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Contents
May 2013
One of architecture
professor Richard
Weston’s scans,
making it on to scarves
on sale in Liberty’s...
See Profile, page 28
Regulars Projects 86 VIENNA Helen Parton goes to the Austrian

capital for its Design Week, and finds that the
13 DIARY Events on now and coming up 32 SYZYGY, FRANKFURT HI-MACS takes city not only has a rich design past but an
centre stage as a space within a space in a exciting design future ahead
14 FORUM Your letters design for a new office by 3deluxe
83 ANNIVERSARY Architecture and design
17 HEADLINER Four into one does go – with 37 SIR ROBERT WOODARD ACADEMY photojournalist Gareth Gardner celebrates his
DX London, The ARC Show, Interiors LDN WEST SUSSEX Architecture PLB gives this first 10 years with an exhibition of his work
and kbb LDN all appearing under one roof new-build school, which shares its facilities
after hours, plenty to shout about 93 DESIGN COMPETITION FX editor
19 THE BUSINESS Four pages of news from Theresa Dowling is in Denmark to choose
the design industry, this month highlighting 43 MEATMISSION, LONDON Design outfit the winner of the ege Carpets competition
Rijkmuseum reopens after 10-year Shed has turned a former Christian Mission
refurbishment; £7m innovation centre win; house into a home for this burger restaurant Tech Spec
Mather & Co for Springbok Experience
Features 98 TEST BENCH Levent Çaglar casts an
27 TOP 5 Pick of the best new products expert eye over the new X-Code task chair
46 FX DESIGN SEMINAR In the latest of this from Dauphin, and compares features of
28 PROFILE Richard Weston – the professor debate series, the role of manufacturers in three rivals seats
of architecture at Cardiff University and design investment is hotly discussed
unlikely trendsetter in fashion accessories... 100 LIGHT + TECH Jill Entwistle reports
55 SPEAK EASY Gary Heald marks the from the latest Lighting Design Awards, and
31 ONE TO WATCH Research-based design passing of CMH and halogen lighting, but looks at three of the winning schemes that
studio Desitecture, with a mission to ‘make warns those preparing to switch to LED have gone the extra mile in their use of LEDs
the everyday extraordinary’
58 CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE Veronica
68 EYE WITNESS Gareth Gardner joins the Simpson finds that new design for kids’ The cover shows
children in the new Ann Riches Healing Space healthcare units has much to offer the interior of
former Christian
Mission turned
122 IF ONLY… an underused road bridge 74 ENDURING MATERIALS Pamela Buxton burger restaurant
could be a research hub, says Hewitt Studios traces the history of concrete, glass and lino MEATMission, by
Shed. See page 43
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Welcome
Diary
whErE to
go this
month Theresa
Dowling
Editor
I
t wasn’t all that long ago when
you’d go into a children’s ward
in a hospital and you might spot
a jolly mobile or a mural or two on
the walls. Not any more. We go
globetrotting this month to
Melbourne, Australia, Portland,
Oregon, and Kuwait for a feature on
new children’s healthcare schemes,
that also touches down in a couple of
DMY International Design Festival sites in the UK (Bath and Prudhoe
5-9 June in Northumberland), to show the
Templehof City Airport, Berlin latest thinking – and action – in
providing supportive environments
This year’s exhibition showcases new products and for sick children, and their parents
prototypes by international designers, architects and and siblings that include not only
manufacturers. Polish design will be at the focus of the interactive play areas but aerial
festival this year, which also includes workshops, talks walkways and live meerkats...
by designers and networking events. We continue our travels for the
dmy-berlin.com rest of the issue too, taking in Vienna
for a look at its design week and
Frankfurt for an new office interior
that sits in a space within a space.
Once back in the UK we’re in West
Sussex to have a look at a new-build
school and then stop off for a bite to
eat in Shoreditch, London at one of
the latest restaurants acknowledging
the new trend of ‘proper’ burgers.
Design NeoCon New Designers United Micro This one, in a former Christian
Miami 10-12 June 2013 Kingdoms: Mission, is bringing a near-religious
11-16 June Merchandise Mart, 26-29 June & 3-6 July, A Design Fiction zeal to its task...
Basel Chicago Business Design 1 May-25 August In this issue we also bring a
Centre, London Design Museum,
With Miami hosting Now celebrating its 45th London
report on the latest in our series
this yearly fair in the year, NeoCon continues New Designers 2013 of FX Design Seminars. With a
winter, Basel recreates to be one of the largest brings together more Designers Anthony stellar panel of designers and
the event in the industry events in the than 3,000 graduate Dunne and Fiona Raby manufacturers to discuss the thorny
summer, bringing contract-design sector. designers from around combine aspects of issue of ‘should manufacturers invest
together designers, More than 40,000 the country to exhibit architecture, industrial
collectors and critics buyers and sellers come their work in two design, politics and
in design?’ it was an animated
and creating unique together in an event for sessions in two science in an exhibition session, with plenty of strong
collaborations within architectural products, consecutive weeks. that portrays a fictional opinions being expressed. Plus
the worlds of art, furniture, textiles and Emerging talent future UK, divided into we have our usual helping of news,
design, architecture, more. A highlight of this showing in furniture, four self-contained views and analysis – and this month
and fashion. Attending year’s event is a tour of ceramics and textiles counties, each able history, in our feature on enduring
also are international the new Lurie Children’s will among eight to experiment with
exhibitors of furniture Hospital to show the distinct design governance, economy
materials. Did you know, for
and products. positive benefits of disciplines on show. and lifestyle. instance, that the Romans used
designmiami.com design. neocon.com newdesigners.com designmuseum.org concrete? You heard it here first!
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Forum
good design is more than skin deep Editorial:

Editor
Theresa Dowling
tdowling@fxmagazine.co.uk
T
Group deputy editor
he popular understanding of design, I find, then, do we create products that truly benefit Pamela Horne
is very often a misinterpretation. The way the user and society. phorne@fxmagazine.co.uk
Assistant editor
design is presented, and the example products This approach is crucial when we talk Jamie Mitchell / 020 7336 5294
that are shown, leads to very much a diluted about ergonomic design. If these factors have jmitchell@fxmagazine.co.uk
Contributors
definition of the word; design is reduced to not been considered at the design stage, then Sophie Christie, Veronica Simpson, Pamela
something solely superficial, beautiful objects ergonomics, in its complexity, cannot be Buxton, Helen Parton, David Tarpey, Gareth Gardner,
for the eye. achieved. When designing a product that is Aidan Walker, Levent Çaglar, Jill Entwistle, Annabelle
Filer, Hewitt Studios
In the true sense of the word design should being used every day for at least seven or
be about mobilising your full empathic eight hours, you have to create it with the
dEsign & Production:
capacity. You need to try and understand the end-user in mind. So often we see the word Design
user’s physical, rational and emotional needs ‘ergonomics’ thrown around, but often it is Wes Mitchell
Production manager
and then develop products that meet these misinterpreted as meaning ‘high costs’ or Clare Ovenell / 020 8269 7753
needs. However, there is no space for a half- ‘difficult to achieve’. covenell@progressivemediagroup.com
hearted approach here. If you want to create In our industry we understand that Classified production coordinator
Adam McNamara
a truly outstanding product that will withstand ergonomics is concerned with designing and amcnamara@progressivemediagroup.com
the test of time (both literally and arranging furniture and technology around
metaphorically), you have to go after this people to allow them to interact and work advErtising:
with all you have. more efficiently. As creators of tools that Sales director
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top 5 27
profile 28
one to watch 31 reporter
The Dare Studio collection
will be on show as part
of Interiors LDN, during
the May Design Series
at ExCeL this month
one-stop shop for design shows

Four design events – DX London, The in contract and domestic interiors, with products, including fabrics, furniture,
ARC Show, Interiors LDN and kbb LDN brands in attendance including Viaduct, lighting and flooring.
– will come together in the ExCeL arena Ligne Roset and Diedre Dyson. DX London Now established as an must-do event for
London, for a new definitive industry event, will also have a conversation series, which the industry, The ARC Show joins the Design
The May Design Series. addresses future-facing issues that challenge Series to showcase architectural, commercial
Designed by Ab Rogers Design, which those at the forefront of architecture and and retail lighting design. Professionals
was commissioned by organiser UBM to design. Speakers, discussing topics from looking to find design-led products in the
create a new and innovative exhibition future workplaces to future cities, will mid to high-end market will have a choice
environment, the venue will host the four include Thomas Johanson of Electrolux, of British and international brands.
individual design trade shows from 19 to 21 and representatives from Herman Miller With the May Design Series scheduled
May, with each one focusing on different and Gensler. for the end of the European show season,
areas of design within domestic interiors, Interiors LDN is a new show and will KBB London will present an extensive
including furniture, lighting, kitchens, present contemporary interior products range of the latest and most exclusive
bathrooms and accessories. for professionals in the mid to high-end kitchen, bedroom and bathroom designs.
DX London will present an interactive contract and retails sectors. More than maydesignseries.com
exhibition with installations and an events 100 established and emerging companies
programme celebrating design excellence will exhibit a wide range of design-focused Words by Sophie Christie
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The Business
amsterdam’s
19th-century
built rijksmuseum
reopens after
10 years to
embrace the 21st
century
waterloo station retail

balcony is a step up
A new retail balcony designed by SAS
International for Waterloo Station has
helped reduce passenger congestion and
increase retail income.
The new aspect to one of London’s
busiest stations has curved aluminium
soffit cladding under a new mezzanine
level and escalators, designed and supplied
by SAS International. As well as providing
10 new retails outlets the 220m-long new
balcony also helps to reduce congestion
among the 300,000 daily passengers and
improve access to and from Waterloo East.
SAS International has worked on three
separate phases of Waterloo Station’s
refurbishment alongside a range of
designers and project teams.
For this particular project it worked
with Weedon Architects and BAM
Construction. Rijksmuseum Reopens
sasint.co.uk
BeTTeR Than eveR
The Rijksmuseum has reopened following a
New colours and Bogle Flanagan Space planning and 10-year transformation. Never before has a national
finishes from Lawrence Silver has corporate museum undergone such a complete transformation of
Armourcoat will be rebranded as Flanagan refurbishment
launched at DX, part of Lawrence, following specialist McCarthy
both its building and the presentation of its collection.
the May Design Series the amicable departure Interiors has been Spanish architecture firm Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos has
show at ExCeL, of two of the four awarded a £1m transformed the 19th-century building in Amsterdam into
London, 19-21 May. directors last year. contract with EEF
DX will be run with kbb BFLS was formed in Venues to refurbish
a museum for the 21st century, with a bright and spacious
LDN, INTERIORS LDN 2010 following the Broadway House, entrance, a new Asian Pavilion and beautifully restored
and The ARC Show, restructuring of Westminster and galleries. Under the guidance of restoration architect
presenting the new Hamilton’s. It recently Woodland Grange
event for architectural, won four RIBA awards Conference Centre,
Van Hoogevest, the lavish decoration scheme of the
interior design and for the Royal Welsh Leamington Spa, museum’s original architect Pierre Cuypers has been
high-end retail College of Music and Warwickshire, starting fully reconstructed in several key spaces, while Parisian
communities. Drama. with the complete
maydesignseries.com bfls-london.com refurbishment of 114
architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte designed the new interior
en-suite bedrooms at of the galleries, fusing 19th-century grandeur with
Woodland Grange. modern design.
Paul Nulty Lighting Interiors consultancy Roger Day, general
manager of McCarthy
The presentation of the Rijksmuseum’s world-famous
Design has won its YourStudio working
first major lighting with textile specialist Interiors, said: ‘This collection is also new. For the very first time, visitors can
award, for its Superdry Emma Rickards has will include every- follow a chronological journey through the collection, in
world flagship store delivered a full thing from changing a sequence of 80 galleries, with 8,000 objects telling the
project on Regent redesign for airline the flooring, tiling
Street, London in the Iberia. New tourist and and sanitaryware to story of 800 years of Dutch art and history. Only
2013 Lighting Design business-class cabin decor, bed linen and Rembrandt’s masterpiece The Night Watch has been
Awards. The win interiors, seating and soft furnishings.’ For returned to its original position in the building.
follows recognition onboard accessories Broadway House, a
for the practice at have been designed six-storey, Edward- The restoration of the Cuypers colours is made possible
last year’s Lux and for its new Airbus fleet, ian building all of the by AKZONobel/Sikkens. The renovation and opening of
Energy Awards, in to be retro-fitted public-access spaces the Rijksmuseum is made possible by founder Philips and
which it was highly across the rest of the and conference areas
commended three international fleet. will be upgraded. main sponsors BankGiro Lottery, ING and KPN.
times. paulnulty.co.uk weareyourstudio.com macinteriors.com cruzyortiz.com
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The Business
ryder
architecture
adds third
innovation centre
of offices and labs
to liverpool’s
science park
Grimshaw submits
development application
for landmark tower
Grimshaw has submitted a
development application on behalf of
Parramatta City Council outside of Sydney
for a landmark mixed-use tower that could
be the tallest in Australia.
The 90-storey, 336m-high Aspire
Tower emerged from a design excellence
competition held by the Sydney suburb’s
council and is set to establish a new
benchmark for innovative, passive-
environmental design in Australian high-
rise developments in its provision of high-
density, urban-residential living that is both
affordable and sustainable.
The engineering of Aspire Tower will
consciously orientate it to the wind and
sunlight. Its striking sculptural form will
twist up to maximise the capture of the
sun, the breeze and northern views.
The accommodation in the tower will
be in two east and west-facing wings,
£7m InnovaTIon CenTre connected to a perforated central core.
for sCIenCe park

A taller skyscraper, Australia 108 for
Melbourne, is still in the planning stage.
It would have 108 floors and stand 390m.
Work on Ryder Architecture’s four- grimshaw-architects.com
storey £7m Innovation Centre 3 at the
Liverpool Science Park has started on site.
The 3750 sq m flexible office and
commercial laboratory accommodation builds Projection Lighting Axminster Carpets, ISG is due to Luxury vinyl flooring
on the success of the two previous science has been named as a one of the world’s commence work on manufacturer
recipient of a Queen’s largest manufacturers the £27m project to Moduleo has become
park innovation centres and completes the Award for Enterprise of Axminster, Wilton reclad the 13-storey one of the first LVT
Metropolitan Cathedral campus. Innovation in the Queen’s and Tufted carpet, East Wing building of manufacturers to gain
Centre 3 merges with Innovation Centre 1 at Birthday Honours. which went into St Thomas’ Hospital, an industry benchmark
The UK’s highest administration in central London after BRE Global
the upper two levels for efficent internal accolade for business March, has been sold winning a RIBA sustainability rating
circulation. It is due to complete next spring. success was made as a going concern to competition. ISG is for its products. Part
Ryder Architecture’s simple yet elegant in recognition of a local business also returning to the of Europe’s largest
outstanding constortium that landmark St Botolph flooring manufacturer
design is based on two contrasting but achievement in includes the former Building in Shoreditch IVC Group, Moduleo
complementary elements – a sharp-edged, international trade. MD of Axminster for one of the largest products are recyclable
rectilinear block that cantilevers out to face the Projection Lighting Carpets Joshua London office fit-out and contain up to 50
has demonstrated Dutfield. Axminster schemes this year – per cent recycled
campus’s main paths and a flowing organic a significant and Carpets (2013) Ltd a 2,600 sq m, multi- material. Up to 70 per
form that snakes across to form the link with sustained growth will continue to trade million-pound project cent of energy used
IC1. The cantilever box will be solidly clad in in exports over three and manufacture from for Jardine Lloyd in manufacturing will
years with its facilities in Axminster. Thompson. ISG soon be generated
dark-grey linear rainscreen panels, while a AlphaLED brand The jobs of 100 staff carried out previous by three wind turbines
contrasting mix of clear and translucent/ of LED luminaires, at Axminster and two a BCO Award-winning to be built at the
frosted Reglit panels will clothe the curvature which are made outlet stores have scheme for a client company’s eco
in Manchester and been saved. across the building’s production plant in
and fluidity of the organic form. sent to 40 countries. axminster-carpets.co.uk first and second Avelgem, Belgium.
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The Business
Springbok
experience
project iS Set to be
MoSt preStigiouS
international
contract to date
for Mather & co
SpeirS + Major
honoured with four
awardS in a week
Speirs + Major has followed up last year’s
Practice of the Decade Award at the
Lighting Design Awards with a win this year
in the Heritage Lighting category for
Burlington Arcade. The awards were held at
the end of March in London. The lighting
design practice’s projects Hedonism Wine
Store, Mayfair, and the Twin Sails Bridge
(above) in Poole were also commended in MaTher & Co North West-based design consultancy
Mather & Co has won one if its most
the small retail and exterior lighting
Tries and prestigious international contracts to date –
ConverTs
categories respectively. to design the new Springbok Experience for
The honours follow on from Infinity the South African Rugby Union (SARU) in
Awards, organised by creative collective
Illumni, that it received in London just a few BesT projeCT Cape Town.
The story of rugby in South Africa has been
days earlier. Hedonism Wines and the Twin
yeT for described as the lens through which people can
springBoks,
Sails Bridge both received gold Infinity actually view the history of the nation itself.
awards, while Burlington Arcade was given South Africa’s new ‘home of rugby’, due to
a bronze. Both awards schemes are judged
by peer review. speirsandmajor.com souTh afriCa open in September, will be Portswood House,
a two-storey, 800 sq m stand-alone building on
Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront, one of Africa’s
busiest tourist destinations attracting more than
23 million visitors a year.
The founder of The new £20m De A UK-wide The British Institute
architecture Vere Orchard hotel, competition to of Interior Design
The ground floor will be divided between
practice M Moser Nottingham, designed design a new chair has made Thomas an ‘Experience’ taster, a retail store and
Associates has been by architecture for the Bodleian Heatherwick and ‘Springbok Trials’ – an interactive game zone.
honoured by being practice RHWL has Libraries in Oxford James Dyson The second storey is devoted entirely to a
elevated to the been furnished with has announced a Honorary Fellows for
American Institute of originally designed shortlist of six 2013. Heatherwick museum and will cover the breadth and
Architects (AIA) furniture pieces from award-winning founded Heatherwick complexity of Springbok rugby, including
College of Fellows. Morgan, specified by designer/manufacturer Studio in 1994, and the overlooked story of black rugby history.
Moira Moser Glasgow-based partnerships: AL_A & has been described
established the interior design firm Herman Miller by Sir Terence Conran After several months of the client
practice in 1981. Still Graven Images. Barber; Osgerby & as a ‘Leonardo da discussing the concept with various South
at the helm of what is Included is Soho Isokon Plus; Hugo Vinci of our times’. African companies and researching
now a global firm with banquette seating, Eccles & Race James Dyson
700 staff in London, teamed with the Furniture; Matthew attended the RCA and international design specialists further afield,
New York, Hong Kong, oak-framed and Hilton & SCP; Michael studied architecture, the decision was made to appoint Mather &
Beijing, Shanghai, upholstered Oslo Sodeau & Modus but developed a Co. Mather & Co’s designer on the project,
Singapore, Delhi and dining chair. Soho Furniture; TNA Design flat-hulled, high-
10 other locations on armchairs with circular Studio & Benchmark. speed landing craft Sarah Clarke said: ‘We’ve won this contract
three continents, cushions are featured The winning chair, and a passion for based on our proven track record designing
Moser was, in the in the lobby. The Soho named in September, engineering. The international sports museums, but in many
same year she started soft seating collection, will be an iconic and designers will be
her practice, the first with echoes of the contemporary presented with their ways the significance of this project transcends
woman member of the Fifties and Sixties, was statement in the Honorary Fellowships sport. It is a great privilege and major
AIA to be granted an created by Morgan Weston Library, being at the 2013 BIID responsibility for our design team to help
architect’s licence in design director remodelled by annual aonference in
Hong Kong. Katerina Zachariades. Wilkinson Eyre June at the RIBA. create this landmark visitor attraction.’
mmoser.com morganfurniture.co.uk Architects. biid.org.uk matherandco.com
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corner of Finsbury Pavement and South
Place in the City of London. Originally
designed by Sheppard Robson and
completed in 1996, The Helicon helped
to start the rejuvenation of Moorgate with
its high-tech detailing and provision of
substantial modern retail units. Around
40 per cent of the building is occupied by
Marks and Spencer and HSBC, creating
a strong presence at street level.
One feature of The Helicon’s high-tech
architectural styling is the radiating glass
drum at the corner. JRA created a high-
quality entrance in the triple-height space
as the focal point of the facade at the drum
base. It also introduced a top-lit, full-height
Go-ahead for holder feature wall that uses deeply concave wall
MaThias in swansea’s
tiles to create a geometric relief pattern
inspired by the drum, while new limestone
hisToric ciTy cenTre flooring and improved lighting give the

