eau good wins best new product at first trade fair

Our new ‘eau good’ filter water bottle won best new product at the Home show at Earls Court. This is the first fair that we have shown it at, so hopefully it will get the same great reaction at the other fairs.

Dec

2011

A very nice display of flow in a wine shop

We are very pleased to see Le Prominoir des Vin use our flow wine rack in their shop dispplay.

Oct

2011

Fruit Loop makes it's stage debut

Fruit loop made it's stage debut at Belfast's Lyric Theatre in The Painkiller with Kenneth Brannagh and Rob Brydon

Oct

2011

Playsam - with TOP3 for Australia's Contemporary Design Muse

Top3 is one of our best Australian retailers and they are working with playsam to raise money to kickstart Australia's Contemporary Design Museum. Designers and artist from around the world have been invited to customize a plain playsam car. We love the playsam cars and this was a fun project to work on. Our car will be auctioned later in the year and we will update our news section with how much it raises.

Oct

2011

Faces in the Wild 2011...plenty more fish in the sea?

For the last four years, we have taken part in Humanscale’s Faces in the Wild auction (the last photo in this link shows previous entries). Artists and designers are asked to contribute a sculpture or piece of artwork which is then auctioned off to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund. We really love taking part in this event as it is a release from the day job and the constraints are very different.

Artwork title - “...plenty more fish in the sea?”

The message - International fishing quotas are justified by facts and figures which bamboozle and confuse. The tuna spinning disks represent the dizzying spin that government and fishing industries use to confuse the world from the simple truth which is that we must stop commercial fishing now to stand any chance of the seas recovering.

Dimensions – 1m x 1m (3.28ft x 3.28ft)

The black and white outline of the fish create an optical illusion which make it look as though the fish are turning. It looks even better in the flesh!

The auction takes place in November and we will update this page with how much our design raises.

Sep

2011

hot-pot bbq wins top French design award

We are pleased to announce that our hot-pot bbq won a prestigious GRAND PRIX TABLE&CADEAU

Aug

2011

Selfridges window display

We were very proud to have our iconic "James" the doorman included in a recent Selfridges window display on Oxford Street

Jul

2011

shortlisted for the 2011 Excellence in Houseware Awards

We are very pleased to announce that our hot-pot bbq and lunchpot have been shortlisted for the 2011 Excellence in Houseware awards. The results are announced on October 12th, so we will keep you posted.

May

2011

box appetit wins at Product of the Year Awards 2011

Our box appetit won a Silver award at this years Product of the Year Awards

Mar

2011

lunchpot wins gia award in Chicago

Our lunchpot won the gia (global innovator award) best product design at the Chicago international home and housewares show

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