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Sustainable Luxury: Enhancing Customer Experience with Eco-Conscious Bathrooms

For hoteliers and commercial building developers, being able to take the concept of sustainability and position it as luxurious, as well as aspirational, could be the key to unlocking new customer experiences. In addition, a truly sustainable space which is also comfortable and inviting can help you to stand out in an increasingly saturated market…. Read More >

11 October 2022

Film Highlights: Design Insider & Camira Creative Workshop

Creativity allows us to view and solve problems more openly and with increased innovation, although time limitations often restrict a designer’s opportunity to learn new creative skills.  Design Insider handpicked 15 Commercial Interior Designers to join us at Camira’s Clerkenwell Showroom for a creative workshop with highly respected UK craftsperson Katie Gillies.  Our guests… Read More >

7 October 2022

Hypnos Launch: Hotel Hypnos

Hypnos Contract Beds, the largest provider of hospitality beds in the UK and makers of award-winning, sustainably made beds and mattresses, has announced the launch of Hotel Hypnos – a series of in-depth conversations in which Hypnos partners with experts from different sectors of the hospitality and interior design industry, to share their expert advice,… Read More >

6 October 2022

Connection: Bank of New York Mellon

Based in the heart of London, a stones throw from St Paul’s Cathedral, the Bank of New York Mellon offices required a post-COVID update to support new modern working practices for their existing and future workforces. The evolved space featured a range of different areas, both for more focussed individual work, as well as collaborative zones, designed… Read More >

6 October 2022

A Busy Time

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, together with the UK government’s aim to revise, replace or repeal all legacy EU regulations on the statue books by 31 December 2023. In addition,… Read More >

4 October 2022

Women in Lighting: Light as a Material

“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 of Shadows How does a lighting design project start and how does it evolve? Often it is the client or interior designer who requests the… Read More >

4 October 2022