lobby a light, airy feel. jra.co.uk
Architecture practice Holder Mathias

has secured planning consent for a £8m scheme
that will transform the historic heart of Swansea.
Working on behalf of client Coastal Housing
Group, planning permission has been secured
for Castle Quarter – a mixed-use development
overlooking Swansea Castle, consisting of 26 London lighting The winning team Westminster Council The third outing
designer Sharon in the Sleep has approved plans for of the yearly SBID
affordable flats and four private duplex flats, Marston is showing ReardonSmith Student the second phase in International Design
with 743 sq m for restaurants and cafes. two new chandeliers Award has completed the redevelopment of Awards, SBID has
Castle Quarter follows on from the £30m in the touring a concept for the 26-48 Oxford Street, opened for entries.
exhibition Designing Hyatt Regency London, subject to the Aiming to award
Urban Village development on High Street and 007: Fifty Years of Churchill, due to set signing of S106. It will excellence in interior
the Strand, also designed by Holder Mathias. James Bond Style, a new standard in create a mixed-use, design, this year
The hope is that these residential-led schemes currently in Shanghai hotel staff restaurants. retail-led development the SBID awards has
will introduce vitality into this area of the city, until 30 June. Marston Students from the providing high-quality, a new website, new
is also relaunching German Hochshule retail space that will judges and new
while recognising its historical importance. a selection of her Coburg University of maximise the street categories. The 14
Terry Morley, partner at Holder Mathias, designs and showing Applied Sciences won frontage and extend categories include
said: ‘This site is hugely important for Swansea a number of over 25 other teams in to 7,100 sq m over Transport, Product
glass pieces at the design of staff basement, ground and and Public Space to
and will create a striking new quarter for the city Interiors LDN 19-21 areas in a competition first floors. It follows Visualisation, and
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the Urban Village development, this scheme will a one-off installation ReardonSmith and delivered 13,800 sq m under £50,000. The
at Clerkenwell Design Sleep with the input of of retail space, now deadline for entries
hugely enhance the existing qualities of the area. Week (21-23 May). Hyatt’s HR director. flagship store. of is 18 August.
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RICHARD When a professor of

architecture finds that his
WESTON work is ‘so last season’, is

something seriously gone
awry? Jamie Mitchell talks
to Richard Weston, whose
scan explorations into rocks,
fossils and stones have
found their way on to fashion
items and accessories...
W
hen Richard Weston bought a capricious world of fashion. ‘I do have my
computer scanner and began using worries about fashion,’ he says. ‘I understand
it to capture images of minerals, its logic and its commercialism and of course
fossils and stones, the professor of architecture I know how it works. But I do find it slightly
at Cardiff University never expected to see dispiriting that some of my most beautiful
scarves printed with the resulting patterns images are now “last season”, and that’s it
sell for more than £100 a piece at London as far as the fashion world’s concerned.’
department store Liberty – let alone to have his Fashion may have given instant life to the
own picture splashed across the fashion pages images, but as a trained architect Weston
of several national newspapers. But that’s just is keen to see them applied, with greater
what happened. longevity, to the design of furniture and
‘When I started scanning the images I buildings. The designs, which after all come
thought they might be good as pictures to from nature, fit perfectly with the current trend
hang on the wall, or something,’ muses the of designing buildings that look more organic,
60-year-old, who has published several books and with the emergence of digital technology
on modern architecture, ‘but I never expected that could change the look of a building at the
all this.’ touch of a button it’s likely that buildings will
As well as scarves you can now buy iPad soon look however we want them to look,
and iPhone covers printed with the many rather than simply looking like the materials
images and patterns Weston has captured with they are made of. All of this, Weston thinks,
his high-powered scanner, and he and his could bring greater opportunities.
business partner, who trade under the name Born in Leicester in 1953, Weston went
of Weston Earth Images, have plans to expand to Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys
into the worlds of architecture and interior (Richard Attenborough’s old school). The
design, with ranges of ceramic tiles and carpet building wasn’t very inspiring in itself, but
tiles in the pipeline. it was near Leicester University’s Stirling-
The moment Weston began to think of Gowan’s Engineering Building and this,
his labour of love as a potentially successful Weston thinks, may have given him his first
ancillary career came when he was listening to taste for architecture.
Radio 4’s Today programme one morning and ‘I did have a very early and uninformed
heard Ed Burstell, the American-born encounter with that major piece of architecture
managing director of Liberty, talking about and I did see endless coaches of Japanese and
reviving the American tradition of an ‘open other tourists coming to look at,’ he
day’ where customers can come and present remembers. ‘But I think I can honestly say
their own homemade products to department- what really did lead me to architecture was,
store buyers. It was to be televised for a new from the age of about five to 14, playing with
TV show, Britain’s Next Big Thing. Weston Meccano and making model aeroplanes.’
turned up to one of the open days feeling Later, when a friend showed Weston
confident that his creations would wow Burstell a prospectus for the architecture degree
– and they did. at Manchester University, he thought, ‘Oh
Since then he has become the unlikely focus great – you can do a degree in model making.’
of fashion editorials, including one in Vogue He duly applied and was accepted.
that described him as ‘perhaps fashion’s most Nature quickly became a preoccupation.
unexpected new design star’. ‘On the first-year course, my very first project
‘It’s been interesting,’ says Weston, when was to analyse a leaf, and my lecturer’s whole
I ask him about the media attention. But the approach was a kind of abstract way of looking
academic is naturally wary of the fickle and at form in general terms.’
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Around this time Weston became
‘transfixed’ by the ideas of American architect
Louis Kahn, whom he heard speak in
Manchester shortly before Kahn died in 1974.
After Manchester, Weston went on to study
landscape architecture at the University of
Pennsylvania in Philadelphia before returning
to England where he practiced as an architect
for three years, eventually moving into
academia and developing a passion for writing.
Since then he has published several books,
including a monograph on the Finnish
architect Alvar Aalto and a study of the
modernist movement, entitled Modernism.
While Weston has no plans to give up his
day job, he is hopeful that he can grow Weston
This image shows photographed at Earth Images into a fairly successful business.
a scan of Mexican Southerndown, ‘We’re gradually growing, and we’re planning
fluorite, which a coastal village in
Weston used for south Wales. Below on exhibiting some of our new work at
one of his silk satin left, a house in Clerkenwell Design Week this month and
scarves. Above right, Camden, London, 100% Design in September,’ he says.
Richard Weston, designed by Patel
an unlikely fashion Taylor, who used ‘We’ve booked our slot and they’re letting
focus? Below,a scarf silk-in-glass louvres us bring in a shipping container as our stand,
with a pattern from with images Weston which is going to be a sort of “container of
Montana agate, scanned from agate
curiosity” all about my house, which I
designed, my studio and all the related interior
products that we’re working on. We’ll also
show, not just things for the house but
wallpapers and tiles and all sorts of finishes,
and hopefully convey a vision of how this lot
might come together in a 3D environment,
rather than simply isolated pieces of fabric.’
Whatever happens, it’s clear that Weston
is having lots of fun exploring the possibilities
of his idea. But the story is also a fascinating
example of a modern phenomenon in which
the availability of technology is allowing
amateurs to produce goods and services
that would previously have been beyond
their capabilities.
Says Weston: ‘I used to say that because
I indulged in buying a top-end Epson
printer, which was the best colour printer
in the world at that time, I could produce
images of the same quality as anybody –
in my garage. When, in human history, has
that been possible?’
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ephemeral factors on urban environments’. The
design team is Layton Reid, Dan Evans, Affan Designed for a Marcus Cyclonic Urbis are As a charity pro-bono
Beg, Darren Farrell, Hearan Kim, Shane McRae, Evans event called ‘prototype mini-cities’. project, Desitecture
Adam Esposito, Lee Miles, Greg Epps, Louis Vertical Cities, Air Hive Their location allows designed an Elementary
Bibby, Mehmet Sisman, Simon To, Christopher is a concept for a them to harvest wind as School in The Gambia.
Richard Hall and Leroy Kerry. residential and a source of energy, and The project was begun
community development their climatic location by Patrick Augustus, the
WHY: in the favelas of Rio allows the creation musician, author and
With its mission ‘to make the everyday de Janeiro. The building of micro climates, founder of Lewisham Way
extraordinary’, Desitecture has won considerable would sit on stilts above which in turn aid the Black Fathers Support
media attention internationally, yet is relatively the existing favelas and production of sustainable Group, which helped
unknown in the UK. would contain allotment resources, and bring the raise funds. The idea for
The practice’s work revaluates the way we and park areas, a hotel, city centre to the edge. the design came from
perceive the modern city and work includes shops, bars, restaurants, The glazed ‘cliffs’ Augustus seeing a boy in
proposals for floating bridges on the Straits of and facilities for health of the landscape The Gambia unfolding a
Gibraltar and a room in a bag. ‘Desitecture is and education. support the clearly discarded empty cigarette
here to ask real questions beyond convention,’ The project was artificial landscape box. The boy told him he
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PROJECT 1
Once upon a time occupying ‘the corner Previous page, the of the office and in turn have been working on. Employees can transfer
office’ was the zenith of many an office worker’s reception desk is an allow natural light from new concepts, the current project status or
integral part of the
aspirations; these days the brightest and best in-room structure, the actual office windows sources of inspiration, on to a virtual pinboard
are more likely to chose a workplace for its created in HI-MACS. to permeate the structure; and project the content on to the free-form
propensity for fun and collaboration – especially Top, meeting rooms sit plants have been placed structure via a gesture-controlled projector.
if they work in the digital media industry. beyond the 22m-long between the structure This manner of presentation reflects the
structure. Above left,
With fierce competition to bag the best ‘windows’ in the and the office windows ‘creative and playful character of the design
workers, even small digital-media companies are structure allow in light to add some colour to the process’ says 3deluxe.
pulling out all the stops to create unusual and from the building’s otherwise neutral space Beyond the structure, is a lounge area is
unforgettable workplaces. actual windows. Above and to give a natural screened off by a piece of furniture, also made
right, a coffee bar in
This was the case when SYZYGY, a media HI-MACS screens off counterpoint to the ultra- of HI-MACS. Dual purpose, it has a coat closet
agency in Frankfurt, approached architecture a lounge area modern-looking design. one side and a coffee bar the other. The coffee
practice 3deluxe with a brief to redesign its The agency’s logo has bar area is defined by a white-cast epoxy resin
office. ‘The client wanted a space that would been CNC-milled into the front of the reception floor, while all other office zones have been
attract young creatives and would also help the counter and is backlit by green LEDs to reference fitted with carpet.
agency to secure new business,’ says 3deluxe. the green in the company’s corporate identity. ‘The floor covering design corresponds
Other than that, the brief was open. ‘We were Lighting and furniture, including a table to the flowing lines of the interior fittings,’ say
asked to create a place where formal and topped with olive wood veneer, are integrated the designers. Carpet in two tones of grey was
informal communication, as well as work and into the structure. used to create a pattern of flowing shapes
break activities, can take place side by side, 3deluxe often uses smooth sculptural inspired by the structure made of HI-MACS.
and staff and clients share the same space,’ elements in its architecture and the designers 3deluxe says that SYZYGY’s staff are very
say the designers. say HI-MACS, a composite material made of happy with the newly designed office, but
3deluxe created a soft-looking amorphous stone and acrylic, was perfect material for this because the brief also asked for workplace
structure made of white HI-MACS. Inside it is purpose. ‘We often choose acrylic mineral that would attract potential new employees,
the reception desk as well as areas for informal material for our projects because it represents 3deluxe decided to post pictures of the office
working, breakout areas and a waiting area our design language very well. We wanted to on Facebook to gauge the reaction.
for visitors. integrate jointless, dynamic forms with resistant ‘The first reactions of Facebook users to
At 22m long, this room-within-a-room is surfaces, and this material can also be relief- the pictures of SYZYGY has been completely
described by 3deluxe as ‘the communicative milled to enable light to pass through it.’ positive,’ say the designers. ‘Many people said
heart of the agency.’ Its ultra modern-looking There’s no doubt that the structure will make they were interested in working in an office like
architecture is also designed to contrast with a big first impression with visitors, but it is also this and so we are very satisfied that we’ve done
the original features of the office, which is in designed to be functional, say the designers. our job.’ Words by Jamie Mitchell
a 19th-century building from the period known Two differently sized seating sections, equipped
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When Architecture PLB entered a competition Previous page, the

to design the new Sir Robert Woodard Academy entrance foyer
between the ‘mini
in West Sussex, its architects decided to keep barbican and the
an open mind when it came to the design – a theatre. Above,
strategy that director Mike Skilton thinks was break-out area for the
effective in winning the project. sixth-form’s chapter.
Right, a double height
‘From the outset we wanted to take a step space over the
back, to really understand the brief and test it school’s dining area
with the client,’ says Skilton. ‘Whereas some
of the practices competing for the job may have
had certain preconceptions, we decided that we
weren’t going to design anything until we fully
understood what the client wanted. I think they
saw this approach in a positive light because
we were really thorough and that we really took
the time to understand and test the brief.’
Digging into the brief, Skilton and his team
realised that there were two key considerations
when it came to the layout of the school: one
was that pupils were to be grouped into six
‘chapters’, each of which would have its own
‘house’; the other was that some of the school’s
facilities were also to be used after hours by the
local community.
Primarily on two floors, the Architecture PLB-
designed new main school building is wedge-
shaped, with three wings protruding from each
of its two longest sides. Each of these wings
is allocated to a chapter of 240 students from
different age groups; inside, each chapter house
has a its own chapter colour, which is also
highlighted on the exterior of the building with
coloured panels at the windows and around the
doors. Walls are picked out in shades of a colour
allocated to each chapter. Floors to the
circulation spaces in each chapter are finished
in coloured carpet or grey vinyl with coloured
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PROJECT 2
flecks. The double-height staff spaces at the Top left, the ‘We designed the with turquoise is one of the school colours.
entrance to each chapter are painted in the drum-shaped quiet building so that these One of Skilton’s favourite areas of the school
refection space hovers
chapter colours, and external canopies over at first-floor level over
spaces are as near to the is the ‘Space for Quiet Reflection’, a quiet
entrance doors are clad in coloured powder- the central dining main entrance as contemplation space on the first floor. The
coated metal to act as a beacon. Chapter colours space. Above left, the possible, meaning that Woodward Trust is a Christian organisation, and
are also represented in the upholstery of furniture. visitor main entrance the rest of the school can part of the brief involved creating an area where
has direct access to
The academy specialises in maths and visual community facilities.
be securely locked up students and staff (whether they are religious or
and performance arts, so a considerable slice of Above right, inside the in the evenings and at not) can go to pray, meditate or simply get away
the budget was allocated to creating theatre and quiet reflection space weekends, while the from the hustle and bustle. Religious references
performance spaces, which are also open to the community spaces have been kept minimal in the space, with just
local community outside of school hours. A remain open,’ says Skilton. a single cross on the wall. It is mostly white
nearby community college had had a theatre Two double-height drama studios have a with the backs of seats upholstered in lilac –
used by the local community but demolished, moveable partition between them to increase the a subtler version of the purple used throughout
and the proposals for this project included a their flexibility. They support the main the school.
replacement for this, as well as providing other performance space in the academy and also The idea of this project, says Skilton, was
facilities, such as sports and performance have a demountable stage and facilities to aid to create a ‘flagship academy’, and as such the
spaces, that could be used by the communities the production of performances, including budget allowed the designers to specify furniture
within the school catchment area. lighting and sound equipment operated from a and materials that go beyond those used in
The academy likes to see these arts and control room above. standard school buildings. ‘The sponsor and the
performance venues as a mini-cultural centre – On the first floor, the dance studios are local authority, which together were paying for
something like London’s Barbican Centre, says located above the entrance reception area. this building, were very keen to get something
Skilton. ‘A central part of the design brief The two studios also have a moveable partition that would be a flagship,’ says Skilton. ‘For the
revolved around the design and location of the between them to increase their flexibility. One Woodard Trust this was its first new-build
visual and performing arts centre, known is larger than the other to ensure that a 10m x academy. Previously it had been working out of
informally as the “mini Barbican”.’. The 10m clear area (a stipulation for dance in the existing buildings, so it was important for the
academy’s sponsor, the Woodward Trust, had curriculum). This larger studio is double height trust to have something it could shout about.’
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In a one-time christian Mission house
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A new breed of hamburger restaurant has Previous page, diners The ceiling was the one globes by John Moncrieff are suspended over it,
taken London by storm, inciting a foodie-fervour using the Private element of the space that and custom light fittings, also by John Moncrieff,
Room sit in front of a
of almost religious intensity. Appropriate, then, stained-glass window had no historical rise from behind a dining counter to support
that one of the latest of these, MEATmission, and lighting by John significance, so Shed more glass shades. On the windowsill is another
should be in a former Christian Mission house. Moncrieff. Above left, decided to make the most neon sign – this time simply spelling out the
This temple to the beef patty, in Hoxton a circular bar is clad of this, getting illustrator word MEAT.
in stainless steel tiles
Market in East London, is the third restaurant for under a backlit ceiling. I Love Dust to cover it in In the Sitting Room, where tables can be
Yianni Papoutsis, who has been instrumental in Above right, basic stained-glass-style reserved, design is a little softer and more
bringing ‘proper’ American-diner-style burgers bench seating sit artwork, whose designs comfortable, with banquettes upholstered in red
to London and whose stable also includes on the restored original allude to the history of velvet and a mahogany dining table with brass
parquet floor
MEATliquor and MEATmarket. All three are the MEAT restaurants. detailing. The rest of the room is filled with a mix
designed by Shed. Papoutsis actually started out A standard suspended of Victorian and vintage-French furniture, including
selling burgers from a van he called MEATwagon, ceiling grid commonly mismatched wood bistro chairs.
and perhaps because of this there’s a refreshingly used in offices was installed and fitted with 200 Fly-poster-style graphics on the ceiling and
non-corporate feel to all three restaurants – with a translucent tiles, printed with ilovedust’s design walls wrap the room in a haphazard geometric
sort of punky, DIY ethos. and backlit so that they glow like real stained pattern of images and illustrations telling the
‘Each venue in the MEAT series is born of glass. It’s a cost-effective way of making a big story of the MEAT restaurants. The space is lit
location, and the backdrop of MEATmission was impact in the space, and it works well. ‘We really with soft orange light from clear glass pendants
the most compelling yet,’ says Shed’s director didn’t know how the ceiling was going to look and red light that bleeds out through the kitchen’s
Matt Smith, who has given the latest restaurant until it was installed,’ says Smith, ‘but we’re really red butcher’s-style curtains.
a similarly dark, gothic feel to that of MEATliquor pleased with it.’ As you might imagine, MEATmission probably
but this time with a side-order of quasi-religious A circular metal bar covered with steel tiles isn’t the place to bring friends or relatives who are
imagery in a nod to the venue’s original function. is central to the main space. Hanging above it sensitive about religion; the irreverent take on
MEATmission has a dark, almost forbidding is a metal cage – the designers call a ‘chadebeer’ religious iconography might offend anyone of a
exterior with windows tinted black or printed with – that holds exposed beer lines and taps. Outlined serious religious persuasion, and vegetarians
illustrations that are made to glow by the lighting with blue electroluminescent wire it appears ought not to bother either. But MEATmission
inside the restaurant. Above the entrance on the skeletal in low light. knows its clientele – mostly young and hip who
exterior the word ‘MISSION’ appears in red, next The restaurant has three main rooms: the Great are happy to wait in line for what looks and feels
to an original stone carving bearing the words Hall, the Private Room and the Sitting Room. The like a unique place to eat.
‘Hoxton Market Christian Mission’. Great Hall is furnished with rudimentary long tables Words by Jamie Mitchell
Though the building has been used as a and bench seating in reclaimed timber and
restaurant before, many of its original features – tempered steel. Tables are topped with Georgian Main suppliers: Furniture: Pub Furniture
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manufacturers in the world. Much of what was
discussed has left more questions to explore, but one
of the serious points to emerge is just who takes the
credit for a successful product? Should designers
take more responsibility for sales and marketing
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success of the product? David Tarpey reports
Graham Jones,
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and current chairman of the
Design Guild Mark
Cherrill Barbara
Scheer, Chandler,
director of from The
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Mary
Tom Lloyd, Wiggin,
director of MD of
PearsonLloyd Coexistence
his latest outing in the FX Design

