12-17 April 2011
Tues-Sun 10.00-19.00
Wed 10.00-21.00

Spazio Botta
via Botta 8
20135, Milano

www.portaromanadesign.it 

For more information please contact Lucy James or Hannah Beesley: press@scp.co.uk, +44 (0) 20 7749 7393
SCP, 135–139 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3BX.

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Retail Staff required

SCP is looking for an enthusiastic and professional individual to work full-time at our flagship Curtain Road store. This is a demanding retail position that requires a talented individual who is comfortable and assured in dealing with sales, administration and customer liaison, tracking orders, arranging deliveries, and providing excellent customer service.

For this positions previous retail experience is desirable. Computer skills and an interest in design are a distinct advantage.

Please send in a CV and covering letter to:
Lucy James
e. lucy@scp.co.uk
t. 020 7749 7384

Warehouse assistant required - part time

2.5 days per week: Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday all day, Friday all day.

Responsibilities include receiving and despatching goods, assembling and packing goods, carrying out inspections and delivery and installation work. The successful candidate must have a clean driving license and be able to drive a Luton van and must be well-motivated and able to work under pressure. Experience of handling furniture / art a distinct advantage.

Please send in a CV and covering letter to:
Lucy James
e. lucy@scp.co.uk
t. 020 7749 7384

Style rebel comes of age: Sheridan Coakley reveals the secret of his success

In the 25 years since he opened his indie interiors store, SCP, Coakley has become a champion of British designers – and a hero to hip homemakers.

By Caroline Roux

The SCP Winter Sale has been extended to Sunday 6th February so you now have an extra week to enjoy discounts on all new upholstery and furniture orders. Drop in to one of our SCP stores until Sunday 6th and bag yourself a bargain.

In store you can find discounts of up to 60% on ex-display items, 20% off all SCP upholstery and furniture orders, 15% off all other upholstery orders and 10% of all lighting and rug orders. Alternatively, check out the sale area on our online shop from the comfort of your own home. Here you can order discounted end of line accessories and some of our ex-display lighting.

Please note that we have ex display furniture on show at both our East and West stores so check our website to see where each item is located.

 
The SCP Winter Sale is now on and will continue until the 31st January 2011. Offers include up to 60% off discontinued lines and ex-display items, 20% off all new SCP upholstery orders, 15% off all other upholstery orders and 10% off all lighting and rugs. 

 We have now increased our Winter Sale range in both our East and West stores so drop in to find even more great discounts. In addition to our discounted ex display upholstery, lighting and home accessories, reductions of up to 30% can be found on a range of  brand new sofas and armchairs by Donna Wilson, Terence Woodgate and Matthew Hilton . Browse our website to see which store the products are available at. Online, you can also buy discounted, end of line accessories and some of our ex-display lighting.

As a result of worsening weather conditions throughout the UK, our primary carrier, Parcelforce are experiencing sever delays delivering orders. In some cases they may be unable to deliver orders before Christmas. We are working to ensure that as many of our customer orders as possible are fulfilled and delivered before Christmas. This may result in your order being delivered by another carrier such as UPS or Royal Mail. If this is the case you will be notified by email and there will be no additional charges for these services.

In the unfortunate circumstance that the delivery of your order is delayed until after Christmas, and the item ordered is a Christmas gift that you no longed have use for you may like to return it. The easiest way to do this is to simply refuse delivery. Your order will be return to us and you will be refunded in full. Please allow 3-4 working days for the refund to reach your account. 

Home for Christmas
As ever, December is fast upon us, and with only a month to get ready for Christmas, SCP are holding a number of different festive promotions to make the season merry. We are offering free UK delivery on all online purchases, late night shopping with mulled wine every Thursday evening at SCP East and there will be a weekly prize draw for a £50 voucher in both our stores. On the SCP website, we also have a dedicated Christmas section, full of excellent gift ideas for all of the family. SCP, home for Christmas.

