Interiors & Furniture
Neutral Skins - Latest Crown Colour trend for 2007
What could be more personal or protecting than skin? Whether it’s our own skin, the bark of a tree or a layer of paint sealing a wall, outer surfaces are truly intimate. Crown’s latest colour trend, Neutral Skins, focuses on soft and faded neutrals to create a feeling of personal space and tranquillity.
Picture House launches Kiara plasma TV fireplace
See the latest revolution in home cinema technology – Picture House launches the new compact Kiara plasma TV fireplace on stand 314 - Smart Home Show NEC Birmingham 22-25 March 2007 – the plasma TV is hidden away in a fully working fireplace – now you see it, now you don’t!
H&R Johnson tiles the tenants choice
When Shoreline Housing Partnership needed to improve tenants’ homes across North East Lincolnshire it turned to the expertise of leading UK ceramics manufacturer H&R Johnson Tiles Ltd.
New Abacus illuminates designer radiator potential
Aeon Radiator Heaven has added an exciting new dimension to designer radiators with the incorporation of a non-toxic paint containing special pigments that absorb energy from any light source, converting it into a soft-tone glow at night or when a room is in darkness.
Aeon’s Speira provides the perfect focal point for architectural spaces
With cues drawn from the symmetry and beauty of a DNA strand and engineered to heat the largest of spaces, Speira from Aeon Radiator Heaven is a sculptural installation designed to be centrally mounted in modern open plan rooms.
In Design graces the brightest star
Located in North London’s Park Royal is a design studio with a host of innovative and beautiful products for kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms. In Design discovers the very best products and utilises them within each design specification. The latest addition is a range of captivating cooker hoods by Elica. Adorned with a beautiful glass shade, Star and Grace are just two in the range of beautiful extractors to revolutionise the market.
Smart but affordable
The term Smart Home can conjure up the image of a top premiership footballer and his current WAG blasting music and movies throughout their country pile, whilst operating their lighting, heating and even their curtains at the push of a button. That’s just one end of Smart Home technology spectrum, however visitors to the T3 Smart Home Show at the NEC from March 22 – 25 can see an array of products to suit every pocket. Here are some of the products which can be snapped up at the show which wont break the bank.
Alcove sofa for Vitra Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
The Bouroullec brothers’ latest design for Vitra is a capacious sofa which embraces the needs of both home and work.
Polder XS Sofa from Hella Jongerius
With typical quiet irony Hella Jongerius named her new sofa for Vitra ‘Polder’, in reference to the tracts of land reclaimed from the sea in Holland by creating dikes and drainage ditches. With an emphasis on the horizontal, the elongated form of this asymmetrically arranged sofa is similarly low and flat, consisting of a wooden frame cushioned with upholstered polyurethane foam. This ‘platform’ holds four voluminous, elongated cushions which are securely positioned in a depression in the frame to form the seat.
A unique finishing touch for your home
If you are fed up with mass-produced furniture and artefacts for the home, and are seeking something truly individual to provide that ‘just so’ finishing touch, choose from literally hundreds of handcrafted treasures at this year’s Living Crafts at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire.
Spot the difference! The Eurus from MHS radiators
The Eurus, the latest addition to the MHS portfolio of designer radiators, is set to knock spots off the competition.
No two alike: Self-adjusting shelving system
Make/Shift – a self-adjusting shelving system - is the latest piece of contemporary design-led furniture to be launched by the cutting-edge online retailer movisi. Designed by RCA graduate, Peter Marigold, Make/Shift is a brand new shelving unit that makes a stylish and functional addition to the home or office.
Carbon footprints in the snow
Whilst snow is creating havoc across the country, the extreme weather can be a useful tool to establish how energy efficient your home is.
The Furniture Emporium: Higher quality for lower prices
Finding beautifully designed and manufactured furniture that comes with a great value price tag is not as easy as one would wish. Whilst there are plenty of stores and websites selling low priced furniture, the quality of production and materials always reflects their budget price tag.
The new arrival: farrow furniture
farrow furniture is delighted to announce its arrival as a fabulous new interiors company offering an exciting selection of unique furniture and accessories. Located moments away from Parsons Green tube, farrow furniture is bucking the trend, offering stylish interiors at fantastically affordable prices.