ArtiCAD
at the Kitchen Showcase
‘As
a sponsor of the recent Kitchen Masterclass, ArtiCAD
felt the Kitchen Showcase & Masterclass provided a valuable platform
for exhibitors and visitors alike to experience not only the products
on display but the expertise of many influential designers. We were delighted
with the quality of the visitors that attended, and by taking a stand
it ensured that everyone benefited from live demonstrations of our unique
collection of CAD software solutions'. said Theresa Turner, Marketing
Director – ArtiCAD Ltd.
Tel: 01923 246586
Web: http:// www.articad.cc
‘Following
the recent kitchen showcase, both >rational<
and Moneyhill Interiors felt the show was a great success and attracted
a good mix of designers, developers and architects. It was an excellent
opportunity to showcase >rational’s< cutting edge designs whilst
enabling visitors to see at first hand the latest innovations.’ said
Stuart Grace , Marketing Director – >rational<.
Tel: 01543 459459
Email: mailto:jt@jasemmarketing.co.uk
Web: http://www.rational.de
Perfect
Doors with Perfect Corners - No Joints
The
Cupboard Door Company is
a small family business, which has been making handmade original kitchen
doors in a skilled specialist joinery environment since 1976. As the times
change and things move forward the company decided that to keep up with
the industry it had to move its business forward too.
Due to this The Cupboard Door Company has invested heavily into its business
in the last two years, in new technology including a Master-wood Winner
2.4 CNC Machine. This Machine now makes all of the company's doors not
only much quicker but also out of one piece of high impact moisture resistant
MDF board.
'In the country there are lots of CNC Machines, but we have been told
by Master-wood that with the programmes we have written no one else can
produce a Shaker, raised and fielded, Farmhouse Moulded and many more
doors like ours with the traditional five piece square intemal look. With
this we can achieve a one piece door with no joints for cracking and no
more out of square doors which is just what the industry needs - there
is no comparison!'
Tel: 01323 899944
Minimalist,
Modern & Traditional from Ideal Standard
The
Kitchen Showcase & Masterclass 2003 saw Ideal-Standard
showcase its range of minimalist, modern and traditional kitchen taps.
Well known product designer Robin Levien, one of only 100 Royal Designars
for industry has designed a range of minimalist kitchen brassware for
Ideal-Standard. Unusual for a kitchen brassware manufacturer, the Affinity
range includes a new-take on pillar taps, these along with monoblock and
bridge mixers. The functional Affinity brassware combines ceramic disc
twin or single flow technology with lever or cross handles. Each Affinity
piece is suitable for all water systems. Available in a chrome and satin
chrome, the price starts approximately at £200.00 including VAT.
To accompany the Affinity range, Ideal-Standard offers a selection of
modern kitchen taps combining designer appeal with reliable fundionality.
lncluding Academy CD monoblock Mixer, Elixir Bridge Mixer, Elixir CD Monoblock
Mixer and Tantadisc CD Monoblock Mixer, this range combines ceramic disc
technology with easy-use lever or metal handles. Suitable for all water
systems, each piece of the selection is available in chrome and satin
chrome. The price starts at approximately £80.00 including VAT.
To match all kitchen design solutions, Ideal Standard's range also offers
traditional kitchen brassware. This collection includes Provence Bridge
Mixer,
Provence Monoblock Mixer, Tuscany Monoblock Mixer and Arddene CD Monoblock
Mixer. lncorporating single flow mixer with ceramic levers or cross handles,
this array of traditional kitchen mixers is suitable for all water systems.
Available in chrome, chrome/gold mixage and gold, the price starts at
approximately £130.00 including VAT.
Ideal-Standard Trade Tel: 01482 346461
Ideal-Standard Consumer Tel: 0800 590 311
Mercury
Appliances Ltd Teams Up with Edwin Loxley Ltd
Mercury
Appliances Limited
showed its appliances with bespoke kitchen furniture designers and makers,
Edwin Loxley Limited of Nottingham to create one of the kitchen settings
at the recent Kitchen Showcase held in Islington, London. Mercury Appliances
showed the Mercury range cooker in Wedgewood blue and the Mercury modular
grill in stainless steel.
