Join On&On Designs at London Design Festival

On&On Designs is delighted to invite you to Zieta’s “Expansion” exhibition launch on Monday, the 17th of September at Arthill Gallery in West London.

“Expansion” is a story about Zieta Prozessdesign Studio’s development, processes and technologies, told through experiments, objects and sculptures that led to company’s evolution. The Plopp stool was just the beginning, which along with the FiDU technology contributed to the creation of many other projects: Chippensteel chairs and mirrors from Tafla and Rondo lines. Zieta Prozessdesign Studio will also present bionic G-Table and G-Console in various finishes, architecture-inspired J-Chair and sculptures that are an effect of the artistic vision based on studio’s technology. The first objects were either powder-painted or polished. Today their works are hand-crafted with high quality cattle leather, topped with the varieties of highest quality of stones and wood. Mirrors are covered with a special coating creating a phenomenal gradient on their surface. Zieta Prozessdesign Studio has developed a breakthrough technique of thermal coloring that uses high temperature to give the objects an amazing tint ranging from a beautiful golden color to an intense deep blue.

The exhibition will take place between 17-23 September.  The opening with Oskar Zieta will take place on the 17th of September, we look forward to seeing you there. Please RSVP to info@onandondesigns.com

Summer Round Up: We say hello to new members and share the latest news from around the studios

what3words

what3words is the simplest way to talk about location. It has divided the world into 3m x 3m squares, each with a unique 3 word address. Now people can refer to any precise location – a delivery entrance, a picnic spot or a drone landing point – using three simple words. what3words is used by businesses, governments to operate more efficiently, and by individuals to find and share places. It is integrated into car navigation systems, can be used to deliver post in 9 countries to date, and is used by NGOs and disaster response teams to save lives.

The free what3words app, available for iOS and Android, and the online map enable people to find, share and navigate to 3 word addresses in 26 languages to date. Find your 3 word address on map.what3words.com

The Duppy Share

The Duppy Share is a perfectly balanced unique blend of premium rums from the beautiful Worthy Park estate in Jamaica and the prestigious Foursquare Distillery in Barbados. These are very contrasting island styles, a fiery Jamaican rum and a smooth Barbadian rum makes the Duppy Share the perfect partner for punch and other rum cocktails.

The Duppy Share is trying to bring the fun, energy and excitement that we ALL associate with the Caribbean to a rum category completely void of all of this. Caribbean legend has it that the dark duppy spirits swoop between the islands stealing the best share of the rum. Spirit masters, skilled in the fine art of blending, the duppies take only the best, this is The Duppy Share.

Thomas Croft Architects

TCA are architects specialising in residential projects, often involving contemporary interventions in historic buildings or new buildings that relate strongly to historic settings. Many jobs are in London, but TCA have constructed new build projects as far north as the Scottish Highlands & as far south as the Isle of Wight.

Commercial clients include the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, London landlords Howard de Walden Estate & South Kensington Estates, auctioneers Sotheby’s (for who TCA are also Masterplanners), and many West End art dealers. In addition to private families, TCA’s residential clients include many contemporary art collectors and dealers, plus public figures such as Sir Paul McCartney.

TCA’s current work includes projects for four different West End art dealers and the forensic renovation of a Grade 1 Listed Robert Adam townhouse on Fitzroy Square.

Latest news from our Studio Holders…

KPPR

KPPR have been in the swing of festival season this summer, after being appointed to manage all publicity engagements for actor Joe Thomas, around his lead role in summer comedy film The Festival. KPPR worked alongside the film’s producers to put in place an extensive schedule of interviews for Joe in the run up to the film’s release (14th August), including Channel 4’s ‘The Last Leg’ and ‘Sunday Brunch’, BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright, The Times and MTV.com.

Best known for his role as Simon Cooper in multi-award-winning TV series The Inbetweeners, Joe’s lead role in The Festival is as newly-single Nick, whose friend decides that a post-graduation festival is the perfect solution to cheer him up after a messy, and very public, break-up.