Sheridan Seminar series had
Coakley, a central theme of investment in
owner of SCP design that posed a question – should
manufacturers be involved – which
itself highlighted a conundrum. Though
the answer should be a no-brainer,
difficulties arose in trying to pinpoint the
reasons for such a dearth of investment
in British design and, more importantly,
how to resolve it.
There were a number of strands to
the discussion. It was broadly agreed
that foreigners like to be based in the
UK while overseas companies seem to
invest more in British design that UK
manufacturers. Jonathan Hindle, CEO
of KI and founding member of the
Design Guild Mark, said: ‘There seems
to be some kind of residual resistance
to our own manufacturers investing in
British design. At the same time a lot of
designers remain below the radar and
don’t seem to know where to start.’
This lack of a cohesive infrastructure
in the UK contract design sector was
a recurring theme. Comparisons with
a more holistic interior design industry
in Europe cropped up often and there
were several mentions of the concept of
the ‘middle men’. These sport characters

Mark
Gabbertas,
MD at
Gabbertas
‘On the Continent
Studio, with manufacturers prefer to
Tom Lloyd
(far right),
sell something different
director of and are happy to be
PearsonLloyd brave and alternative.
UK sales and marketing
people have a much
more watered down
view of what might sell’
– Mark Gabbertas
Jonathan
Hindle,
CEO of KI
and founding
member of the
Design Guild
Theresa Mark
Dowling,
FX editor

FX DESIGN SEMINAR
Simon
Pengelly,
MD of Pengelly
Designs
from both design and engineering

backgrounds combined with sales/
‘There mustn’t be this contempt be this contempt for the UK market.
You have to publicise your products and
marketing nous who are either key for the UK market. You have to show the producers what problems they
or irrelevant, depending on your stance,
to launching new designs on to the
publicise your products and show will solve and not keep talking about
how we can get people to be interested
market. These European ‘agents’ are the producers what problems they in the dreaded D word!’ she said.
able to present to manufacturers the
practical advantages and functions
will solve’ – Barbara Chandler But this was a seminar about
investing in design. Small wonder then
of new products. Our roundtable that the D word wouldn’t go away.
panel felt that while there would be And neither would the C word. Culture
a very welcome interface between watered down view of what might sell.’ emerged several times as a big barrier
manufacturers and designers, in the This cultural difference in how to why innovative UK design is not
UK this process is highly disjointed. design is perceived here versus across embraced here as much it might be.
And sensitivity to price was an the Channel can’t be underestimated. Graham Jones, vice president of
associated problem. Mark Gabbertas, Mark Gabbertas pointed out: ‘A lot Knoll Europe and current chairman
MD of furniture and product design of designers in countries such as Italy of the Design Guild Mark, illustrated
outfit Gabbertas Studio, pointed out: are also architects and patrons of this with an example from football
‘The British market is extraordinarily design over there and often have other culture: ‘You see it with highly paid
conservative and price driven. businesses behind them, such as hotels British Premiership players who’ll buy
Compared with Europe, its price points or cement factories. And they have a an expensive, ghastly car but then
are much lower. The UK post-war love affair with design. Here the priority get all their furniture from IKEA. It’s
market has always been aspirational is often just about the bottom line.’ different in Europe, where the equivalent
and not design driven. On the Barbara Chandler, freelance design player will have bespoke, high-quality
Continent, manufacturers prefer to sell writer on design for the Evening design. In the UK people seem to want
something different and are happy to Standard, interjected that it was what everyone else has and are just so
be brave and alternative. UK sales and important then to also demonstrate what conservative in their tastes.’
marketing people have a much more the products could do. ‘There mustn’t But is it a fair comparison to compare

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chav money with taste and good design? his products Hille was manufacturing? example of how Sir James Dyson, as
Owner of furniture manufacturer SCP Mark Gabbertas said: ‘Some a designer, became a global
Sheridan Coakley quipped: ‘Nobody designers have a role in selling the manufacturer because there was
ever lost money underestimating the value of their design to the client, but no backing for his original product.
safeness of the UK market,’ while Tom how far this is valued depends on how Looking beyond our shores was
Lloyd, of design studio PearsonLLoyd informed the client is. However flexible seen as absolute key to survival, for
said: ‘Too many people in the UK don’t you are with a lot of companies, you can both designers and manufacturers.
understand the value of design. They get sucked in to the morass of “Well, Indeed Tom Lloyd said that his
think it’s about cushions.’ we only do it in these colours” and so business had worked only with foreign
And while no one questioned the on, and of course they are also often manufacturers in its first decade: ‘We
innate creativity of the British (there are restricted by their distribution channels.’ didn’t sense in those first 10 years that
supposedly 280,000 working designers Sheridan Coakley felt one shouldn’t UK manufacturers would be interested.
in the UK), there emerged a strong sit back and hope for someone else to Because there isn’t a real value given to
sense that insularity was a barrier to do the hard work. He said: ‘Designers design in this country, it’s not rewarded.’
much greater success for those wishing should be persuading manufacturers His opinion was backed up by Simon
to pursue adventurous design. Or that there is a design worth investing Pengelly’s memory of his early years:
indeed to younger designers trying in. Dyson is a superb example of ‘My experience was of getting paid
to become established. a British designer’s company that peanuts. There was just a big lack of
Following Mark Gabbertas’s news continues to thrive. It demonstrates appreciation of design.’
that he had seen only a solitary British ongoing innovation, persistence and Once again mention was made of
designer represented at last April’s great marketing.’ Dyson is an interesting countries such as Italy where skills and
Milan Furniture Fair, Simon Pengelly, expertise were often present in a tight
of Pengelly Designs, said: ‘Our island geographical radius, thereby allowing
mentality seems to prevent us from a symbiosis of skills and expertise, be it
going abroad to sell. UK designers
‘Buying from a local in steel bending, textiles or carpentry.
display a lack of flag waving. You’ll manufacturer has Jonathan Hindle said that he knew of
generally see more of the people you small ‘hubs’ similar to this developing
want to sell to in one place, at a fair
obvious benefits such in Yorkshire, though they were still
like Milan, than you would here, but as accessibility to at embryonic stage. And Sheridan
trying to convince people to go is Coakley said that a wide pool of unused
almost impossible.’ customers and designers’ design skills still exists in traditional
There was general agreement that – Jonathan Hindle manufacturing areas such as the
British designers should be much more
proactive on several fronts, and not leave
it to the manufacturer. This would have
to include selling everything from the
concept of design to identifying a market
demand for their product. The example
was cited of how Italian designers
traditionally, and with great success,
sell to the German market. But then
the image and brand of Italy is closely
associated with the best of stylish design,
from handbags to sports cars (back to
rich footballers again!). The question of
where Britain’s USP might fit was taken
up by Jonathan Hindle.
He said: ‘I wonder how British
designers can distinguish themselves.
Should it be in marketing or through
sheer brand design? Also, our designers
haven’t yet sold the idea of design
to the UK public or manufacturers.
They have to persuade them that
it can represent profit, innovation
and something tangible.’
Cherrill Scheer, daughter of the Hille
family furniture empire of post-war
Britain, explained that Nanna Ditzel
was recognised in the street in Denmark
by the general public, which can’t be
said for Tom, Mark and Simon, all of
whom have contributed enormously to
the UK’s design profile. FX editor and
chair of the seminar Theresa Dowling
then asked Cherrill, would Robin Day Edward
have been so famous and become a Tadros,
household name had not the Hille Chairman
company taken him up and invested of Ercol
a fortune in his promotion, and that of

FX DESIGN SEMINAR
Potteries around Stoke-on-Trent. He ‘for all sorts of reasons’. These might and promote UK design – could it fill
thought it still possible to encourage include cultural difficulties in business the joined-up role that is lacking over
manufacturers back to that skills pool. practice, sheer distance and the carbon here but which Europe appears to have?
Barbara Chandler said that the footprint of importing goods across Could it fill the gaps that had been
process has already begun and that some thousands of miles. identified with regard to how the UK
young designers are passing on going Jonathan Hindle was more specific. could do it better? Could it provide
to places like the Royal College of Art ‘Buying from a local manufacturer has all the answers to satisfy designers,
and instead going straight to places like obvious benefits such as accessibility manufacturers, market conditions, UK’s
Stoke-on-Trent to base themselves. to customers and the designers, so design profile – and footballers’ taste?
Though small and pioneering these that when there’s a problem, it can A big ask indeed!
might seem now, they could be the be easily sorted out,’ he said. ‘Also,
start of a new area of innovative and China requires payment upfront before • Those attending the FX Design Seminar
pragmatic British enterprise. And there anything is delivered. And receiving at Knoll International’s offices in London
was a reminder that not everyone on any money from them can take a very, included Jonathan Hindle, CEO of KI
the Continent is getting it right. The very long time.” and founding member of the Design Guild
designers sitting around the table noted The overarching conclusion of this Mark; Graham Jones, vice president of
that their experience of dealing with seminar was the need for a much more Knoll Europe and current chairman of the
Spanish companies was of massive synergistic approach. There was a strong Design Guild Mark; Tom Lloyd, director
inflexibility. It was mind-boggling, realisation that UK retailers, designers of PearsonLloyd; Mark Gabbertas, MD
depressing and frustrating, reported one: and manufacturers must begin to be at Gabbertas; Sheridan Coakley, owner of
‘They make the Yorkshire hubs look more proactive, less isolated and much SCP; Mary Wiggin, MD of Coexistence;
very sophisticated!’ keener to talk and cooperate with one Edward Tadros, chairman of Ercol;
There was a brief discussion on another. Looking to the Continent for Simon Pengelly, MD of Pengelly Designs;
whether manufacturing that had ideas on working more closely could be Cherrill Scheer, director of Cherrill Scheer
relocated to places such as China might a start. And selling much more abroad Associates, and Barbara Chandler from
start to reconsider coming back to the should be high on the wish list too. If The Evening Standard. FX editor Theresa
UK, perhaps to places like Stoke-on- that happens, maybe it will produce a Dowling chaired the seminar
Trent or Yorkshire. UK flooring design head of steam that will excite UK public
firm Amtico is one such example of a taste and curiosity and might even instil
company that has returned to the UK the deeper sense of appreciation here
(Coventry) from China. Simon Pengelly that British designers so long for.
said that this is becoming a trend and There was much talk of the Design
that UK businesses are leaving China Council and its role to facilitate business
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death. Within two years only the changing large numbers of failed lamps
most blinkered user or specifier will and the CMH solved this problem.
While Ceramic Metal Halide and be installing CMH. Indeed, by this Although the light quality was not as
halogen lamps are inexorably being time many of the larger users will good as halogen and cost a lot more,
be taking out existing fixtures and CMH lasted much longer and as
pushed aside by LEDs, which replacing them with more efficient energy was starting to cost more,
outperform both on most counts, solid-state luminaires. there was a payback story.
CMH came to the market around Now most, but not all, of the
Gary Heald warns users to do their 1994. Many large, high-street lighting property departments were happy. But
homework before moving over, users with huge amounts of display many users were unhappy and are still
space were quick to adopt it because not happy with the light quality of
as disappointment may lie ahead at that time the only alternatives CMH. While suppliers claim a CRI
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of more than 90 measurements in R9 aside by regulation as halogen is, but other light source you have ever bought.
(red) are very low, and despite a much will be shunned by the users who At best, LED performs way beyond
longer life lumen depreciation is recognise better efficacy, a large anything that has been available before,
relatively quick, so a new lamp after improvement in light quality and but many products, even from well-
nine months looks and performs significant maintenance savings as known manufacturers, will disappoint.
significantly less well. Lamp changes far better value for money. More than at any other time, companies
become a very expensive monthly We have been witnessing a relatively will need to do their due diligence
requirement unless you pay the huge quick change in a nationally slow- before investing, as many lighting
one-off cost of planned maintenance. moving industry to LED products, but companies appear to have very little idea
Halogen remains popular in markets we are now at the very cusp of mass of how LED lighting works. I imagine
where energy is cheaper and is still used adoption. LED luminaires at their very that for a user this task could prove
by many ‘high-end’ users to display best match halogen for light quality almost impossible, but it will have
couture or luxury goods for example, and surpass its consistency while to be done because right now linear
or to illuminate museums and galleries. outperforming CMH in every way; LED products surpass the efficacy
This is because despite significant we measure performance consistency, of the humble fluorescent lamp – 107
improvements, CMH is poor in light quality and longevity. against 92 lumens per watt, despite
quality and consistency. This new technology is not as only costing £3.
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a sparkle, a joie de vivre and vitality that believe, but users beware – the majority inexpensive fluorescent tube will also
engender a romantic attachment that of all new LED luminaires in the market start to be replaced in large numbers
many people will miss. And as no one may disappoint. LED is a generic term as energy costs spiral upwards, while
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Once upon a time, children’s
hospitals’ efforts to distract or amuse
their patients were token – a cartoon
character mural here, a decorative
mobile there. The latest schemes offer
everything from aerial walkways and
meerkat enclosures to more quietly
sophisticated spaces designed
to support patient, parent, siblings
and staff, says Veronica Simpson
O
ver the past couple of years,
new children’s healthcare
schemes have emerged that
demonstrate how very seriously
healthcare providers now take this
patient group – and their carers – as
well as how far design has come in the
engineering of healthcare spaces which
reassure and support their occupants.
Daylight, uplifting and strategic
use of colour and materials, clear
wayfinding, ample garden spaces
and greenery are deployed in bold
and generous measure. But there are
clearly many ways to calm a stressed-
out family.
For the traumatised parents at
Bath’s Dyson Centre for Neonatal
Care, being given a space – even a
window ledge – to take ‘time out’ from
the intense activity surrounding their
child is as important as providing a
clear sense of progress via layout and
signage to show that a child’s treatment
is progressing well.
When a child is sick, the whole
family gets involved – siblings included.
One of the most impressive schemes for
maximising family engagement has to
be Melbourne’s Royal Children’s
Hospital, designed by Billard Leece
Partnership (BLP), with Bates Smart
and HKS. Its art-filled public spaces
JOhn GOllinGs
feature not just a museum-quality
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Inspired by the hospital’s setting, in Melbourne’s Royal
Park, The Royal Children’s Hospital is filled with light and
nature – real and imagined. Designed by architects at Billard
Leece Partnership, along with Bates Smart and HKS, the
six-storey building features a museum-quality aquarium by
the reception desk, and a meerkat enclosure in the children’s
waiting area. A six-storey ‘Main Street’ at the heart of the
building leaves ample space for performance, large-scale
artworks, and – through its intersecting walkways and
bridges at each level – a constant view on to patient activity
for clinicians and researchers who occupy the upper floors.
A star-shaped inpatient building is sited to the north, set
into the actual parkland. Medical procedures are conducted
away from calm, soft-toned bedrooms, to ensure that these
spaces are a haven for both patient and families. Separation
of clinical and support areas allows those areas not used
24/7 to be shut down, reducing energy consumption. Bio-
mass heating and solar thermal panels reduce the building’s
carbon footprint, along with blackwater treatment and
rainwater recovery programmes. The building is filled with
art, as well as animals, including a 14m-high ‘creature’ in
the atrium, by Melbourne artist Alexander Knox, and Jane
Reiseger’s charming wall illustrations that aid wayfinding.
––––
Client: State Government of Victoria / Architects: Billard
Leece Partnership/Bates Smart/HKS (USA) / Size: 165,000
sq m / Cost: $1bn (Aus) / Completed: 2011 / Art
consultant: Bronwen Colman

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aquarium in the reception foyer but from), where the zoo is also located. (the enclosure itself is open to the sky,
also a meerkat enclosure, managed As a result, says Billard, the client though protected from the elements).
and maintained by staff from nearby had time and reason to look at all the We put it where the maximum number
Melbourne Zoo. Ron Billard, director most compelling research into the role of kids would benefit from it – there
of BLP says: ‘We were very aware of of nature and daylight as restorative are 350,000 presentations a year in that
the importance of distraction and and healing agents, while visiting group of clinics.’
attractions to make the hospital a more benchmark projects around the world, But a few show-stopping features
appealing place to come to. These as the international design competition aren’t enough to make a healthcare
features have had an enormous impact. progressed. Says Billard: ‘By the time building work. According to Billard, one
I keep coming across parents who just the competition was decided, the client of the most successful design elements is
rave about it all – their kids actually was very focused on best practice. That the way the central atrium ‘Main Street’
enjoy going to the hospital now.’ gave us an enormous boost. We had a unites and clarifies wayfinding on every
Not every design team can forge client that was completely switched on.’ level through its network of bridges and
links with a zoo. This scheme, and its While aquaria and meerkats are walkways. Says Billard: ‘The research
unique animal features, were very much guaranteed to delight the under 12s, staff are on the top two floors but
inspired by the logic of BLP’s initial placement is crucial. Billard explains: every day they have to interact with the
master plan, which proposed moving ‘The meerkat enclosure is right at the children’s hospital below, as they are
the children’s hospital to within the end of the outpatient clinic courtyard, walking around the building. When we
Royal Park (which the existing hospital behind glass so that the kids can look at visited with a team from Perth, where
was adjacent to but had been separated them all they like without touching them we’re designing another children’s
Dyson Centre for neonatal

Care, BATH
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The new Neo Natal Intensive Care Unit at Bath’s Royal
United Hospital (RUH) is intended to be at the forefront
of sustainable and patient-family-friendly intensive care.
The RUH specifically commissioned a non-healthcare
architecture practice, Feilden Clegg Bradley (FCB), to
approach the project afresh.
The single-storey new-build extension is constructed
of large, cross-laminated timber panels, which form part
of a breathable wall of wood, fibre insulation and timber
cladding. Exposed timber internal panels are coated with
white translucent paint for ease of cleaning, adding a quasi-
domestic interior feel. Feature-wall colours are coded to aid
wayfinding, ranging from green for intensive care through
to pinks and oranges for the less critical areas. Care rooms
are grouped around a central staff base to ensure visibility.
A landscaped courtyard between the neonatal and
delivery units provides a ‘decompression’ zone for parents,
overlooked by three comfortable parent rooms. In the
critical care rooms, generously proportioned window ledges
become seats for parents. Brothers and sisters have their
own brightly coloured, highly interactive sibling room,
featuring bespoke play equipment.
A walk-in duct along the spine of building accommodates
all air-handling equipment so that maintenance staff can
access and adjust equipment without entering the NICU
unit – thereby helping with infection control. Sustainability
initiatives include a sedum roof, low-flow water fittings,
rainwater harvesting and a combined heat and power unit
providing low-carbon electricity and heat.
––––
Client: Royal United Hospital, Bath NHS Trust /
Architects: Feilden Clegg Bradley / Construction value:
£3m / Opened: February 2012 / Healthcare researcher:
Desireland / Sibling space design: Boex

