David Hockney, Bob Dylan, Paul Cummins MBE, Dominic Harris, Pedro Paricio, and Ernesto Cánovas all feature, as London embraces summertime at Halcyon Gallery.
Halcyon Gallery is celebrating summer with an exhibition featuring renowned artists displaying works that are united by two themes: florals and figure studies. In Plain Sight is on view at the gallery’s flagship exhibition space at 148 New Bond Street until July 7.
Sempre’s Vision
At Sempre, we redefine the essence of design, transcending the conventional role of mere product creators to become artisans of ambiance. Our philosophy is rooted in harmonizing the simplicity of natural and organic elements with a rigorous attention to detail. This synthesis goes beyond aesthetic appeal, aiming to create environments that resonate emotionally and leave a lasting impact on all who experience them.
The Philosophy Behind Our Designs
Our design approach seeks to break the mold of traditional product design, venturing into the creation of spaces that not only captivate visually but also support and reflect the aspirations of those we collaborate with.
It’s an endeavor to craft more than just spaces—our goal is to create experiences that enhance the success of our clients’ ventures, whether they cater to retail customers or hospitality guests. Our commitment is to foster environments that enrich the user experience through a profound connection with the space’s vibe, feel, and overall satisfaction.
Sustainability at the Core
A cornerstone of our ethos is our dedication to sustainability and eco-friendliness. This commitment is vividly brought to life through our sourcing of reclaimed teak and oak, materials salvaged from old structures, which we transform into exquisite pieces of furniture. This not only gives new life to discarded materials but also introduces a touch of eco-conscious elegance into homes, second residences and projects alike. By choosing Sempre, you’re not just selecting furniture; you’re embracing a sustainable lifestyle.
Bespoke Creations for the Extraordinary
Sempre is synonymous with bespoke luxury. We offer tailor-made furniture, custom interiors, and personalized accessories that infuse spaces with life and reflect the unique personality of each client. From concept to completion, we oversee every aspect of a project, ensuring the delivery of distinctive lifestyle products and atmospheres that are anything but ordinary.
Your Vision, Our Craft
Imagine a space that narrates your story, with products that resonate with your passion, all within an environment that feels exclusively yours. This is the dream Sempre turns into reality for its clients. If you’re seeking to transform your space into a bespoke masterpiece that stands out from the ordinary, Sempre is your collaborator of choice.
Engage with Sempre
For those who dream of transforming their spaces into personalized havens that reflect their unique stories and passions, Sempre invites you to reach out. Contact our project department at sales@sempre.be, referencing AOD, to begin the journey of turning your vision into reality. Embrace the art of design with Sempre, where every creation is a testament to the beauty of crafted ambiance.
Franklite continues to introduce products from its Anniversary Edition. Launched earlier this year and the first of its kind, this special edition includes many new products along with a number of existing popular ranges.
Featuring luxury statement pieces such as the Victoria, Cleopatra, Celestial and Icicle ranges. Delicate and unique designs adorned with crystals and glass which subtly refract the light. These opulent fittings are available in various sizes. Often paired with their matching wall lights, these ranges are perfectly designed for luxury interior settings.
The Windsor range complements most interiors with its cream textured shades and a choice of two finishes. The three and five light pendants are supplied with a chain suspension which can be shortened to accommodate low ceilings. This range also includes a matching wall light.
The Tudor is a range of contemporary chandeliers. The impressive ring design in matt black finish is available in three sizes and includes a matching wall light.
Suitable for interior and exterior use is the Charleston wall lights. In matt black and aged brass finish with clear ribbed glass these wall lights are available in two sizes.
IP44 rated ranges Globe and Stellar allow clients to mix and match from single or double wall lights and pendants in a choice of finishes with a selection of various glass options creating fittings to suit any interior including bathrooms. For more information about the Franklite Anniversary Edition and the new product ranges contact the Customer Care team on 01908691818 or visit www.franklite.co.uk
Popular for over a decade, the Dekordor® 3D range from Vicaima has long been a first choice with specifiers of living and working spaces. With its attractive textural and hard-wearing surface, ideal for contemporary surroundings as well as demanding locations; this competitively priced interior timber door or door kit has much to commend it for both modern private dwellings and social environments. Now, with innovation and inspiration firmly in mind, the range has been re-imagined for a new generation of specifiers, with no less than 15 tonal and textural options, making flexible design and performance, available to suit a wider range of project budgets.
While colours like the original horizontal Grey remain as popular today as it always was, a fresh palette has been introduced to satisfy modern trends and encompassing both vertical and horizontal textured faces. For those who seek the neutrality of crisp and light colours, Artic and Silver Oak blend perfectly with busy surroundings and make excellent use of light in small spaces. Conversely, where rich warm tones would be ideal and needed to emulate otherwise expensive alternatives, Chocolate, Urban and light Walnut provide the perfect solution. However, if the desire is to embrace a more monochrome look, new Carbon Black, Grey Oak or Cloud White could provide the answer.