SCP late night shopping
In store, as part of the Shoreditch Christmas Triangle event, SCP East is open for late night shopping every Thursday. Come along between 6 and 8 pm and enjoy a complimentary glass of mulled wine and a mince pie. SCP West, in Notting Hill, is open until 7 pm every weekday evening and on the 1st of December, it will be open until 9 pm.

Free UK delivery for all online purchases
Starting on the 27th of November and running throughout December, we are offering free UK delivery on all online purchases. Take a look at our special Christmas area or the Gifts & Accessories section for a wide choice of presents for all the family.

Weekly In Store Prize Draw
Throughout December, we are running a prize draw for all customers who make purchases in-store, with a £50 SCP gift voucher on offer at both stores each week. For full details of the December and Christmas opening hours, check the SCP East and SCP West shop  pages.

Robin Day, who has died aged 95, was Britain's most famous 20th-century furniture designer. There can hardly be a person in the country who has not, at one time or another, sat in comfort on one of his ubiquitous grey or tangerine-coloured polypropylene chairs.

Robin belonged to that idealistic generation of designers who came to fame in the 1950s. "To many of us then," he recalled later, "design was more than just a profession – we were dedicated, competitive and filled with evangelical zeal." His great aim was to make good design available all over the world, at prices affordable to ordinary people. Since the launch of the Hille polypropylene stacking chair in 1963, nearly 50m have been sold. Its strength, lightness, versatility and cheapness made it popular even in remote communities. Visiting Botswana, Robin was enchanted to find his polypropylene shells adapted for seating in canoes.

He was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, a historic centre of the furniture trade. After training at the local art school, he worked as a draughtsman in a furniture factory, valuable experience which gave him a permanent rapport with production processes and with the technicians on the shopfloor.

Robin won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London. The so-called design courses in the late 1930s were too unfocused to be useful to someone already obsessed with functional design. But the RCA gave him the freedom to explore the European and American avant garde and develop his keen interest in architecture. It was at a college dance in 1940 that he first met Lucienne Conradi, then a promising young student in the textiles department. They married two years later. This was the beginning of a lifelong partnership.

It was, for its time, a very modern marriage. Both the Days rose to the very top of their professions, Robin in furniture and Lucienne in textile design. They were not collaborators in any formal sense, like the American designers Charles and Ray Eames. But they shaped each other's work by suggestion and discussion. The Days' back-to-back drawing boards, in the Chelsea studio they shared for many decades, indicated a whole new pattern of mid-20th-century working relationships.

In 1948 Robin, in collaboration with another young designer, Clive Latimer, won first prize for storage furniture in a high-profile international competition organised by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. One of the judges was Mies van der Rohe. From this distance, Robin's design, a long, low, plywood cabinet on tubular steel legs, looks pretty primitive. But winning the MoMA prize was a breakthrough for Robin, and a stimulus to British designers in the bleak years of post-second world war austerity.

The government's utility furniture scheme was still in force in 1949, when Robin was appointed consultant designer to S Hille & Co. This small East End furniture company was on the edge of a conversion from manufacturing reproduction Sheraton and Chippendale to putting its energies into contemporary design. Ray Hille, a formidable matriarch, with her daughter Rosamind and son-in-law Leslie Julius, began the collaboration with Robin which continued successfully for more than 20 years.

All their links with the US were strong. Like Robin, Charles Eames had won a prize (though only a second) in the MoMA competition. The Juliuses had visited the famous Eames house at Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. The Eamesian influence is obvious in the moulded plywood chairs designed by Robin for Hille from 1950. These laminated forms exploited the potential of newly available plastic glues. The most commercially successful version was the Hillestak, a lightweight timber stacking chair supplied in large quantities for schools, canteens and conference halls and on sale to modern-minded shoppers at Liberty's department store at 66 shillings each.

At the Festival of Britain in 1951, Hille plywood chairs were everywhere. The dining-chair version, with flipper arms and steel-rod legs, was on show in the rooms in the Homes and Gardens Pavilion, which Robin himself designed – and in which Lucienne's classic textile pattern, Calyx, was first exhibited.

