Here’s our round-up of the most interesting innovations and coolest products from the Surface Design Show
These are some of our favourite picks from the show, which took place at the Business Design Centre in Islington this week, showcasing the best of surface design for the built environment.
Pitboard
Surface made of olive waste
Pitboard is a surface material made from olive stones by Pit-to-table, a climate-tech startup in Cyprus that turns olive waste into durable architectural surfaces.
More info @pit2table
Halia
Warming surfaces
Halia is a proprietary super-thin electrical heating technology from Finland. Now the technology has been embedded in Surforma surfaces to make warming café tables with a top that gently heats up when you sit down – ideal for outdoor patrons in winter. Warming wall coverings are coming next, with the Warming Surfaces Company start-up intent on offering innovative, more efficient heating solutions.
More info @surforma
Denimolite
Old jeans to countertops
Green Grad Josh Myers has combined denim offcuts and old jeans with a plant-based bio-resin to make Denimolite a durable material with a distinctive, marbled appearance. Available in sheets, panels, bricks and bars with a choice of thickness, colour and finish, it is suitable for cladding, furniture, countertops and joinery.
More info @denimolite
Pierreplume Plush
Acoustic cladding made from soft toys
The latest recycled acoustic wall treatment from French specialists Pierreplume is made from hard-to-recycle plush toys. The result is a quirky, distinctive version of their stylish, sound-absorbing, interior wall cladding.
More info @surfacematter
Vision bricks
Laser-etched bricks
Ketley Brick was showing a range of innovative products including extruded bespoke bricks and bespoke shaped bricks as well as laser-etched bricks and slips.
More info @ketleybrick
Carbonium
Composites from plane parts
French firm Lavoisier makes a range of aesthetically appealing composites – Cabonium, Pearlium, Stratalium and Stellium – from redundant aircraft parts.
More info @lavoisier_composites
Wa Ma
Wooden cube facade
Roni Karsh was there to show his wooden-cube facade that was shortlisted for facade design of the year.
More info @roni_karsh_
Wall&Deco
Technical wallpapers for outdoors and wet rooms
The specialist wallpapers on offer from Italian manufacturers Wall&Deco included outdoor wallpapers and wallpapers for wet and damp environments as well as acoustic papers.
More info @wallanddeco
Ruvi tile
Ceramic acoustic tile
The winner of the first Surface Design emerging talent award was David McGill for his Ruvi acoustic tile, a slip-cast ceramic wall tile designed to improve the acoustic and sensory quality of public infrastructure.
The winner of the first Sureface Design emerging talent award was David McGill for his Ruvi acoustic tile, a slip-cast ceramic wall tile designed to improve the acoustic and sensory quality of public infrastructure.
More info @mcgill_industrialdesign
Studio RAP
Award-winning ceramic facades
In other categories, it was an across-the-board rout for Studio RAP, the Rotterdam bespoke facade specialist that prides itself on combining ceramics with cutting-edge digital technology and robot fabrication. The company won the project, facade and public realm categories for three of their recent installations.
Blue Voyage at the Jumeirah Marsa Al Arab Hotel in Dubai (above) – a dramatic entrance-foyer installation inspired by the Gulf, featuring wave-like patterns created from hundreds of unique 3D-printed tiles – was chosen as best project.
Nieuw Delft Blue at PoortMeesters, Delft, won in the public realm category. This reimagines the town’s historic ceramic tradition in the form of a pair of gateways lined with more 3D-printed tiles.
Finally, RAP’s Ceramic House in Amsterdam – a 3D-printed ceramic facade with a pattern that seeks to translate the craft of knitting into an architectural language of folds and layers – won in the facade category.
More info @studio.rap
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