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hospital, the research team thought didn’t have all the usual trappings of a The building has been garlanded
that was fantastic. It reminds them clinical environment.’ FCB’s building with several awards, including two
why they’re there.’ is constructed of cross-laminated RIBA awards (one for the building,
Feilden Clegg Bradley’s solution timber panels, with timber visible inside one for its client), and ‘Best Inpatient
for its client, the Dyson Centre for and out. Says Vaudin: ‘Using timber Facility Design’ at the Building Better
Neonatal Care, is at the opposite end makes the whole place feel completely Healthcare Awards 2012.
of the spectrum in terms of bells and different. Putting pictures of Mickey In both cases, the inspirational and
whistles, and solves a different set of Mouse on the walls and bright colours holistic solutions to specific client and
emotional and logistical issues for its just wasn’t appropriate – particularly occupant issues have been achieved in
occupants. One of the clearest findings because babies are only just about aware no small part thanks to the architects
from the stakeholder workshops that of night and day. It doesn’t need to look getting involved early on.
the practice attended was the degree like a day nursery.’ The same is true of Medical
of stress typically experienced in a Equally effective, says Vaudin, Architecture (MAAP)’s new child
neonatal unit, and the need to alleviate is the psychological sense of progress and adolescent mental healthcare
it by any means possible. Says FCB that the unit affords, by placing rooms centre in England’s North. For this
partner Matt Vaudin: ‘For the parents, in a clear hierarchy of care (colour project, completed in October 2011,
being in the neo-natal unit is one of the coded to highlight each shift), consultations kicked off as far back as
most stressful things they could ever progressing from intensive to high 2005, when a choice of sites presented
endure. We wanted to use lots of natural dependency, then special care, then themselves. What has resulted,
light and a very calm interior that parents’ rooms, then home. according to architect David Davies,
Randall ChildRen’s
hospital, poRtland, OREGON
––––
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca (ZGF) was asked to consolidate
the previously dispersed pediatric care facilities at Legacy
Emmanuel Medical Center in Portland and create a new
identity for the children’s hospital on its campus. The
resulting building and uplifting interiors were inspired
by values established between ZGF and the hospital’s
leadership team: to create a building that was comfortable
for all ages, full of inspiration, with a sense of unexpected
discovery and thoughtful distractions.
ZGF took its inspiration from the natural world, with
local geographic colourings used to distinguish departments,
and local fauna appearing in uplifting art works. Public
areas feature soft, curving forms as well as patterning
inspired by games and objects familiar to children. Most
importantly, the facilities, design and layout place family-
centred care at its heart.
The new nine-storey building is filled with non-
institutional textures, materials and facilities, such as
bamboo doors on patient rooms, sculptural wood pendant
lights. Patients and families can spend quality time together
in a range of spaces, including two-storey family lounges
in the patient floors, a wellness centre for families to work
out in, a 20-seater theatre for movie viewings, and games
rooms. A teen lounge offers foosball table, gaming software
and casual, flexible seating. The 165 inpatient bedrooms
feature high ceilings, ample storage, pull-out beds for parent
sleepovers, entertainment centres and views on to the city or
mountains. The facility also houses the Children’s Cancer
and Blood Disorder Unit; a new pediatric emergency
department and a day-surgery unit with direct access to
surgery in the main hospital. A tunnel connection, a first-
floor gallery connection and second-floor bridge provide
convenient links to the existing hospital’s support services.
A separate staff work room and lounge has been provided
on each floor, with lounges on the south side of the building
overlooking gardens and views.
––––
Client: Legacy Health / Architecture and interior /
Design: Zimmer Gunsul Frasca / Size: 31,000 sq m /
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is ‘a completely new service model. It the children’s demands were usually Inspired by the building’s tranquil,
involves a reworking from the Trust side accommodated, even when they wooded setting, each ward is identified
about how it was delivering its services contradicted the initial instructions. by a particular two-tone colour palette
as well as creating a new building For example, says Davies: ‘The initial and animal. Poems and symbols evoking
typology and new accommodations.’ brief hadn’t allocated much space to the these animals and colours weave their
Davies and interior designer Scott multipurpose hall, but when the kids way from the wards along the route
Stewart spent a lot of time listening saw it they said they wanted to play five- until they collide in the main social
to what the young occupants wanted. a-side football. So it was expanded.’ spaces. So wayfinding is oriented
The facility houses a very vulnerable As designs evolved, MAAP even towards the child inpatients, rather
group of inpatients – children ranging made a full-sized mock-up of a than the visitor.
in age from four to 18, with moderate bedroom, allowing patients’ comments Stewart adds: ‘The quality and
to severe learning difficulties and some to impact on final designs – if they felt finishes are also so much better than
with severe psychological illnesses. wardrobes should be bigger, they were people expect – the lead clinician was
Working closely with a committed and made bigger. Says Stewart: ‘Making key in driving this. She wanted the
passionate client team – steered by mock-ups was invaluable because by the place to feel more like a hotel than an
clinical lead Jane Gibson – and with time you come to the final thing, you institution – even down to the duvet
energy and motivation maintained know it’s right.’ The team also brought covers in the bedrooms being reversible,
thanks to a high standard of teamwork in a poet and an artist to work with the in the same two-tone scheme that
and communication between architects, young people in evolving a delightfully each ward is identified by, so the kids
designers, contractors and clinicians, counterintuitive wayfinding scheme. can choose what colour they want
Bayt aBdullah Children’s

hospiCe, Kuwait
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Bayt Abdullah provides a state-of-the-art facility for children
and their families as they deal with the traumatic final months
of the children’s lives. Developed by the Kuwait Association
for the Care of Children charity (KACCH) under its president
Dr Hilal Al Sayer and his wife, founder and director, Margaret
Al Sayer, it is the largest inpatient healthcare facility in the
world dedicated to terminally ill children. The three-storey
building includes a mixture of family accommodation, day-
care facilities, auditorium, library, hydrotherapy and gym,
school and pottery studio. Sensory rooms are used for
counselling and therapy, and there are outdoor and indoor
sensory gardens. There are also 11 private chalets, overlooking
a nature reserve and Kuwait bay. London Eye creator Marks
Barfield Architects was brought on board to design several
fantastical but fully accessible playground features, including
a kaleidoscopic observation wheel, a ‘magic carpet’ and an arial
walkway that proceeds above the rooftops to an observation
platform overlooking a flamingo feeding ground and nature
reserve. The 15m-high wheel features eight ‘pods’ that can
accommodate up to five children each, including wheelchair
users. Naturally ventilated, they are shaded by a perforated
canopy of rainbow colours reflecting the tones of the wheel.
The scheme itself was inspired by architect Alia Al Ghunaim’s
graduate thesis on pediatric facilities. NBBJ worked closely
with her to develop sympathetic interiors, graphics and
signage. Interiors are vibrant, playful and child-scaled, from
the low-level seating in all areas to the fantasy fibre-optic light-
fittings and wall alcoves provided for play or storage. Materials
are high quality, cost effective and long lasting: flooring is
tough, commercial-standard rubber sheeting, Corian is used
for counter tops, walls are Armourcoat, and there is maple
cabinetry and millwork.
––––
Project: Bayt Abdullah Children’s hospice, Kuwait /
Client: Kuwait Association for the Care of Children
(KACCH) / Architect: Alia Al Ghunaim, with Gulf
Consult / Interior architecture and design: NBBJ /
Playground architecture: Marks Barfield Architects
/ Landscape architect and engineer: Gulf Consult /
Cost: $30m US / Area: 14,400 sq m / Opened: 2012

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uppermost. She wanted mattresses that but they way they work. one of the physician’s two or three exam
were better than standard too. There As anyone with young children rooms and then they are expedited. It’s
are also big areas with pinboards so knows, waiting is its own form of like air-traffic control. There’s a tracking
they can make it theirs.’ torture, inducing high levels of stress system that knows where the patients
High-quality and durable furniture in both child and carer. Global practice and clinicians are as they move through
was sourced from the leisure industry HKS has developed a new clinic design the facility. In the past, many clinics
rather than use typical institutional that aims to minimise it. Pioneered at would say come in at 7am and we’ll get
items. Says Stewart: ‘We involved Children’s Hospital Dallas, this system to you when we get to you. This way
ourselves with those reps – the sports entails providing a standardised module they can tell them to come in at 10am,
hall floor is the same quality as the of 12 examination rooms arranged in a and they’ll be seen by 10.30am.’
gymnasium in the Olympics. It’s way that allows rooms to be assigned to HKS has now rolled this out to
just a case of haggling. Ironmongery a specific clinic as needed. Each module several other facilities, including
is massively important to get right. has its own small waiting area to serve Melbourne. After 30 years in the
Developing bespoke products together the daily clinics, tied in to an electronic field, Dennis knows what he’s talking
(at an early enough stage) doesn’t patient tracking system. All the essential about when he says children’s hospitals
make them more expensive.’ support elements for the medical staff are more challenging than adult ones.
It is this kind of attention to detail – to run the clinics are in place. ‘But,’ he concludes, ‘they are so much
driven by the passion and engagement Ron Dennis, principal and director of more exciting, because they have
of design and client teams – that makes children’s health facilities at HKS, says: to take into account not just the
all the difference to child healthcare ‘The efficiency happens because when medical but the emotional and
spaces; not just the way they look the patient comes in, they are assigned to psychological experience.’
Ferndene,
PRUDHOE, NORtHUmbERlaND
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Surrounded by forests and greenery, Medical Architecture’s
40-bedroom residential centre is designed for inpatient
assessment and treatment for young people with complex
health, behavioural and emotional needs, including learning
disabilities. Children aged four to 18 are housed in four single-
storey ward blocks which extend out to the rear of
a two-storey, central shared-activity and ‘school’ building,
like fingers from a hand, with a clear progression from public
to private spaces. The main block’s facilities include a cafe,
sports hall and a conference room that doubles as a cinema.
Open-plan offices on the first floor provide superior staff
accommodation together with excellent passive supervision via
rear glazing overlooking wards, courtyards and play areas.
All stakeholder groups were involved in consultations.
An attempt to marry both security and dignity is evident
in the final design. Each inpatient has their own bedroom –
most with en-suite bathrooms – arranged around three sides
of a central courtyard also overlooked from the ward lounge
area. Furnishings throughout are non-institutional for a
more homely or hotel-like feel. A flat is provided for visiting
parents to use.
Naturally ventilated and daylit, the central building is
designed in zones to eliminate corridors and also facilitate
localised use of areas, thereby minimising energy consumption
during winter months. Cool greens, referencing the natural
setting, are used inside and outside the building, with random-
patterned louvres and exterior tiling contrasting with the simple
geometry of the white rendered buildings.
––––
Client: Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation
Trust / Architecture, interiors and landscape: Medical
Architecture (MAAP) / Cost: £27m / Area: 5,347 sq m
/ Opened: October 2011 / Structural engineer: Arup /
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PLAY TIME Young patients at the Royal London Hospital,

Whitechapel, get energetic with an interactive game at the newly completed Ann
Riches Healing Space. It is one of two new spaces for youngsters – the other is an
outdoor ‘sky garden’ – offering healing environments away from conventional
hospital wards. Created by designer Morag Myerscough and architecture practice
Cottrell and Vermeulen, the design incorporates some Alice in Wonderland magic
with its oversized chair, TV and lamp, not to mention Twoo the wise owl. The
project was the result of an RIBA competition.
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From a media and

publishing expo where print
still has everyone in thrall, to
the work of graphic design
students who are equally
confined by traditional
media, Aidan Walker pities
both students and their
teachers trying to converse
with the real world
I
had this one down for a column
about communication design,
because I’d just come away from
Publishing & Media Expo where I did a
seminar programme for the assembled
glitterati of publishing (common theme:
‘No one knows what the f*** is going on
and anyone who says they do is a liar’)
and planned to regale you with tales of
what the cleverest magazine designers
and art directors are doing with apps.
The Top Gear magazine app, for
instance, created by Andy Wise and his
team at Engine Creative, is a thing of
beauty, dynamism, seduction, thrill and
compulsion. More of a competitor to the
TV programme than it is to the
magazine, it does so many things that a
magazine just can’t, and some that not
even a TV programme can.
But despite of all the kerfuffle about
the ‘digital space’ and apps and all that
e-malarkey, the vast majority of
publishing activity (and revenue) is still
firmly tied up with print. Magazine
publishers have been tardy about
grasping the app nettle, many of them
perhaps remembering the very deep and
very cold baths they took when internet
publishing first took hold and they spent
(in some cases) millions without having
a clear idea of how and when they were
going to get their money back.
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One thing we can say for sure is that storyboards, building later towards It wasn’t all bad: there was evidence
is while print may be very much the moving image/text/sound pieces. of some very astute thinking,
present, it isn’t the future. Which is why One can only conclude that college particularly in research, and of course
it was very interesting to be a panel is for experimentation and exploration, we had to constantly remind ourselves
member at a day-long studio crit at conceptual and ‘blue sky’ thinking that that this was halfway through the year
the Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, will inform these students’ practice when and we were looking at unresolved
Architecture and Design or the Cass they get into the real world. I believe projects. It brought home to me with a
(formerly London College of Furniture, we saw the work of some exceptionally thump how difficult it must be to teach
among other titles), where we were creative and powerful imaginations in interior design in this day and age.
presented with a raft of graphic that and other graphics studios, and If you’re a student proposing a new
design projects and then interiors. deeply impressed we all were. Not quite ‘work, play, rest’ office interior for
Communication design, yes, but in the same story when it came to the BNY Mellon’s new ways of working on
a very different context. interiors, however. the 49th floor of One Canada Square,
I was taken somewhat by surprise – I was on the panel with Phil how likely are you, a rookie 22-year-old
I didn’t even know the college that Hutchinson, joint MD of BDG designer, to be able to come up with
I still think of as the LCF did graphics. Workfutures, and Marta Nowicka radical space or furniture solutions that
So I was keen to see what the clever of Marta Nowicka & Co Design and have escaped from BDG or Pearson
young things are thinking about and Development, who have forgotten Lloyd, for example? And how, as
doing when it comes to apps and the more about the proper professional a teacher, can you get your students
digital stuff. Pretty much nothing, is practice of design than I will ever to conquer the complexity of the
the answer. know, and even for them there was multiple elements of a successful
Apart from the output of one ‘studio’ demonstrable ‘underwhelm’. workplace interior? No easy task.
that rejoiced under the name of Screen Bright spot on the horizon? It was
Entrepreneurs, all seven groups whose the last studio we saw, whose title
work we saw were working in traditional played a punning game with the words
media. Even the Screen Entrepreneurs ‘real’ and ‘retail’. The brief had sprung
weren’t talking about apps. Their from the palpable disconnect between
favourite thing was isotypes, or images ‘The experience was the ordinary town centre of Stratford
that tell a story where normally words
do the job. Being a words guy I have
a salutary one because and the new Westfield shopping centre.
We were treated to a collection of
my doubts, and would most certainly it gave me a much mobile ‘devices’ or enclosures that took
have binned the entirely graphical CVs
the students had done for themselves
clearer insight into the the form of a kind of giant, wheeled,
double-height kitchen unit, sporting
as part of the project – unlike my process of teaching sections devoted, for instance,
colleagues on the panel, all of whom
are designers and all of whom loved
design than I have had to photography, a mini workshop
and a cafe.
without reservation the idea that they in more than 20 years In one case the idea was that the
could read someone’s CV without
having to tussle with actual words.
of writing critiques device acted as a ‘guerilla information
point’, spreading the message of a
It’s also not strictly true to say that of student work’ community support group that
these graphics studios were working in normally would not be allowed to
exclusively traditional media, that is, infiltrate the hallowed commercialism
pencil and paper. They were working of Westfield. In another, the specific
on publications that looked and behaved function was solely to encourage
like books and brochures (we didn’t see reading in Foyles bookshop, which in
any magazines) but they were ringing Westfield has not embraced the social
the changes on familiar formats, even policies of the now-defunct Borders
coming up with something called a The presentations from the first and many other bookshops besides.
‘boustrophedon’, which is a kind of fold- interiors group we saw focused almost So Anna Wahlsten’s ‘guerilla device’
up, pop-up, pop-down, refold and exclusively on a project for Marks and had cushions hanging from hooks that
reconfigure book whose narrative can Spencer in Paris. I won’t go on about it you could detach and dispose yourself
be read and enjoyed in whatever order in gory detail, but suffice it to say that in comfort while you read what you
you happen to be opening (unfolding) imagination and the ‘Big Idea’ were in fancied from the shelves. She even
the pages. short supply, that most of the boards proposed that it park half in and half
That one came from the studio looked like every other mediocre out of the main entrance and act as a
led by Matthew Hobson, which called interior design student offering you kind of bridge into the shop. Nice idea
itself Decomposing the Vampire. (It’s have ever seen, and there were some Anna, and a useful one to hone your
appropriate here to explain that the glaring gaps in the methodology. design skills on, but it doesn’t take
Cass has this year changed its teaching They had paid attention to brand much imagination to figure out what
method to one based on these ‘studios’, in general and the M&S brand in the shop’s security staff would be doing
groups of 20 -25 second and third-year particular, putting the proposition within a few seconds of it arriving and
students, led by one faculty member, that much of the retailer’s attraction being installed in the doorway.
who has to pitch their idea to the intake in France was precisely because of its For me the experience was a
at the beginning of the year and let them ‘Britishness’, but attempts to capitalise salutary one because it gave me a much
decide which one they want to join.) on that factor and use it in a central clearer insight into the process of
This studio uses vampire texts, says Paris location were conspicuous by teaching design than I have had in
Hobson’s ‘mission statement’ – books their absence (apart from the signage more than 20 years of writing critiques
and films – as a starting point to explore on one board being rendered in English of student work. All power to your
narratives, linear and non-linear, in – a move which may have been elbow, teachers one and all. Rather
various forms – 2D print-based deliberate, but I think not). you than me.
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enduring materials
some materials have

been around for
millennia. did you know,
for example, that the
romans used concrete?
Pamela Buxton looks
at three materials that
have their roots in
history yet still play
a major role today
I
t’s hard to believe that linoleum,
so readily associated with the mid-
20th centrury, is 150 years old.
But compared with other enduring
materials, it’s a mere baby. Society may
have transformed over the centuries
but we are still predominantly building
with the same basic materials – wood,
stone, ceramics, brick, concrete and
glass. Along the way these materials
have had their ups and downs and
developed in sophistication in ways that
their early manufacturers would never
have dreamed of. It’s a long way from
the early glass of the Mesopotamians to
today’s smart products, able to self-clean
and even change from clear to opaque.
Here we celebrate three materials
with staying power – veterans glass and
concrete, and the newbie linoleum.
CONCRETE
For some concrete is a word most
closely followed by monstrosity, more
often than not used to describe a
particular style of post-war architecture.
To others, the brutal power of concrete
structures such as the Hayward Gallery
on London’s South Bank is a thing
of beauty. But whatever your aesthetic
leanings, there’s no doubting concrete’s
virtues as a robust and versatile
building material.
Perhaps surprisingly, it has its origins
not in the 20th century as many might
think, but 2,000 years earlier. Like so
many useful innovations, concrete was
first popularised by the Romans (the
Exposed concrete word comes from the Latin concretus,
is fashionable again, meaning compact or condensed). But
after a decided fall their concrete was a different type to that
from favour during
the Seventies. The used today, made using volcanic ash,
Yellow Building, by quicklime (made from burnt limestone)
Allford Hall Monaghan and water. The resulting paste was
Morris, is an example
of how it can be used formed into bricks or rocks. As it set, it
to spectacular effect formed a chemical compound of
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interlocking fibrils that gave it its useful
strength. The recipe is well recorded –
according to the architect Vitruvius,
working around 100 BC, the ratio was
three parts volcanic ash to one of lime.
Over time the Romans refined the
material, with Augustus encouraging the
use of a particular type of ash for its
durability. The material was used the
material extensively in major
construction projects such as
amphitheatres (the Colosseum), public
baths, and temples (Pantheon). Another
type of ash that produced concrete that
could withstand maritime conditions was
used for harbour structures.
Roman concrete disappeared with
the Roman Empire before being
taken up again from the mid-18th
century, although there are some earlier
examples. Concrete as we know it today
though is a mix of a lime-based cement
(which acts as a binder), water, sand and
aggregates such as fine gravel. Unlike
Roman concrete, it can be poured,
and can also be strengthened using
embedded steel or glass fibre.
Its success is indebted to key
Today, exposed
concrete has once
again become an
acceptable and popular
aesthetic, including for
commercial offices
technological innovations in the 19th
century – the invention of artificial
cement known as Portland in 1824,
and the development in the second
half of the 19th century of reinforced
concrete, using iron and then steel
bars to strengthen concrete slabs and
beams. This was followed in the 20th
century by the introduction of pre-
tensioning (whereby the reinforcing
bars are stretched in tension before the
concrete is poured over them) and shell
construction techniques for long spans.
Due to its compressional strength and
fire resistance, concrete quickly became
extensively used for major infrastructure
projects (Panama Canal, Hoover Dam)
and buildings alike. Concrete really
took off as a construction material in
the Twenties and Thirties. It was most
prominently used by modernists such
as Le Corbusier, Luis Barragán and
celebrated for its forceful, raw aesthetic
by those of the brutalist movement.
The finishes were integral to the design,
such as the use of a highly textural
timber-grained finish beton brut by Le
Corbusier and others, as in Corb’s Unite
Courtesy of roCa
D’Habitation, Marseilles.
‘It was a new and exciting material
in the inter-war period, allowing people

enduring Materials
to build forms they hadn’t been able distinguish between poor and highly
to build before. It became part of the crafted uses of it.
language of modernism,’ according Today, exposed concrete has once
to 20th-century concrete expert again become an acceptable and popular
Catherine Croft, director of the aesthetic, including for commercial
Twentieth Century Society. offices, as demonstrated in the Allford
garetH gardner
Concrete was used extensively in Hall Monaghan Morris-designed Angel

the post-war building boom, but often Building and Yellow Buildings. It has
without due care, in system-build an established luxury application both
housing estates in particular, and domestically, with applications such as
as a result its popularity had started cast concrete work surfaces and sinks,
to wane by the Seventies. and commercially with architects such
‘By the Eighties it was associated as Zaha Hadid using it to evocatively
with a style of architecture and way deliver dynamic form in projects, such
of building that was completely out of as gallery showrooms for bathroom
favour,’ says Croft, adding that a revival manufacturer ROCA. Paris–based
in appreciation of concrete’s qualities has designer Matali Crasset has recently
only really gathered pace in this century. Top, designer Matali designed a range of concrete furniture
This has been led both by the Crasset’s concrete for LCDA including lamps, tables and
lamp, part of concrete
beautifully crafted use of concrete by products for LCDA. shelving. The idea was to ‘tame’ the
some Swiss and Japanese architects and Above, Le Corbusier’s material to make is more suitable for
also, she says, by the work of artists and Unite Habitation, an a domestic setting.
example of the beton
photographers drawn to the textural brut favoured by the More than 2,000 years on from
quality of concrete and its ageing brutalists. Left, for the early concrete, there is still scope for
patina. This has helped counteract what Roca London Gallery further development. Recent innovations
Zaha Hadid used
Croft describes as a general blindness concrete to deliver include Concrete Canvas, a flexible
to concrete, with people unable to dynamic forms concrete impregnated fabric.