At the same time Robin had been commissioned to design an armchair for the new Festival Hall. This was made in plywood with rosewood veneer. Like Benjamin Britten's music, Robin's furniture fitted the expectations of the period, being recognisably modern but not outré. It was largely due to Robin and his furniture for Hille that modern British design began to be taken seriously internationally. He was invited to design a section of the Triennale in Milan in 1951, and his room setting – featuring a large textile hanging with the then obligatory Henry Moore reclining figure – won the gold medal that year.

This was the age in which television entered the home, altering social patterns and changing the configuration of the living room. In 1957 Robin's TV receiver set, designed for Pye, was included in the first of the design awards selected by the then Council of Industrial Design. Robin also designed TV Lounger armchairs, 1950s contemporary versions of the fireside chair, with small oblong trays for snacks replacing armrests. The Lounger was used as a decorative motif on the Midwinter Pottery's popular Homemaker china, an interesting example of the contemporary idiom feeding on itself.

Robin resisted being typecast as a furniture designer. He was hugely impressed by the scope of design in Scandinavia. It was part of his emerging philosophy that the designer should influence all details of daily life, and he worked in graphics, exhibitions and interiors as well as designing products. One of his earliest assignments had been designing posters for the Ministry of Information during the war, and he was one of the designers of the signage for the Festival of Britain exhibition site.

In the early days at Hille, he set the newly modern company style by designing the logo, letterheads and stationery and the related lettering for Hille's vehicles. This was a pioneering exercise in what was soon to become known as corporate identity.

There were marvellous parties in the 1960s in the Hille showroom in Albemarle Street. The architect Peter Moro designed the building in 1962 and Robin was responsible for the interior, supervising the construction of the spiral staircase, up which trooped the trendiest architects, designers, photographers, critics and the new breed of design journalists in miniskirts.

In the early 1960s, Hille introduced the chair that soon became synonymous with Robin. The first proposal had been for a chair in moulded glass-reinforced plastic. But Robin was, understandably, reluctant to embark on a chair which could only be a variant on the very successful fibreglass chair already designed by Eames for Herman Miller, which Hille soon acquired the rights to produce in the UK.

Robin's research into the properties of polypropylene, a thermoplastic invented in 1954 by the Italian Nobel prizewinner Giulio Natta, convinced him that this was the means of achieving what Eames had never managed: the really low-cost, mass-production chair.

Polypropylene was a cheap, light, hardwearing material, particularly suitable for injection moulding. The one-piece shell which formed the seat could either be used as it was or foam-padded and upholstered. The shell could be mounted on a simple standard stacking frame or fixed to pedestal bases, barstool frames or fixings for multiple seating in theatres or stadiums.

Hille invested £6,000 in tooling, a considerable sum for a furniture manufacturer in those days. From the first batch, the firm sent out 6,000 free samples to architects, designers and critics – a typically entrepreneurial stroke. Robin's chair was sensationally successful, and soon 50 firms were licensed to manufacture the design all over the world. Robin loved the outreach of it, and the fact that people used his chairs from early childhood onwards. A scaled-down version was produced in five sizes, toughened up for use in schools.

With his seating being specified for most of the important public buildings of the period, Robin was within reach of his ambition of improving the environment on a giant scale. His theatre and auditorium commissions of the 1960s – the new Nottingham Playhouse, the Royal Shakespeare theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, the five auditoria at the Barbican Centre – culminated in providing the seating for 38,000 people at the Mexico City Olympic stadium. Throughout the 60s, Robin was also working on the interior design of aircraft for BOAC.

Though naturally diffident, he had by now become a public figure. He and Lucienne were endlessly featured as a design double act in homemaking magazines. Ideal Home ran an article on their impeccable studio house in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. House and Garden depicted "the talented prize-winning designers": Lucienne with her wide-eyed, Rank starlet prettiness; Robin strong and silent, with the craggy good looks that continued into old age.