The company says that the Mercury range cooker has been an on-going success
since its launch in January 2000. It was shortlisted in 2001 for the Homes
& Gardens V&A Classic Design awards and in 2002, was ane of the
intemational winners of the Good Design Chicago Athenaeum Award.
This range cooker was created by designers Seymour Powell working alongside
Mercury's skilled design and manufacturing team who together created the
blend of good looks and practical features to enhance any kitchen. Sleek
and minimalist in design, yet robust in manufacture, the Mercury range
cooker offers quality, style and performance.
Hand crafted with attention to detail, the cooker has a one piece pressed
stainless steel hob with three 3kW burners, one 2kW burner and a powerful
5kW triple ring wok burner. The hob features heavy duty cast iron pan
supports in a cattle grid arrangement which allows cooking pans to be
moved safely across the whole hob area. There is a large (88 litre) multi-function
event oven and a slightly smaller (52 litre) weekday oven, both fitted
with removable stay clean liners and heavy gauge chrome plated wire shelves.
A separate dual element grill compartment with a smooth roller carriage
adds to the cooker's stylish originality. Ergonomic machined anodised
hi-fi style control knobs allow precision control for all the cooker's
functions. Choices of finish are reflective stainless steel or warm cream,
niello black or petrol blue enamel.
The Mercury modular grill, launched this year, has a stainless steel finish
and its powerful radiant element offers a choice of inner or complete
grilling areas. The two positions for the grill pan and the reversible
grill rack can be adjusted for any thickness of food to be cooked. The
smooth operating roller pan carriage, the same as that in the Mercury
range cooker, slides out to expose the entire grilling area so that food
can be safely tumed with the grill pan in position.
Now
Group gets Smaart at The Kitchen Showcase
Now
Group plc,
manufactures of kitchen furniture, exhibited new developments in kitchens,
and previewed its new Smaart kitchen collection at the Kitchen Showcase.
This features solid colour acrylic doors and is available in 24 colour
options.
Illustrated on the stand was the latest 'soft close' Innotech metal drawer
boxes from German drawer box manufacturer Hettich, together with new lO5°
door hinges with the new door dampener system.
Worktop featured on the display was Corian and was supplied by CD UK.
The display also illustrated the curved door system, which showed four
radius base and wall unit doors, together with bow fronted doors to 600
and 1200 base and wall cabinets.
The new lighting system was provided by Thebo of West Germany.
Also featured was a display illustrating Now's middle market brand Chic,
which is available in 22 different door designs. Featured were the latest
additions to the range, namely Pippy Oak and a shaker style door, together
with Hotpaint built in appliances and Getacore solid worktop surfaces
and back panels. A further addition was the Beech Rose vinyl wrapped door,
which illustrated a new vinyl WC style door. This display hosted a Stala
stainless steel work surface and back panels, together with the Combo
Model inset sink.
Astracast displayed its latest Springflow Targa taps.
The latest Hotpoint build in appliances were also featured with the latest
internal chrome pull out fitments.
Further details of all these new products can be obtained from:
Beryl Jackson
Tel: 01772 708070
Email: mailto:beryl@nowkitchens.co.uk
Thebo
Lights up Kitchen Showcase
Thebo
Lighting
was present on Now Kitchens and Mereway/Wentworth stands at The Kitchen
Showcase Exhibition.
