Milan Fair 2013
Designers seemed to have put a collective two fingers up to the drab Milanese weather during this years furniture and lighting fair. Visitors were treated to a feast of colour – some bold and striking, others more subtle and harmonious. Read more
Bauhaus design
It is exactly 80 years since the Bauhaus was closed down by the Nazis in 1933. The Bauhaus was one of the very first design colleges and, following its brief 14 year existence, can lay claim to having established a design blueprint for modern industrial design. Many of the products are still in production and appear fresh and exciting, testimony to the timeless nature of great design. Read more
Foosball tables
Invented by Englishman Harold Searles Thornton, after watching Tottenham Hotspurs play in 1921 (there’s a joke there somewhere) the game of table football was born. My favourite is GRO Design’s rather wonderful table entitled simply ‘the beautiful game’ Read more
Animal Magic
Whilst predominantly working in photography, painting and sculpture, Spanish artist Maximo Riera has turned his creative hand to a striking new collection of furniture. Read more
Stand-Up to lose weight
New research claims that standing up to work is better than sitting down. Not only that, standing up for three hours a day will burn off 8lb of fat each year – so says John Buckley, from the University of Chester. Read more
Atelier House Barbados
We have recently provided furniture and lighting for Atelier House, a stunning Caribbean retreat designed by architect Alistair Downie of Harper Downie Associates and interior designer Amanda Snow. Read more
Sander Mulder
Since graduating from Eindhoven Design Academy in 2002, and setting up his own design studio, Sander Mulder has been building up an eclectic portfolio of products which combine creativity with fun and ingenuity. Read more
Carpet Reloaded
Golran use cutting-edge techniques to rework and reinterpret Oriental carpets from the first and second halves of the twentieth century. The Decolorized carpets are classic, traditionally hand-knotted carpets that undergo a decolorizing process and are successively dyed with monochromatic vegetable dyes. Read more
Harris Tweed Furniture
A common misconception about Harris Tweed is that it is a single company and brand. The reality is more complex. Harris Tweed cloth is woven in the Outer Hebrides, by local weavers by hand in their own homes on the islands of Lewis, Harris, Uists and Barra from 100% pure wool.
Harris Tweed has seen a resurgence in popularity over the last few years and in a bid to shake off its fusty image has moved from gentleman’s tailors to high street fashion chains. Furniture makers have not been slow to pick up on the trend. Read more
Thonet Wooden Bicycle
German furniture company Thonet have collaborated with London based designer, Andy Martin, to produce a wooden bicycle using the same wood bending techniques Thonet have used to manufacture bentwood chairs since 1859. Read more
Nendo Mimicry
For the duration of the London Design Festival the V&A Museum have given Japanese design studio Nendo the opportunity to create a unique contemporary installation. Read more
The British Furniture Committee
Upstairs at the Sekforde – London Design Festival 2012 Read more
Archi-quarium
Swedish designer Karl-Oskar Ankarberg has designed the perfect freshwater pad. Read more
East London Furniture
East London Furniture scour the streets of Hackney for unwanted furniture and scrap wood which they up-cycle into new pieces. Read more
Blu Dot Clock
Minneapolis furniture makers Blu Dot’s dream of making great design both accessible and fun has taken a step closer with the introduction of their free computer desktop clock. Read more
Verso Chair
The Verso is Japanese Designer, Tomoko Azumi’s colourful take on PEL’s 1950′s classic school chair. Read more
Cool (sub zero) Interior
A while back, we supplied a package of furniture for a project entitled Halley IV. Read more
Modern Trestle
We love this clean, modern take on the classic trestle table. Read more
Bicycle furniture
Design studio and avid cyclists Quarterre have launched a range of bicycle storage. The three sculptural bike racks Hood, Branchline and Shadow are designed to display your bike, whilst looking amazing when empty.
Hood is a simple folded metal option to hang a bike on the wall with a shelf to hold your accessories. Branchline holds two bikes on an amazing tree-like leaning rack made from bamboo plywood and Shadow is an elegant folded steel floor rack that supports your bike in an upright position.
The Way We Live Now
In the 1960s, London became the capital of cool – Carnaby Street, The Beatles and Mary Quant representing a new generation who aspired to clean lines and colour. The opening of Habitat in 1964 shattered the mould of existing furniture stores and created an entirely new retail experience. The Design Museum is celebrating its founder, Sir Terence Conran’s birthday with an exhibition that explores his impact on contemporary culture. Read more
Naturally does it
Fritz Hansen have taken Arne Jacobsen’s classic series 7 chair collection back to its roots by re-launching the chair in its original wooden veneers, which include maple, ash, beech and cherry. These can be mixed and matched with nine new colours which take their inspiration from Jacobsen’s 1968 palette.