The Days appeared as the glamorous international couple in a Smirnoff vodka advertisement and they were appointed jointly as design consultants to John Lewis department stores from 1962. Robin designed the interiors for the new John Lewis stores at Brent Cross and Milton Keynes in the 1970s and for Waitrose in Finchley Road in 1981.

The 1980s were not such happy times. Hille, by now in financial trouble, began to bring in other designers. The historic collaboration ended when the family firm was sold in 1983. The Days' once groundbreaking modernism had become devalued once a watered-down, "modern" style became the fashion. As Robin put it: "Modern of a mediocre type has debased modern design in general."

But tastes swung back. The 1990s saw a great resurgence in Robin's reputation. Prices for his early postwar furniture began rising in the salerooms. He was a central figure in the sudden rash of exhibitions of design of the 1950s and 60s, beginning with The New Look: Design in the 50s at Manchester City art galleries in 1991. Robin travelled north with Lucienne to open this exhibition. I remember him delivering a sweet, nostalgic speech, dwelling on the hopes and excitements of the postwar period.

A major exhibition of his and Lucienne's work was held at the Barbican in 2001. Some of his old designs were brought back into production and new designs were commissioned by SCP, Magis and twentytwentyone. It is Robin's 1990 Toro pressed-steel seating that London Underground travellers are all‑too-used to waiting on.

Robin had become British modernism's grand old man, gently admonishing the young whippersnapper editors of Wallpaper* and Elle Deco, appearing on the cover of the Guardian's Space section, reclining in the Thonet bentwood chair he had selected as his classic of all time. His finesse and imaginative rigour appealed to the generation young enough to be his grandchildren.

He was a private person who chose not to take on the professional spokesman roles that would have naturally accrued to him. It was Lucienne who became the master of the faculty of Royal Designers for Industry. But he was greatly loved for his charm, his self-deprecating humour and his wisdom, and respected by other designers for the way he held out against the trivial and spurious.

Robin loved the outdoors. He was an intrepid mountaineer and skier, driving himself as hard in sport as he did in work. He climbed Mount Kenya at the age of 76. He argued that the defence of the environment was a designer's prime responsibility.

Lucienne died earlier this year. Their daughter, Paula, survives them.

• Robin Day, designer, born 25 May 1915; died 9 November 2010

By Fiona MacCarthy for the Guardian Obituary

 
If you are lucky enough to find yourself in New York over the Christmas season, make sure you drop into The Future Perfect store on Great Jones Street to catch Donna Wilson’s first US show, opening this Saturday, 

The Future Perfect team have built a special wooden house and filled it with Donna’s designs including four life-sized knitted people that Donna created exclusively for the show. Also on display is the Mabel sofa, Motley ottoman, Nos Da and Zig Zag pouffes and the Molly stool, which we launched as part of our Autumn/Winter 2010 collection. Pop in and experience Donna’s unique pieces in this specially created colourful wonderland, on display over Christmas.

Her "HOUSE" is showing at:

The Future Perfect Manhattan 
55 Great Jones Street
New York, NY 10012
(bleecker 6 stop)
www.thefutureperfect.com

Opening Hours: 12pm–7pm Mon-Sat. 12pm–6pm Sun

Closer to home, both of our London stores will be stocking Donna’s full 2010 / 2011 collection alongside her products for our SCP range including the Sundara rug collection and Nos Da range of textiles.

We are very happy to have won the Best Retail Innovation Award by Elle Decoration in The British Design Awards 2010. Hopefully this news will make you want to visit us even more! If you haven't seen the full collection of our own products, pop into one of our stores-SCP East or SCP West. We are making sure that we have plenty of stock in the run up to Christmas and with our Winter Lighting and SCP Upholstery Offer running until the end of November, what better time to buy your Christmas gifts?

