DESIGN
Cream of the crop This year’s Design Guild Mark winners are revealed Innovation of materials and creativity remained at the forefront of British design with 23 entries receiving the coveted Design Guild Mark this year. The Design Guild Mark is awarded by The Furniture Makers’ Company, the City of London livery company and charity for the furnishing industry, to drive excellence and raise the profile
of British design and innovation. It recognises the highest standards in the design of furnishings in volume production across three categories: Furniture, 2D Design and Lighting Design. The award is open to designers working in Britain and British designers working abroad. Each category has its own jury of renowned design experts who assess
submissions against criteria including: Are the materials appropriate? Are they from sustainable sources? Does the piece/collection show new thinking? Does it solve a problem? Three designs, Fourfold, Swell and Hotaru, received the Jonathan Hindle Prize for their outstanding qualities. Visit: www.furnituremakers.org.uk
TEXTILES, WALLCOVERINGS, SURFACES, CARPETS AND FLOORCOVERINGS
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All Tomorrow’s Futures textured linen blend, designed by Charlotte Raffo and Alexis Snell for The Monkey Puzzle Tree. Upholstery and soft furnishings textile created in collaboration with linocut artist Alexis Snell, a specially commissioned crepe textured weave in a linen cotton blend interacts with the screen print to give an irregular hand-made feel to the design.
Swell, designed by Jones & Partners for The Collective Agency. Swell is a lightweight, horizontally seamless acoustic wall-cladding solution with a unique height of 2.7m, made from eco-material EchoPanel. Offering acoustic and environmental properties, Swell is reminiscent of a wave.
Quest, designed by Jane Marks-Yewdall for Camira. Using recycled marine waste in partnership with the Sequal Initiative, it has a casually elegant aesthetic and evocative colour palette.
Northward Bound carpet tiles, designed by the Milliken Design Team for Milliken Industrials. Kerry Cottam’s design is a high-performance, carbon-neutral, luxurious carpet tile collection that uses fewer raw materials, thus reducing embodied carbon.
Interiors Monthly June 2022