Dekordor® 3D is not just about door appearance either. It can be provided in the full gambit of performance solutions from Vicaima. Manufactured with fire (whether FD30 or FD60), security (including dual scope and SBD accreditation) and acoustic certification (ranging from 34 to 45dB) the range can be supplied as part of a matching door assembly and with associated joinery such as skirting and wall panels. Furthermore, with flexible design options such as factory glazing, decorative grooves and inlays are also possible. In short tailored to your project needs, whatever they may be.
For more information about the Vicaima Dekordor® 3D Range take a closer look now by downloading the brochure or request a colour sample of your chosen finish by request to marketing@vicaima.com
Madson Black are Designers and manufacturers of bespoke lighting, furniture, architectural metalwork as well as chandelier restoration specialists.
In the Autumn of 2016, a large quantity of antique crystal chandelier parts were discovered in The Mercers’ Company vaults. The Company called in James Hall from Madson Black to give a professional assessment to all the items found.
After in deep analysis, James concluded that the crystal came from several chandelier types, which have been packed away for safe storage prior to the blitz in World War II.
For just over a year, the Madson Black team of craftsmen devoted themselves to crafting the grand chandelier, restoring existing fixtures and adding a new dish light to create the splendid piece now displayed in the ceremonial entrance.
The newly made chandelier is a wonderful addition to the many treasures at The Mercers’ Company and has transformed the look of the ceremonial entrance significantly.
With our home base situated in Oxfordshire, our company provides global services, specializing in bespoke chandeliers and decorative lighting solutions, dedicated to meeting the precise requirements of clients who demand superior service.
Our diverse clientele, which includes government entities, custodians of historical landmarks, distinguished hotels worldwide demand the pinnacle of design integrity, manufacturing precision, meticulous project installation, and continuous post-project support.
The flexibility of our state-of-the-art manufacturing process really shows when it comes to furniture. Our computer-controlled machinery can create bespoke pieces precisely to your plans. Sourcing your Bespoke Kitchen And Furniture from KUB3 is like having your own manufacturing facility at your command from Design to Installation.
We are One Stop shop from Design, Manufacture to Installation and Maintenance. We can make a Kitchen, Wardrobes, TV unit, Bar Unit or any special shape Furniture, to fit perfectly in
your home.
We can produce designer furniture that only you will own, because it’s completely unique. You can specify
exactly what you want to the last detail, or take advantage of our professional in-house design team to
come up with the perfect solution.
Our Bespoke Kitchen And Furniture are built to last with life time warranty of our mechanism. The finished product
is then installed by our own expert team.
We are exclusive representatives of Miele and Siemens Appliances. Designed and Manufactured in
London. Get in touch to discuss your requirements today.
Mister Shut based in Modugno (BA) has been operating in the armored door production sector since 1987. At the basis of the company policy is the commitment and enthusiasm of people who have been able to transform a small business into a leading company in the sector. “Innovation as the main tool of differentiation” for mister shut, this reflection translates into a continuous search for solutions and variations capable of offering its customers concrete answers to any need in a constantly evolving market.
The technology, projects, workforce and common commitment that characterize the production cycle are able to guarantee a high quality and safety standard without underestimating the value of aesthetic and performance customization
of the product entirely made in Italy.
Mister Shut has wanted to undertake, since the early years, a cutting-edge path based on the principle of continuous research into materials, technologies and design compatible with the constraints imposed by the performance standards of current regulations
in terms of anti-intrusion and anti-burglary. This particular attention to the product has given rise to multiple and important national and international collaborations to redefine the design of products and push them beyond the most current trends, collaborating with architects and attending trade fairs. Among the most relevant, we mention the one with the architect A. Castiglioni, author of the "Touch" project: a study aimed at creating innovative products with a refined design.
“the ideal door is the perfect combination of safety, functionality and elegance”.
The company has expanded the concept of security doors, transforming an exclusively functional element into a furnishing accessory. The door is no longer a product that simply separates rooms but becomes a product that stands out as an icon of style and personality, managing to enhance any surrounding context. All this is made possible thanks to a highly flexible and specialized staff, the support of IT systems and advanced technology and the precious collaboration with national and international figures.
Blueridge Design recently completed works on a new 30 room London Hotel off Sloane Square. The project involved the repurposing of an existing structure from Cadogan Estates. The build was extensive
and involved adding a basement and an additional sixth storey to house the Restaurant. This involved removing the internal structure and support the façade whilst the internal works were added.
The project was a first venture into the elite London Hotel market for a successful, but very secretive and exclusive, Parisian Hotelier. London based Architects Reardon Smith were the lead architects for the project working closely with a French Designer whose background includes work for The Palace of
Versailles in France. The interior is a unique blend of French and Colonial British Design.