This is what Elle Decoration had to say about us:

Not only does SCP manufacture furniture by some of the best names in British design (think Matthew Hilton and Terence Woodgate), it also sells a brilliantly thought-out collection of furniture, accessories and lighting. Over the past year, it has added new homewares manufacturer All Lovely Stüff to its impressive portfolio, launched the pattern-tastic ‘Sundara’ rug collection with Donna Wilson and championed new ranges by Alex Hellum and Kay + Stemmer.

We are also very happy for Donna Wilson who has won Designer Of The Year award. Apart from making her own wonderful range of products, Sheridan has worked with Donna for a number of years developing a collection of furniture and she has recently designed the Nos Da range of textiles and the Sundara Rug collection, in collaboration with SCP. We are proud to boast the largest range of Donna's products worldwide.

Elle Decoration said the following of Donna:

There’s no-one quite like textiles queen Donna Wilson. Her fabulous products include colourful cushions, tea-time accessories, playful ceramics and, of course, the starting point for the whole shebang — her collection of curious knitted creatures. In 2010, three new additions to the creature family have won our hearts: bashful ‘Wolfie’, who collects spoons; ‘Peanut’, who needs coaxing out of his shell; and ‘Puddle Man’, who likes to whistle when it rains. Imaginative, quirky, cool. Need we say more?

The British Design Awards 2010 recognises original, new work created by British designers for both UK and international brands in the past year. Click here to view the rest of this years British Design Award winners.

A big thank you to everybody who came along to our hugely successful Warehouse Sale last Saturday. The early start and miserable weather did not appear to deter the hardcore bargain hunters among you.

Queuing began as early as 8am and by the time we opened the doors at 10am, a crowd was stretching half way down the road. We would like to thank you all for your patience and hope that it paid off and that you managed to bag yourself a bargain.

The sale was so successful that by 2pm almost everything had been snapped up. 

Our free area also proved to be a hit. Within hours, all had been reclaimed and will hopefully be put to good use.

I hope you enjoyed yourself and look forward to seeing you at our next clearout.

For one day only, we will be opening the doors to the SCP Warehouse. Inside are huge discounts of up to 90% on ex-display furniture, lighting floor samples, end of range stock and some items with minor damage. Arrive early to catch yourself a bargain and take away great design at huge reductions. Rather than just taking things to the recycling, we are also offering a number of free items to take away that designers and craftsman may find useful, such as damaged components, glass, lighting parts, table tops and a wealth of other bits and pieces. This sale is being held to clear out our warehouse for the Winter, so everything must go.

In addition, we are currently running an SCP Upholstery and a Winter Lighting Promotion. We are offering 20% off all orders of SCP upholstery in store and 10% off all lighting purchases in store and online. These promotions run until Sunday the 21st of November 2010. Browse all SCP Lighting here.

If you are a stylist, journalist or trend forecaster and would like to request high-resolution images of new products, or request press loans, please contact our Press Office:

T. +44 (0) 20 7749 7393 
E. press@scp.co.uk

 
 Winter Lighting Promotion // 10% Off all lighting
The winter nights are beginning to draw in, the clocks are going back this weekend and soon enough it will be dark when we leave work. As is custom, SCP runs a special Winter Lighting Promotion to brighten up those long winter evenings. Starting tomorrow, Friday the 29th of October, we are offering 10% off all lighting. In store, you will also find a selection of ex-display lights available at larger discounts. The promotion runs until Sunday the 21st of November. Light up your life with SCP. The product shown above is the new Josiah pendant light by Terence Woodgate for SCP. 

Torch table light / A variety of non-domestic, but yet familiar and functional forms of lighting inspired Sylvain Willenz’s design. PVC dipped polymer gives a tactile finish, referencing the handheld nature of a torch, whilst light shines through a clear, diamond textured polycarbonate diffuser creating an ambient light. Grey version now in stock. Manufactured by Established & Sons.