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LINOLEUM
Happy 150th birthday to linoleum,
invented by Frederick Walton in
1863. The name is derived from the
materials used to produce it: linseed
and oil (oleum in Latin). Solidified
linseed oil is used with wood flour,
pine rosin (a form of resin) and very
finely ground limestone. All are mixed
together and applied to a backing
(originally jute).
Linoleum followed on from earlier
painted floorcloth products and
became popular among the emerging
Victoria middle classes due to its
durability and its range of colours, a
much-welcomed change from stone
and timber flooring. Production was
based in Kirkcaldy in Fife, which
became the world’s largest lino
producer with six factories. Walton did
not trademark the name,
so it became popularly known as lino
and was used by rival companies,
much to Walton’s displeasure.
The product was either plain,
marbled or printed with patterns.
Walton later developed the technology
for creating patterned and inlaid
lino, resulting in popular designs
in geometric patterns initially, until
techniques for more elaborate patterns
were developed in the Twenties.
According to linoleum expert David
Muncey, honorary archivist at Forbo
(previously Nairn), linoleum reached
its peak in the Thirties. One of only
a handful of linoleum producers
worldwide, the company alone
produced 200 million sq m of linoleum
in 1936, supplying domestic and
commercial markets such as schools,
offices. But by the Seventies it had be recoated if necessary. It also has Clockwise from top pioneered what it is calling Lino Art,
left: Armstrong’s
reached a nadir with the development good health credentials – because pioneering Lino Art,
where flakes of shiny metal have been
of vinyl flooring, which unlike linoleum it doesn’t harbour bacteria or dust for which metal flakes integrated into the material to give it
was a synthetic material made from mites it is suitable for those with are added to the a warm sheen.
linoleum to give it
petrochemicals and was cheaper and allergies. Its resistant to superbugs Designers enjoy working with
a warm sheen; words
easier to mass produce. For a while, such as MRSA and E. coli make it by Roald Dahl are it. Jennie Moncur’s high-profile
lino fell out of fashion and was a suitable for application in hospitals. cut into Forbo’s installation at the Institute of
byword for cheap and nasty. Manufacturers such as Armstrong Marmoleum at the Contemporary Arts in 1987 was
Roald Dahl Museum;
‘Lino became a generic byword for (owner of the DLW Linoleum brand) linoleum’s good instrumental in introducing the surface
anything that wasn’t stone or wood or and Forbo have developed more health credentials to a new generation of designers.
carpeting,’ says Muncey, adding that extensive colour ranges to counter make it a good choice Her lazer-cut pattern was used to
for use in hospitals,
Forbo’s linoleum range shrank to just negative perceptions of linoleum as such as Salford Royal draw visitors to the upper gallery and
35 colours at that time. ‘boring flooring’. Forbo for example, above, where Forbo’s generated huge interest in the potential
But since the Nineties linoleum best known for its Marmoleum Marmoleum was of lino for pattern and colour.
used (in Bleekerstreet
has bounced back. As sustainability marbled product, now produces 350 above); Marmoleum is ‘It helped to put lino in a different
moved higher up designers’ and colours of linoleum, 10 times that available in 10 times place. It had an amazing effect…It
clients’ agendas, linoleum began to of the Thirties. Nonetheless, says the colours it was in was fantastic to work with because
the Thirties when lino
experience a resurgence, helped by Muncey, beige and grey remain the was at it most popular I had a good palette of colours and
its great eco credentials as a natural, most popular colours although blue I could do exactly what I wanted
and biodegradable product. Forbo’s was very popular in the UK for a without the design being compromised
Marmoleum, for example, contains 97 while. ‘We think it’s a good product by the material,’ she says. More recent
per cent natural raw materials, 72 per and will be around for some time to major installations include the use
cent of which are rapidly renewable, come,’ he adds. of Forbo’s Marmoleum at the Roald
and a 43 per cent recycled content. Forbo is this year launching a new Dahl Museum. Here it was used by
Linoleum’s resilience is also a Next Generation Marmoleum, an Outside Studios in the display of the
sustainability plus – with the help of ultra-performing floor with Topshield author’s writing hut with words cut
an acrylic topcoat it can last for several 2, a double-layer, water-based into the floor using different colours
decades, doesn’t mark easily and can finish. Armstrong has in recent years of the material. >

enduring Materials
Barcelona Pavilion and domestic

projects such as Villa Farnsworth
Pavilion in Illinois and the two adjacent
villas in Krefeld. In Paris, Pierre
Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet’s iconic
1932 house Maison de Verre in Paris
made extensive use of glass brick to
create a highly transparent facade.
Van der Rohe didn’t realise his
1922 glass skyscraper concept but
the decades following saw a huge
number of sleek, curtain-walled glass
commercial buildings, with today’s
versions double-glazed and far more
energy efficient than their predecessors.
Nearly 30 years on, IM Pei’s all-glass
pyramid at the Louvre in Paris still
makes it one of the most memorable
museums of recent times.
More recently, architects such as the
sellar
award-winning Japanese practice Sanaa
has used glass to perpetuate an ethereal,
almost not-there architecture, as at the
new Louvre Lens in France and the
Dior store in Tokyo, where the glass
has a translucent, acrylic inner layer.
Glass innovation has continued,
producing among many developments
toughened glass, laminated glass, even
self-cleaning glass (Pilkington’s Activ)
and privacy glass that changes from
clear to opaque. One of the biggest
edina Van der WYCK
changes has been the use of double

and now triple glazing for better energy
Jean nouVel
efficiency. Fritting and lamination
techniques give scope for texture
and opacity, as demonstrated in Jean
Nouvel’s One New Change shopping
and office development near St Paul’s
GLASS in London, which used fritting and
Glass manufacture goes back even Two technological breakthroughs Clockwise from top many different shades of coloured glass
left: The all-glass
further than Roman concrete, to in the 1800s, and the repeal of the clad Shard, the
to vary appearance and opacity.
Mesopotamia around 3500 BC. By glass and window taxes, enabled newest London Internally, glass always had rich,
Roman times the wealthiest villas were the construction of immense glass icon; Jean Nouvel’s decorative potential whatever the design
One New Change
sporting cast glass. For many centuries structures, such as Joseph Paxton’s shopping centre in
era – with coloured glass contributing
crown glass, often called bull’s-eye glass Great Exhibition, and a plethora of the City of London to the patterns of the Arts and Crafts
because of the circular indention left grand greenhouses used to exhibit uses fritting and and art nouveau, and adding drama
shades of coloured
from the production process, was exotic specimens from around the glass; the V&A’s
with blocks of colour to designs
produced from shaped, blown glass world, such as Kew’s Palm House. glass-dominated of the modern era – Le Corbusier
and used in a lattice to form a window. These were due the invention in William and Judith used coloured glass at Ronchamp to
Glass was a sign of wealth and prestige. France of plate glass, which allowed Bollinger Jewellery particularly good effect. More recently
Gallery, designed
In 1591 Hardwick Hall was the ultimate for the manufacture for the first time by Eva Jiricna artist Brian Clarke has collaborated
statement of built bling, so resplendent of really large panes of glass. For this, on art installations with practices
in its use of so many windows (by the molten glass was spread out across such as Foster & Partners. Eva Jiricna
standards of the day) that it inspired the tables (known as plates) and then extensively used glass to great effect
popular epigram ‘Hardwick Hall more cooled for 10 days before being rolled structurally for staircases for upmarket
glass than wall’. out, ground and polished. A cheaper London stores such as Joseph and
The Window Tax from 1696 version, sheet glass, was invented in Boodles, and most recently at the
dissuaded many from putting in 1838. Fortunately for Paxton, this led V&A’s William and Judith Bollinger
windows, and explains many bricked- to a halving of the price of glass by the Jewellery Gallery.
up windows openings which, as Bill time he needed it. Quite aside from the obvious
Bryson describes in his book House, Nowadays almost all windows are practical functions of glass in buildings,
were sometimes painted to look like made from float glass, which eliminates as a material its potential for lightness,
windows. Another duty, dating from optical distortions of plate glass. It reflection, translucency and sparkle
1746, applied to the weight of the glass was invented in the Fifties by Alistair will always inspire designers, whether
rather than the number of windows, Pilkington, of Pilkington Glass. on the small scale of an object, or the
thus encouraging the use of thin, weak The modern movement popularised grand scale of buildings such as Renzo
glass. One way round it was to use the use of more extensive glazing to Piano’s The Shard, whose name and
bull’s-eye panes that, as it was seen to achieve building with a distinctive form are a fitting homage to this most
be flawed, escaped the tax. lightness, such as Mies van der Rohe’s engaging of materials.

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chief executive Dr Charles has shot a huge array of people and in Gateshead, anyone?)
Saumarez Smith; inside the projects relating to the worlds of While working largely for
former Midland Bank, Poultry,
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regular ‘Eyewitness’ slot in this ‘What’s interesting for me is that my Clockwise from The past 10 years have also seen
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massive change in photography, with
his work for magazines will be people in space more than my other facade in Mayfair by the wholesale shift from analogue
showcased in a special exhibition commissions. Squire and Partners; to digital technology. ‘Holding this
product designer
during the upcoming Clerkenwell ‘It’s great fun taking environmental Hector Serrano;
exhibition gives me an excuse to
Design Week, and will include images portraits of architects or interior Kitchen by Platform wade through boxes of transparencies
taken for publications including FX, designers in spaces that they designed or Group; the Park and negatives, which is great fun,’ he
Blueprint, Detail and Building Design. have been inspired by,’ says Gardner. Hotel, Hyderabad adds.
Magazine Work: Ten Years of

Photographs by Gareth Gardner is at
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manufacturer TOTO, 140-142 St
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More information at gb.toto.com and
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vienna:
The capital of Austria has a rich and

illustrious design past, but it’s not resting
on its laurels, says Helen Parton, a visitor
to the latest Vienna Design Week, where she
saw much to be impressed with during the
10-day event and beyond
I
t’s boring to stick to your past, says
Norbert Kettner, director of the
Vienna Tourist Board. It’s so
good to see a city that has a great
design history but isn’t reliant on it;
rather it is using it as a catalyst to new,
innovation creations. Kettner adds:
‘We have a huge cultural
heritage and we have to deal with
that in a contemporary way.”
He was speaking at the UK leg of
the launch of the European Home
Run, a competition to design a new
souvenir for Vienna. Six product
design practices were invited in 2012
to participate in a scheme to capture
their view of the Austrian capital in
three-dimensional form: Germany’s
Ding 3000, Switzerland’s Big Game,
France’s Ionna Vautrin, Spain’s Hector
Serrano, Italy’s Studio Formafantasma
and PearsonLloyd from the UK.
The celebrated British duo came
up with a simple interpretation of a
coffee set consisting of a tray, sugar
bowl, glass, and spoon, their take on
the kind that can be found in the 800 Left, Canadian
or so coffee houses across the city. Philippe Malouin
collaborated with
The teaspoon balances perfectly on the Lobmeyr on a
glass, which nestles neatly next to the ‘sand clock’, a
bowl on the small rectangular tray. modern variation
‘The target of this project was of an hourglass.
Above, two of the
expose the DNA of the city,’ explains Vienna Design Week
Tom Lloyd. ‘Coffee houses were founders Tulga
places where people have met and Beyerle, a designer
and researcher at
where the great pieces of culture were the city’s University
cultivated. If the past can be created in of Applied Arts,
these coffee houses, so can the future.’ and journalist Lilli
Hollein (right). Right,
PearsonLloyd is currently looking Konstantin Grcic
at who might be able to produce the protege Charlotte
coffee set that might inspire the next Talbot collaborated
with manufacturer
generation of Schuberts, Schieles and Wiener Silber on
Freuds pontificating over a caffeine- new silverware
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,anneiV Vienna
fuelled beverage or two. Despite the of its modernist history and its
Brits best efforts, it was Italian-born, beautiful landscape. Playing cards
Holland-based practice Formafantasma have the ability to be perceived
which scooped the prize, the results both as an authentic expression
of which were announced last October. of the local context, while being
Andrea Trimarchi and Simone enough of a curiosity to be collected
Farresin, who make up Studio by tourists,’ says Trimarchi. ‘A
Formafantasma, are both graduates contemporary Viennese deck of cards
of Eindhoven’s prestigious Design can used by citizens and taken home
Academy. They decided on a deck by visitors as well as addressing some
of cards for their souvenir design, functional issues. Souvenirs should be
another object synonymous with inexpensive to produce, small enough
Vienna’s coffee houses and one which to go in hand luggage, have a limited
has a resonance with Formafantasma’s environmental impact and, when
home nation, says Trimarchi. ‘In Italy possible, produced locally.’
playing cards are regionally customised. Vienna of course really came into its
They are a beautiful graphic expression own in the 1900s with the proliferation
of locality, while reflecting the impact of buildings and works of art that
of some of the different cultures which still attract visitors in their thousands,
dominated the region,’ she says. keen to see the likes of Gustav Klimt
The competition’s judges praised and others connected to the Wiener
the winning design’s usefulness and Werkstätte movement, which saw
desirability, and the way it reinvented rapid developments in the arts,
something that has been used for architecture, science and music, in the
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vienna
shops. Vienna Design Week, held each The results from a number of years Below, Viennese referencing sand as a material necessary
September, continues this golden age of the Passionswege was the subject design practice for making glass but representing it in
Polka’s series
into a new era with the ‘Passionswege’, of an exhibition at the MAK, the of vases. It has a highly abstract way.
a series of site-specific installations on city’s museum for design, architecture worked with crystal Formafantasma’s Andrea Trimarchi
the premises of established Viennese and contemporary art, which ran manufacturer is certainly a fan of Vienna: ‘In the
Lobmeyr, from which
businesses, making use of workshop until March. It featured the work it learned much past few years, the city has invested so
spaces and authentic materials. Says of experimental designers including much in design and great institutions
the city’s progressively minded tourism Spain’s Tomas Alonso, Max Lamb such as MAK, and festivals like Vienna
chief Kettner: ‘In a continuation of from the UK and the Dutch studio Design Week are giving a new vibe
this proud history, in recent years Makkink and Bey. to the design scene.’ Says Geisler:
young Viennese designers have been Thomas Geisler, one of the ‘It’s also an exercise in making sure that
working with traditional manufacturers founders of Vienna Design Week people are aware the manufacturers
throughout the city, supplying them and a curator at MAK, explains the are alive in the city; getting that
with original ideas and blueprints for rationale: ‘It’s about rediscovering awareness across on a international
new designs.’ the knowledge of these companies level.’ This is only possible because this
One great example of this from and bringing the passion to the fore.’ manufacturing tradition has actually
2012’s Design Week is the Viennese Often the collaborations will feature continued in Vienna whereas, Geisler
design group breadedEscalope designers who have no previous argues, in many other bigger Western
transforming the entrance area experience of the particular craft for cities it has died away.
of design retailer Stilwerk into a which the brands are famous. For As far as homegrown talent goes
temporary workshop, turning factory instance designer Marco Dessi worked he adds: ‘There is a wide range of
seconds from manufacturer Thonet with Viennese porcelain specialist approaches but a sense of humour
Austria into beautiful, one-off chair Augarten on exploiting the centuries- is deeply embedded in the culture.’
designs. The general public were able old manufacturing process to produce The Walking-Chair design studio
to get in on the act too, building their a series of lights, vases and tableware, exemplifies this way of thinking with
own Thonet chair with the help of and Canadian Philippe Malouin an idiosyncratic approach to its
a few screws, cable binders, a bit of collaborated with Lobmeyr on a ‘sand designs, from a revolving panoramic
glue and assistance from the designers clock’: a variation on an hourglass, sofa for bars and public spaces,
themselves. Meanwhile non-Viennese
resident and Konstantin Grcic protege
Charlotte Talbot collaborated with ‘In recent years young Viennese designers have been working
Wiener Silber Manufactur on new
silverware, also on show during 2012’s
with traditional manufacturers throughout the city, supplying
Vienna Design Week. It combines them with original ideas and blueprints for new designs’
Talbot’s interplay of materials with
experimentation of form and is an
attempt to bring the concept of table
silver bang up to date.
Vienna-based design practice
Polka came up with a new porcelain
dinner service with decorative motifs
for Herend, which was exhibited
at Lobmeyr, its retail partner and
purveyor of fine crystal in its own right
since 1823. The hand-painted plates
and bowls are inspired by a diverse
range of influences, from Oriental
motifs to graphics. Monica Singer,
creative partner with Polka, says of
the brief: ‘The new forms and decor
should work for a younger audience.
Since the decor is produced using
a special “underglazing” technique,
which means it can be put into the
dishwasher, it is more suitable for
enjoyment on a daily basis.’
Polka has also worked with
Lobmeyr in the past. ‘Lobmeyr has,
like Herend, a long tradition and
history. It is a special challenge to
prepare and develop its future. We
work a lot with the archive and analyse
and understand what happened in the
history of the company to understand
its true DNA. It is essential to be
able to make the right contribution.
We have experienced a great deal
of understanding, trust and energy
for experiments and new ideas from
Lobmeyr, which is so important.’

vienna
a round ping-pong table for meeting

and dining, the Supersampler and the
Colorspalsh Lomographic cameras as
well as the studio’s namesake: a chair
with remote controlled legs that allow it
to be directed across a room.
Geography plays a key part in
Vienna’s evolution as a design city.
Singer says: ‘The airport is just 20
minutes away, and being located so
centrally in Europe means we can
quickly get everywhere quickly.’
The fall of the Iron Curtain has
also helped as Vienna is close to many
emerging creative economies in eastern
Europe, such as Slovenia and the
Czech Republic. The advantages of its
geographical location are manyfold, as
Vienna-based designer Adam Wehsely-
Swiczinsky points out: ‘Its location
at the edge of the Balkans; the nature
that surrounds and inspires us – the
mountains, the plains – and the places
to swim in the city. Plus, with 1.8
million people, it is just the right size.
You can be in three different countries
within an hour, connecting East and
West, between the Pannonian plain
and the Alps.’
Designer Adam Wehsely-Swiczinsky
is currently working on a fascinatingly
diverse crop of projects including
medical products, outdoor furniture
and children’s skis. After working for
10 years as a carpenter, Wehsely- ‘Vienna is a big city in a small country. It is important to look
Swiczinsky attended the University
of Applied Arts in Vienna.
across the border and to ask people to do things. We have
Its alumni also includes designer a huge past and a great present’
Christian Horner, who says: ‘It is an
art school, where you can find also
departments in architecture, graphic Applied Arts is now with Fiona Raby, Above left and right, two-storey bar, bistro and cafe with
design and sculpture, so students can of London-based practice Dunne & breadedEscalope its vivid wall and ceiling patterns
helped design festival
attend lectures in many different fields. Raby who will strengthen yet further goers turn factory comprising backlit wooden veneer
Vienna is a good place to live too for a Vienna’s reputation in terms of seconds from chair and tinted, mirrored glass.
designer: it is offers a very good quality providing a focal point for emerging manufacturer Thonet Architect Stephan Ferenczy with
Austria into one-off
of life and affordable conditions. It’s a Viennese and indeed international chair designs during Vienna-based practice BEHF says
good place to concentrate.’ design talent. Vienna Design Week the brief was to create ‘a cosy, highly
Since graduating in the mid-Nineties Vienna’s built environment very luxurious, Viennese style project
Horner has designed objects for much blends the old with the new. befitting the existing building. The
companies that include MDF Italia The newly refurnbished Hotel Lamée, city has a long tradition of producing
and Ligne Roset, He is a main designer opened in autumn last year, is a architecture to a high standard with
for office furniture manufacturer great example. Built in the Thirties world-famous interior design. The
Bene, responsible for products such it embodied early 20th-century challenge is to ensure that tradition
as the Cube_S cabinet, designed modernism. Located right in the very of quality and values is saved and a
to suit both open-plan working with centre of the city, next to St Stephen’s sense of the contemporary is added’.
its transparent elements and openings Cathedral, it comprises 32 rooms and BEHF is also working on a number
and individual quiet work with its suites in the eight-storey building. of different projects in Vienna,
visual and acoustic screening. The geometric design of the facade among them a luxury supermarket,
Horner studied in Vienna under has been carried on into the entrance a small coffee and wine bar and
British designer Ron Arad (‘It was of the hotel for something of an old- an apartment building.
one of the reasons for me studying in school Hollywood glamorous feel while Says the city’s tourist board bosss
Vienna; he was my professor when I the reddish brown stone floors, walls Kettner: ‘Vienna is a big city in a
started.’) Thomas Geisler, who also and ceilings adds a warm tone to the small country. It is important to look
studied under the Israeli-born, British- interior. With art-deco-inspired light across the border and to ask people
based, Arad says: ‘Ron Arad left his fixtures with oversized tassels, shiny to do things. We have a huge past and
traces in the local design scene, no red lacquered dressers and circular a great present.’ And judging by the
question about it.’ back-lit mirrors, it certainly has a nod shape and proliferation of things to
The mantle of professor of to its former glories. The old-school come, one might add a terrific future
industrial design at the University of opulence continues into the hotel’s as a design city.

