HOUZZ OF 2018, Interior Design by Run For The Hills

Run For The Hills are very excited to finally get to talk about the Houzz of 2018, which opens its doors in Greek St in less than two weeks.

They were approached towards the end of last year by Houzz UK, and invited to pitch for the opportunity to partner with them on a major pop-up installation in the heart of Soho designed to showcase the coolest upcoming interior design trends of 2018.

Originally, Houzz reached out to a range of top London design studios, planning to give each successful consultancy a single floor of the five-storey townhouse to design. But, they fell in love with the Run For The Hills concept pitch, and invited them to concept and style the entire house as the sole designers of Houzz of 2018. A huge task in such a small space of time, but they didn’t hesitate and signed up on the spot.

To hear more about their design for this event click here.

GWS Studio Holders inspiring the young people of Westminster and Luxembourg

Over the past few weeks Great Western Studios has played host to two fantastic school visits.

Students from Westminster Academy visited the site in November to put their questions to our experts during Westminster Enterprise Week.  Westminster Enterprise Week is an annual event supporting young people in turning their business ideas into reality. This year’ s programme includes talks from high-profile entrepreneurs including Margaret Mountford and Tim Campbell from the BBC’s ‘The Apprentice’, tours of Westminster’s enterprise spaces, master-classes and workshops to inspire young people to start up their own business.

This week, for the fifth year running Great Western Studios have hosted the International School of Luxembourg as part of their Art & Design research trip to London. The guided tour featured exposure to a range of different designers and working artist helping the students expand their understanding of the creative industries.

A big thank you to all the studio holders that made these two events possible!

The Collection is available with either plain or decorative legs giving a choice of contemporary or classical look. Read more here.

Kharmel Cochrane Casting for Channel 4 and Netflix

Kharmel Cochrane Casting have recently cast newly released Channel 4 / Netflix TV series ‘The End of the F**king World’.

Following on with Kharmel’s success with Indie horror feature film, ‘The Witch’, comes a new darkly comedy starring Alex Lawther (The Imitation Game), Jessica Barden (The Lobster), Gemma Whelan (Game of Thrones) and Wunmi Mosaku (Our Beloved Damilola). Lawther and Barden play teen outsiders James and Alyssa, who embark on a road trip to find Alyssa’s father, who left home when she was a child. You can watch the entire series on All4 here. Or January 2018 on Netflix Globally!

Autumn Round Up: We’ve got lots of new additions this Autumn! Say hello to the new recruits and read the latest news from around the studios…

Visual Editions

Visual Editions are a Creative Studio and Reading Lab founded and run by Anna Gerber and Britt Iversen. They believe that great literature doesn’t just live in books. Drawing on their background in publishing, advertising and design, they push and stretch the possibilities of narratives through extreme innovation and awesome technology. They help partners around the world like Google Creative Labs, Ace Hotel, WeTransfer, Vitsoe and Five Dials to create narrative driven story experiences in the form of books, apps, urls, events, installations. Visual Editions like to say they operate at the cross-section of publishing, design, culture and tech. And that everything they do is powered by magic.

IP Publicity

IP Publicity is a full service communications agency specialising in design, hospitality, entertainment and high profile personalities. As well as providing tailored PR and communications services to clients within the hospitality and design industries, IP Publicity work with some of the best-known faces in the entertainment industry. The flexibility and ingenuity gained from working across several sectors allow the agency to provide a bespoke approach for clients, who not only want to be at the top of their respective fields, but also for those who want to broaden into new, innovative areas.

Juicebox

Juicebox is a creative, independent music company and record label started by Adam Callan and Becky Tong. With a focus on strategy and development unique to each artist, Adam and Becky use their extensive experience of working in the music industry in multiple areas to provide management, radio promotion, and A&R services to independent artists.

HARU

Introducing HARU, revolutionary stick-on and peel-off design from Japan. A creative new way of adding colour to all kinds of surfaces. Large highly flexible masking tape in over 80 colours and 4 different sizes. It can be used on walls, floors, furniture, anywhere! It is easy to stick on and peel off without damaging surfaces. It’s inspirational, and turns everyone into an artist. So you can design and re-style your space every day if you like!

STALOGY

Also by Nitto is STALOGY, a cool new collection of Japanese stationary. Simple, sophisticated and functional. The kind of good quality designed sketch books and notebooks that will inspire all sort of creators! Come and visit us at Studio 36 and say hello!

Latest news from our Studio Holders…

KPPR

KPPR are managing the national publicity campaign for television presenter Rick Edwards’s second book release ‘Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind The Movies’, securing TV, radio, podcast, print and digital interview opportunities for Rick to be promoting the book. Based on his and Dr Michael Brooks’s award winning podcast of the same name ‘Science(ish)’, the book wittily confronts all the scientific questions that our favourite sci-fi movies provoke. KPPR are pleased to offer the GWS community a special discount offer on the book – perfect for those ‘tricky-to-buy-for’ family members this Christmas! To order your copy FOR JUST £9 including P&P (RRP £12.99), please call 01206 255 777 and quote ‘SCIENCE154’. Offer ends 11th December 2017.

Totality

Totality has worked pro bono with a girls school in South Sudan on the launch of their new fundraising campaign ‘Become a Friend for Life’. The school has 130 students and the objective is to raise £300,000 in order to run the school through the next academic year starting Feb 2018. For ways to support click here.

Run For The Hills

Run For The Hills are busy working on the design of a number of high profile new restaurants, fashioning both the interior and designing the in-venue graphics, signage, wayfinding and menus. Our concept design for Kricket’s larger, third outpost in the new BBC Television Centre development is taking shape nicely and the new restaurant will sit next to Bluebird and opposite the new White City House brasserie. They also recently launched a cool new eatery in the GWS local hood, in Notting Hill called Mắm (pictured), which is on the ultra hip All Saints Road, and is a new style of Vietnamese Barbeque restaurant, from the talented team behind Salvation In Noodles. They’ve also opened two Island Poké’s, a cool pizzeria in Peckham and they are installing CLAW’s first bricks and mortar restaurant in Carnaby. Other recent F&B highlights include re-branding Indian Street food pioneers Dabbawal in Newcastle and developing a brand new Pisco Bar and Cevicheria concept to hit Central London very soon. On the residential side, Run For The Hills were delighted to have been shortlisted twice in the International Design & Architecture Awards, for our remodelling of a Kensington stucco apartment and their design work on a Listed Townhouse in Islington. They have also been jetting Stateside over the summer, styling Ellie Goulding’s New York loft apartment and are just about to start work on her gorgeous new Central London home.

Emily Young at Bowman Sculpture

Emily Young will be exhibiting at Bowman Sculpture from the 17th November 2017 to the 11th January 2018. The private view is Thursday 16th November between 6-8pm.

Bethan Gray selected as one of London’s most influential 1000 people

Huge congrats to studio holder Bethan Gray on being selected as one of London’s most influential 1000 people by the Evening Standard for the third year in a row! We are proud.

See who else made the cut here.

A welcome gift from Otiumberg

Newbies to the building Otiumberg are offering a welcome gift to Great Western Studios followers. Grab yourself 10% off your first purchase using the code HELLOGWS at checkout. Offer valid until 31st December 2017.

Founded in 2014 by London-based sisters, Otiumberg jewellery is both luxurious and practical, beautifully created and reasonably priced, so that each piece will become your own: jewellery made to be worn, shared, given, received, and above all, cherished. Otiumberg was made for the love of jewellery and the love of how women wear it.