Supplier of the Month: MAUGER
MAUGER is a contemporary gallery and art consultancy based in London UK, operated by two directors: Richard and Dan Mauger. The brothers have over 20 years of experience in the art world, advising collectors and developing strong connections with art networks, other commercial galleries and specialist dealers.
During this time, they have been in a position to foster relationships with a wide variety of international artists, from painters to photographers, street artists to video artists.
The gallery started in the historic city of Bath, and then, as the number of London based clients increased, a move to London was a logical progression. Over the past 8 years, the gallery has had a strong global presence on the art fair circuit.
Art fairs are for many contemporary galleries an essential part of the gallery’s annual rostra of events – they work on many levels, from exposing artists work to a completely new audience, to the ability to meet up with loyal collectors who follow the gallery keenly, and also to introduce new collectors to the artists on show. The choice of works and the curatorial decisions in the booth all expose the creative direction of the directors minds. Well aware of the importance of the art fair system, the directors attended as many as possible, sometimes showing at 8 or 9 fairs per year and traveled all over the world, from London to Delhi, Miami to Seoul, New York to Barcelona.
Art fairs are for many contemporary galleries an essential part of the gallery’s annual rostra of events – they work on many levels, from exposing artists work to a completely new audience, to the ability to meet up with loyal collectors who follow the gallery keenly, and also to introduce new collectors to the artists on show. The choice of works and the curatorial decisions in the booth all expose the creative direction of the directors minds. Well aware of the importance of the art fair system, the gallery attended 8 – 10 international fairs per year, from London to Delhi, Miami to Seoul, New York to Barcelona.
In addition to art fairs and shows MAUGER collaborates with leading interior designers, curators, companies and brands to create bespoke shows and installations. In the spring of 2014 MAUGER worked with McLaren to turn their LA Beverly Hills showroom into a gallery space, managing the attendance of over six thousand people and orchestrating the VIP special preview evening, A-list attendees included Matthew McConaughey, Jay Leno, Cristopher Nolan, Prince Rudolf Knaise Melikoff and Bill Maher. MAUGER has also curated shows at the British Consular residences, both in Miami, and LA.
To see images from recent MAUGER projects, click here If you would like an informal discussion with a MAUGER curator about a specific project please send an email to consultancy@maugermodern.
Exclusive Product Launches at the Top Drawer Trade Show
Here at Callender Howorth, we know that interior accessories are essential in creating the perfect home, that how the functionality of a product is just as important as its aesthetic appeal. We also understand that a well-designed gift can have an uplifting effect on the recipient. That’s why we love the Top Drawer Trade Show that takes place twice a year at Olympia – London’s most beautiful exhibition venue. Top Drawer’s 2016 Spring Show took place on 17-19th January and showcased beautiful, design-led and innovative products from world-renowned exhibitors. It attracted many London interior architects, who sought inspiration for their projects.
We picked some of our favourite exclusive new products that will be blazing a trail across all corners of the design industry.
Above and Beyond
This concept-driven home accessories range has a strong minimalist graphic identity, highlighted by it’s monochrome designs. Above and Beyond launched a striking ‘Between the Lines’ cushion, made from 100% cotton, which come with a range of different coloured backs.
Polite Company
Polite Company specialises in stationery and already has an excellent collection of lively, colourful standout products. They presented new additions to their ‘Tools for Thinking Collection,’ which pursues a thought-provoking approach to product design. The range is inspired by some of history’s most innovative and creative minds, such as Oscar Wilde and Frida Kahlo. Additionally, the ‘Seeds of Virtue Notecards and Seed Set’ combines cards that display virtuous proverbs, paired with a seed packet, thus allowing you to metaphorically blossom along with the flower.
Elleffe Design
Belle Creation launched the beautiful Italian design range, Elleffe into the UK market. Already popular within European hotel and restaurant chains, their stainless steel kitchenware products combine innovative shapes, sleek lines and decorative finesse with a functional purpose. We like their stainless steel wine coolers and stylish cake stands.
