RAK Ceramics, the leading brand in ceramic and porcelain products, has enhanced its popular RAK-Des and RAK-Valet sanitaryware collections with the launch of new basin frames and towel rails.
In response to the growing demand for classical, minimalist, and boutique hotel-inspired styling, the basin frames and towel rails are available in sleek matt black and elegant chrome finishes.
The basin frames are meticulously designed to complement RAK Ceramics' wall-mount basins, offering a seamless integration that exudes modern elegance. Available in four sizes - fitting 120cm, 100cm, 80cm, and 60cm wall-mounted basins from the RAK-Valet and RAK-Des ranges - the frames ensure a perfect fit for various bathroom dimensions, leaving the floor visible and accessible.
The towel rails, available in two sizes of 76cm and 56cm, are designed to accompany the basin frames, offering convenience and style in equal measure. Whether for hand towels or bath towels, the rails provide a stylish solution for keeping essentials within easy reach while adding a touch of luxury to the bathroom space.
About RAK Ceramics Ltd
RAK Ceramics products feature in some of the most iconic buildings in the world. Known for a wide product range and the ability to produce bespoke solutions for both small and large scale projects, RAK Ceramics enable clients to bring their ideas to life. They respect, inspire, improve and deliver; today, tomorrow, no matter the ambition, no matter the challenge, RAK Ceramics take care of all the details, so you don’t have to.
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Leading bathroom retailer C.P. Hart launches its Summer Sale, with savings of up to 40% on many premium bathroom collections, including those from world-leading brands and C.P. Hart’s own exclusive ranges.
The Summer Sale presents an excellent opportunity to refresh your bathroom with beautiful, durable, and functional products, from brassware in trending finishes to innovative furniture with clever storage solutions and cocooning baths for spa-like relaxation.
C.P. Hart’s Summer Sale is available to shop online or in any of its 15 showrooms. To view the offers included in the Sale, C.P. Hart’s Summer Sale Guide outlines the entire Sale offering, including collections only available from their showrooms. The Guide also acts as a useful resource for specifying projects.
A showroom appointment is an excellent place to start your bathroom planning journey. Here, C.P. Hart welcomes trade professionals to inspect product quality first-hand, discuss project ideas with a sales consultant, and arrange a meeting with a C.P. Hart designer. Please ask about C.P. Hart’s free-of-charge design and consultation services.
To ensure the availability of a sales consultant, please book an appointment here.
C.P. Hart invites all clients and industry professionals to its flagship Waterloo bathroom showroom, renowned for its café and bar inspired by the industrial aesthetic of Waterloo’s railway arches. Here, professionals can browse the very best in bathroom design over a coffee or sit down with their clients and/or C.P. Hart’s bathroom experts to discuss their specification requirements at length.
The Waterloo showroom is a source of bathroom inspiration, home to several industry-leading design studios and displays, including: - The UK’s only Cielo Studio - The UK’s only Dornbracht Design Studio - The UK’s only AXOR Design Studio - The largest number of displays featuring the exclusive Italian furniture brands Artelinea and IdeaGroup - The most extensive representation of Effe wellness in the UK - First to market and exclusive brands Park Avenue and Franz Viegener - Room set collaborations with leading designers, including Eva Sonaike, Kit Boon, Bradley Van Der Straeten, and more.
Explore C.P. Hart’s ‘Inspiration’ area here.
About C.P. Hart
C.P. Hart are an established bathroom supplier with over 80 years’ experience of specifying and sourcing the world’s most innovative and durable premium bathroom products. A successful Contracts division works for architects, interior designers and builders, often on major commercial property developments and hotels. While a highly qualified in-house design team works with individual and private clients, ensuring that each of these bespoke bathrooms is unique.
