Industry News
Podcast: Private View(s)
Last week Dezeen launched Face to Face, a series of podcasts featuring leading architects and designers. The well know publisher is the latest to join this growing trend, one which Design Insider will explore in our new series. We’re excited to share with you some of the great podcasts available today and would love to… Read More >
Jim Biddulph & The Seafood Industry
Set against a backdrop of concern regarding the devastation that rising sea levels will cause to low-lying landmasses; what shifts in oceanic circulation will have on the temperature and weather patterns of regions in the North Atlantic; the effects that plastic debris is having on marine life and the oceanic food chain; or the damage… Read More >
New Sedus Smart Office
Sedus have recently been involved in Dogern (District of Waldshut, Germany) – The office building at the headquarters in Dogern, was completed in April this year. Since then, several different departments have moved into new facilities and are now closely working together. With a construction value of € 13.5 million, Sedus, the renowned office furniture… Read More >
Malone Fabrics Vegan Artificial Leather
Malone Fabrics is the exclusive distributor of skai® synthetic leather for the UK & Ireland. The extensive range of synthetic leathers can be used for the Hospitality, Healthcare and Marine sectors and conform to the highest flame retardancy standards including Crib 5 and IMO. Malone Fabric’s have been an inspiration with their effort into Going… Read More >
Milliken Achieves ISO 50001:2018 in Energy Management
Leading carpet tile designer and manufacturer Milliken has achieved ISO 50001:2018 Energy Management Systems requirements for its two UK manufacturing sites which service markets in Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa. ISO 50001 requires a company to develop a management framework for more efficient use of energy. Targets and objectives are established to meet… Read More >
Meet the Judges: Design Insider Awards
At the BCFA Northern Dinner in April 2020 Design Insider will celebrate the very best Northern commercial projects by awarding 4 Awards for design excellence, each project nominated by our readers and BCFA members, judged by key industry players. We are thrilled to be able to introduce you to Ella Doran, Liam Hopkins, Dean Stanford-Palmer… Read More >
EE Smiths Awarded New Contract with The Londoner
EE Smith Contracts Ltd, based in Leicester, has been awarded the multi-million-pound contract to provide the full hotel fit-out of the highly-anticipated 5-star The Londoner, based in Leicester Square. The £300-million development due to open later this year will feature 350 guest rooms, including 35 suites, as well as a variety of restaurants and lounges,… Read More >
Penson Revamps Bluebells Restaurant
Designed and delivered in just 4 weeks, Bluebells Restaurant in Ascot combines sumptuous luxury-inspired glamour and a delicious but accessible fine dining menu. 10 years ago, Bluebells Restaurant in Wentworth, Surrey was conceived by PENSON as snug and imaginative heart-warming dining experience. Now, the second venue in Ascot has been enjoying that same visionary design… Read More >
Forgotten Masters: Amazing Indian Painting
Architects and exhibition designers Nissen Richards Studio have completed a dynamic, colourful and historically-significant project for the Wallace Collection. Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company, guest-curated by renowned writer and historian William Dalrymple, is the first UK exhibition of works by Indian master painters that were originally commissioned by officials from the… Read More >
Jim Biddulph’s 2019 Design Highlights
Whilst 2019 has had its fair share of controversy and an alarmingly apparent deepening of social and political division, there is still much that we can celebrate and congratulate from the world of design. Looking back to the beginning of the year and the first trade shows, product launches and creative initiatives through to now,… Read More >
2020 Pantone Colour of the Year with Muuto
At Muuto, colour is an integral part of their universe and subsequently, they would like to share all of their shades of blue gathered from their collection for any potential editorial features of the Pantone Colour of The Year 2020. In 2019, Living Coral was the colour of the year, and in 2018 it was… Read More >
GROHE at The World Architecture Festival
At this year’s World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, founder sponsor GROHE celebrated another year of success, welcoming more than 1,000 visitors from the international architecture and design world to their booth. [Find Grohe on BCFA Product Finder] “We are proud to be a part of some of this year’s nominees for the Building… Read More >
Roman’s Finest Showering Products featured in Grand Designs Project
One of Europe’s leading shower designer and manufacturer, Roman, was recently involved in a unique Grand Designs project which was aired on Channel 4. [Fine Roman on BCFA Product Finder Page] Roman specified stunning products to create bespoke solutions for 5 en-suite bathrooms that fulfilled the customer’s modern and contemporary brief including Roman’s Liberty black grid wetroom… Read More >