With 4*s from Metro and NME, reviews have called it ‘consistently hilarious’ and ‘full of belly laughs’. The Festival is in cinemas now!

Craster

Craster are delighted to have their new Line Table placed at the opening of the QO Hotel in Amsterdam.

The hotel sits perfectly within their values as a company as it’s one of the first Platinum LEED certified hotels in The Netherlands. Sustainable features include:

• An Intelligent façade – made of fully responsive thermal panels – regulating the temperature inside throughout the seasons.
• A grey water system to significantly limit the wastewater.
• Water heated from a 70m deep thermal aquifer.
• Carpets made from 100% recycled yarn previously used in fishing nets.

The Line Table offers the QO an aesthetic that fits discreetly into their unique environment. For their meetings and conferences, Line delivers a versatile table system that focuses on an efficient set up and break-down providing great functionality for their team.

Line is available in a range of colours and finishes allowing clients to highlight their individuality and style.

For more information on this exciting edition to their range, see the animated guide here.

Simon Clark

Simon Clark Photography have been running around like crazy, shooting twice in Norway and back and forth to Barcelona. This shot is Ben Gregory who just competed in the Decathlon at the Commonwealth Games for Wales.

Orlebar Brown launch new 007 collaboration

How fun is the first instalment of Orlebar Brown’s 007 James Bond partnership?!

Combining artwork from Dr. No, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice and Live And Let Die with their signature Bulldog swim shorts. Perfect for your next holiday.

Check out the full collection here.

OPUMO Launches THE CLUB

OPUMO Launches THE CLUB. The Club enables you to become an integral part of the platform by supporting the very best design talent and getting rewarded for suggesting brands, referring friends and shopping. It follows a simple philosophy of ‘Do Good, Get Paid.’

Click here for more information and to submit your application.

Gluckman Smith Architects awarded three RIBA Awards 2018

Gluckman Smith Architects are delighted to have been awarded three RIBA East Midlands Award 2018 Award for their Font House project.

The new house is located within an historic walled garden in the grounds of Grade I listed Nevill Holt Hall. The house and landscaped garden provide discreet entertainment space in support of Nevill Holt’s opera festival. The house takes on a symmetrical form with the composed presence of a pavilion. A large central reception space is framed by two simple cellular bedrooms that project beyond the central mass of the building and overlook two ponds. In turn, these ponds wrap around a south facing terrace that is accessed from the reception space.

The material palette draws on local sources with a series of hand-crafted bronze roofs and rainwater goods set on hand-tooled ironstone facades. Slender-framed sliding glazed screens provide an abundance of natural light and versatility for entertaining. Internally, Gluckman Smith completed the total treatment of the walled garden with the production of a bespoke line of door furniture in walnut and blue steel.

Font House is at the heart of the owner’s vision of breathing life into a historic country estate and bringing something new and unexpected to the area.

Spring Round Up: We say hello to our newest member and share the latest news from around the studios…

Precipice

When Precipice design brands and products that people feel a connection to, even love, there are many forces at work. The look, the features, the technology are important. But something much more powerful is going on too. People buy meanings. And a large part of what products do is communicate these wordlessly. They help tell the story of who we are, where we come from, the tribe we belong to, and the relationships we want to have. Meaning-centred design helps you see the world as it is and how it could be different. It helps address the more subtle, deeper meanings that design has to deliver in order to win. You can do this intuitively, without even knowing, or you can do with a map and a destination in mind. By mastering the emotional and cultural meanings that drive consumer behaviour, meaning-centred design transforms the often unseen, implicit or buried, turning it into innovation and commercial opportunity with the power to shift markets.

Latest news from our Studio Holders…

KPPR

KPPR have recently been appointed by WME Entertainment to handle the personal publicity for creator, author and podcast host Estée Lalonde. Originally from Canada, Estée is well known across the internet for her vibrant character on Instagram and Twitter, her regular YouTube videos, book ‘Bloom’ and podcast ‘The Heart of It’. Having amassed a social following of over 3.5million & established herself as a highly respected creator in the worlds of beauty, fashion, interior design and lifestyle, she is now an ambassador for brands such as Lancôme, Garnier and Adidas. KPPR are delighted to be working with Estee on all of her upcoming projects and will be continuing to develop her digital presence whilst introducing her to traditional media outlets.