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EGE CARPETS COMPETITION
BEN, BLACKSHEEP,
AND BISON –
ALL AT EGE CARPETS
FX editor Theresa Dowling meets
all three on a trip to Denmark to help
judge the final of the Ege Carpets
design competition
B
lacksheep interior designer Ben
Webb was confirmed as the
unanimous winner of the Ege
Carpets design competition by judges
Jacqueline Griffiths, in-house designer,
at Ege Carpets, renowned textile
designer Geoff Healey, and myself, in
my capacity of editor of FX magazine.
The culmination of the competition,
which had been running in FX over the
past six months, resulted in a whirlwind
trip to Denmark and the Ege Carpets
factory in the south of the country for
the four finalists, to enable them to
transform their digital 2D digital entries
into 3D samples of carpet, and for the
judging panel to select the winner.
In association with FX, Ege Carpets Grace Foster, who’s about to graduate Clockwise from top, how flexible their designs could be
the winning design
wanted to give a designer or design from her BA textile course at Leeds from Ben Webb; Ben
for clients. We then scored all four
student the chance to see their carpet College of Art. The four finalists with competition submissions without collaboration,
design go into production. The winner were asked to produce their designs judges (l-r) Jacqueline so none of the judges knew who was
Griffiths, Theresa
will receive a two-day internship with as a square metre sample at the Dowling; Geoff
actually the winner until the official
ege’s design team in Denmark and three facilities at Ege’s enormous factory Healey); one of announcement and prize presentation.
per cent of all gross sales from their near Billund, home of Legoland, Ege Carpets’ herd For me Ben’s design had the visual
of bison...
carpet design for three years from the during a two-day trip. punch of ‘the ground’ of a Rembrandt
date of its launch. They were then asked to produce painting, rich with subtle visual
The other finalists were Jon Carter a second sample by adapting the interest, yet dependent on the colours
and Lucy Dickson, both architecture colours of their pieces to the company’s and tones selected the bold geometry
students from Oxford Brookes standard palette. This proved very could also dissolve into the background.
University graduating this year, and useful in the judging process to assess While I was there for just the one
FX05-093-EGE CARPETS-PH3.indd 95 23/04/2013 12:31

ege carpets coMpetition
The winning entry day, whereas the other judges and

had ‘the visual
punch of “the ground”
finalists had been able to spend two
of a Rembrandt days with Ege Carpets, the company’s
painting’, said generosity was evident in goodwill, good
competition judge
Theresa Dowling
humour and good food. But as I was
walking from one part of the factory to
another, I spotted what I thought might
have been a company mascot. Or pet?
But on doing a double take, I realised
that ‘it’ was just one of a herd of bison,
owned and cared for by Ege Carpets.
This is apparently the legacy from the
company’s founder Mads Eg Damgaard,
a keen supporter of wildlife conservation.
It’s not often you come across bison
in corporate and contract design, but
it’s definitely memorable! I wondered,
post-competition, will a bison now be
named after the winner? You have to
agree that Ben the Bison has a certain
appeal, as indeed does Ben Webb’s
winning design.
If you’re looking to recruit two architecture

graduates this year for your practice, or you
need a graduate textile designer, then please
contact me at FX and I’ll put you in touch
with the graduating finalists
about ege carpets

ege Carpets is one of Europe’s leading
companies when it comes to the
design, development and production
of unique, high-quality carpets with
respect for the environment.
It was founded by Mads Eg Damgaard
in 1938. Today it it possesses the
carpet industry’s most modern
technology, and can supply carpets
with any imaginable design and in
the industry’s shortest lead time.
It has endorsed the Global Compact
– the United Nations’ guidelines
for working for a higher degree of
sustainability. ege’s declared Corporate
Social Responsibility objective is to
contribute to a more sustainable world
by continually striving to improve how
it handles environmental, social and
financial challenges, for the benefit
of future generations.
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All you need to know about everything
from ergonomics to materials to lighting,
with three experts in their own fields, plus
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Levent Çaglar Jill Entwistle

Ergonomics consultant, FIRA Editor & writer
Levent heads the ergonomic unit at FIRA (Furniture Jill is an editor and writer who specialises in
Industry Research Association), one of Europe’s top architectural lighting, following 12 years as editor of
three furniture technology centres. He is recognised Light magazine. She has authored two Designing with
as the key UK ergonomics expert in office and school Lighting books: Hotels, and Bars and Restaurants,
furniture and has worked with designers to create and is an affiliate member of the International
some iconic furniture pieces. Association of Lighting Designers.
98 Test Bench 100 Light & Tech

Levent casts his expert eye over the new Jill reports from the Lighting Design Awards
X-Code task chair, by Dauphin. He also on three winning schemes that are exemplars
compares features of three rival chairs of going above beyond the call of duty
Lighting
Design
International’s
scheme for
Lapicida is a
winner – see
page 100
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DESIGN
X-Code is designed to offer
a range of adjustments so that
individuals can fit the chair
to their needs and achieve
dynamic sitting. It uses seamless
backrest fabric tensioned over
X-CODE
a distinctive ribbed-plastic
shell with attractively curved
ventilation gaps. Through its
3D texture and close weave,
CHAIR
this special fabric provides the
thermal comfort of mesh, yet
is not transparent so looks like
slim upholstery. The range
of bright colours and ribbed
BY DAUPHIN backrest frame give X-Code

a striking appearance from
front or back. There are
DESIGNER: KORAY MALHAN choices of black or white shell
and an upholstered backrest.
Levent Çaglar puts the new BACKREST
X_Code task chair by Dauphin The curved profile of the
under his expert gaze and finds backrest frame accentuates
the pronounced support that
it has a range of adjustments X-Code provides in the lumbar
so that it can suit most users

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FX05-098-TEST BENCH-ph3.indd 1 23/04/2013 14:12

Test bench
region. The woven fabric is taut position. However, the further give quick feedback about operate. The armpads of the 4D
across the frame but, when it is they push back, the lighter the whether the user is tilting the optional armrests provide even
leaned on, fins on the inner edge resistance becomes. They can seat more or less forward. further width adjustment,
of each of the ribs come into lock the backrest in its forward The backrest provides although the frictional resistance
contact with it. They depress to position or limit its recline in comfortable support, but users to sliding them may be difficult
mould the shape of the backrest three positions. may feel the hardness of its for some people to overcome.
to follow the user’s movement frame when resting their upper The armpads move back far
and provide springiness. In the coMfoRT arms against it or if their hand enough, or can be lowered, for
lumbar region the support is Overall, X-Code has a number is between it and the retracted working near a desk. The flat-
firmer, provided by a plastic of comfortable features and armrest pad. Very slim users topped armrest pads have
plate which can easily be slid encourages dynamic sitting cannot push back their elbows slightly roughened surfaces that
up or down. if the backrest is not locked. beyond the armrests due to prevent the user’s arms from
The upholstered seat cushion is the width of the backrest. slipping, but can feel a little
REclININg comfortable although it may feel Through innovative use of a abrasive if they rub their fingers
Most users should be able to firm after a while. The generous QR code on the seat label, users along the edges. Interestingly, an
find an appropriate backrest waterfall effect and 7cm depth can see animated instructions optional armrest coating includes
tension to enable them to recline adjustment make the seat pad for adjusting the chair. silver to prevent infections.
comfortably, but lighter and suitable for a wide range of
shorter people may find the users. The optional seat tilt can aRMREsTs susTaINabIlITy
minimum tension too strong. help to open up the angle The width adjustment fits a wide More than half of X-Code is
The most forward position of between your torso and thighs range of users. It is activated by made from recycled materials.
the backrest is intended to so your abdomen does not feel levers under the seat that release The woven backrest fabric,
support the user when using a compressed when the backrest is the whole armrest bracket for made in one piece with no
keyboard but they may find it a in its most forward position. The sliding in or out, but the stiffness seams, avoids wasted yarn. Parts
little too far forward and have to seat-tilt adjustment is continuous of the levers and their proximity are marked for easy sorting and
push back quite hard to achieve and is made through rotating a to the backrest frame can make those weighing more than 50g
their preferred upright working scalloped wheel, but does not them tricky for some users to are 100 per cent recyclable.
Verdict X-Code is effective if you like sitting forward for desk work, especially with the optional seat tilt that avoids the abdominal
compression this posture can cause. Its adjustability suits it well to personal dedicated workstations, but the firmness of the seat pad and the
edges of the backrest and armpad may detract from some users’ comfort. The backrest tension and its innovative ribbed structure are designed
to respond to users’ movement, but work best if they are not light or short. It is an attractive-looking chair with good thermal comfort.
the riVals
The three rivals have thin fabric backrests supported by features in addition to a frame
EMbody by Herman Miller ThINK by Steelcase MaTch by Sedus

Thin, breathable fabric for seat and backrest Metal flexor rods provide support for each part Black, ribbed, plastic backrest with slim
supported by a thin plastic membrane of the back and respond to movement; they upholstered front surface. Quick adjustment
balanced on coils and prongs to provide very also give good pressure distribution for the of backrest tension. Optional adjustment of
comfortable support. Fully adjustable but no seat pad. Backrest tension adjusts seat depth, seat tilt and lumbar support.
seat tilt or independent lumbar adjustment. automatically to user’s weight, with choice of
Narrow backrest at waist level lets arms move extra resistance. Optional lumbar pad, headrest
back and chest to open up. and auto-retracting armpads. No seat tilt.
FX05-098-TEST BENCH-ph3.indd 2 23/04/2013 14:13

winning
ways
Jill Entwistle looks at three

winning projects from the
Lighting Design Awards, all
of which exploited LEDs to
create schemes that caught
the judges’ critical eye...
A
n award-winning project by
definition is generally one that De LaszLo House, LonDon
goes the extra mile in concept, much of it cleverly borrowed using
creativity and execution. But the three Category: Residential vertical full-height opal glass panels
projects featured here – two retail and a Lighting design: Dandi Living backlit with LED strips for a perfect
residential and all winners at this year’s uniform effect. These are supplemented
Lighting Design Awards – stood out as In an Arts and Crafts building, De Laszlo by wall sconces delivering indirect
exemplars for their use of technology, House’s 18 residential apartments already light, under-stair concealed LEDs
level of integration and sheer benefit from extensive natural light that and opal wall luminaires in bathrooms
sophistication. Inevitably, and tellingly, has been subtly augmented with a and WCs. Good use is made of control
all three fully exploit LEDs, whether sophisticated artificial lighting scheme. systems throughout (with integrated
it is for dynamism and interactivity Judges were impressed by how creatively iPad controller).
(Mindseye’s BMW showroom), their and discreetly the lighting had been used,
controllability (LDI’s Lapicida), or without a recessed downlight in sight. Judges’ verdict: ‘The project keeps
their discretion and small scale, creating Even the underground car park has delivering surprise on surprise. The ultimate
luminescent surfaces and kicking clunky merited more attention than usual, with effect is of light and surface, rather than
fittings into touch (De Laszlo House). a luminous ceiling formed from an lighting and luminaires. A beautiful and
The judges’ comment on that scheme LED-backlit stretched opal membrane. sensitive use and integration of light, form,
could apply to all three: ‘The ultimate Presence sensors automatically turn it on. texture and colour.’
effect is of light and surface, rather Lighting throughout common areas
than lighting and luminaires.’ and in the apartments is soft and diffuse, Supplier: Dorset LED
FX05-100-LIGHT+TECH-ph.indd 1 23/04/2013 12:40

Light + Tech
LaPicida BMW shoWrooM, GeorGe V, Paris

Category: Small Retail Category: International (interiors) car sounds taken from the BMW sound
Lighting design: Lighting Design Lighting design: Mindseye laboratories in Munich.
International A ‘sky disc’ – Barrisol backlit by
Architecture practice Carbondale was 80mm pitch RGBW LEDs – sits above
LDI created an all-LED scheme for the looking for a ‘fresh, integrated and highly each vehicle, designed to create the
465 sq m flagship showroom in London’s creative approach’ and saw light as a key impression of movement across the car’s
Ling’s Road of stone specialist Lapicida element from the outset. The vitrine – bodywork and revealing the curves and
The concept not only called for the the largest single pane in a European swage lines of the car. The rods twisting
various stones to be shown to best effect, storefront – is wrapped on three sides down from disc to floor (vortex) around
but also for individual schemes to be by acid-etched glass that acts as a the cars are custom-designed aluminium
created for 15 different room sets. low-definition media wall and provides extrusions with 40mm RGBW LEDs on
In the main space every other panel is a backdrop to the cars. each side. The inner LEDs are opal
either uplit or washed from above. Preset A bespoke PCB board with a 24mm diffused while the outer ones are ripple
scenes show how the stone transforms as pitch contains RGB LEDs to create an diffused. These provide an interactive
the mood changes (this includes an extra eye-catching backdrop, plus white LEDs element: people approaching are detected
layer of light so that, when on full, the true to ensure a clean white content is by laser sensors concealed within the
brightness can be used by the salesperson displayed appropriately. When run ceiling, triggering a response from the
to help sell the product). together, they generate pastel colours for lighting on the outer face.
A PIR detector automatically brings a more subtle ambience. The 72.5 sq m There are no visible downlights
up the light from a low level as the client media wall has 232,000 LEDs and was anywhere in the space, resulting in
enters the space, adding to the drama. designed, sourced, installed, project- a completely clean ceiling. The light
Further theatricality comes from a ‘dark managed and commissioned by is carefully located only where it is
zone’ walk through to a display of Mindseye, which also developed and needed: on the cars and the perimeter
textured and backlit stone. Shafts of light generated the content. merchandise walls.
close to the stone walls and panels The showroom also features an
maximise the effect. innovative piece of LCD art, formed Judges’ verdict: ‘A high-quality scheme
of composite polished stainless steel with a high degree of sophisticated lighting
Judges’ verdict: ‘This had the wow overlaid with LCD laminated layers. The and media integration. It does the job in
factor. A highly individual scheme that 45-degree angled mirror reflects the top a new way.’
creates a lovely atmosphere.’ of the cars and the triangular modules are
programmed to operate both dynamically Architect: Carbondale
Client: Lapicida and in unison with the LED wall. The Programming (laser vortex LEDs): Oyez
Suppliers: John Cullen Lighting, Erco, accompanying soundtrack, commissioned Suppliers: Leurocom, Light Projects,
Light Graphix by Mindseye, was inspired by individual EcoSense (Architainment Lighting)

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WINNERS
WINNING PROJECTS & PRODuCTS, bY CATEGORY

DAYLIGHT LEISURE LIGHT SOURCES
• Winner: The Copper Box, Olympic • Winner: The Making of Harry Potter • Winner: E-CORE LightEngine
Park (Arup) Studio Tour, London (Thinkwell (Toshiba Information Systems)
• Highly commended: Western Group with Warner Brothers) • Highly commended: E-CORE
Concourse, King’s Cross Station (Arup) • Highly commended: Sky Skills, GU10 7.1W 355lm Truefit Dimmable
Isleworth, Middlesex (Toshiba Information Systems)
HERITAGE David Atkinson Lighting Design
• Winner: Burlington Arcade, London LIGHTING CONTROLS
(Speirs and Major) INTERNATIONAL INTERIORS • Winner: iDirect iPad lighting control
• Highly commended: Dover Castle • Winner: BMW showroom, George app (Remote Controlled Lighting)
(LPA Lighting) V, Paris (Mindseye) • Highly commended: DALIeco
Quadrant 3 (Dernier and Hamlyn) • Highly commended: System (Osram)
Stadel Museum, Frankfurt
EXTERIOR Licht Kunst Licht EXTERIOR LUMINAIRES
• Winner: Regent Street, London • Winner: Fusion dynamic
(Studio 29) INTERNATIONAL EXTERIORS architectural floodlights
• Highly commended: Twin Sails • Winner: National Stadium Warsaw (ACDC Lighting)
Bridge, Poole (Speirs and Major) (Lichtvision Design and Engineering) • Highly commended: Arclight
• Highly commended: Qatar National (Meyer), FreeStreet (Philips Lighting)
HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS Convention Centre
• Winner: Corinthia Hotel, London Light and Design Associates INTERIOR LUMINAIRES
(Lighting Design International) • Winner: Concord Glacé bulkhead
• Highly commended: Quillon (Into SPECIAL PROJECTS fitting
Lighting Design) • Winner: Strand East Tower, London • Highly commended: LED Pipes
(Hoare Lea Lighting) by Flos (Atrium), TM Picture Light
LARGE RETAIL • Highly commended: Up and Away! (TM Lighting)
• Winner: Superdry, Regent Street, London and York (Arup)
London (Paul Nulty Lighting Design)
Suppliers: Nordic Lighting, Precision RESIDENTIAL
Lighting, Popple Projects, Philip Payne, • Winner: De Laszlo House The Lighting Design Awards is organised by Lighting
Mike Stoane Lighting, Trainspotters (Dandi Living) magazine and is supported by the Institution of
Lighting Professionals and the Society of Light
• Highly commended: Sonning, and Lighting and the International Association
SMALL RETAIL Berkshire Light Corporation of Lighting Designers
• Winner: Lapicida (Lighting Design
International)
• Highly commended: Hedonism
Wines, London (Speirs and Major) LIGHTING DESIGNER
OF THE YEAR:
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
• Winner: Gatwick Airport South • Winner: Florence Lam, head
Terminal Central Search Area (Morgan of global lighting design, Arup
Sindall Professional Services)
• Highly commended: Scottish
National Portrait Gallery: Portrait of
a Nation, Edinburgh (Foto-Ma)
WORKPLACE
• Winner: Spectrum House, Glasgow
(KSLD)
LOW CARBON
• Winner: Gatwick Airport South
Terminal Central Search Area (Morgan
Sindall Professional Services)
• Highly commended: Manchester
Airport Terminal 2 (Osram)