Blueridge worked with the same French Designer on an apartment refurbishment project in Eaton Square during lockdown. Delivering bespoke overlay oak chevron wood flooring to his design. Classically finishing with a wax finish and detailed border designs. As a result, Blueridge were invited to work on the Hotel project as a direct employ of Cadogan under the design management of the French team, outside of the main contractor.
A 6 level wooden staircase and landings winding around the period central elevator which featured a Blueridge wood interior was constructed by Blueridge. Over 170 Treads were hand made with book match
design from prime oak imported from Italy and finished with a tinted wax finish to the French design teams instructions. The tread nosing featured a classic profile that required bespoke moulding to meet the design. Each landing features hand cut Italian Oak in a chevron pattern to welcome Guests using the lift at each level before making their way to the Hotel rooms.
Blueridge were asked by the French Design Team and Architects to provide a waxed finish to each of the 30 rooms, working on the gloss level and tint to strict requirements laid down by the French Designer. The final result merging with moulded ceilings and panelled walls with bespoke furniture and light fittings all hand made to detailed designs from the French team.
A basement level bar features panelled walls and mirrored ceilings to create a boudoir feel to the space. Blueridge made a pewter topped bar with profiled edges to detailed designs created by the French Design team. A fully bespoke DJ equipment desk was made to designs agreed with the French Hotelier himself who has a penchant of ‘hands on’ design for his Hotels around the World.
Guests using the bar can move to the exterior where a small courtyard was built featuring tiled walls and five bespoke trellis panels made by Blueridge. The design is a classic Versailles detail which is unsurprising
given the French Designers association with the Palace. Two panels involved curving the panels to meet the wall curves. Blueridge made laser cut steel frames to glue up the panels for a perfect fit to the wall.
A Canadian Yellow Cedar for durability was used with a bespoke paint finish to blend in with the original tiles. The Hotel has opened to wide acclaim for the interior design. Blueridge were asked to make Vanity desks for the rooms based on an original William Morris design. Back of house high gloss furniture was also made and installed by Blueridge to the French Team’s very detailed designs.
When approached by a Designer looking at an Interior scheme for a well known Film Director in Surrey, Blueridge were key in designing and installing a feature cut away in the two storey ex Granary timber building. A Helical staircase was designed and made to the requirements of the Interior Designer. A
spiral stainless steel handrail was fabricated at the Blueridge Workshops and fitted perfectly around the perimeter of the staircase. Meeting the glazed surround of the stairwell perfectly. Blueridge were asked to remove the ‘modern’ oak detailing for the interior walls and procured old oak beams which were sliced in the workshops and fitted to the walls and plastered in. Creating an original period look. Blueirdge also used scalpings from the beams to create a period door using a local Blacksmith in Shropshire to make the running gear and handles.
Further Old Oak beams were procured and sliced to form a period bandsawn floor leaving the bandsaw marks in for a textured finish. The whole floor being waxed and fitted with false cut clasp nails to simulate a nailed floor.
Blueridge have a long experience in making unique interiors using their wide knowledge of timber species and unique finishes and designs. A recent addition of a CNC routing table has further added to their portfolio of abilities. Together with a background of metal fabrication and finishing makes Blueridge unique amongst Designers and Makers. Contact us to discuss your needs and ideas, we enjoy the challenges of making ideas and aspirations a reality. Blueridge Design
www.blueridgedesign.uk
peter@blueridgedesign.uk
07809 625288
Now the April showers have faded into a distant memory, it’s time to talk about bringing out Interior and Exterior. With new floral and outdoor collections, we have some solutions to making your home feel fresher and your garden more refined.
Firstly floral, we tend to recommend marrying what is in season in the garden to your faux in the home. Faux floral is an easy and hassle-free way of creating life and atmosphere in the house without worrying about keeping something alive! Meadow and Sissinghurst collections are perfect for the summer, both brimmed with billowing stems that look freshly cut from the garden. We’ve also introduced some new potted plants with more terracotta and grey pots that you can move in and out if you’re entertaining at home, shaking up the traditional dining table set up.
Rattan is a classic and a great way to merge your interior styles into your garden, we introduced the Roca white collection last year which is very clean cut and design-led. But the more traditional Sorrento collection with its more natural tone weave remains a firm favourite. Metal outdoor furniture can also be a great solution if you want more fluid and movable furniture.
Now we’ve upped our summer style, let’s hope the weather holds out!
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The BIID has revealed its much-anticipated shortlist for the 2024 BIID Interior Design Awards. This year’s scheme received an exceptionally high level of entries, with 35 projects making the shortlist across the seven regional categories. The shortlist features projects ranging from family home transformations and rural retreats to inviting eateries and hotel renovations. BIID President May Fawzy comments: