We were delighted to collaborate with
UK furniture designer Steuart Padwick on the ‘Eye of the Storm’ table. This highly original concept design, made
from Ductal® Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC), was launched at
Clerkenwell Design Week in London last week.
Multi-award winning designer Steuart Padwick
is known for his warm, witty and sculptural furniture, with sleek lines and his
trademark attention to leg design. The
Sunday Times recently named his 'Legs Crossed' dressing table as number 24 in
the ‘100 Design Must-Haves for the Stylish Home’.
Steuart commented on the project; “This collaboration began with a chance
meeting with Armourcoat at Design Shanghai in March. I was immediately excited by the enormous
potential of Ductal and it gave me the idea to create a table that showed off
Ductal’s properties, and yet was a dramatic piece of furniture in its own
right. It has been a pleasure working with Armourcoat and I think, together we
have produced something wonderful”.
The 'Eye of the Storm' table shows how
Ductal® is ideally suited to furniture design, allowing unusually thin sections
with an outstanding level of surface finish detail. Its strength and durability is even greater
than natural stone.
Ductal® possesses a unique combination of
superior properties including strength, ductility, durability and enhanced
aesthetics. It can also be pigmented to a wide range of colours. This enables
designers to realise new sculptural approaches to concrete forms. Armourcoat hold the first sublicence to
manufacture Ductal® precast elements in the UK.
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