Clerkenwell Design Week
Dare stuDio
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contemporary take on the classic wingback chair. With its
generous proportions and high back it offers a sense of stylish
enclosure in both traditional and contemporary interiors alike.
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Farmoloe Building
muraspec
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Muraspec’s latest designs for Spring/ The Tether Light is a self-assembled
Summer. The latest additions to our pendant lamp which cleverly utilises
20 oz Type II contract collection will the prime functions of an industrial
be unveiled, following the success of cable-tie. A spun metal collar and hand
the designs launched in Autumn. Also turned wooden dolly carefully pinch
on show will be Muraspec’s updated the top of 26 cable ties, while a laser cut
Opulence collection - silks and printed steel cog connects them all at the base.
suedes that are perfect for interior The difference in diameter at the two
schemes where understated luxury is ends of the pendant gives the cables
the aim. As ever, these wallcoverings a beautiful, natural curve, designed to
are Euroclass fire rated, CE compliant accentuate the radiant large bulb nestled
and come with EPDs. muraspec.com inside. vitaminliving.com
Pavillions Farmoloe Building
Bagno Design
As the exclusive supplier of all bathrooms in the JW Mariott
Marquis hotel in Dubai, Bagno Design will be celebrating the jennifer newman
completion of what is the world’s tallest hotel during The latest addition to the Jennifer Newman outside-inside range of multi-purpose
Clerkenwell Design Week. Throughout the three days, Bagno furniture incorporates sustainable bamboo surfaces on aluminium frames. The
Design will be hosting an open house at its A&D Centre in outside version uses impregnated bamboo in dark brown and the inside version
Pear Tree Street, where visitors can browse its wide portfolio is in caramel. Sizes for outside are up to 2.4m and inside up to 2.8m. Matching
of design-led bathroom solutions. A celebration of the benches have bamboo tops or can be all-aluminium, allowing specifiers to add
opening of the world’s tallest hotel, complete with luxury spa more colour. The M-range will be shown for the first time at Clerkenwell
treatments and the chance to win a trip to Dubai, will be held Design Week.
from 4pm on Tuesday 21 May. bagnodesign.co.uk jennifernewman.com
A&D Centre, Pear Tree Street Farmiloe Building
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Clerkenwell Design Week
design at knightsbridge
Showing at Clerkenwell Design Week for the first time,
Design at Knightsbridge is presenting an innovative line-up morgan furniture
of seating and tables for applications ranging from reception Morgan Furniture, the design-led British manufacturer of contract furniture, will
and lounge areas to meeting rooms, contemporary work once again exhibit at Clerkenwell, where new additions to the Lucca side chair and
spaces and breakout zones. Highlights include new models Modena collection will be on display. The recently launched Modena collection
created exclusively for the company by James A Wright. features a new small lounge chair with either a show wood or swivel base and a
Thanks to its in-house product development team, Design at new corner unit for the modular sofa (both shown). The modula sofa has been
Knightsbridge is able to maintain a focussed design-led ethos, designed with a hand crafted show wood base that links the units and avoids
balancing traditional craftsmanship with advanced technology double legs. It forms a beautiful base to the piece giving a contemporary luxurious
and materials. design-at-knightsbridge.co.uk feel. morganfurniture.co.uk
Farmiloe Building Farmiloe Building
desso
Desso is providing a sensory feast at this year’s Clerkenwell
Design Week to launch its new carpet collection Materials
in Touch with a combination of hands-on workshops,
presentations, activities and exclusive events. Materials
in Touch is a textured carpet tile collection designed to
engage the senses with a modern and strikingly structured
composition. This tactile range is highly interactive and
playful and has inspired the Desso theme for this year’s
Clerkenwell Design Week. desso.com
Desso Showroom, 23-25 Great Sutton Street
planet partitioning
Award Winning Artist ‘Vic Lee’ will
be painting live onto the Showroom
windows for Clerkenwell Design Week.
viasit The former Clerkenwell artist, who
Re-pend designed by Martin Ballendat, has worked for companies such as
will be launched at Clerkenwell Design Sainsbury’s, Elle Magazine, Brompton
Week, and is a shell chair for multiple Bicycles as well as many others, will
applications that adjusts to your mood be gracing us with his presence for the
and movement with its unique tilting three day event. The first two days
action. Re-pend is available in three he will be painting the windows at the
scratch resistant, high gloss finishes, Showroom, allowing the public to come
white or polished aluminium frames, and watch this truly talented artist in
four or five star bases, glides or castors action, with the third day leaving his
and with optional upholstery. piece for all to enjoy.
viasit.co.uk planetpartitioning.co.uk
Viasit Showroom, The Gallery, Planet Partitioning Showroom,
21-22 Great Sutton Street 104-110 Goswell Road
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May Design Week
astro lighting
Astro Lighting is a leading British designer, manufacturer and
exporter of contemporary lighting offering the largest range
of IP44 rated products anywhere in the world, as well as a
comprehensive and innovative range of lighting for modern
living, including a wide choice of LED designs. Astro will
showcase its 2013 collection including the new “Asini”. The
IP44 rated Asini is a chandelier-style bathroom ceiling light
with shimmering glass droplets arranged in three tiers from a
circular chrome base, with a glass surround.
astrolighting.co.uk
ARC - Stand Q44
vorwerk
Set to take the design and specification
markets by storm, the organic grace & webb
polyurethane RE/COVER green Grace & Webb’s bespoke laser cut
floors are produced from almost 90% panels were recently installed in South
regenerative raw materials, including Place - the new luxury hotel from
extracted castor and rapeseed restauranteurs D&D, London, with
oil, in order to offer exceptional interiors designed by Conran. Shown
environmental benefits as well as the here are panels encapsulated between
durability demanded by high-impact glass to create a glowing backlit outdoor
commercial locations. Available in two- bar. We offer tailor-made designs and
metre width, RE/COVER green floors luxury surface finishes to the high-end
achieve best-in-class low life-cycle costs hospitality, interior and architectural
and meet LEED requirements. markets with a diverse range of
vorwerk-carpet.com applications. graceandwebb.com
Interiors LDN - Stand W31 DX - Stand O22
Jay watson
The essential elements of digital design meet careful
craftsmanship and sensible re-purposing in Jay Watson’s
‘Pixel’ collection. Discontinued Corian® samples serve
as colourful ‘pixels’ forming on/off abstract and geometric
patterns over sustainably sourced birch ply. The series
includes the ‘Pixel’ coffee table (490mm x 875mm x armourcoat
875mm) and the ‘Pixel’ credenza (H710mm x D440mm Armourcoat will be presenting new ranges of colours and finishes, including
x W1580mm), both made to order. See the Pixel designs ‘Armourcoat KonCrete’ - an urban range of polished plaster effects designed
as well as new upcycled lighting pieces by Jay Watson at for contemporary projects. The finish presents a wealth of design options to
Interiors LDN. jaywatsondesign.com achieve a distinctive modern look, including distressed effects or recessed ‘shutter’
Interiors LDN - Stand V9 markings. The company will also present ‘SMG’ - a super luxury finish with the
appearance of a seamless high-gloss lacquer, and ‘Striated’ - a natural looking
effect which emulates raw silk. armourcoat.com
DX - Stand R18
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May Design Week
hamilton litestat
Renowned for its comprehensive range of decorative
electrical wiring accessories and audio and lighting controls,
Hamilton Litestat has a design and finish to suit every style
of interior from ultra contemporary to heritage restoration. ted todd
However, Hamilton’s in-house ‘Savile Row’ design and Ted Todd has introduced a new 20mm engineered range. Strada matches the
manufacturing service also produces bespoke accessories highest quality 20mm engineered FSC® certified European Oak boards with the
tailored to individual briefs. Whether it’s a style of finish or exacting standards demanded by the best flooring specifiers. Pre-finished with
particular function, Hamilton’s expert in-house team will a unique twelve coat lacquer finish, this range is extremely durable and easy to
work with you to create special wiring accessories, however maintain, it will stand up to the most demanding of projects.
simple or complex your requirements. This includes creating Available in a choice of ten stunning colours ranging from cool, crisp whites and
bespoke wiring accessories to complement a new collection of greys, through the rich tones of nature’s finest palette to a contemporary gun metal
architectural ironmongery supplied by Hamilton from artisan grey and unique dual tone black.
Italian brand Giara. The luxury door handles are cast in sand Strada is available from stock, suitable for installation over underfloor heating and
moulds using a technique dating from 5,000 BC and finished will make a stunning and enduring addition to any interior.
by hand; each one possessing a unique individual character. For further information or to request a sample box please contact 01925 283 000.
hamilton-litestat.com tedtodd.co.uk
Interiors LDN - Stand T60 Interiors LDN - Stand V28
iguzzini
iGuzzini will be bringing a range of innovative LED products
to this year’s Arc Show. The selection includes the award
winning Laser Blade, Lun-Up and Pixel Pro alongside some
other high performance LED luminaires designed by the likes
of Renzo Piano, J. M. Wilmotte and Mario Cucinella. At the
stand one can appreciate the quality and performance of the
products by seeing first-hand a range of different optics and
light outputs for customized lighting needs. iGuzzini will be
hosting a contest on Twitter during the show, so make sure
you follow them on Twitter @iGuzziniUK.
iguzzini.co.uk
ARC - Stand R29
printed space
Printed Space specialise in custom lano
printed wallpapers and vinyl flooring. The sumptuous Ultimo collection
Their products benefit from the high of residential carpets from Lano is
quality look and feel demanded for renowned for its lavish textures and
home interiors yet have the versatility stunning designs, and is set to entice
and durability required for commercial visitors at the show. Comprising a
environments. At Interiors LDN they total of 10 carpet styles that have
will be recreating four recent projects been carefully selected to provide the
along with storyboards to show how ultimate in luxury and performance,
the designer’s original ideas were the Ultimo collection showcases designs
progressed and the outcome that was crafted from a mixture of fibres,
achieved. Come and see the possibilities including pure New Zealand Wool,
their printed products can bring to your super-soft polyamide and silky bamboo
own projects. printedspace.com twist piles. lano.com
Interiors LDN - Stand U50 Interiors LDN - Stand W30
may1.indd 107 23/04/2013 16:52

KBB
jis
All Sussex range towel rails are manufactured to exacting
standards in 100% stainless steel, with an extended range
of sizes and are available in brushed satin or polished finish
making these radiators durable and hygienic and they come
with a 25 year guarantee. JIS EUROPE, one of the leading
suppliers of modern styled radiators and towel rails, point out
that stainless steel does not corrode, chip, flake or bubble. It
is durable, easy to clean and totally hygienic and it retains a
high quality appearance throughout a long life.
sussexrange.co.uk
KBB - Stand D5
salice
SALICE will be in the North hansgrohe
Hall where visitors can view their The new Axor Starck Organic
extensive selection of furniture fittings bathroom collection combines unique
including their unique titanium finish design with a responsible way to handle
hinges. Retaining the technology water. Developed by Axor, the designer
and functionality of the Salice hinge brand of Hansgrohe, and Philippe
range, the new finish offers an Starck, the organic-minimalist design
aesthetic compatibility with todays and harmonious lines, reminiscent of
modern furniture designs, coupled shapes we see in nature, characterize
with improved corrosive resistance Axor Starck Organic and give the
compared to the classic nickel-plated collection an exciting, powerful and
finish. saliceuk.co.uk sculptural immediacy. Two handles,
KBB - Stand J40 which separately control water volume
and temperature, blend in visually with
the body of the mixers. hansgrohe.co.uk
KBB - Innovation
dallmer
As acknowledged leaders in ‘wet-room’ drainage, Dallmer
will be exhibiting the latest variations on CeraLine channels.
Now available with ‘Flex’ and ‘Pronto’ connectors, these Blum
make quick, reliable installation even easier in solid, beam Leading international fittings furniture manufacturer for the KBB industry, Blum
and block or timber floors. The Tisto brand is also extended, UK, will exhibit at KBB to show visitors a vision of future commitment to the
an even larger range used for complete security when UK market both in terms of exciting new products and increasing investment in
waterproofing a level access shower. TistoStone allows the customer service. The products on show have been carefully selected to meet UK
floor finish to be incorporated in the surface over the drain, market requirements of the future and will give visitors a wide vision to stimulate
but without the restriction of flow common when this is done. their ongoing desire to move their products forward through design, product
dallmer.com quality and innovation. blum.com
KBB - Stand E40 KBB - Stand F20
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Contract Furniture
EBORCRAFT
A reception counter with a number of bespoke features has
been built for a medical practice, using flexible modules from
Eborcraft’s Fusion range of reception furniture. One of the
requirements was to fit the counter into a restricted space
and accommodate existing filing pedestals. Eborcraft was WERnER WORks
able to fulfil this specification by using its modular Fusion Our Clerkenwell showroom has on display a wide selection of products, both
units, which enabled the client to avoid the cost of bespoke stylish and practical. The Cockpit reception desk consists of numerous modules,
furniture. The client specified a white high pressure laminate work surfaces, incorporating storage and front panels, which can be mixed and
finish, which Eborcraft offers as an alternative to its wood matched to create an attractive working environment. Also on show are Werner’s
veneer finishes. Decorative silver banding was inlaid into storage walls, lockers and sliding door cupboards. All Werner products can be
the counter front, and the tops were fitted with glass panels finished in any of the standard finishes, RAL or Pantone colours or high gloss.
which had been back painted in white. eborcraft.co.uk ei2 sole distributors of Werner Products. werner-works.co.uk
BuRgEss WORks
The Meet-U table system provides functionality and
flexibility within meeting, conference and training room
areas. Meet-U has won the Design Guild Mark award for
British design, an accolade which rewards the designers and
manufacturers of furniture in volume production for retail or
contract sale. The lines are clean and crisp and investment
in design and tooling is evident within the structure. Meet-U
is also one of only a few table systems, whereby components
such as bridges can be shared. This means increased spaces
and seating areas; great and ultimately reduces costs.
burgessfurniture.com
WARings FuRniTuRE
The Josh chair by Warings Furniture ki
is versatile, lightweight and durable. The highly flexible KI UniteSE Flip top
Made from injected polypropylene, the tables are designed for a wide variety
chair is a single moulded piece with no of workplace settings making it the
joints, making it incredibly strong. It ideal choice for meetings, conferences,
can be stacked ten high and has a small training, and presentations. They
footprint, so it can be stored and moved can be used either on their own or in
with ease. Clients can choose from six clusters and are available in a wide
available colours for this contemporary range of shapes including semi circular,
style chair. The colour runs through the round, trapezoidal and rectangular.
entire product so it will remain vibrant They are ideal for moving from room
through constant use and outdoor to room and nest together in a very
exposure. waringsfurniture.com space efficient manner when not in use.
kieurope.com
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Doors
NoRtH 4 DESigN
North 4 Design specialise in Vision Panels for doors and
walls. Manufactured from stainless steel they are designed to
provide additional light and visibility in doors and walls. All
vision panels are supplied as a complete pack with everything
needed to glaze a standard or FD30 door simply, safely and
efficiently. Additional options such as etched signage are
available and their standard range of Vision Panels can be
specified and ordered online at www.north4.com
north4.com
LEADERFLUSH SHAPLAND
Nestled within a 19th century walled
garden, Ockenden Manor Spa
combines contemporary aesthetics HAF iNtERNAtioNAL
with picturesque natural surroundings. HAF International – door levers, pull
Throughout the interior, the fixtures handles and accessories designed
and fittings have been carefully without compromise to match the
specified to create a peaceful, luxurious very best in contemporary interior and
environment – with doors from architectural design. Our solid stainless
Leaderflush Shapland providing steel door handles are built to endure,
the finishing touch. Envision is a and with our bespoke finishing service
translucent door facing material that you can be certain the ironmongery
enables the intricate detail of high specified for you project complements
definition, photographic images to be you design vision. Visit the website to
incorporated into a factory assembled download the new 2013 catalogue.
doorset. leaderflushshapland.co.uk hafinternational.com
KoMFoRt
Komfort’s double glazed partitioning and storage walls have
been installed at the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology SCHott
Clinic at Little France, Edinburgh due to their exceptional SCHOTT’s highly sophisticated product portfolio ranges from curved
hygienic qualities. Eight of Komfort’s double glazed Polar RESISTAN glass laminates, which provide transparent ballistic vehicle protection,
Vision partitions were installed. These are dry-jointed to the multi-performance glass PYRANOVA Secure, which combines protection
partitions, constructed without mullion posts to provide a against burglary attack, bullet penetration and fire resistance. Due to its high
seamless style, and were used mainly to front the consulting performance properties, SCHOTT’s range of attack resistant glass can be used
rooms. Hygiene and cleanliness are of the highest priority and in public and commercial areas. The glass is ideal for both vehicles and buildings,
the Komfort products installed can be wiped clean with ease, in applications such as prisons, embassies, military facilities and ministries where
significantly lowering the risk of infection. komfort.com protection is at its utmost. schott.com
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Surface Flooring
HI-MACS
LG Hausys is introducing seven new fabulous colours to its
solid surface HI-MACS palette in 2013. These new solid
shades are based on global interior trends and inspired by the
calmness of nature to give architects, designers, contractors
and homeowners - wishing to work with a high capacity
material as aesthetically pleasing as it is resistant - even more
choice in colour. From elegant to extravagant, classic to ultra- deSIgnworkS
contemporary – the HI-MACS solid range of colours is a With a product portfolio encompassing natural stone, porcelain, ceramic, mosaic
limitless collection that adapts to the most demanding design and anti-slip floor tiles, Designworks offers a solution for any commercial or
requests. The new soft and elegant colours include Mill residential project. Designworks offers an expert design service and can provide
Olive, Deep Indigo, Dark Night, Greenish Grey, Carmenere, comprehensive technical advice. A bespoke mosaic service is also available which
Chiffon and the new Diamond White, which is 60% Whiter can turn any high resolution image into an eye-catching mosaic mural. The
than the popular Alpine White. All new colours are available company’s vast portfolio spans high end commercial and residential projects so the
in 12 mm thickness. team benefits from a unique level of experience.
himacs.eu designworkstiles.com
VILLeroY & BoCH

A system of ten harmoniously coordinated colours in a
range of different formats, PURE LINE offers the designer
a wealth of possibilities for a wide variety of different rooms.
The two harmonious colour ranges comprising White-Grey,
Light Grey, Medium Grey and Anthracite, as well as Creme,
Light Greige, Medium Greige and Dark Greige, can be
combined with contrasting Black and Ivory. All PURE LINE
tiles feature vilbostoneplus, the easy-care finish for porcelain
stoneware. villeroy-boch.com
CorAL
grAnorTe Create unique environments with
Showcasing the finest in eco-friendly Coral’s Tension Fabric System
design and containing an impressive combining technology and flexibility
93% pre-consumer recycled content, with vibrant fabric printed graphics
the Tradition collection of cork floors to showcase products, services or
by Granorte is the go-to collection for branding. Perfect for offices, receptions
retailers looking to provide discerning and breakout areas this versatile system
shoppers with green and stylish can be freestanding, wall mounted
products for the home. Repurposing and ceiling hung. Whether single or
the cork waste left over from the double-sided, the fabric graphics are
wine stopper manufacturing industry, simple to fit and remove just fold up the
Tradition floors are available in either fabric and pack away for safe and easy
a solid or veneered constructions in a transportation. Next time you use them
total of 36 stunning decors. This range the tension effectively irons out the
is ideal for retailers looking to diversify creases by stretching it to fit the frame.
their product portfolio. granorte.co.uk coralcolour.com
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Surfaces
forrest & jones

The latest Seamless wallcovering from forrest & jones is
now being specified for prestigious installations within the
hospitality and healthcare sectors. A tough polyester woven
fabric based substrate which is PVC free, can be printed with
bespoke designs up to five metres high by limitless length.
The quality of print is pin sharp and as there are no joins,
any possibility of pieces lifting and contamination getting
underneath is eliminated, leaving it looking great for years.
forrestandjones.com
Polyrey aBet laminati