Plumen bulb / The Plumen 001 light bulb is the first designer low energy light bulb. It aims to draw attention to the energy saving lightbulb, which up until now has been neglected. In designing a more attractive energy saving bulb, with a much warmer light, The Plumen Project hopes that more people will warm to the bulbs.

Eadie armchair / The Eadie armchair by Donna Wilson for SCP is made from a European hardwood frame, jute webbing and hessian straps. It has a large full feather upholstered cushion that sits neatly within the rounded frame. The back of the frame gently arcs, creating a crescent shape to make the chair more accommodating. This version is upholstered in Nos Da fabric. 

Balzac armchair / The Balzac armchair by Matthew Hilton for SCP is the last word in "club" armchairs. Originally designed in 1991, this piece has stood the test of time. It is featured in the well-known TASCHEN book "1000 Chairs", is in the permanent collection at The Geffrye Museum and believe it or not, is Peter Mandelson's favourite chair.  

Bubble lamps / We are now stocking new versions of this mid-century classic. The the Bubble Lamp was first designed by George Nelson in 1947 and was produced by Howard Miller starting in the early 1950s and ending in 1979. The lights have been re-issued to the original specifications, using the original Howard Miller tooling. These famous lamps are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Each lamp is supplied with 183 cm of cord and a brushed nickel ceiling plate that measures 13.3 cm in diameter. 

Lansdowne sofa / The Lansdowne sofa by Terence Woodgate is a modern take on the classic Chesterfield. Originally designed in 2003, this piece has remained on the top sellers list. It has a solid beech frame with elasticated webbing covered in multi-density foam and stainless steel legs. It is a fine example of the elegance and timeless qualities that Terence Woodgate infuses into his designs. A chaise version is also available to create a sofa system. 

Oscar armchair / The Oscar armchair strikes a pleasing balance between modernity and tradition, large in size yet light in appearance. Made from a European hardwood frame, jute webbing and hessian straps and then covered with a mix of materials that includes natural fibres, animal hair and wool. It features a deep feather cushion, the back has a line of sewn in pulls, lending the sofa the appearance of a buttoned back, without the actual buttons. The feet are made from walnut stained beech, with the front two being turned versions. Oscar is a piece perfect for those who like their modernity laced with a little familiarity.

SCP East has played host to design exhibitions for a quarter of a century. In keeping with our history and our love of experimentation, we are celebrating the London Design Festival 2010 with a trio of shows. We are delighted to present the SCP 2010 Collection, The Sundara Rug Collection and the launch of new homeware manufacturer All Lovely Stuff. 

SCP East is part of The Shoreditch Design Triangle. This is a local collaboration between twenty one shops and galleries in the area who have joined forces to promote a very special evening of design events. Find our more about the other events by clicking here. 

Location: SCP East, 135-139 Curtain Road. EC2A 3BX. 020 7739 1869 shopeast@scp.co.uk

Date: 18th-26th September 2010

Opening Times: Mon-Tues & Sat- 09.30 -18.00, Wed- 09.30-20.00, Thurs-Fri- 09.30-19.00, Sun- 11.00-17.00

For more press information please contact Brian Brennan or Lucy James: 
press@scp.co.uk t. +44 (0) 207 749 7393

SCP Contracts have launched their new website, designed to meet the needs of architects, designers and furniture specifiers. Key features include an increased products database, improved categorisation and easier navigation as well as a new Shortlist function. We have also rebranded the site with a new colour scheme to give it it's own identity.

We will be constantly updating the site with new content and we hope you will find it a useful resource and recommend it to your friends and colleagues. Feedback, good or bad, will be most welcome - send an email to brian@scp.co.uk and we will look into it straight away.

Please visit our new site 

 
3 - 7 September 2010
Hall 7 Stand H155
now! design á vivre
Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre

On show for the first is the Coltrane low table by Terence Woodgate. Also making its international debut is the Oscar chaise longue by Matthew Hilton, a new addition to the hugely popular Oscar upholstery range. After their successful international launch in New York, the rest of the collection exhibits in Paris, comprising the Sundara Rug Collection by Donna Wilson, the Slide Mirror by Sylvain Willenz, the Timberly hall rack by Rich Brilliant Willing, the solid beech Molly stool by Donna Wilson and the Ulrik bar stool by Alex Hellum. 