For more than 100 years, La Cornue has striven for excellence, with high standards as a guide and the pleasure of the senses as its inspiration. From the vaulted oven conceived and patented in 1908 to the custom-designed ‘haute couture’ ranges of today, La Cornue has always been able to combine authenticity and modernity, tradition and innovation, in order to embody a certain idea of the art of living the French way. La Cornue’s exceptional cooking ranges are crafted by artisans, passionate women and men. They are the result of precision know-how, which combines meticulous handling, the finest materials, attention to detail and five-star service. Appreciated throughout the world, La Cornue's creations have earned it the trust and friendship of great names in gastronomy and are suitable for preparing everything from a simple cake through to a seven-hour leg of lamb. The centrepiece and true keystone of La Cornue cookers, the vaulted oven is the fruit of the abundant imagination of Albert Dupuy, a herbalist-perfumier and a renowned gourmet. His invention in 1908, just like La Cornue, was inspired by the vaulted tunnels of the Paris metro, inaugurated in 1900. Thanks to its particular shape – then unprecedented – the vaulted oven allowed air to circulate in a natural and even way, making it the first convection oven.
The product range from La Cornue is designed to be flexible and versatile. The use of colour, the wide selection of trims and the numerous size options available all make it easy for the customer to transform their home and tell a design story through its interior. As well as its iconic ranges, La Cornue also makes kitchen islands and cabinetry. In fact, we have just launched new cabinetry designs that allow for greater symmetry in kitchen design and the lining up of horizontal surfaces for a cleaner look. The breadth of La Cornue's offering means the consumer can achieve a stylishly pared-back, look or an opulent kitchen with a real sense of drama.
The kitchen is generally seen as the heart of the home and the cooker the centrepiece of that space. La Cornue is an artisan brand which, for more than a century, has offered luxury ovens that are hand-crafted, designed for performance and are utterly beautiful. Our products are investment pieces, once-in-a-generation purchases that come with a long history of French culinary savoir-faire as standard.
La Cornue works with some of the world's most renowned interior designers and does so in a spirit of true partnership. We see ourselves as an extension of their in-house teams, working directly with them and their clients. We usually begin with a virtual consultation during which we explore every aspect of the brief, and pinpoint what is most important to the designer. We then interpret the brief to provide either a quotation or an initial design concept. The starting point can either be an interior designer's ideas and how we work within that or, more usually, we begin with the La Cornue cooker and they build around that.
One of the highlights of the past year was the launch of the gorgeous Castel 60. A brilliant small space design solution, the award-winning 60cm model is our very first cooker with a touch-sensitive induction hob, offering a range of functions and it is a joy to use. It’s also been a year of hugely successful exhibitions for La Cornue, including KBIS – the largest kitchen industry show in North America – EuroCucina in Milan, and our first-ever appearance at kbb at the NEC in Birmingham. Over the past 12 months, we've also been involved in many significant and truly exciting (but sadly secret) client projects.
There’s a real move towards adding more personality everywhere in the home and this is particularly true in the kitchen. People are moving away from the idea that everything should be neutral and are embracing colour and pattern more and we are seeing the same thing. We’ve been able to help clients make a real statement in kitchens where budgets have been tighter. For example, we've been able to meet investment level expectations – while still achieving an ultra-high-end look – by using two 90cm Cornufé models side by side to create a dramatic statement making focal point in the kitchen. Colour, too, has become more popular with designers taking advantage of La Cornue's extensive colour palette, bespoke colours and our hugely accurate colour-matching service.
Homes are becoming more personalised, with many of us wanting somewhere they feel at home in, more than one that is simply super-fashionable for a short time. We see people looking for buy-once investment pieces, subscribing to a more sustainable, longer-term approach based on high-quality pieces that will stay with them for a long period. It is the opposite of fast fashion.
