Hospitality
CDW 2016 Highlights: Interview with Gemma Allman, Decca
Clerkenwell Design Week this year was a busy one for Design Insider, interviewing 20+ designers and design professionals over the 3 days. We met up with Managing Director of Decca – Gemma Allman who let us know about their most recent product releases, the Bing chair designed by David Ritch and Mark Saffell of 5D Design…. Read More >
Product Watch: Alice Collection by Taylor’s Classics
In 2014 Martin Taylor was on holiday in India when he was inspired by the colonial architecture and local furniture to create a collection of outdoor furniture that would reflect the traditional designs for which Taylor’s Classics is so well known. The chairs and tables had to combine aesthetic appeal with the practicality demanded in… Read More >
THE SAVANNAH BAR & RESTAURANT, ETHICAL, SUSTAINABLE, TASTY
ETHICAL, SUSTAINABLE, TASTY This is Euston’s newest, most spacious and relaxed restaurant with an a-la-carte menu featuring European food combined with the flavours of Africa and Asia, alongside some of the best-loved classic dishes. The bar has its own menu of Small Plates and Sharing Dishes, a superior wine list including biodynamic and organic wines, artisanal… Read More >
Inside Out Contracts: The Fifth Floor Bar at Harvey Nichols, London
Internationally renowned super-premium vodka Grey Goose has teamed up with Harvey Nichols to revamp one of London’s most iconic bars on the Fifth Floor of the luxury retailer’s flagship store in Knightsbridge. The Fifth Floor Bar at Harvey Nichols in partnership with Grey Goose has been completely re-designed into an elegant new contemporary bar. The… Read More >
The Contract Chair Company: 100 Wardour St, Soho
The 100 Wardour St is part of D&D London’s luxury restaurants, bars and hotel group. Their latest locale is split deftly in two. Upstairs you will find a comfortable and trendy lounge area and downstairs the hip restaurant, bar and club that perform live music five days a week. The venue is situated on the… Read More >
VELVETS FOR A TOUCH OF LUXURY – Kobe
A clear winner in the fashion stakes at this year’s January Furniture Show – the UK’s largest furnishings event – velvet has never come in such a breadth of choice or variation. While crushed is still cool, Kobe offers a leading edge range of new velvet-style fabrics. They come in many guises as printed, woven… Read More >
Product Watch: The New Waldorf Collection – Crosswater
A beautifully classic collection that exudes traditional design and time-honoured styling, the Waldorf furniture range completes the art deco inspired offering from bathroom designers Crosswater
The end of the hotel room as we know it – zoku
Facilitating global living and working for the travelling professional, Zoku, which is Japanese for family, tribe, or clan, will disrupt and create a new category in the hotel industry – a home-office hybrid, also suitable for long stays,
Product Watch: Chad Lighting – Barcelona
Chad expands its leather range with the new table light, Barcelona. With a distinctive arch shape, Barcelona is suitable for public areas, living rooms or as a large bedside light. The central cleft, in contrasting leather colour adds flair to the design. Different leather combinations can be specified. CONTACT CHAD
Lyndon Design – a box office hit at Everyman cinemas
As the network of Everyman boutique cinemas expands across the UK, Lyndon Design continues to furnish each venue with a bespoke range of seating that is vital for creating the intimate and luxurious cinema environment for which the Everyman brand is renowned.
Working to live, living to work
Office design is changing fast as the boundaries between home and work life become increasingly blurred Driven by technological advances our lifestyles today directly relate to the way we occupy and utilise spaces and buildings like never before, as we constantly move from one piece of technology to another as we go about our working lives. Against this backdrop the furniture industry has… Read More >
Inside Out Contracts: Snowflake Gelato, London
London based Snowflake Gelato have just opened their latest parlour, scooping up gelato joy in Marble Arch. Working with Snowflake’s designated designers, Inside Out Contracts supplied tables and chairs to match the brand’s modern and luxurious aesthetic. The end result is a decadent interior, rich with soft caramel upholsteries and solid dark wood from a… Read More >
New designs from Newmor wallcoverings
Burnished tiles and tactile tweeds Newmor Wallcoverings today launch two new designs which add raw tiled textures and intricate herringbone weaves to their collection of commercial quality fabric-backed vinyl wallcoverings. Sorrento: Sorrento is a burnished tile effect available in 19 lustrous metallic and buffed matte tones. The deeply embossed surface catches the light, and metallic… Read More >