Welovecushions
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has launched a range of RHS cushions in collaboration with the renowned specialist company, Welovecushions. There are 23 cushions currently in the range but more will be introduced throughout the year. The beautiful designs are inspired by images from the vast art collection of the RHS Lindley Library.
Mini Moderns
Mini Moderns, an interior design brand, also proved to be a big hit at Top Drawer. Their popular Whitby wallpaper print has been turned into a new enamelware collection, continuing their collaboration with Wild & Wolf. The new range features a distinctive wave motif, capturing life on the open seas. The stunning collection will be available in store in May.
Top Drawer is the best place for retailers to discover uniquely designed products, share ideas and gather on-trend business advice. The event is based around five sectors: Gift, Craft, Home, Fashion and Food. It also includes a section called ‘Spotted’, which celebrates new British talent and has helped over 80 businesses make their trade show debut. Callender Howorth endeavours to keep up to speed with current trends in design, yet uses them as influence to produce truly unique interior design projects. The Top Drawer Trade Show is the best place to experience the best and most current trends in the market.
Three of the Latest Kitchen Gadgets
In any home the kitchen is key. Whether you have family, or are simply an entertainer by nature, the kitchen is often the hub of the house and brings people together, combining a place to eat with a place to socialise. When creating interior designs for our clients, we focus on delivering outstanding finishes and introducing useful, ingenious tools to utilise the space and deliver optimum results.
Three of the Latest Kitchen Gadgets
In any home the kitchen is key. Whether you have family, or are simply an entertainer by nature, the kitchen is often the hub of the house and brings people together, combining a place to eat with a place to socialise. When creating interior designs for our clients, we focus on delivering outstanding finishes and introducing useful, ingenious tools to utilise the space and deliver optimum results.
Callender Howorth Named as Finalist for International Award
When our passion for designing fabulous, luxury interiors and realising our clients’ visions rank above all else, it is easy to forget about receiving recognition. At Callender Howorth, we pride ourselves on being able to provide quality, multi-discipline interiors for luxury homes – be it building, designing or styling spaces. But we also take great pride in being recognised by our peers for our high-quality work.
The SBID International Design Awards is an extremely prestigious establishment to be connected with and one that we hold with high esteem. It is a great honour to announce that we have been attributed with a finalist spot for the Global Interior Design award.
With voting coming exclusively from leading industry experts, both for technical content and aesthetic creativity, the privilege of being involved with this year’s event is extremely complimentary. The panel alone included some incredibly esteemed judges such as Lewis Carnie, Head of Programmes of BBC; Sir Michael Dixon, Director of the Natural History Museum; Kevin Mau, Senior Creative Director at The Boeing Company; Ben McOwen Wilson, Director of YouTube EMEA; David Lewis, Managing Director of Sunseeker London; and Jane Preston, Facilities Manager UK, Real Estate & Workplace Services, Google.
With such a culturally influential panel you can understand why we were thrilled with the beautiful Mayfair Mews House becoming a finalist in the ‘Residential Project under £1m’ category; we can’t be prouder of this wonderful project. Set across three floors, it uses bespoke features and modern touches to create a high level of personality, fun and, above all else, a beautiful space.
Neatly tucked away behind Marylebone High Street in beautiful London is this gorgeous mews house. Forget Victoriana expectations, find vast spaces bathed in light with large, bespoke walls and huge windows, which completely open to the encompassed courtyard.
Integral to the architectural plan was the gutting of the top floor. This allowed us to create one very large Master bedroom with a spacious dressing room (complete with bar area) and en suite. Add to this the coloured walls and expansive stairwell and the design starts to really sing a luxurious song.
This project was favourable with the Callender Howorth team, not least because we got to complete the idea by helping the client style the property with some impressive art, but because it allowed us to help create a fabulous show-stopping space, which is perfect for entertaining.
Modernity and uncomplicated British style permeate the space – think James Bond’s martini glass. A complete piece of classic design: still timelessly modern and effortlessly stylish. To be able to twin our passion with our craft is a true pleasure, and to be recognised as an influential force in the industry is an even greater thrill. We hope to see you at the SBID awards next year!
