It’s Milan Design week again – one of the most important weeks of the year for interior designers. This is when the main design houses and interiors manufacturers launch their new products and furniture designs. Most of these are at the main Milan Furniture Fair, although there are launches and exhibitions across the city this […]
This week’s beautiful Spring weather has welcomed the annual London Design Week at the Chelsea Harbour Design Centre. This is the centre of London’s interior design industry and the key location for sourcing for high-end interiors. This week the world’s leading fabric and design houses launch their new collections for designers. The start of the week […]
We’ve always been fans of Bocci‘s stunning lighting designs, so it’s great to see their site-specific installation at London’s Barbican Centre. In the Barbican’s foyer, “44” is a magical design by Bocci’s Omer Arbel. Consisting of lights and aluminium forms suspended on a matrix of cables, you can see it until 18th April. There’s more […]
Here’s the third and final instalment on my visit to Benchmark’s Toolbox Talks last month. As well as the earlier talks by guest speakers on paint colouring and textile design, Sean Sutcliffe of Benchmark talked about metalworking. It’s crucial for interior designers to really understand the production process involved in different specialist techniques, as that’s […]
Currently running at The Barbican, ‘Designing for a Living City’ is a fascinating exhibition of design materials from the original design and construction of the controversial Barbican Estate. Drawings, fittings, and photographs of the original interiors are on display. We recently completed a full interior redesign and refurbishment of a flat in the Barbican’s Shakespeare Tower, […]
There was so much to see at the London Design Festival last week and whilst I’m continuing to add things to our new Instagram feed, I wanted to show you what was probably my favourite design piece from the exhibitions… This is We Do Wood‘s ‘Nomad’ chair – a contemporary Scandinavian reworking of the classic military […]
This week is the highlight of the London design calendar – the London Design Festival. The events started this weekend and run through to Sunday 25th September. There are exhibitions and shows all over London, many of which are grouped into seven official design districts across the capital. Here’s my summary of the major shows and […]
Another big development at the upcoming London Design Festival this month is the relocation and expansion of Design Junction. It started in a basement in 2011, before moving to London’s Old Sorting Office on New Oxford Street in recent years, and now the show is expanding to take over four locations in Kings Cross as […]
It’s September, and that means the London Design Festival, and a huge range of shows and exhibitions to keep any interior designer happy! A new design show is launched in London And this year a new show is launched – Luxury Made. Showcasing some of the finest contemporary interiors manufacturers and designers, there’ll be a […]
I visited London’s Chelsea Harbour last week – sourcing fabrics for the furnishings schemes for a couple of our current interior design projects. Chelsea Harbour is a fabulous resource for the design trade, with over a hundred showrooms and all of the main fabric houses represented. Rather than being restricted to a limited number of […]
