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Sleep Well at Tawny Hotel
Located in the heart of rural Staffordshire, The Tawny Hotel provides an experience like no other. Set within the 70-acre grounds of the wonderfully restored wild garden of Consall Hall Estate, guests can discover woodland, stroll through lakeside gardens, find peace in secluded fells and delight in enchanting follies. [Find Hypnos on the BCFA Product… Read More >
MILLIKEN ANNOUNCES WINNING STUDENTS’ DESIGNS FOR EDUCATION ENVIRONMENTS
For the fourth year running the textile degree programme at Loughborough University has partnered with leading flooring designer and manufacturer Milliken for a competition to design carpet tile concepts. The winners have their designs made into carpet tiles and displayed in Milliken’s Clerkenwell Showroom. [Find Milliken on the BCFA Product Finder] Students from Loughborough’s Print,… Read More >
50 Years of Design Excellence. 50 Years of Skopos
2006 saw the launch of the Flamingo collection. A bold, abstract graphic collection, Flamingo brought 6 new designs to the Skopos portfolio. Hero of the collection was the Absinthe design, with echoes of 60’s psychedelia, the bold depiction of a flower head with a vertical background wave and central pop of colour shouted proud within… Read More >
BOLON LAUNCHES ADDITIONAL COLOURWAYS FOR ITS ARTISAN AND BOTANIC COLLECTIONS
Sustainable Swedish design company, Bolon, has expanded its long-standing and best-selling collections, Artisan and Botanic, with new colourways, unveiled at the brand’s Clerkenwell showroom for London Design Festival. [Find Bolon on the BCFA Product Finder] Inspired by traditional craftsmanship, yet produced using innovative fibres, Artisan is a fusion of old and new. Designed for high-traffic… Read More >
Go Bold with Panaz’s New Neon Noir Collection
Influenced by environmental issues including single use plastic waste, Panaz’s latest collection, Neon Noir, offers designers a suite of high-performance contract fabrics that combine powerful images with powerful messages. [Find Panaz on the BCFA Product Finder] Inspired by the iconic graphics of the 1980’s, Neon Noir is arranged within a setting of electrifying colours and… Read More >
Growing Material Solutions
We’ve been exploring just what it means to “Reach Carbon Zero” within the built environment, which by and large means a reassessment of the materials we use and the processes involved in producing them. There has undoubtedly been a move toward more sustainable practices as well as connecting more directly with nature – or at… Read More >
A conversation between: Jim Biddulph & BY THE END OF MAY
Founded in 2021 by Davide Onestini and André Trindade, BY THE END OF MAY is a research and design lab based in Lisbon, Portugal. Their project POST PAPER STUDIO was on display in the Materialized exhibition during Milan Design Week earlier in the year and typifies the studio’s innovative approach to material development. Setting out… Read More >
Carbon Capture Engineered from Nature
We’ve been exploring just what it means to “Reach Carbon Zero” within the built environment, which by and large means a reassessment of the materials we use and the processes involved in producing them. There has undoubtedly been a move toward more sustainable practices as well as connecting more directly with nature – or at… Read More >