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Life at the Top: Inside Out Contracts’ Outdoor Hotel Furniture at The Glasshouse
The Glasshouse at the roof NYX London is the latest bar to open from the uber-cool, sassy, and hipster hotel chain. Feel the buzz and channel your inner rock star as you enjoy a drink, sitting on the coolest hotel outdoor furniture, whilst overlooking London’s skyline. [Find Inside Out Contracts on the BCFA Product Finder]… Read More >
Covering all the angles: align creates new Tech Hub at Lexis Nexis
Workplace specialists align have completed a new central London office project – an elegant, contemporary and highly-functional workspace for the tech team of global legal services company Lexis Nexis. Lexis Nexis, part of RELX plc, is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics. The company helps lawyers win cases, manage… Read More >
Skopos: Halcyon Dawn and Foss Designs
In celebration on their 50 year anniversary, Skopos have been releasing new fabrics that revisit popular classics, looking back over the last 50 years. [Find Skopos through BCFA Product Finder] Directly emerging from the Halcyon collection (2011), as a development of the Shangri-la design, Halcyon Dawn is a two-colour design, depicting an abstract, wavy graphic… Read More >
Summer Opening planned for F&B at Heythrop Park hotel
Award-winning design agency, DesignLSM, is well underway with its latest project: renovating the front of house and F&B areas at the prestigious Heythrop Park hotel. The stunning Grade II* property, set within 440 acres of parkland, was recently acquired by Warner Leisure Hotels and is set to open later this summer with a completely evolved… Read More >
Leading the Way in Sustainable Innovation
Hypnos Contract Beds is the largest provider of hospitality beds in the UK, supplying big hotel groups – as well as boutique and independent hotels, and serviced apartments – in the UK and around the world. Here, Carolyn Mitchell, Sales and Marketing Director at Hypnos Contract Beds, explains how sustainability is driving innovation when it… Read More >
A conversation between: Jim Biddulph & Bryan Oknyansky, Dexter Moren Associates
Not many of us start on our career paths before even completing our higher education, let alone starting it. That’s certainly something you’d say for the notoriously rigorous and involved discipline of architecture. Then again, there probably aren’t too many architects out there who can say that they’re award winning footwear designers either. But Bryan… Read More >
Fire Retardants with Phil Reynolds
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 chemicals in our products to make them fire safe? It’s an interesting dichotomy. We don’t want to see building fires that start in, or are… Read More >
New ‘Spicer & Cole’ concession by Phoenix Wharf
New ‘Spicer & Cole’ concession by Phoenix Wharf opens at Bristol’s Royal West of England Academy. The Royal West of England Academy (known locally as the RWA) has now re-opened, following its transformational ‘Light and Inspiration’ capital build. Spicer & Cole, an established, local, family-run F&B brand, forms part of the revamped scheme, having been invited… Read More >