The refurbishment of Aberdeen’s Bureau By The Lough, the Greater
Marischal College building into the Belfast-based bar and restaurant
headquarters of the city’s council has business, has undergone a £250,000
seen Polyrey laminate used throughout redesign. One of its stunning features
public and behind-the-scenes areas is a long bar front clad with Oberflex
of this busy work place. The varied American Walnut real wood laminate
colours used in Marischal College were from ABET LAMINATI. The
selected from the 118 decors available new scheme, created by architects
in the Papago collection on 0.8mm Marchini Curran Associates, splits the
thick postformable HPL. Offering original open plan into cellular zones
resistance to scratches, heat, chemicals, comprising different Terrace, Lounge
impacts, abrasions and colour fast, and Café bars. The design was inspired
Polyrey Color Papago HPL is suitable by the work of Paul Henry, a northern
for vertical or horizontal use. Irish post-impressionist painter.
polyrey.com abetuk.com
solus CeramiCs
Solus Ceramics introduce the sophisticated Teardrop range,
which is a unique, and elegant series of wall tiles inspired by
oriental flowing shapes and curved lines. The scale-like tiles tau
are available in six lavish colours including a deep turquoise Rough luxe meets pop art in the Graffiti collection by Tau: these 14.5 x 90 cm
and a regal red, and can be selected in both a matt and rectified porcelain tiles resemble screen printed wood and come in white, blue,
glossy finish. The tiles, which measure 115x195mm create grey, purple, ochre, pink, red and green with a dramatic black grain. This new
dramatic patterns when laid together resembling the textures generation of wood effect tiles is made in Spain from highly durable, easy-care
of exquisitely woven fabric. Most recently the tiles have been rectified UV-resistant porcelain suitable for interiors, exteriors and high traffic
featured in the brand new Hard Rock Café in Barcelona and areas. Mix and match different shades for the ultimate ‘industrial meets shabby
were even backlit to exciting effect. solusceramics.com chic’ look. tauceramica.com
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Surfaces
CompaC
Absolute Blanc from COMPAC is probably the most vibrant,
pure white technological quartz worksurface on the market Caesarstone
today. It offers superb consistency of colour, is extremely When Halcyon Interiors created a stunning display in their new Beaconsfield
hard wearing, highly resistant to heat, scratches, staining showroom, they specified Caesarstone Shitake 4230 as the surface of choice.
and is very easy to clean and maintain. Absolute Blanc has After its introduction to the Caesarstone range in 2012, Shitake has proved to be
a timeless elegance that provides the opportunity to create a a popular choice among retailers, kitchen designers and consumers alike. Its soft,
truly stunning kitchen environment, its purity of colour allows earthy tones offer warmth and exude class to any kitchen. It complements the
it to blend perfectly with contemporary or traditional kitchen beautiful showroom which features sumptuous cream cupboards, balancing the
units and wallcoverings. modern look with traditional values, such as exposed wooden beams on the ceiling
compac.es and design-led interior furnishings. caesarstone.co.uk
parapan
Innovative designers are taking highly reflective gloss Parapan
out of the kitchen and bathroom and using the revolutionary,
man-made acrylic alongside more conventional materials to
create stunning new designs for furniture in sitting rooms,
offices and bedrooms. Available in an exciting palette
including neutrals and vibrant brights, the 24 Parapan colours
are solid and UV stable. There are two thicknesses: 18mm for
drawers and doors and 4mm for cladding. Both can be cut to
size, machined like wood and thermoformed into any radius
of curve. parapan.co.uk
polyrey
The newly developed laminates
incorporate all the properties of HPLs
DaviD Clouting (High Pressure Laminates) in terms
For an innovative way to transform of impact, heat and scratch resistance.
reception areas, corridors, bedrooms, They meet all applicable standard and
meeting rooms, restaurants, and certification requirements (EN438, CE,
coffee bars, Interior Film from David ISO 9001, etc) and their production is
Clouting Ltd is the perfect solution. subject to the highest quality standards.
Manufactured by LG Hausys, Interior Polyrey is the only manufacturer to
Film is a self-adhesive, decorative film offer the antibacterial Sanitized grade
ideal for the hotel and leisure sectors. certification for all its Laminate and
It’s quick and easy to install and rooms Compact styles, which underwent a
can literally be transformed overnight silver-ion core treatment tested on seven
with minimum disruption. Interior Film different bacteria.Those laminates are
can be applied to almost any substrate also rated ‘A’ for their VOC emissions
including: wood, metals, plaster board, and achieved ‘E1’ Class with respect to
plastics, painted surfaces and melamine. their formaldehyde emissions.
davidclouting.co.uk polyrey.com
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Flooring
INVISTA
INVISTA’s Antron carpet fibre has released the latest edition
of its Fibre Matters publication, which highlights many of the
unique performance attributes exclusively available to carpets
bearing the Antron name. Fibre Matters includes information
on Antron carpet fibre, Antron Lumena, Antron Legacy
and Antron Brilliance fibres, explaining benefits such as soil
hiding, light and colour fastness and resistance to the signs
of wear. Hardcopies can be obtained from Antron, or digital
editions downloaded from the website. antron.eu
WILTON CARPETS JUNCKERS

A total of 350 sq m of sumptuous Junckers Oak Harmony was specified as
bespoke axminster carpet by Wilton part of the three year, £47 million
Carpets Commercial now covers transformation of the National Museum
the ground and bedroom floors of of Scotland, partly funded by the
the historic George Hotel in Penrith, Heritage Lottery Fund and the Scottish
Cumbria. Rich shades of red, green Government. Finished in Junckers’
and gold from the Dimensions colour professional HP Commercial lacquer,
palette were woven into a traditional 600 sq m solid Oak flooring was fitted
tartan patterned carpet that now graces by McKay Flooring in the impressive
the hotel’s ground floor. Layered with Animal World Gallery, housing a
a light scroll design, this bespoke carpet multitude of exhibits and interactive
has a classical and refined feel that displays. The durable finish is ideal for
suits the hotel’s dark mahogany wall high traffic areas and is a warm and
panelling and intricate ceiling patterns. welcoming backdrop to the wonders of
wiltoncarpets.com the animal world. junckers.co.uk
FORbO
Welcome to the new world of high performance sustainable
floor coverings - and the Next Generation of Marmoleum.
The pure, natural characteristics of Next Generation CObA EUROPE
Marmoleum make it ideal for specifiers seeking a high quality, COBA Europe’s ultra-smart plan.a aluminium entrance matting is a heavy duty
long-lasting floor covering solution, as part of a sustainable solution to dirt and moisture control in buildings. This robust high quality system
building design. Next generation Marmoleum comprises four is available in four very stylish surface finishes including brushes, carpet, carpet
new collections, which deliver new design directions with a and brushes, and rubber inserts. It is possible to specify just one style of insert, or a
wide choice of colour combinations for rich, warm, refined combination of finishes, the latter of which is popular for achieving optimum dual
and contemporary looks. action wiping/scraping performance. Available in 12 colour options, plan.a can be
forbo-flooring.co.uk/marmoleum manufactured to fit all shapes and sizes of entrance areas. cobaeurope.com
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Flooring
Floors oF stone
Floors of stone are suppliers of the highest quality Travertine, Junckers
Limestone, Marble, Slate and Porcelain tiles at extremely Gold, silver, bronze – metallic finishes are the next big trend in interiors. One of
competitive prices. Their extensive tile range holds a wide Junckers most exclusive floors, solid Oak Golden Pearl has a shimmery golden
range of subtle colours, textures and finishes to suit interiors glaze and reflects natural light beautifully. The specially developed pearlescent
from crisp ultra modern to high quality restoration projects. finish is sealed with UltraMatt lacquer for durability and easy maintenance.
Free samples are available and they pride themselves on Junckers’ Design Collection offers a wide range of creative possibilities with new
fast reliable delivery to suit you, Floors of Stone can offer finishes, reflective surfaces, enhanced textures, bright colours and pearlescent shine
everything needed for a high quality flooring project. on naturally stable, solid wood floors. Available as plank or 2 strip, structural or
floorsofstone.com overlay floors, 129/140/185mm wide boards. junckers.co.uk
Quadrant carpets
Designed to work in a broad spectrum of environments and
engineered for value and long term durability, the Elements
carpet tile collection from British manufacturer Quadrant has
now been installed in 500,000 sq m of commercial floor
space in the UK – the equivalent of covering the Olympic
Stadium in Stratford more than 55 times. Preferred by
designers and specifiers for its beautiful textured structure
that is available in a wide-ranging colour palette of 27 plain
shades, Elements is the ideal carpet for a variety of
environments. quadrantcarpets.com
Forbo
Forbo Flooring Systems has specifically Island stone
designed its Surestep Wood Decibel At Island Stone, we have been busy
range to provide R10 slip resistance creating new innovative Tile Designs to
underfoot, while at the same time our ever expanding range. Visit our new
offering 17dB impact sound reduction. website today to see our cutting edge
Unlike traditional safety flooring ranges, additions as well as an impressive new
Surestep Wood Decibel is also the first feature where by using a simple colour
multiple width safety floor - uniquely swatch tray system you are able to view
available in 2, 3 and 4m widths. all the available Tile Design options
Broadening the design spectrum with for each colour in the one place. The
five new colours Surestep Wood featured Flat Pebble is a new addition
Decibel now features a wider choice of to our Pebble Series and is the natural
oak effect finishes, as well as two new choice for people eager to explore the
modern all-over wood designs. possibilities of new surface designs.
forbo-flooring.co.uk/surestepwooddecibel islandstone.co.uk
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Bathrooms & Kitchens
deVOL Kitchens
Classic English painted Kitchen furniture since 1989. deVOL
make traditional Freestanding Georgian bespoke cabinets, an
incredibly popular Shaker kitchen with modular components
and an internationally acclaimed new kitchen range, ‘Air’. All
their furniture is handmade in Leicestershire, England using
the finest materials and craftsmanship. deVOL is a design
led company that inspires and makes kitchens and home
accessories for all budgets. They offer a free design service to
all their customers. devolkitchens.co.uk
AqAtA
Bespoke, made to measure solutions
have been available from Aqata for LAUFen
over 26 years, in response to the ever Where plastic and ceramic are the
growing demand for customised perfect combination, the Kartell by
bathroom designs. A dedicated Laufen collection brings these two
technical team is available to offer all unlikely materials together for a super-
the expertise and knowledge required to stylish finish in the bathroom. With
maximise a potential space and create stools, shelving and accessories available
a beautiful showering area. Quality in a range of bold, transparent colours,
shower screens and shower enclosures washbasins made from Laufen’s
are hand built in the UK by craftsmen revolutionary SaphirKeramik material
with years of experience in the to make them extra thin and extra
bathroom industry and can be created light, and a bathtub that brings spa-like
for special heights, widths or angles. wellbeing into the home.
aqata.co.uk laufen.com
KerAmAg design
Luxury bathroom sanitaryware and furniture specialist,
Keramag Design is delighted to open the doors to its very
first UK studio on Lots Road in Chelsea, London. Aptly
set against the beautiful backdrop of Chelsea Harbour, the
stunning studio space, which will be open for a six-month
period, has been designed to offer Keramag Design’s
customers, from retailers to architects and designers, a
tangible experience of the fusion of superb aesthetics, quality
and timeless design which goes into every Keramag Design nichOLAs AnthOnY
piece. Reputed as one of Germany’s leading manufacturers Luxury kitchen, bathroom and interiors company, Nicholas Anthony has a
of sanitaryware and furniture, the Keramag Design ethos dynamic new look for its Wigmore Street showroom. With an established
is one of ‘lasting value’; using only top-class materials and reputation for excellence and award-winning design, this London showroom
state-of-the-art technology to deliver cutting-edge design presents a range of stunning kitchens that showcase a variety of different materials,
which outlasts short-lived modern trends. Designed for textures, colours and finishes. The extensive refurbishment offers customers a
desirability, the company’s collection of sanitaryware and comprehensive choice of what is on offer from the Nicholas Anthony Collection.
furniture is targeted at the top-end of the market, from high- Neutral colours remain extremely fashionable, while the introduction of flat
end commercial and private properties to luxury hotels and lacquers, with a silk finish, is proving highly popular and promises to be one of the
resorts. keramagdesign.com big looks of 2013. nicholas-anthony.co.uk
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Bathrooms
roca
Comprehensive and extensive, Dama-N from Roca
comprises sanitaryware and co-ordinating furniture. Its
contemporary square shape, simple and clean lines are Duravit
perfectly in tune with current bathroom trends. The WC DuraStyle is a unique bathroom series designed by Matteo Thun for Duravit
has a one-piece shell cistern with separate plastic inner lining with a visual lightness and simplicity of form. A characteristic design feature is the
which eliminates any unsightly condensation on the outside. narrow, elegant rim around the washbasin and the tapered outer edge that neatly
The complementary furniture comes in five sizes and is slopes inward. Washbasin and toilet thus appear slender and understated, almost
available in dark or light textured wood as well as white or weightless. The bath tub is distinguished by an upward lip on the rear rim that
khaki finishes. There are also two sizes of column unit with keeps bathing essentials and also offers support when getting in and out of the bath.
integrated mirror plus additional co-ordinating mirrors. The DuraStyle bathroom series offers tremendous value for money and meets a
roca.com wide variety of different budget requirements. duravit.co.uk
castELLo
Castello Luxury baths offers customers the opportunity
to combine top of the range design with modern comforts
and functionality. Castello has recently introduced the new
Rosebud bath; under 1.5 metres in length, allowing luxury
bathing in even the smallest of bathrooms. Over the past 10
years Castello has supplied many luxury hotels and resorts,
prestigious private developments and super yachts giving
credit to the high quality durability and style of our baths.
castellobaths.co.uk
oN tHE LEvEL raK cEraMics

The Complete Flooring System RAK Ceramics has introduced its
designed by On the Level is an new Elena bathroom range. The
innovative made-to-measure contemporary collection, which has
interlocking concealed flooring system a strong Italian design influence,
for wet rooms which incorporates a includes basins, WC’s and bidets. It
bespoke showering area with a choice is offered alongside RAK’s wide range
of waste position. Manufactured in the of baths, tiling options and RAKextra
UK from 24mm birch ply, the system accessories. It will be available
can cope with an applied load of 6.7kN throughout the UK from March, 2013.
so it is suitable for wheelchair users. The new Elena range includes full and
Vinyl sheet flooring or a tiled wetroom half pedestal basins, with a deep back
floor are ideal for this system making it ledge. A wall hung off-set design, with
the perfect choice for sports clubs, care an extended left/right side ledge is also
homes, pod modules, private homes available and ideal for ‘his and her’ dual
and hotels. onthelevel.co.uk application. rakceramics.co.uk
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Lighting
CompaCT LIGHTING
The scope LED is a high performance Luminaire designed
specifically for LED spotlight module technology. Developed
to accommodate a range of LED packages up to 4000
lumens. The design offers the user flexibility to adjust
directions (up to 90 degrees) and rotate up to 359 degrees.
Options are available with medium and wide beam optics
combined with passive and active thermal management
systems. compact-lighting.co.uk
KINGFISHER LIGHTING HaCEL

Auriga is a new, unique luminaire from Solara Miledo is the latest compact
Kingfisher Exterior Lighting. Auriga LED downlighter designed and
is available in two mounting styles – a manufactured by Hacel Lighting. As
distinct stirrup cradle and a traditional part of their new LED range, the Solara
post top. Auriga is highly functional Miledo hosts a number of technical and
yet contemporary and stylish, perfect aesthetic features including outstanding
for street or amenity lighting. Made performance, choice of lumen outputs,
from die-cast aluminium and finished colour temperatures, operating systems
in Kingfisher Anthracite Grey, Auriga and 27 individual accessories. The
is available with a large variety of Hacel designed LED light engine,
lamp packages, including 20w, 40w with its integral driver, is populated
and 60w LED options, plus energy- with CREE XP-G lighting class
saving CosmoPolis in 45w, 60w, 90w semi-conductors in a choice of Warm
and 140w. Kingfisher Lighting are (3000K), Neutral (4000K) and Cool
thrilled to be celebrating 25 years in the White (5000K) colour temperatures.
industry. kingfisherlighting.com hacel.co.uk
FLoS
Circle of Light by Flos Architectural is a family of three aRTILLuS
(300mm, 600mm & 900mm diameter) ceiling recessed Custom made LED Light Boxes, Light panels for signage, wall display and
luminaires. The Circle of Light has been specifically interior design uses. For large displays our front loading Simplicity frameless textile
designed to deliver an extremely low glare solid ‘carpet of tensioning system is perfect for mounting illuminated and non-illuminated printed
light’ directly beneath it from an array of high performance fabrics to walls, or for freestanding displays. Various profile depths are available for
LEDs that are secreted within the 35mm circular groove. all applications and graphic or display sizes. Depending on the display size we use
Using Soft Architecture technology (www.soft-architecture. light panels or modules, but only the best quality to provide long term maintenance
com) Circle of Light has been designed to be seamlessly free 50,000+ hrs lifetime and long warranty.
integrated in plaster ceilings. atrium.ltd.uk artillus.com
may2.indd 118 23/04/2013 16:05

Projects
the interiors group

The Interiors Group have recently fitted out offices for
General Electrical which has been delivered two weeks early geze
& on budget! The new headquarters are located in the Beach At the end of the world’s longest pleasure pier, Southend’s new Cultural Centre
Plaza, Muscat. The client had trialled the “open plan style has opened its doors to the public, offering spectacular water views through its
of working” within its Oman offices and found it to be a majestic glass façade. The UK’s leading manufacturer of door and window control
success. Staff embraced this scheme more enthusiastically systems, GEZE UK, was commissioned by specialist contractor Drayton Windows
compared to the traditional cellular offices, in which they are to install a pair of EMD-F operators to enable access for all to the multi-purpose
more used to. The reception area, fitted out by The Interiors events space and café. Given the remote location and the need for easy accessibility
Group, uses the GE branding which is complemented by the in a high footfall area, these premium electro-mechanical drives for swing doors
arabesque marble flooring. interiorsgroup.ae were chosen primarily for their durability. geze.co.uk
hunter Douglas
Hunter Douglas has a long tradition of innovation and is
launching a Baffle ceiling solution to the UK that is ideal for
large spaces, offering an adjustable and design-led system
that make them the perfect bespoke solution for major
developments. The Baffle ceilings are created for both indoor
and outdoor commercial applications and works well for
larger sites such as conference centres, airports and sports
stadia, as well as office and retail settings. The adaptable
carrier system allows baffles to slide back for easy access to
lighting, sprinklers, and diffusers. hunterdouglascontract.com
Casala
A chair which can make itself
comfortable in both the smallest
canteen and the largest of conference sas international
rooms. Handy, comfortable and sturdy. SAS International is proud to announce
A one-piece construction with a built-in a range of its Architectural Metalwork
system for linking and stacking. This solutions have been installed at
makes the Monolink a unique chair; one the new 103,000 sq m terminal at
that makes setting up a room very easy. Jordan’s Queen Alia International
It can be fully recycled and is available Airport (QAIA) including the visually
in a variety of colour combinations. It striking Tubeline ceiling system. SAS
is available with either a plastic or an International worked closely with
upholstered seat. Seat numbering and the architects Foster + Partners to
a clever mode of transport are also develop an acoustic solution for the
optional. Monolink has what it takes to environment to fit within these concrete
give a stellar performance. canopies, reminiscent of a Bedouin tent.
casala.com/monolink sasintgroup.com
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Showcase
DIAMOND LED LIGHT BOXES

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Cost savings and energy efficiencies are paramount but so
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ARTILLUS ILLUMINATING SOLUTIONS LTD CUSTOM SIZE GLASS DICHROIC FILTERS
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PAVEGEN SYSTEMS LTD

Flooring system which generates renewable electricity from
footsteps to power low applications such as LED Lighting.
QUALITY BESPOKE SOLUTIONS FOR THE CIRCUS BY CORINNA WARM
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www.pavegen.co.uk www.airuno.co.uk www.innermost.net
Ebony and Co is a purveyor of exceptional handcrafted solid

wood flooring to the luxury segment of the international
interior design community, providing everything from
extremely wide planks to bespoke parquetry.
Featured: American White Ash – Limed Natural Oil Finish
EBONY AND CO Philip Watts Design Insta UK Limited
T. +44 (0) 20 7734 0734
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Recruitment Classified
VISION PANELS
Ref: V02699, Suffolk £18,000

• Interior Designers This company specialises in the design, manufacture and
installation of handmade kitchens and seek a kitchen design
• Product Designers technician to assist in the showroom. You will be CAD
literate and have free hand drawing skills and a relevant
• Furniture Designers degree in furniture, product or interior design.
Ref: V02695, S.W England £Neg

• Lighting Designers This provider of show homes to the new homes industry
seek a senior interior designer with 5+ years’ similar
• Exhibition Designers experience for a permanent role and an interior designer with
2+ year’s relevant experience for an initial 12-month fixed
contract to cover maternity leave.
• CAD Technicians
Ref: V02694, Midlands c£30,000
• Space Planners Specialising in interior fit-out and retail display, this company
seek an interior designer and development project manager
• Project Managers to work with new design and development for existing
customers within the contracts department. With
experience of retail design you must be able to create 3D
• Visualisers visuals and have experience in planning, organising and
project managing.
Ref: V02692, London £22,000 - £25,000+comm

This company create bespoke, luxury bathroom spaces and
need an additional sales designer with excellent hand
drawing skills. You should also have qualifications in design,
be a good communicator, have proven sales experience and
be able to work under pressure and unsupervised.
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We recruit top talent for all your Studio vacancies. Studio specialises
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consultancy based in London. We pride ourselves on the personal and
strategic service we offer.
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We recruit within the thriving creative sector with a strong emphasis on
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have opportunities across the whole of the UK, Asia Pacific, Middle East
and we are proud sponsors of the 2013 FX Awards.
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Hewitt Studios is a multidisciplinary
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communal outreach spaces such as exhibition
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halls, conferences rooms, a hotel and sports The project team for this If Only
facilities to attract external patronage. exercise comprised (pictured left to
Built accommodation would largely clustered right) Paul Younger, associate; John
around the bridge’s two main towers, where it Hewitt, partner; Gill Hewitt, partner;
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If you have an If Only vision you’d like to cables. Additional lightweight accommodation assistant.
share – it doesn’t matter how extraordinary could be suspended below the old roadway, hewittstudios.co.uk
or far-fetched it seems – email details to the allowing the creation of a green, linear park
editor at tdowling@fxmagazine.co.uk along the length of the bridge.
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