Talking Points


8 - 10 Feb 2022 London
Business Design Centre
Immersive Colour
Enhancing texture and colour using back-lighting, dichroic effects and recycled acrylic
Lightly Technologies, ADL Plastock, Lucy J Design, Float Glass Design
Circles
Embossed, perforated and concave circles bring 3D qualities to surfaces
Wildman & Bugby, Yasmin Kiris, Print Acoustics, B&S Glass
Charred Effects
Ancient craft techniques add intrigue and depth to decorative wall panels creating an iridescent sheen
Innerspace Cheshire, Sterling Studios, Designer Walls, Nordcell
Weathered Metals
Metal becomes a key ingredient across a range of innovative coatings and surfaces. Applications include metal
spray, oxidised effects and powder coatings
Powdertech (Corby), Off the Wall Coverings, Lighting Technologies
Nurturing Walls
Moss continues to be a key biophilic material to bring people closer to nature
Poppy Pippin, Freund, Innerspace Cheshire
Clay Pinks
Pinks become more earthen in colour, seen in tiles and leathers for interiors
Wildman & Bugby, Structural Skins, Olasol
Marbling Techniques
Expressive colour mixing creates marbled surface decoration as well as forming patterns within recycled materials
Enis Akiev, Tomasz Maker, Hannah Williams
Gilded Patterns
A touch of gold brings warmth and luxury to neutral tones
Mosaic Hides, Surface Design Studio, Sterling Studios
“Surface Design Show gives us access to clients we wouldn’t usually meet and so it opens new opportunities that we wouldn't find at any other show.”
Lumino
“Smashing day at the Surface Design Show at the BDC today. Some seriously outstanding products on show over the past couple of days.”
Off The Wall Creative
“An outstanding show for us, great location and very high quality of interactions with architects and designers. Surface Design Show 2020 has delivered great opportunities for us!”
Lignia Wood Company
“Great show - lots of interesting new products. Inspirational!”
Gaby Higgs Architects
"It was my first time visiting Surface Design Show and I thoroughly enjoyed it. There is a fantastic array of surfaces on show and so much to see.”
Hurley Palmer Flatt
“I really liked the show. I think it was very well organised and I liked the type of visitors, that were serious, attentive and showed a lot of interest. There was a lot of promotion before and during the show.”
King Kong Design
“Surface Design Show this year has delivered us exactly the audience we wanted to talk to: architects, specifiers and designers. To gather these people together in one room for three days is priceless.”
James Latham