Archive for the ‘brands’ Category
Kartell salone del mobile 2012
We get terribly excited in April, there is no better time of year for the furniture and homewares industry as the week of Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy. Our man on the ground (David) managed to whizz...
Alessi: the big revelation!
Alessi Phylum lamp Well Alessi certainly kept it under their hat that they were working on a new collection of…. wait for it… LIGHTING! Well to be honest with the break away pieces of furniture...
SALE time 2011!!
It happens only twice a year but its still very exciting and manic and giddy time because people get excited over designer bargains. The winter sale has now started and will continue during January, we...
wrap it up
Well, well how time flies when you’re having fu…. oh no wait scrap that! Actually the last few months have been immense fun, a whole lot of work and a few late nights but keeping the cogs...
All of the lights in here baby
Ok pipe down with the Rihanna and Kanye West song, we are talking lights for your home not the music! The nights are drawing in and the days are getting shorter, come in from work kick off your shoes and...
from high street to high end: designer diffusion
Conran for M&S Designers have always done it, cause a stir that is, whether through sensation or opportunity. You may well have heard that Marks and Spencer hired the services of british design...
Its too easy to forget Alessi
“What does THAT do?” A well dressed lady with a certain degree of style and obvious penchant for expensive handbags virtually hollers across the shop, “its a toilet brush madame, the...
Normann Copenhagen: destination style
normann copenhagen in Milan 2011 Normann, Normann Copenhagen, well however you want to refer to it there is something quite simple about its connections and connotations of style. Scandinavian countries...
Frag: a name for quality
We are occasionally confronted with the concept of justification of the way our furniture is designed and manufactured. That being in terms of good quality design but also good quality manufacture, 2 issues...
Driade food, erm I mean furniture!
If you asked us what we preferred, furniture or food? We would definitely be hard pushed to choose! So its lucky really that the wonderful Italian brand Driade have launched their new summer products...