This month our design team visited the surface design show in London, located in Islington at the business design center. The leading event for architects and designers to explore material innovation. Our design team found the show both stimulating and inspirational.  As carpet tile designers it is important for us to keep up with what is happening in this market, as our product will need to sit alongside these new and emerging trends.

Here are a few of our top picks from the show.

colour hive stand

Stone tapestry

Innerspace Chesire

Each year Pantone announce a “Colour of the year“, a specific hue to dictate trends and encapsulate the upcoming 12 months. As a design team, we enjoy following this announcement each year and subsequently explore our product portfolio for carpet tiles that fit in with the new theme. We have found the predictions that Pantone forecast to influence a lot of our architect and interior design clients, whether it be the flooring product they are specifying or other furnishings and finishes.

Pantone have forecast classic blue for 2020 “Instilling calm, confidence, and connection, this enduring blue hue highlights our desire for a dependable and stable foundation on which to build as we cross the threshold into a new era.”

Below are some mood boards that link in our burmatex products to the classic blue colour of the year

burmatex products featured (top to

Welcome to part two of our “How to use” series on cut tiles! The creative possibilities are endless; they offer adaptability and originality to any installation creating a modern, geometric or organic look. Feature areas can be created with cut tiles to highlight certain areas of a plan or go bold with large geometric shapes. Below you will find some inspiring installations where we, and our customers, have used cut tiles in different ways!

tivoli and tivoli mist installations

osaka installation at Bradford hospital

tivoli installations

tivoli and tivoli mist installation

tivoli and tivoli mist installation

alaska installation in Poland-Biblioteka Rokitnica

So many of the images we capture for our Friday Flooring Favourites blog posts involve shadows of one character or another. This August, we have decided to dedicate a complete post to the subject. Tell us your favourite image!

Manchester office

The new burmatex carpet in this large office space is tivoli multiline. We love the creative approach to the installation method. This image, taken without any false light at all, totally accentuates the space available.

Shadow, plus reflection. Clerkenwell, London

The shadow creates it’s own wedge of contrast. We are fascinated with the reflection off the high-gloss red surface..

Sharing bike, London

Complete with basket. The whole image is an evocative capture of London life in 2019.

MONA exhibit, Tasmania, Australia

Despite the blurred effect, the shadows add to the strength of this monochrome art piece.

Clerkenwell Design Week wayfinding. Clerkenwell, London

You may have seen this image on our Instagram page – we love the simplicity and contrast!

Geometric, classical, texture and colour found from recent travels in the design team!

                                                                                                                                                                                              Valletta, Malta.

  St. John’s Co-Cathedral, Malta.