Designer Q&A
Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Q&A: Olga Polizzi
The BCFA Annual Luncheon was held at the beginning of November. As per tradition the BCFA and Panaz award a member of the contract design community the Lifetime Achievement honour. The Panaz BCFA Lifetime Achievement award recognises those who have made a significant contribution to the contract furnishing industry and their companies. This years winner… Read More >
Designer Q&A: Lighting Trends with James Bassant, Astro
The lighting in a space is so important. It can be used to create ambience and mood withing a space but also to highlight it’s surroundings. Astro Lighting one of the leading names in lighting design will be exhibiting at BDNY this month from November 12th -13th in booth 1211. Before they cross the Atlantic and hit the big… Read More >
Artist Q&A: Platon H on ‘Creatures & Creations’
Earlier in the month, Design Insider was invited by BCFA member, Revival Corporate Cleaning’s MD, David Cumplen to attend a beautiful art exhibition at the historic Waddesdon Manor. You may well of heard of the Rothschild Species collection, held by the Natural History Museum. Well, this is were the artist Platon H drew his inspiration for… Read More >
LDF: Tord Boontje X Swarovski at Design Frontiers
At this years LDF, we took a look around ‘Design Frontiers’ which was being held at the iconic Somerset House. We managed to sit down with dutch designer Tord Boontje to talk about his installation and collaboration with crystal specialist Swarovski. This year, Boontje has collaborated with Swarovski to produce Luminous Reflections, a collection of… Read More >
Designer Q&A: M. Christian Lacroix on his collaboration with ege Carpets
M. Christian Lacroix has cooperated with ege carpets’ design team on creating a series of impressive wall-to-wall carpets. The Atelier Collection was shown at Clerkenwell Design Week at ege Carpet‘s showroom, with a talk hosted by Lacroix himself. After attending the talk, we were interested in hearing more about the project and were able to… Read More >
Troels Flensted with Jim Biddulph
Troels Flensted studio follows in the footsteps of a plethora of design giants to have come out of Denmark since the middle of last century, when an industrial movement blossomed out of the dark post-war slump. There are many traits that we associate with Danish design to this day; industrial processes mixed with high quality… Read More >
Exhibitor Q&A: Suzanne Edwards, Design Manager for Newmor Wallcoverings
The BCFA Open series continues with it’s second Manchester Open starting on October 4th. Newmor Wallcoverings will be exhibiting at stand #1 and are planning to feature some amazing new products. We caught up with their Design manager, Suzanne Edwards to find out a bit about what they have in store for the exhibition… What… Read More >
Designer Q&A: Kit Miles with Jim Biddulph
As a contemporary design studio, Kit Miles Studio is synonymous with beautiful draftsmanship, exquisite repeat pattern work, impressive scale and sometimes surprising, but always exciting uses of colour. Having graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Textile Design Kit set about taking his distinct style, which stems from his unique ability… Read More >
Designer Profile: Olivia Aspinall
My first contact with surface designer Olivia Aspinall’s work was in 2014, late on in the academic year at Central Saint Martins. It was one of those instantaneous ‘What’s that? It’s great!’ moments that stopped me in my tracks. I was there to teach on a second year module but was lucky enough to stumble… Read More >
Designer Q&A: Agnes de Vlin, Lead Designer at Figure2Ground
Figure2Ground is an surface design studio based in Ireland whose designs are characterized by a dynamic geometric statement. Figure2Ground produce surface design concepts and solutions that are scalable, modular and can be engineered for specific components and decorative fabrications in digital, conventional and bespoke production technology. Darragh Murray, studio manager, feels it is the eagerness… Read More >
Designer Q&A: Strand & Hvass and Norgarrd for Ocee Design
During Clerkenwell Design week, we had the opportunity to visit the beautiful Ocee showroom and chat with a few of their designers. In particular we looked at the latest additions to the Four®Family collection. First we spoke with Niels Hvass and Christina Strand who are accomplished danish designers. Their designs are simple and well-balanced very… Read More >
Designer Q&A: Mike Holland, Foster + Partners
Foster + Partners is an international studio for architecture, engineering and design and we were lucky enough to be able to talk to their Head of Industrial Design, Mike Holland. Mike has recently collaborated with lighting manufacturer Artemide, and created the sophisticated ‘Orsa’ pendant light.So Mike, Can you tell us how you got into design? … Read More >
Designer Q&A: Anthony Hickman, Ulster
With the BCFA’s first ever event in Ireland just around the corner, we took the time to talk to Ulster Carpets‘ Head of Design, Anthony Hickman. Anthony tells us about his journey into the design world and how the Irish design industry is growing.How did you get into carpet design and what do you love about… Read More >