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ercol hand printed fabric for Tent London

August 29, 2012
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It’s not long now to design-lead exhibition Tent London, part of the London Design Week.  This year we’ve commissioned a fabric for the show.  It’s been designed and printed by Tamasyn Gambell.  Tamasyn trained in printed textiles at Chelsea College of Art and the Royal College where she experimented with both fashion and interior print [...]

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ercol at the British Business Embassy

July 9, 2012
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As part of the events surrounding the Olympics, the British Business Embassy (BBE), will play host to eighteen global business summits across six weeks.  The event will provide a showcase for British business, art and design.  The 19th century Lancaster House is being transformed for the event, to showcase modern art and design from both [...]

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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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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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ercol special editions for new John Lewis store

September 9, 2011
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To celebrate the opening of the new John Lewis store in Stratford on 13th September, ercol with John Lewis, have commissioned three avant-garde designers to carry out make-overs on our pilgrim range. London based artist and designer, James Joyce has given the pilgrim sideboard a black finish with jaunty coloured bottles and containers painted

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New Designers 2011 show

August 5, 2011
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New Designers is an annual exhibition held at the Business Design Centre in London.  It showcases the work of design students from a wide range of disciplines.  At this year’s show held in July, the Bucks New University Furniture Design students were out in force, many showing pieces they had designed in a collaborative project [...]

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ercol at the Triangle

July 8, 2011
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Swindon has long been home to the “magic roundabout” but now it also has the Triangle – a new development of affordable eco-friendly homes by Kevin McCloud’s company Hab Oakus and housing roup GreenSquare.  The houses use carefully considered design and materials to make the homes cheap to run whilst keeping the build costs around

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