Bethan Gray

Award-winning Welsh designer Bethan Gray launched two collections of table lights, wall lights and pendant lights, handcrafted by master artisans from Italian marble, at Milan Design Week. The first collection, shown here, has been developed from her Victoria tea set and features a relief pattern, hand-carved from Arabescato marble by Italian master craftsmen, paired with brushed brass to add warmth. ‘The idea came to me when I held the Victoria tea cup over a light source and noticed how the light emphasised both the veins in the marble and the carved ridges,’ says Bethan. ‘Although we had to completely re-engineer the concept for lighting – creating a hollow sphere from marble is quite a feat.’ The second collection has come out of Bethan’s Alice collection, originally inspired by the spectacular black and white stone configurations found in historical buildings across Europe, in particular the 12th century Cathedral in Siena.

Haru Stuck-on Design

Haru Stuck-on Design, the revolutionary adhesive tape from Japan, that brings colour and art to interiors, is making a big splash at Clerkenwell Design Week on 22 to 24th May. Not only on their own amazing stand designed by architects SoHo+Co, which you must check out – DF31 on the Design Fields site – but you can also see the graffiti artist Pref working with Haru tape on the giant wall outside the entrance to the Design Fields Pavilion, creating a new major work. Not to be missed! For more information visit www.nittoonlineshop.eu and www.clerkenwelldesignweek.com. Photo by Steven Chuan-Shun Huang.

Emily Young

The V&A will display a major work by Emily Young, titled Contemplative Head from 2 May – 22 August 2018 in the Blavatnik Hall. For further details about Emily Young’s work, please visit www.bowmansculpture.com/emily-young.

The Depot at Great Western Studios

Are you a start up or freelancer? Would you like to be part of the Great Western Studios community but don’t require your own space? We’ve got good news for you!

Great Western Studios offers desk space; Introducing The Depot!

The space is a fully fitted studio with allocated furniture: desk, chair, drawers and locker – and members benefit from access to all building facilities including our Atrium, Meeting Room and Feeding House Café. The monthly cost is all inclusive including: wi-fi, electricity, service charge, studio cleaning and tea and coffee (plus dairy and non dairy milks).

And we’re currently offering 10% off your first 3 months for a limited time only. what are you waiting for?!

For more details and to arrange a tour please email studiosmanager@greatwesternstudios.com

Kristina Horne’s upcoming exhibition at The Crypt Gallery

Join Kristina Horne for her latest exhibition at The Crypt Gallery between Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd of May.

Transcendental Thresholds is about crossing corporeal boundaries. Departing from the physical, structural and architectural, this sculptural exhibition draws attention to the physical as a dominating part of human experience. Evoking transitory earthly existence, the fragile glass forms appear to melt over the thresholds of the metal structures and elude to the body’s impermanence and traces of what it leaves behind.

Come along to the private view on Wednesday 2nd May between 6-9pm. Click here for more details.

Nature Squared launch an Interiors Line

For the first time Nature Squared are launching an interiors line specifically for the hospitality market.

The Elements Collection is comprised of signature pieces with sharp finishes and sleek designs to showcase an array of stunning natural and sustainable materials. The furniture line includes mirrors, console, coffee and side tables, all of which are available in 29 different finish options and made from a range of materials including hatchet shell, mandarin bamboo, eggshell snakeskin and pearl shell.

16th century conversion by Miska Miller-Lovegrove

Miska Miller-Lovegrove has recently completed a conversion of XVI century building in Poland.

English Factoria is located in Kazimierz Dolny, a small artistic town. This 16th century ruin was converted by Miska Miller-Lovegrove into a modern house while preserving the original historical context.