Industry News
Chelsom Launch New Furniture Catalogue
CHELSOM DO FURNITURE AS WELL!! Chelsom, as well as being a renowned lighting supplier, has been a major source of occasional and dining furniture to the retail and contract market… Read More >
Sustainability Award: Shortlist Announced
Two BCFA Members have been shortlisted The Furniture Makers’ company has announced the three companies in Shortlist for the 2014 Sustainability Award. They are: Kitchen manufacturer Premiere Kitchens Bed manufacturer… Read More >
Boss Design Group – Student Competition
NOTTINGHAM TAKE ON THE BOSS COMPETITION Following the success of last year’s student designer competition The Boss Design Group are pleased to announce the competition will run again during 2014…. Read More >
Inside Out Launch Design Your Own App
SEE BEFORE YOU BUY With customers having so much choice these days, there seems to be a huge increase in company creating a visual software that allows you to see… Read More >
HARLEQUIN Announce New Showroom
INSPIRING NEW SHOWROOM Harlequin Group this week have announced the opening of their new showroom in London’s design focused area of Chelsea Harbour, the opening of the showroom was precipitated… Read More >
Westfield and Hammerson Croydon Partnership
The London Borough of Croydon has resolved to grant planning permission to the Croydon Partnership’s outline planning application for the redevelopment of the Whitgift Centre, marking a significant step forward in Westfield and Hammerson’s plans to regenerate Croydon’s retail town centre.
RA – Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined
25 January – 6 April 2014 In January 2014, Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined will see the Main Galleries of the Royal Academy of Arts transformed by seven architectural practices from around… Read More >
BFC Respond to ‘Fake Britain’ Documentary
UK’S FIRE REGULATIONS NEED TO PROTECT CONSUMERS The BFC welcomes issues highlighted by the recent ‘Fake Britain’ programme. It showed that sofas and mattresses which do not comply with the… Read More >
BCFA to host Networking Event in Glasgow
BCFA NETWORKING: THE CORINTHIAN CLUB The BCFA are due to host their annual Glasgow Networking Event at the elaborate setting of the Corinthian Club one of Glasgow’s richly decorated buildings. The Event will… Read More >
Fewer projects put on hold as construction sector recovery continues
In the week the ONS announced the UK unemployment rate has dropped to 7.1 per cent, comes more evidence of the recovery from the built environment. Figures released by construction industry… Read More >
Laufen – Restoration Man
Leading sanitaryware manufacturer Laufen has a starring role in the latest series of UK’s The Restoration Man on Channel 4, with its products chosen for each of the four bathrooms in a former church in Devon, owned by the former Director of Architecture and Design of Hilton Worldwide hotel group
ACID – IP Bill
ACID fight for copying to be made illegal in Design Members of ACID met with the Minister Lord Younger recently to discuss their support for Clause 13 and the arguments… Read More >
World Design Capital – Cape Town 2014
WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL CAPE TOWN 2014 PROGRAMME LAUNCHES WITH 450 RECOGNISED PROJECTS 2014 welcomes a new World Design Capital (WDC) Cape Town, in which the city will celebrate a whole… Read More >