Material
Decca Reveals Winners for Design Competition
Decca, a global manufacturer of luxury furniture for the residential, contract and hospitality markets announced a design competition in 2017 where the core purpose was to re-imagine their own products. Decca recently announced the winner: ‘Accouter Design’, as the proposal presented was imaginative. The competition was a chance to explore what could be achieved by… Read More >
Linwood’s New Luxury Collection ‘Cosmos’ Revealed
Linwood has just introduced Cosmos, a new desirable collection of luxurious velvets and weaves with a subtle, understated air. The Linwood team prides itself on the ability to straddle the worlds of creativity and innovation to produce distinctive collections of fabrics and wallpapers that are bursting with fresh ideas while retaining the quality and artistry… Read More >
Amtico Signature Collection with Décor Statement Floors
Amtico Flooring expands Signature Collection with Décor statement floors which is part of an expansion of it’s Luxury Vinyl Tiles (LVT) collection. The 19 products have been crafted following extensive research into traditional ceramic styles. The end result is bespoke, yet easy-to-maintain, a perfect look for commercial applications, including contemporary hospitality and leisure environments. [Find… Read More >
Yarwood Leather’s Beautiful Embroidery Service
Yarwood’s history working with the restaurant Tattu dates back to 2015 – where the original Tattu in Manchester was transformed. Since then, Yarwood Leather has gone on to work on other Tattu restaurants such as Leeds, Birmingham and now Edinburgh. Yarwood Leather focuses predominantly on the beautiful embroidery which differs from restaurant to restaurant. [Find… Read More >
Yarwood Leather: Behind the Design of Sleep & Eat 2019
Yarwood Leather offers an extensive range of world-class leathers and faux leathers, designed especially for seating applications. Bright tones and distressed leather look finishes bring a new approach to leather, mixing traditionally homely leathers into the public space. More than a leather supplier, Yarwood Leather offers a bespoke colour service and an additional leather embroidery… Read More >
Geometric Designs for Skopos
Playful compositions of triangles, squares, circles and diamonds come together in elegant formations to create the new Skopos Oslo collection. Together with a horizontal organic stripe, the designs are a mix of neat graphic outlines and softer, natural forms, tuning into the ongoing trend for geometrics in interiors. Colours are a mix of muted cool… Read More >
Vescom: Colourful & Ultradurable
Vescom’s colourful and ultra-durable new upholstery fabrics, Acton, Rolla and Dikson, all have a unique texture. Developed and produced in Vescom’s own weaving mill, these highly wear-resistant upholstery fabrics are perfect for intensive contract use. [Find Vescom on BCFA Product Finder] Acton: a must-have for the office market Acton is a strong basic upholstery… Read More >
Jim Biddulph & Laura Perryman in Conversation
A love for materials and keen interest in contemporary technologies has led Laura Perryman along an interesting and fairly unique path within the world of design. Having studied Printed Textiles at Loughborough University and then at the RCA, Laura was picked up by big name tech brands such as Nokia and later trend agencies like… Read More >
Material Explorations for 2019
Having ushered in another new year with a collective desire for new dawns, fresh beginnings and positive change perhaps stronger than ever before, it’s worth taking note of developments that are occurring in the world of materials; they are after all the building blocks of our physical world. Altrock is material that looks back in… Read More >
Leather Under Wraps
Once again, this month we are focusing on a material that has a long lineage and an everlasting presence in the canons of human history; leather. Whilst it may now be seen as relatively primitive and to some, even barbaric, the decision of the first Homo Sapiens to try and utilise the hide of animals,… Read More >
Warming up with wool
October is always a time of change. Leaves transforming through every warm shade until finally turning brown and untethering from their source signal the beginning of colder times and shorter days. As we dig out winter layers and dust off waterproofs we might take a moment to give thanks to a material that has protected… Read More >
Decca: How veneer layup can change the design of furniture
BCFA member Decca makes luxury furniture for creative designers in Europe and the Middle East, they spoke to us about veneer and how it can be used to change and enhance the design of furniture. Practiced by furniture makers for centuries, veneer pattern matching is a real celebration of skill achieved by matching veneers to create… Read More >
Working with Wood by Tim Gosling
Timber is our material focus during September. We spoke with British furniture designer Tim Gosling about his innovative use of timber alongside exciting inorganic materials. It was Tim’s material selection that caught the eye of of the Furniture Makers Company earning him a Bespoke Guild Mark for the Gosling carbon fibre lounge tub chair and a finalist in the… Read More >