design

ercol at Kyoto Art Fair

May 16, 2012
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Earlier this month saw ercol’s distributor in Japan, Daniel, team up with designer Mr Kushino for the Kyoto Art Fair.  Held in the exhibition centre where the International Kyoto Protocol conference was opened, the ercol exhibition included some special seat cushions for our chairmakers’ chair and love seat.  Mr Kushino fashioned these from a combination [...]

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Love London ercol studio couch

January 23, 2012
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We have a very special version of the ercol studio couch on show at Interiors 2012, the UK furniture industry’s premier trade show.  The Love London studio couch features imagery and poetry from the Love London collection.  The black and white photographs are given a splash of colour from red London phone boxes and red [...]

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Ptolemy Mann’s ercol studio couch

January 23, 2012
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Leading textile artist Ptolemy Mann has created the fabric pavilion at this year’s Interiors show.  Interiors 2012 is the premier trade show for the furniture industry and takes place at the NEC every January.   Mann has created a stunning pavilion, featuring huge hanging Ikat-print sails.  Visitors to the pavilion can relax on ercol studio [...]

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Bucks MA furniture design show 2011

January 17, 2012
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At the end of year show, the postgraduate students on the Buckinghamshire New University’s MA course in Furniture: Design & Technology, showed the pick of their work created during 2011.  The show celebrated the talent, creativity and success of

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Puff & Flock win award

December 20, 2011
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Puff & Flock are a group of avant garde textile designers.  Their work integrates aspects of materials science, fine arts, academic research , storytelling and product design to create a strong statement for textiles.  Their work is innovative and

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new ercol chairs for Tent London

September 23, 2011
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At this year’s Tent London design show ercol are showing prototypes of two new seats.  Our new bar stool is ideal for either breakfast bars in the home, or as a stool for the contract market.  The inspiration for the bar stool came from some pieces individually made in our jig shop many decades ago [...]

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new ercol collaboration for Tent London

September 20, 2011
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With design shown Tent London taking place later this week, ercol have teamed up with fabric designer Henoc Maketo to show the ercol studio couch in his vibrant fabrics.   Maketo was winner of the New Design Britain student’s fabric design award at Interiors Birmingham this year and spent some time with the ercol design [...]

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Donna Wilson woven ercol

September 16, 2011
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A year ago textile designer Donna Wilson made a special version of the ercol studio couch for us, with knitted woollen cushion covers and using the lists of the chair arms like giant knitting needles to weave a woollen decorative effect.  This September sees her take this concept a step further with woven versions of [...]

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