marine. This… Read More >
Race’s Historical Product Launch Event
After extensive research into the archive of iconic British designer, Ernest Race, Race Furniture and Ocee Design are enormously proud to launch a revival of the Ernest Race Heritage Collection. This much anticipated launch includes pieces that were made famous at the Festival of Britain in 1951, along with other true icons of mid-century furniture… Read More >
London Networking Review 2019
This year our spring London networking evening was held at the fascinating Museum of Brands, which explores how brands shape – and are shaped by – people, culture and society. On the evening we knew that this was going to be a popular event as many of our members’ guests turned up early to enjoy… Read More >
Trend Report: Stockholm Furniture Fair 2019
Stockholm Furniture Fair is an annual event which is complimented by a program of city based Stockholm Design Week Events. Following my first trip to this extremely well established design event I now invite you to read my trend report. Unearth event highlights, the expertise of Guest of Honour Neri&Hu, see the dominant colour palette & material of choice… Read More >
How to Think Smarter to Build Your Design Career
A summary of the Design Insider/ BCFA ‘How To Build Your Design Career’ presentation given by Andrew Lloyd Gordon at the Mix Design Collective on 6 December 2018. In 1963, a young musician woke from a dream with a song in his head. Quickly writing down the chord progression he shared his work with friends… Read More >
Gallery: Stockholm Furniture Fair
Stockholm Furniture Fair is an annual event which is complimented by a program of city based Stockholm Design Week Events. Although this popular event has been running since 1951 this is the first year that I have had the opportunity to attend and I was keen to see if the event was able to meet it’s… Read More >
Towards Utopia – Franklin & Till at Heimtextil
Now in its 49th edition, international trade show Heimtextil saw a further upturn in exhibitors (the ninth year in a row in which it has done so) earlier this month. Bucking the trend of brands tightening their purse strings, the Frankfurt based show welcomed 3,025 exhibitors of home and contract textiles from 65 countries and… Read More >
Mid-century, made modern. Jens Risom Design by Camira
As part of a very special collaboration, the textiles of Danish American designer Jens Risom have been recreated for the first time. Global textile designer and manufacturer Camira have faithfully reimagined two fabrics, Zap and Armadillo, for today’s commercial interiors which will debut at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2019. The original fabrics of the same name… Read More >
Portland Office: Surface Design Show
The shortlist for this year’s Surface Design Awards consists of an impressive 43 projects across seven categories, each entry an exemplary example of creative and innovative use of materials and lighting in both interior and exterior schemes. Some projects won nominations across several categories, resulting in 48 finalists. As proud media sponsors of the Surface Design Show, Design Insider were… Read More >
Clayworks announced as finalist in 2019 Surface Design Awards
Update: Morpheus has won the Retail Interior Award! The shortlist for this year’s Surface Design Awards consists of an impressive 43 projects across seven categories, each entry an exemplary example of creative and innovative use of materials and lighting in both interior and exterior schemes. Some projects won nominations across several categories, resulting in 48 finalists. As proud media sponsors of… Read More >
Edmund Bell at Heimtextil 2019
Edmund Bell, who have been a member of the BCFA for 27 years, have just returned from their tenth appearance at the Heimtextil international trade fair, and it was their best yet. Edmund Bell previewed a number of new ranges at the exhibition including new velvet blackout SENSATION and new velvet upholstery range PLUSH, new… Read More >
Blue Bamboo Launches New Range of Sustainable Solutions at the Surface Design Show
In June 2017 we featured an article looking at some of the graduate work by students from the Bucks New Uni. One of those students was Michaela Springford who spoke to us about her project Creative Consciousness. We are very happy to share her latest project by her company Blue Bamboo Design, a range of sustainable… Read More >
Morpheus: City of Dreams
Update: Morpheus has won the Commercial Exterior Award! The shortlist for this year’s Surface Design Awards consists of an impressive 43 projects across seven categories, each entry an exemplary example of creative and innovative use of materials and lighting in both interior and exterior schemes. Some projects won nominations across several categories, resulting in 48 finalists. As proud media sponsors… Read More >