We have been working with internationally renowned artists and designers to create stunning re-imaginings of three of our most iconic cookers. Ferris Rafauli is best known for seamlessly integrating timeless architecture and sumptuous interior designs into each project, with a masterful attention to detail. To create his exclusive reworking of the iconic Château Suprême collection for La Cornue, Rafauli considered and revised elements of the range to bring out its most quintessential qualities, taking the precision of the lines and exquisite details to a whole new level. Matthew Quinn – an international figure in design and architecture – has created the Château Moderne to offer contemporary styling and a new aesthetic symmetry. Finally, the French jeweller Tournaire has created a series of intricate bas-relief sculptures in bronze to further enhance the controls, handles, brackets and trims on the La Cornue collections. We have also launched a new range of sumptuous gold-plated and silver-plated trims, as well as Blue Velvet, a gorgeous navy blue satin finish, and two new bronze trims. Our smaller projects, too, are also very satisfying. It is so rewarding when you work directly with the client and provide something really special that makes a huge difference within a smaller kitchen project. Equally, we are seeing projects getting bigger and bigger and ever more elaborate.
We love working with designers and value hugely the creative conversations that come from being a member of a body like the SBID. We are also excited to see what others are doing. Every project is so very different and, having a bespoke product range, we are always challenging ourselves to realise the look and feel interior designers are striving to achieve. It is amazing how a 360º vision can be achieved through creative partnership.
About Middleby Residential Luxury and Premium Brands
La Cornue is part of Middleby Residential, a collection of premier international consumer brands dedicated to manufacturing and distributing many of the best-known and loved kitchen appliances in the world. Middleby is a world leader in developing advanced innovation and solutions for commercial, residential, and industrial foodservice. The company is proud to connect with communities through philanthropic engagement, sustainable initiatives and more. Middleby’s aim is to set the standard for tomorrow, with a goal of serving excellence in everything we do.
Adding to the family of impervious contract upholstery solutions from Skopos, Encanto provides a burst of colour and texture into commercial spaces. Marrying the key attributes: antimicrobial, impervious, soil and stain resist, the 3 designs offer amazing performance without compromising on style. Following in the footsteps of Chamonix, Moritz and, most recently, Chamonix Deuxième, the choice within the collection is designed to compliment a range of different interior schemes. With 23 completely new Skus, and 13 hot colours from our Cuba quality, each design works beautifully alone or in combination, to create simple, contemporary and stylish contract furniture pieces.
The fractured herringbone, Onda, injects a familiar yet unique texture, alongside a flexible small-scale check and our familiar Cuba linen design. The palette provides pops of colour or a choice of classical neutrals.
The three designs are provided are Halogen-free, Oeke-tex 100 compliant, Reach compliant, with Crib 5 Flame Retardant backing, the designs achieve 50,000 Martindale rubs, offering a beautiful choice for any contract interiors, whether office, education, care or high-end hospitality and cruise interiors. Along with many other Skopos upholstery fabrics, this collection comes under the Skopos Protect+ banner. Perfect for flagship interiors, with colours that compliment Skopos drapery and bedding designs, the full palette can be viewed on-line.
The collection meets the requirements for Flame Retardancy standards across the UK and Europe and meets IMO standards with the added benefit of the MED wheelmark, confirming suitability for marine/cruise-line interiors. Available immediately, with short lead-times for larger order quantities, Skopos are pleased to add this collection into their Accents range. For a copy of our Encanto shade-card pls contact our customer service team: [email protected], or for free samples of our collections, visit our website.
About Skopos Fabrics Ltd
Skopos has over 50 year's experience of supplying innovative statement fabrics and soft furnishings into flagship hotels, marine interiors and other commercial spaces. Working globally with designers and specifiers, the Skopos brand thrives on innovation. Skopos fabrics deliver on style but also meet the needs of customers looking for technical assurance and key attributes, such as acoustic options, impervious upholstery fabrics, antimicrobial and blackout; providing a fabric-only, or made-to-measure and installation service. Accredited as a Carbon Neutral organisation in 2023, sustainable operations go hand in hand with the development of new recycled products and the use of local suppliers.
Bolon, the Swedish family-owned design company, celebrates 75 years of pioneering sustainable practices in the design industry. Since its inception in 1949, Bolon has been at the forefront of transforming waste into premium woven flooring and rugs, revolutionising the way we perceive sustainable design.
