. Hix ! You’ve nailed your marketing, it’s cool. I don’t know what such manga-esque cartoonery has to do with hotels, but the imagery, a little like the show, is edgy. Lighting, as we all know, can make a huge difference to a space, and Hotels are one of those interesting areas where making a
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Blimey that’s come around quick. It only seems like yesterday that I was standing in this same spot admiring architect Henry Edward Coe’s Kensington Olympia, waiting to enter a beautiful building that first opened its doors to the public in 1886, and which has hosted events as broad as the Great Horse Show in 1888
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. The creative exploitation of 3D printing is hotting-up. Happily, we’re seeing uses for the technology that could barely have been imagined by its early, occasionally geeky – and more often than not, engineering – supporters. . Chris Fordham speaks to Sofia Hagen of Hagen Hinderdael, one half of a partnership, along with Lisa Hinderdael,
Tucked inside the UK lighting sector there is a body of talent that creates amazing lighting solutions. Every business has it’s own story and here we have Chris Fordham talking to Domenico Scognamiglio, the heartbeat of Joe Scog, a specialist lighting company based in London. Dom insists that he’s an engineer before all else and
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. Its hard to believe that it’s only been one year since the last Clerkenwell Design Week, and haven’t we as a country been busy in this period? When you consider the fact that we have had as many prime ministers in a year as we would normally have in twelve, I feel the need
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After a three-year hiatus, Euroluce, the world’s largest design show, is back. The last time this biannual event was held was in 2019, after which Covid struck and – well, we had more important things to worry about! . So, what were the highlights and trends . . . and was it well attended? On
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In a perfect world, everything we made would be able to be easily upgraded, reused, re purposed or recycled, but guess what, just in case you hadn’t noticed, we don’t live in a perfect world. And we need Remanufacturing. . . My first brush with a Remanufacturing company was when looking locally for lighting suppliers
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. Via her Age of Light Innovations website, Shelley James has become a vociferous protagonist for healthful lighting. Since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, when we were all locked inside, staring out through the window and wondering what natural light felt like, Shelley has been leading the call for more appreciation of how our
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Chris Fordham, Design Editor of this parish and such a great Italophile that he carries his own tazzina around with him, is planning his trip to Milan.Before he packs his bags we asked him for some words of wisdom for all the other UK pilgrims who’ll be making the journey to Euroluce 2023. . .
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The Surface Design Show was held at the Business Design Centre, London, 7th – 9th February 2023 Chris Fordham reports: . The Surface Design Show was back in Islington at the Business Design Centre this February, and I was curious to find out if it was something that would interest the likes of our readership,
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Have you seen the Light? At the tail end of last year, after a bumper season of design shows; we were bathed in the soft glow of an old, but new, friend at the BDC – a reincarnation of the popular light show ‘arc’, now going by the name of LiGHT 22 . . This
HiX, surprisingly, is Europe’s only ‘Hotel Design Event’. It brought together the hospitality industry for two days in November at the BDC, London. Billed as ‘A true celebration of everything that makes hotels incredible,’ I was really looking forward to seeing what the show had to offer. As Ruth Kelly Waskett put it so well
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