Posts Tagged: Carpet

WHY FLOORING SELLS

For this month’s focus on flooring we take a closer look at the role flooring plays in a retail environment. We caught up with Lewis Taylor, Design Director of David Collins Studio who have an international reputation in luxury retail design and our BCFA members to understand how flooring sells.

7 July 2016

Shaw Contract ‘Everything Matters’ Campaign wins Mixology 16 Award

Shaw Contract has won the Mixology16 Award in the Environmental & Sustainability category for the ‘Everything Matters’ campaign. Andrew Jackson, Marketing Director EMEA at Shaw Contract comments: “Launched this year, the ‘Everything Matters’ campaign demonstrates Shaw Contract’s ongoing support and commitment for implementing a comprehensive sustainability strategy across product certification and manufacturing operations. “The Mixology16… Read More >

4 July 2016

Book Release: Decorating with Carpets

BCFA members Stark Carpets have just launched an inspiring book, looking at how carpet design can transform a space. In interior design, a carpet’s influence is never outsized. In fact, more than any other element of a room, the effect a carpet has on a space is every bit as great as its size. Decorators have long recognized… Read More >

22 March 2016

Product Watch: Quadrus by Milliken

Quadrus, a new modular entrance matting solution, is the latest addition to the Milliken range of floor covering products. The new entrance tile system creates a stunning first impression while also forming a barrier between the elements and therefore protecting the carpet installation. The expansion of Milliken’s product range which in addition to carpet tiles,… Read More >

18 January 2016

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

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

Product Watch: Loomah ‘Ravaged Beauty’

This year Loomah launched ‘Ravaged Beauty’.  This new collection was inspired by the ravaging impact that nature can have on our surroundings. Loomah designer Hayley Durrell has spent many an afternoon watching the tide rise and fall from the picturesque village of Instow, North Devon. This new collection really demonstrate the endless possibilities that can be offered in… Read More >

30 October 2015

Truck factory inspires at The Leyland Hotel

Statement artworks, inspired by the nearby famous Leyland truck factory, are complemented by Wilton’s striking carpet designs at The Leyland Hotel in Preston. Among an impressive line of Best Western Premier hotels being renovated in 2015, The Leyland Hotel has exacting standards when it comes to carpet specification, with a stunning combination of designs and… Read More >

25 August 2015

Newhey Carpets – the hero Gotham deserves

 ‘The King of King Street’ Newhey Carpets, a leading British manufacturer and specialist designer of innovative, high performance and sustainable commercial carpets recently supplied over 2000 square metres of luxurious Colortec+ carpet for Manchester’s newest and most prestigious 5 Star hotel, Hotel Gotham. Following a complete restoration by Bespoke Hotels, Marshall Construction Group and interior… Read More >

11 May 2015

Milliken Naturally Drawn Watercolour

Inspired by the artist’s hand, reinterpreted with high tech precision Drawing its inspiration from watercolour painting, hand-sketching and drawing with ink, Milliken’s new collection ‘Naturally Drawn’ combines the natural beauty and simplicity of the artist’s hand with the pattern precision and colour placement of the most advanced carpet patterning technology. The natural beauty of the… Read More >

31 March 2015