Sample our extensive interior design projects in Marylebone and beyond and please do not hesitate to contact the team should you have any enquiries.
How to Choose the Right Colour Scheme for your Interior
A hint from the best London interior designers: when it comes to decorating your home there is nothing more important than the colours you choose. They affect everything from the obvious aesthetic to the emotions we feel. For example, using rich deep reds can make a room feel vibrant and warm, but too much exposure has proven to increase stress. Therefore, choosing a theme or colour before you begin is absolutely vital. Ask yourself, do you want the décor to be cool or warm? Cosy or business-like? Bright and cheery or subdued and reflective?
Is slow design the new luxury?
While design projects seem to be completed in increasingly shorter timescales in order to cut not only time but also money, a trending tenet of contemporary interior design seeks to overturn this habit of rushing, extolling the virtue of patience within the industry.
The art of Slow Design – a phrase coined by designer, Alistair Fuad-Luke – promotes a ‘paradigm of design philosophy’ that values quality, in all aspects of approach, over any other design factor. Fuad-Luke says that slow design aims to ‘balance socio-cultural and individual needs with the well-being of the environment,’ in order to remove ‘the time constraints of the economic growth and expediency’ to go ‘beyond the fabrication of things for the marketplace.’¹ Six core principles of Slow Design include reveal, expand, reflect, engage, participate and involve.
Slow Design is characterised by edifying traits: an extended design procedure, with increased preparatory efforts; a preference of locally sourced materials and regional processes; an acknowledgement of region conventions; a nod to natural time cycles; and recognition of general wellbeing.
Companies such as Front Rugs produce products with the Slow philosophy in mind; their projects often take years to complete and are inspired by the beauty of the natural world. The collections from designer Micheala Schleypen, for example, are named after nature – ‘Beach,’ ‘Ocean,’ ‘Palm Leaf’ and ‘Lotus.’
So can contemporary design projects really benefit from the use of slow design products? Can the Slow Design approach really yield a worthwhile end-product? Are the added expenses, which are invariably incurred from Slow Design, really justifiable?
Promoting sustainable and environmentally-friendly methods of design are admirable, but not always realistic. It is an unavoidable fact that interior design projects are often backed with a commercial interest at hand. Whether multinational corporations or small-scale businesses, companies that commission interior designers in the UK, for example, are necessarily restrained by a financial boundary. Moreover, it is usually the case that time plays a crucial role and a rapid turnaround is necessary. In these circumstances, Slow Design is a luxury that is simply out of the question.
While an increasing number of interior designers are favouring Slow Design projects over conventional design method, it is plain to see the flaws in the phenomenon, which seems to be a luxury that is reserved for projects with high budgets and a lengthy timescale.
Callender Howorth Studio Event
At Callender Howorth, we value our clients greatly and enjoy working on the many and varied interior design and architecture projects with them.
We host a quarterly “party” at our interior design studio for past and present clients. Generally a fun evening with excellent food and wine.
We also get to present some of the latest products on the market and key trends in interior design.
Take a look at the photos taken during our latest get together. Needless to say…a good time was had by all!
The event was organised in association with TEN concierge.
Top 5 Remarkable Energy-Saving Furniture Designs
Growing ever popular, energy-saving devices and furniture are yet to have their golden age, thought it’s certainly ebbing closer, with heavy on-gong research and rapid innovation emerging from all over the world. Fantastic for domestic use and indeed use in the workplace, solar and wind powered furniture doesn’t have to be the eye-sore in the room. Check out some great looking, practical energy-saving furniture below, as well as a couple of whacky ones too!
Foton Illuminating Furniture from Hanmak
In a bid to raise awareness and premote renewable energy, Hanmak’s products use solar and wind energy to create electricity which is then stored in the battery that is used to power it. Marketed as ’street furniture’ Hanmak make benches, futons and chairs, all functioning in the same fashion – the LED strips gain power from built-in-batteries that are fuelled by the use of wind and solar energy. The material used accentuates the ‘glowing’ look of the furniture and can be a number of colours – its signature trait.