From the outset, Bolon embarked on a mission to repurpose textile waste into stylish rag rugs, setting the stage for decades of sustainable innovation. Today, Bolon proudly announces a ground-breaking achievement – all products now contain an impressive 68% waste material, with zero climate impact per square metre.
Operating from its climate-neutral factory in Ulricehamn, Sweden, Bolon has made a bold decision to integrate sustainability into every aspect of its operations, abstaining from the concept of a separate green collection. Instead, sustainability is ingrained in every product, reflecting the company's unwavering commitment to environmental stewardship.
Bolon is one of the only climate-neutral commercial flooring brands where all collections are climate neutral without the need to offset carbon. Production is in its climate-neutral factory in Ulricehamn, Sweden.
In 2020, Bolon set an ambitious goal to halve its climate impact and ensure that all products contain at least 50% recycled material by 2028. Through strategic investments in talent and technology, Bolon is proud to announce that it has surpassed this goal, offering 68% recycled material across its entire product range.
"Sustainability has always been embedded in the DNA of the brand. With the implementation of BIO-sourced PVC, recycled PVC, and recycled chalk from marble slab production, we have not only exceeded our goals but also achieved zero climate impact. This is a testament to our unwavering commitment to sustainable innovation." - Marie Eklund, CEO and owner of Bolon.
As innovators in the design industry, Bolon remains steadfast in its mission to thrill the world with brave innovation for a sustainable design experience. With 75 years of pushing recycling boundaries, Bolon continues to inspire change and set new standards for sustainable design practices.
About Bolon UK
Bolon specialise in the creation of high-performance design floorings. They believe in design for the long run. Where durability and aesthetics are equally important. Where effortless cleanability and maintenance comes naturally, and honest sustainability stands above it all.
Forbes & Lomax is excited to announce its range of Invisible Lightswitch® and dimmer plates are now made from 100% recycled Perspex.
The Greencast® sheets of Perspex are created from the waste and scrap material of manufacturers and fabricators, which would ordinarily end up in landfill.
By sourcing this sustainable material, Forbes & Lomax is helping ensure it is doing its part to reduce its impact on the environment.
With offices in London, New York and LA, Forbes & Lomax switches, dimmers and sockets are sold worldwide.
All plates are handcrafted and assembled at the Forbes & Lomax workshop in Battersea.
Find out more about sustainability at Forbes & Lomax here.
About Forbes & Lomax
Forbes & Lomax has been producing elegant, innovative light switches and sockets for over thirty-five years. Renowned for launching The Invisible Lightswitch®, it has always approached lighting control from an aesthetic point of view. The Forbes & Lomax collection comprises nine carefully chosen finishes, which are suitable for traditional and contemporary interiors, making it the brand of choice for many top interior designers, architects and decorators. The range includes push buttons and dolly switches for integrating with intelligent lighting control and home automation systems. It also offers a bespoke engraving service. Visit the showroom at Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour.
Befitting a luxury, clean aesthetic, the Minimalist Rose is compatible with our Elements and Classic door levers and turns, as well as our Classic knobs.
At only 26mm in diameter – 16mm for turns – the Minimalist Rose sits unobtrusively on the door, allowing the fine detail and silhouette of the hardware to take centre stage.
Pair with the Minimalist Escutcheon to create a unique aesthetic. Both the Minimalist Rose and Escutcheon are available in over 25 of our signature finishes and patinas.
About Croft
Croft are passionate about perfection. Perfection in design, in manufacture and, most importantly, in meeting the requirements of its clients worldwide. It’s an ethos born and nurtured over 150 years of history and is reflected in a beautifully curated portfolio that includes over 1000 project ready designs. The knowledge and experience of the Croft team ensures they are the perfect partner for your project. Whether you require the latest collection or a custom solution, Croft combines design innovation and expert craftsmanship to produce beautiful products of the very highest quality that are as pleasurable to use as they are to look at.