Thebo claims that its new energy saving cold cathode light offers the
following advantages:
• Thebo Type CC 10/7 'cool cathode' light is a break through in technology
for high intensity, efficient and cool lighting
• A solution for long life - 10.000 hrs low heat more light per watt
than other compact fluorescent bulbs or LED's, yet at very low energy
consumption with unrivalled durability
• Ideal usage in furniture, kitchens, living rooms, bathrooms, bedrooms
• Also excellent due to low operating temperatures of 50 C for use
in display cabinets with foodstuffs, confectionery, cosmetics etc
• Built into a very compact form of only approx 68 mm diameter x
14 mm depth it is a practical, elegant solution for modern finishes in
wood veneers, painted surfaces, plastics or melamine, paper surfaces etc
• Attached bezels are in finishes of white, chrome, gold, stainless
steel, aluminium & black
• Available from February 2004
The Thebo illuminated accessory rail under cabinet light system was also
on show and features:
• Thebo Type E 5000 - aluminium light fittings for under cabinet
installations - with rail
• Low installation costs
• Compact size
• Uniform lighting of the work surface in 'cool white'
• Installation of further units possible, comes with drilling template
• Ready to connect - suitable for most rail system accessories
• Length: 450 mm (8 Watt), 600 mm (8 Watt), 900 mm (13 Watt) 1200
mm (21 Watt)
Contact: Lionel Sutton
Tel: 01908 255 946
Email: mailto:thebolighting@aol.com
Jado
gets
Minimalist and Modern too!
The
Kitchen Showcase & Masterclass 2003 saw Jado
showcase its extensive range of minimalist and modern kitchen taps. Known
for its minimalist and modern bathroom sinks and brassware, Jado has turned
its expertise to the kitchen.
Part of the Jado range is the Viala selection of mixer taps. Suitable
for high pressure systems only, Jado's Viala mixers offer a single mixer,
a single mixer with pull out spray or altematively a single mixer with
separate spray. The pull out sprays are a powerful selling tool offering
flexibility to the consumer in the kitchen. The spray itself offers an
aerated spray ideal for rinsing off vegetables and other delicate food
or clothing, as well as a jet spray giving a powerful cleaning tool. Available
in Velour/Chrome Mixage and AntraciteNelour Mixage, the price starts at
approximately £330.00 including VAT.
To accompany this technically advanced array of kitchen taps, Jado offers
a selection of New Haven Mixers. Available as a single flow mixer with
lever handles or single flow mixer with lever handles and pull out spout,
it is suitable for high pressure water systems only. Available in Chrome
and Nickel finishes, the price starts at approximately £310.00 including
VAT.
Jado also offers Helios Mixer and a selection of Golderam mixers. Suitable
for high pressure water systems only, Golderam mixer offer a single flow
mixer, a single flow mixer and pull out spray or a single flow mixer and
turn down spout. Available in chrome finish only, the price starts at
approximately £190.00
including VAT.
Jado Trade Tel: 0870 1296023
Jado Consumer Tel: 0800 138 0923
Night
Sky's the Limit for Whitehall
Whitehall
Fabrications Limited,
the UK manufacturer of luxury surfaces, was commissioned by Symphony to
manufacture and install the Corian® worksurfaces in one of the company's
kitchen displays at this year's inaugural Kitchen Showcase at the Business
Design Centre in London.
Whitehall installed a Corian® colour called Night Sky on Symphony's
luxury Mirari kitchen display. The installation comprised a series of
worktop sections with a particular highlight of an oval breakfast bar
and dining table. Suspended above, on a chrome pole system, were a minimalist
series of shelves all made to measure in Corian®.
Stuart Daniels, sales director, Whitehall, commented:
'We were delighted to be working with Symphony, not only to support the
Kitchen Showcase with its focus on ground-breaking design and innovation,
but, of course, so that we could demonstrate the beauty and versatility
of Corian® in the kitchen'.
The Night Sky display which was on show at the event is estimated to have
a retail value of around £4000 and is one of over 70 different colours
regularly installed by Whitehall in kitchens large and small across the
country.
Whitehall is one of the UK's largest and longest established fabricators
of luxury work surfaces, supplying over 750 high class kitchen and bathroom
retailers.
Whitehall supplies and fits granite, Corian® as well as a new product
called Luxore® - a new range of engineered quartz stone worksurfaces
comprising natural quartz and high performance polymer resin. Whitehall
says that Luxore® is non-porous, colour-consistent and highly scratch
and chip resistant.