At the beginning of my career, a wise person told me “It’s simple, it’s all about people doing business with people,” and over 35 years later, this is still so… Read More >
With recent innovations in lighting technologies and surface materials, the intrinsic interdependence between light and materials is more significant than ever when it comes to the creation of elegant and… Read More >
Lighting design practice is a combination of art and science. Historically, on commercial schemes, the engineering solution has dominated over more creative design approaches. There have been good reasons for… Read More >
Having begun my career in theatre, opera and dance lighting, I have always considered light as a narrative tool. Light can communicate a visual story, set the scene, both in… Read More >
In the wake of the transformative post-COVID landscape, the workplace has experienced a paradigm shift, prompting a reimagining of its very essence. With the rise of remote work, questions were… Read More >
Of Covid’s many changes to the world, how and where we work has really had an impact on current working circumstances. The workforce has proven that WFH is possible for… Read More >
What happens to us when we stand before an artwork? What are the paths we take around an exhibition? What attracts our attention and what stimulates our emotions? Light is… Read More >
“The thought . . . called up the flavors of an elaborate and bold cuisine, . . . an incomparable experience.” – Italo Calvino, Under the Jaguar Sun How often… Read More >
Details have the task of expressing that which the basic design requires in that particular point of the object: union or disjunction, tension or lightness, friction, solidity, fragility (…). Details,… Read More >
It’s currently a very busy period in the development of standards and regulations. In previous columns I’ve mentioned the proposed revision of the UK’s Furniture & Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations,… Read More >
“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.” – Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise… Read More >
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” Sometimes I wonder how many people are engaged in the process of designing a space and… Read More >
Through the various lockdowns (I’m sure we’re all tired of that word) many of us found we could continue to do our jobs successfully from home. Now the country has… Read More >
I thought for this instalment I would revisit the subject of furnishings fire safety, and the other question I get asked a lot – why do we have to use… Read More >
I thought this month I’d introduce one of our newest standards: BS 6396:2022 – ‘Electrical systems in furniture. Specification’ The standard has a long history within the office sector, where… Read More >