The Myers Touch is thrilled to introduce its newest furniture partner brand, Caccaro, offering clients a range of custom-designed luxury solutions for their homes.
Renowned for its contemporary and innovative designs, Caccaro’s high-quality furniture combines functionality and aesthetics. Each modular furniture solution can be customised to create a unique look for their clients’ homes within open-plan living and kitchen spaces, living rooms, bedrooms, bookcases and home offices, with each piece meticulously designed to optimise space and functionality whilst maintaining a luxurious, elegant aesthetic.
One of the distinguishing features of Caccaro's furniture range is its attention to detail and superior craftsmanship. The brand showcases clean lines, and minimalistic designs made from premium materials, such as wood, metal, and glass. This blend of modern design principles and traditional craftsmanship results in contemporary furniture pieces that are both stylish and durable, but also stand the test of time.
For example, a new display within The Myers Touch studio is the Caccaro TV Frame system in Kera Invisible White with integrated LED lighting surround - it’s a beautiful example of a media unit system formed with different geometric shapes to display a TV, books and favourite decorative artefacts. The lightness of the suspended unit features a storage pull flap opening for storing TV items such as remotes etc that combined with the geometric bookcase displays, breaks the mould of the classic wall unit, to create a new concept of TV furniture for UK homes.
The added benefit of the design is that not only does it frame the TV unit within the furniture design to give it a new look and aesthetic, but the unit disguises the passage of cables from view.
Another new display in the studio from their range which showcases how functional storage can be beautifully displayed in a home is the Caccaro Wall Pillar display unit. Each unit is available in a range of exterior and interior finishes and with flexible internal arrangements to suit a range of interior design spaces, offering plenty of space to discretely store daily essentials such as coats, umbrellas, shoes and utility essentials.
Each Wall Pillar unit blends smoothly with the walls and architecture of your rooms, furnishing them with a touch of luxury and sophistication. Their design allows them to be placed in the middle of the room to separate two different areas thanks to their custom height options from floor to ceiling or positioned against a wall. The feature LED unit allows the Wall Pillars to be illuminated to create definition and interest within a scheme.
Caccaro also boasts an extensive sideboard range which includes their Wallover sideboard module; a free-standing double-sided storage unit solution that can be displayed in the centre of an open-plan living area to divide a space.
The Bookcase element is also designed to be accessible from both sides. It can be customised in size and contains several compartments. The integrated closed elements are functional storage units.
Alternatively, Caccaro’s custom-made curved sideboards are another example of an attractive storage unit available in their range with a choice of wood, lacquer or laminate finish.
Open-plan entrances and hallways can be kept tidy and functional with their ‘Entrance’ system which becomes an attractive furniture unit and provides a tidy, cosy entrance area where everything is at hand. The dual doors open like a treasure chest to reveal a capacious compartment, complete with a bench, shelving and a large shoe rack to house bags, shoes and coats.
Caccaro’s ‘Closet Office’ design answers the wishes of those who want a built-in desk and bookcase system that can be hidden away behind cabinetry doors when not in use and be customised to perfectly integrate into a kitchen, living room or bedroom space. The work surface is enclosed by two side swinging doors, which reveal hidden shelves that are perfect for storing books, notes and stationery.
The alternation of open and closed compartments dictates the rhythm of this geometric and functional composition. Both the upper flap door and the lower drawer can be fitted with a servo-drive mechanism for smooth opening with a simple touch. In the side of the module, hidden by the door, remotely controllable LEDs can be turned up and down depending on the mood you want to achieve.
Light accessories can also be customised in many of their systems including their floating Wallover Bookcase design. For example, the sleek Bookcase partitions allow LED lights to be recessed into the rear of the mounted wall system to create a striking, warm visual statement in your home to beautifully display books and artefact pieces.
About The Myers Touch
We are The Myers Touch, award-winning interior architects and designers who specialise in creating luxury kitchen living spaces. Our goal is to enrich your life through the creation of an exceptional kitchen space that reflects your practical, aesthetic and emotional aspirations. We believe every kitchen should contain elements of beauty, efficiency and personalisation – a place that expresses Light, Space and Laughter for you.