Additional products from the SCP 2010 collection will also be in attendance, highlights include Terence Woodgate’s bone china Josiah pendant lights, specifically designed to house the latest low-energy compact fluorescent bulb, the Notime, Nightime and Finetime clocks by Farrow and the versatile Calvo side table by Lee Kirkbride.

SCP is an experimental brand with a long-time love of production methods. This year our travels to India have resulted in the development the Sundara Rug Collection, a new collaboration with Donna Wilson. The rugs are hand-made, using three different techniques: flat-weaving, hand-looming and hand-tufting. All stages of the production process take place under one roof using these time-honoured techniques. The Collection comprises a flat-weave kilim called Mountain Spot, the hand-loomed Fairisle and three hand-tufted rugs: Scope, Whirl and Corners. 

Back in Britain, we have developed the Terence Woodgate Coltrane low table. This piece is the natural successor to the best selling Sax range of tables. The ash or walnut legs bring this classic design in-line with the contemporary love of wood in the home. The Oscar chaise longue by Matthew Hilton, demonstrates the expertise of our upholstery factory in Norfolk. They have worked closely with Hilton to create the latest addition to the Oscar range, a piece that perfectly blends tradition with modernity. 

For more details, please contact Brian Brennan or Lucy James at the SCP press office.

SCP is delighted to announce the launch of new designs at Accent on Design, during the 2010 New York International Gift Fair.

Making their international debut are the Sundara Rug Collection by Donna Wilson, the Slide Mirror by Sylvain Willenz, the Timberly hall rack by Rich Brilliant Willing, the solid beech Molly stool by Donna Wilson and the Ulrik bar stool by Alex Hellum.

Alongside these brand new designs is a selection of other products from the 2010 Collection. SCP presents the Calvo side table by Lee Kirkbride, the Josiah Lights by Terence Woodgate and the Jeeves coat rack by Kay+Stemmer. Also on show is the hugely popular Nos Da Collection of fabrics, throws, cushions, picnic blankets and bags.

SCP has over two decades of experience designing, producing and retailing high-quality products for the home. In recent years we have developed a range of smaller products that complement our core range of upholstery. We apply the same principles to all of our products, we make things that are beautiful, sustainable and built to last. SCP products are quintessentially British, a perfect fit for the 21st Century interior, modern, full of character and ultimately, timeless.

The Sundara Rug Collection is a fine example of our dedication to experimentation and love of production methods. The rugs are hand-made in India, using three different techniques: flat-weaving, hand-looming and hand-tufting. All stages of the production process take place under one roof using these time-honored techniques. The Collection comprises a flat-weave kilim called Mountain Spot, the hand-loomed Fairisle and three hand-tufted rugs: Scope, Whirl and Corners.

At the NYIGF, we are very pleased to announce the inclusion of our first ever American designers, the wonderfully named Rich Brilliant Willing who make their SCP debut with the practical and playful Timberly hall rack. Two different stools also make their debut, both developments of previous designs; the lightweight Ulrik bar stool grows up, all the way to the bar, whilst the Molly stool becomes available in solid beech. Brussels born industrial designer Sylvain Willenz is a new designer at SCP. His screen-printed Slide Mirror is strong graphic piece, reflective of his inquisitive approach to product design. Our first ever foray into lighting is also in attendance: the bone china Josiah lights by Terence Woodgate. SCP has produced a light specifically designed around the latest low-energy, long-life compact fluorescent light bulbs. Terence Woodgate has once again delivered a forward thinking design of simplicity, elegance and grace.

SCP, design for your time.

Find SCP at:
Booth 3943
Accent on Design
Javits Centre / NYC

For more information please click here