Image Source Vivien Muller
Anyone who believes the Foton Electree to be a pure ‘novelty’ device is mistaken. Ideal for charging up your gadgets and devices in the workplace or at home, the Electree doubles up as a great looking piece of decor of any contemporary space. This cool looking 41cm ultra-contemporary looking device comes in a modular kit allowing you to take control of how you’d like it to look. A fantastic piece of kit for owners and those in the hospitality sector, the Electree is sure to impress guests and clients whilst also representing your business as ethical and eco-friendly.
The solar powered ‘leaves’ can be placed in any position so you can manually maximise and harness the sun’s energy. One full charge of 36 hours will fill an IPhone5 nine times over, and you’ve got two USB ports to play with. The handy wireless charging unit is located in the wood-panelled base inside a 2,500mAh battery. This neat little charger looks the part and delivers results.
Image Source Sol NRG
The first generation of its kind, Sol NRG’s solar charging table continues to grow in popularity in the hospitality industry, being a lightweight, simple and highly efficient piece of furniture technology. Use it to charge your devices such as phones, tablets and laptops and for plugging in your lamp so you can be out on the terrace till dark on those long hot summer nights. This is the most practical and all-round contender in our list from a restaurant or bar owner’s point of view. The table can be folded to a 90 degree angle, allowing you to save space if you need to clear it after use and being surprisingly lightweight, you don’t have to worry about doing you back in at the end of the day shifting it around. Allowing you to effortlessly reduce your carbon footprint, the Sol NRG charging table is the leader in commercial green energy. Design-wise, it’s adaptable to any decor, with its sleek and glossy black finish that blends into its surroundings – a veritable chameleon.
Bio photovoltaics – Moss Table
Image Source Inhabitat
Still in the very early stages of development as part of the Design in Science research project at Cambridge University’s institute for Manufacturing, (though making boundless progress), BPV, aka Bio-Photo-Voltaic devices channel electricity from light energy that would have otherwise been used for photosynthesis. Using several BPV devices, the table can generate electricity. As in the photo above * the many potted plants are the natural fuel that can convert chemical energy into electric energy via organisms like algae, cyanobacteria, vascular plants and moss. So what is the energy used for you might ask?
It can be spent on smaller devices such as clocks though it is not yet able to power larger devices. So watch out solar energy – you’ve got an energy saving competitor on your tail! A similar product also in the early stages of development is Marjan van Aubel’s ‘Current Table’ (what better name to market revolutionary furniture?!), and works by mimicking the act of photosynthesis. Perhaps more aesthetically pleasing than the Moss Table, Current Table is the former’s direct competitor in bio-photo-voltaic devices.
Photo Source Design & Art
Mechanised by solar energy, Mischers’traxler’s ’The Idea of a Tree’ stool (a name more reminiscent of something you’d find in the Tate Modern!) is a solar powered ‘contraption’ or chameleon, that can be transformed into various types of furniture. Depending on the amount of sunlight harnessed, the ‘Tree Stool’ is capable of spinning its threads to create furniture variations such as benches, stools and even extends to lampshades. This incredibly innovative and striking product is so simple in design, appearing like an enormous bamboo leaf wrapped back onto itself.
How it works – the threads are fed through dye & resin, then wrapped around a solar powered spun rotating mold, which shapes each piece of furniture – amazing right?! What could be considered a downside, though entirely a matter of opinion, is that the aesthetic and physical traits of the design are victim to the weather conditions (all OK if you live on the equator!). So if you’re not exposed to a lot of sunlight, the spinning motion runs at a slower pace thus influencing the texture of the furniture.
Whilst energy-saving furniture hasn’t quite yet found it’s consistency in most cases, the stand-out product that is the ‘finished article’ is certainly Sol NRG’s solar charging table, a genuinely viable product for those in hospitality. Meanwhile ‘The idea of a Tree’ stool has great potential for the future as does BPV technology which we’ll hopefully be seeing a lot more developments from in the next decade.
The article is brought to you by the famous interior design firm Callender Howorth.
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