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Product Focus: James Shaw at LDF
During London Design Festival we caught up with promising new designer James Shaw, to learn a bit more about his installation that was part of the Shoreditch Design Triangle and was hosted by Ace Hotel. Working out of his small studio space in Elephant & Castle, James designs and makes a wonderful collection of furniture… Read More >
MANCHESTER LANDMARK TOUR Q&A WITH NICKI HEARNE, 5PLUS ARCHITECTS
Last month Julian Cross, Design Lead Europe from Woods Bagot, took up our challenge of curating an architectural London Landmark Tour, we are thrilled to continue our series with Nicki Hearne, Associate Interior Designer at 5plus Architects, landmark tour of Manchester. Which Manchester Landmark do you find most architecturally exciting? Manchester has some wonderful, iconic landmark… 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 >
HAVE YOUR SAY …
In the Second of our new discussion series ‘Have Your Say’ we are posing the question ‘Is AirBnB an opportunity or a threat?’ With the rise of companies such as Airbnb and guests looking for more unique spaces that take inspiration from the local environment – What do hotels, manufacturers and suppliers have to do to excel in this… Read More >
London Landmark Tour Q&A with Julian Cross, Woods Bagot
We were really pleased when Julian Cross, Design Lead Europe from Woods Bagot, took up our challenge of curating an architectural London landmark tour. You might have seen some of these iconic buildings when you visited London Design Festival last week. Which London Landmark do you find most architecturally exciting? Swiss Re. I was lucky… Read More >
Adam Nathaniel Furman at designjunction
With this year’s designjunction just around the corner, we met up Adam Nathaniel Furman who has collaborated with Turkishceramics to create an immersive experience for the visitors of designjuction. Gateways will be a ceramic installation consisting of four gates that draw people to wander through and experience the various vies at the centre of the… 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 >
Have Your Say …
In the first of our new discussion series ‘Have Your Say’ we are posing the question ‘Can London [Design Festival] Compete with Milan [Furniture Fair]?’This discussion is open to any opinion; you may feel that London Design Festival surpasses the level of design excellence displayed at Milan Furniture Fair, or that London Design Festival brings… 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 >
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: Craftwood
This week we stopped by to meet the design team at Craftwood, Designer Managers Kyle Anderson & Dexter Grimaldi joined Designer Tom Johnson explained their design process and talked us through some of their most exciting case studies. Craftwood’s production office is located at their head quarters in Christchurch with a dedicated sales team is based… 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 >