Imagined Fictions
5th September 2012Belgian Photographer Filip Dujardin deftly bends and reimagines reality in his Fictions series. Through the digital manipulation of his own architectural portraits he explores a seemingly endless and ...
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Surreal Furniture
1st September 2012Epater la bourgeoisie There’s a lot of ‘surreal’ design about these days, design shows and galleries are full of twisted or melting household objects. Elements of surrealist imagery were appropr...
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Georgian Ladies Swiss Army Knife
17th August 2012Swiss Army Knife and a Georgian Chatelaine Men are the stereotypical purchasers of Swiss army knives; Leathermen and the like – something to do with the technical aspects of folding and miniaturizat...
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Keukens - Naked Dutch Kitchens...
13th July 2012Few 'real' kitchens resemble the serene, carefully styled examples of advertisements and brochures. The kitchen is, for most of us a practical place, a workshop where the visual jumble of mismatched '...
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DIY (Dad’s Improved Yesterday) or DIS (Dads In Sheds)
12th July 2012Whatever happened to pine cladding, Swiss Cheese Plants, primary colours, radiused – corners, non - ironic beards..? The lost world of optimistic 1970s DIY: countless books and magazines show...
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Keeping it Royal..
20th June 2012The increasingly ubiquitous Pantone Company has produced a Queen – shaped swatch to assist any 'Royal Watchers' who may wish to imitate her innovative ‘French Fancy’ colour – palette.
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Ideal Home Show
12th June 2012HRH Prince Charles meets the directors of British Standard at the Ideal Home Show (This is not a caption competition) A suitable and topical subject with which to launch our new journal – The visit ...
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Broken White Paint Colour Sample
10th June 2012Approximate Colour of sprayed top coat applied to exterior of all British Standard Cupboards (and interior of all glazed wall cupboards). Please note, as this is a digital representation, colour may v...
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British Standard Showroom Hoxton
7th June 2012Single Corner Cupboard (Blank on Left Width 565mm + 450mm blank space). Iroko Worktops and Upstand. Single Undersink Cupboard (Width 600mm) Far left Wide Boarded End Panel. Far right 600 Integrated Ap...
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Cornice choices for wall and tall cupboards
6th June 2012Standard Cornice. This is a flat cornice with rounded front edge 25mm high, to be fitted to top of cupboards with 30mm projection. British Standard Webb Cornice. This moulded cornice is 35mm hi...
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Medium Double Wall Cupboard
6th June 2012Medium double cupboard with base shelf and two adjustable shelves. Door width 475mm. Total width 1040mm. This cupboard is fitted with our Webb cornice.
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Cupboard interiors.
6th June 2012The cupboard facades are made from solid poplar, with the exception of the central door panel which is MDF. The carcass is white melamine faced European birch ply with 18mm solid beech shelf lippings....