In collaboration with FORMAFANTASMA, Silestone by Cosentino presents EARTHIC® LAB, a sustainability sub-brand that heralds a new generation of surfaces for the home. Conceived jointly with the renowned research-based design duo, the project challenges the conventional approach to design, prioritising production processes over mere aesthetic appeal.
Launching at Fuorisalone 2024 in Milan’s iconic Teatro Gerolamo, EARTHIC® LAB took visitors on a transformative journey, showcasing the new EARTHIC® surfaces whilst introducing a new sustainable approach to surface design using recycled, reused and advanced raw materials.
“The aim of EARTHIC was to establish a surface project as well as a sub-brand within Cosentino that could become a research platform to investigate how the company could make their processes more sustainable. We did not start from an aesthetic but from the idea of improving the sustainable components within the surface. Our collaboration with Cosentino is exactly this: an attempt to design a product from the inside out where the aesthetic choices also correspond to ethical and sustainable choices. Decision making from this perspective is what is relevant for design today at large”. - Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin from FormaFantasma
EARTHIC® LAB received a Special Mention in the Technology category at the Fuorisalone Awards 2024 for its innovation by restoring a balance between humans and their environment – alongside the use of technology in protecting the planet. This award marks a major milestone for the brand, confirming its journey towards sustain ability and environmental responsibility.
EARTHIC® by Silestone®XM is a capsule collection of three unique sustainable stone surfaces. EARTHIC® combines recycled PET, discarded Dekton fragments and post-industrial glass, alongside pioneering bio-resin derived from used cooking oil. Thanks to HybriQ+® technology, these colours are produced with 100% renewable electrical energy and 99% recycled water. EARTHIC® is the first collection to be made with Silestone XM – surfaces containing a maximum silica content of 10%.
By working with recycled and reclaimed materials, these components come together to create something extraordinary – with the aim to significantly decrease the extraction of raw materials, C02 emissions and soil erosion.
- FFROM 01 is a grey surface speckled with white recycled PET fragments creating a subtle yet intricate pattern that draws the eye and adds depth to the composition. The dominance of grey tones evokes a sense of calmness and simplicity that creates a subdued and pared back atmosphere. - FFROM 02 features a darker grey base elegantly punctuated with white speckled accents, creating subtle and visually attractive contrast. Its darker tone has a sense of modernity and minimalism, broken by the light specks on the surface that make the surface feel serene and beautiful with its simplicity. - FFROM 03 is a mesmerising yet elegant and intricate surface, with recycled PET scattered across the dark surface in a way that makes it feel reminiscent of the night sky or a geological specimen. The surface’s pattern brings a sense of movement and variability to interiors comparable to a piece of abstract art, to imbue spaces with depth and character.
About Cosentino
Cosentino Group is a global, Spanish, family-owned company that produces and distributes high value innovative surfaces for the world of design and architecture. It works together with its clients and partners to provide with solutions that offer design and value, and inspire the life of many people. This objective is possible thanks to pioneering and leading brands in their respective segments such as Silestone®, Dekton® or Sensa by Cosentino®. Technologically advanced surfaces that allow the creation of unique environments and designs for the home and public spaces.
This spring, Forbes & Lomax launches its new Multiway Dimmer Switch. The dimmer switch allows you to dim a light from up to three locations, without the need for additional packs. Multiway Dimmer Switches can be retrofitted with ease.
Use in a bedroom to dim your lights from the doorway or from bedside the bed, illuminate a landing from the bottom of a staircase or light up a large room with several entrances.
These are just some examples of the benefits of installing a Multiway Dimmer Switch.
Forbes & Lomax specialises in designer light switches and sockets for both traditional and contemporary settings. All plates are handcrafted in the UK and assembled at the Forbes & Lomax workshop in South West London.
Prices starting from £54.63 + VAT
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