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Élan by Decca won the Best of Year Award 2015!

On Thursday 3rd December 2015, Élan by Decca won the Interior Design Best of Year Award 2015 in the Contract / Lounge Single Seat category! Designed by Jess Sorel, the Caid collection establishes presence through subtle shifts in its clean, quiet geometry.

8 December 2015

Weekly Round Up

Another busy week for Design Insider, after recovering the hangover after #Sleep15, We had the pleasure of awarding Shaw Hospitality with the DI ‘Top Product at Show’ they impressed us with their new collection ‘Noble Materials’, being a great looking product but also had a great thought process behind the design, which really what caught our attention. Read more…… Read More >

4 December 2015

Drake & Morgan at King’s Cross

Location: King’s Cross, London  Type: Restaurant Drake & Morgan restaurant and bar group consists of a number of unique locales scattered across the capital, all of which encourage escapism and indulgence through offering delicious meals within a remarkable environment. The King’s Cross location is the latest addition proudly bearing the title of flagship restaurant and bar. In… Read More >

4 December 2015

Design Insider Award at Sleep 15

DESIGN INSIDER are pleased to announce that Shaw Hospitality have won our ‘Top Product at Show’ at this year’s Sleep.   Shaw Hospitality impressed us and the BCFA with their new collection ‘Noble Materials’, it is a great looking product but the thought and process behind the design is really what caught our attention, as Andrew… Read More >

30 November 2015

Hiding Your Light

First, man invented fire and at some stage added candles so that he could move the light around. Man wanted more light and invented the oil lamp, then even more light and he invented the gas lamp. Finally came electric light meaning Man could have as much illumination as he wanted until eventually he had… Read More >

30 November 2015

Q&A with Kerry Cottam, Milliken

Kerry Cottam is a Senior Designer at Milliken. She trained in textile design at Blackburn and joined Milliken in 2011. She has worked within the flooring design industry for the past 12 years starting her career as a junior before progressing to Senior Designer after just five years. Kerry specialises in tufting design: using pre-dyed yarns… Read More >

27 November 2015

Canteen designed with an eye for acoustics

When designing a canteen for 350 lawyers in an open atrium with shops below and a glass roof above acoustic challenges will undeniably occur. Architects from Norwegian Metropolis arkitektur & design took up the challenge at Aker Brygge in Oslo, Norway,

27 November 2015