Features
The Contract Chair Company – Airport Lounge and Café Furniture
As airports are used by ever more travellers, use of membership lounges and stylish cafés has multiplied. Fierce competition between brands has increased the importance of attracting customers by providing a premium service in a quality environment. Airport based projects tend to be constrained by the limited space available, meaning designers increasingly look towards furniture… Read More >
Chelsom Expert Guide for Hotel Lighting
Designing hotel lighting……It’s not just about pretty products Designing good lighting for hotels is about more than creating stylish products that are on trend and look the part. It’s about top quality products that provide efficient lighting and enhance the guest experience, whether through multifunctional guestroom lighting or bold public area statement pieces. Lighting really… Read More >
TREND REPORT – JULY 2014
Harlequin Contract Trend Report : Vibrant velvets Every month Walker Greenbank Contracts will bring you latest trends in commercial design, showing what they feel is the flavour of the month. This month’s trend from Harlequin focuses on Vibrant Velvets. In a kaleidoscopic colour palette of jewel and spice tones mixed together in a harmonious riot of vibrant hues, the… Read More >
The Year Office Design Chose a Different Path
In the 1950s it was famously possible for the author L P Hartley to describe the past as ‘a foreign country, they do things differently there’. If he were writing today, he would perhaps find it more accurate to describe the past as a distant planet, especially that alien past that predates the widespread use… Read More >
TREND BOARD JUNE 2014
MORRIS & CO TREND REPORT: ZEITGEIST Every month Walker Greenbank Contracts will bring you latest trends in commercial design, showing what they feel is the flavour of the month. This month’s trend from Morris & Co with William Morris’s timeless designs. It seems that William Morris designs are very much part of the ‘Zeitgeist’ and that his timeless… Read More >
Goodbye 9-5
FLEXIBLE WORKING PRACTICES HELP RETAIN AND ATTRACT STAFF New ways of working are being fuelled by employees desire to take greater control of their lives. Over three-quarters (77%) of respondents in a survey by YouGov for Virgin Media Business said that remote working helps them address their work-life balance and almost four in five employees (78%) believe… Read More >
TREND BOARD MAY 2014
Every month Walker Greenbank Contracts will bring you latest trends in commercial design, showing what they feel is the flavour of the month. This month’s trend from Scion which focus’s on tribal influences.
Henry Gurney – Hidden Treasure
Hidden genius within ranks Yesterday the BCFA had a members business forum event in which the last speaker Alistair Gough (Managing Director of OCee Design) told an amazing story of hidden genius within his ranks. Henry Gurney the creator behind the HenRay collection at OCee, graduated from Loughborough University with a degree in Industrial Design. He… Read More >
Molly Hatch – Physic Garden
This is a piece of artwork we recently stumbled upon and thought we defiantly have to share this, art within the workplace is becoming hot topic at the moment, offices and other workplaces are changing and artwork is becoming more and more common, more than just to brighten up the place – art can inspire.
TREND BOARD – MAY 2014
Every month Walker Greenbank Contracts will bring you latest trends in commercial design, showing what they feel is the flavour of the month. This month’s trend from Sanderson which focus’s on An Exotic Voyage.
Clerkenwell Design Week Trends
At the forefront of design and innovation, Clerkenwell Design Week (20-22 May 2014) – now in its fifth year – once again plays host to a curated showcase of some of the best creative ideas from both design and architecture. The key shows, Design Factory, Platform, Detail and Additions, will present a comprehensive collection of… Read More >
How can workplaces meet the needs of ageing employees?
Research shows that challenges faced by older workers are shared by younger colleagues in modern open plan offices In any debate on how to address the challenges of an ageing population, the design of our places, products and services has a critical role to play to ensure that extended years are full of life rather… Read More >
DESIGN SHANGHAI
A REVIEW OF DESIGN SHANGHAI So let’s take the best of British high end Design to China, package it in a European style exhibition and set it in an extraordinary venue with interiors reminiscent of a Moscow subway! This is just what Media 10 achieved with the inaugural Design Shanghai show which closed its doors… Read More >