Projects
83 Hanover Street
83 Hanover Street is a restaurant in Edinburgh, designed by Ja!Coco!. The table tops through both rooms are our timber terrazzo in Ivory Cedar & Walnut. The front room has a window seat onto Hanover Street, exposed brick, and a booth in the corner. The dining room behind it is long and narrow, with yellow banquettes down both walls, bentwood chairs, and globe lights set along grey plaster. Simple details like the cut corners on larger tables adds thoughtful design intent. The edge is left plain and the plywood shows beneath the cast top. Ivory Cedar & Walnut is a cream binder with rust-brown cedar and dark walnut chips.
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Kentish Town Kitchen
A Kentish Town kitchen with Bianco London Plane worktops, set against shaker cabinets in a strong blue. Our timber terrazzo holds its own next to that blue without competing with it. The London Plane chips for this project came from Kings Cross, just down the road from the project location. The worktops run in an L around two walls, with an upstand of the same material carried up behind them. Blue shaker fronts, brass knobs, delft tiles, and a white herringbone floor keep the room modern with a classic feel. Foresso was supplied as full sheets for the kitchen. The offcuts were kept back and used for the wall shelf, a small table, and the other details, so none of the material was wasted. The table top is two offcuts butted together, with the joint left visible and the plywood edge on show.
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London Kitchen
In this London kitchen, designed and built by Pluck London, our timber terrazzo runs along the worktop and carries up the wall behind it. The colourway is Ivory Cedar & Walnut, a cream binder with rust-brown cedar and dark walnut chips. The kitchen is a galley run on one wall, with a round dining table at the window. Pluck set the wood terrazzo against sage green fronts, plywood shelving, and a walnut floor. The splashback is the same material as the worktop, carried up the full height to the lower shelf rather than stopping at a slim upstand. The worktop edge is left on show. Foresso is a cast terrazzo top on a plywood substrate, so the edge shows ply lines rather than wood chips. That matches the exposed birch ply in Pluck's cabinetry and shelving. The same wood terrazzo lines the base of the open niche that holds the coffee machine.
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Northolme Bathroom
For this London bathroom, Lia Cramer Design used two Foresso colours. A custom burgundy runs across the floor and skirting, and the vanity shelf is finished in the paler Bianco London Plane. The burgundy is a bespoke binder, mixed to order with oak wood chips set into this deep red ground. Bianco London Plane is one of our standard colourways, with pale London plane chips in a light binder. The floor was laid using full sheets cut to suit and fixed through the face to ensure long term stability. Once fixed the screw heads were covered with a colour matched filler and joins filled with a RAL coloured silicone, giving flexibility and sealing to the floor. Every chip is reclaimed British wood, and the burgundy binder was hand mixed for this room alone.
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Habiteum 75
A Parisian apartment where Bianco London Plane covers the walls rather than the worktop. It lines the kitchen recess and reappears through the flat on a column, a bench, and built-in furniture. In the kitchen the wood terrazzo wraps the whole recess, walls and soffit, so the green island and units sit inside a continuous speckled surround. Bianco London Plane sets rich wood chips in a light binder, which is what lets it cover large areas without crowding the strong colours around it, the green kitchen, the yellow ceiling, and the ochre curtains. The wood chips are made from reclaimed British wood, all of it from London street trees taken down as part of city maintenance. Away from the kitchen the same surface returns as features: a full-height column, the base of a window bench, and a console beside the sofa.
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House Made by Many Hands
This home demonstrates how a Victorian house can be transformed with substantially reduced environmental impact. Minimising use of steel, concrete and internal linings achieved a Lifetime Carbon figure 40% lower than if it had been built conventionally. The design was driven by a strategy of working with what was there, the carbon content of necessary new materials, their buildability and cost. A spacious kitchen for the chef client is the renovation's heart, with new sightlines and increased daylight. Spaces are defined through considered placement of structural piers and changes in floor level. Glass doors connect the home office to a roof terrace. Timber structure was employed in place of conventional steelwork throughout, fully demountable at the end of life. The project is the UK's first building structure to specify limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) concrete, a product which has the capacity to reduce global CO2 emissions by 1-2% if adopted universally. Using this new technology did not distract from the responsibility of making a unique home for the client, one that they enjoy as "lighter, roomier, more functional and more beautiful, whilst remaining true to our values." NLA Don't Move Improve Awards 2024: Winner of the Environmental Leadership Prize. Hackney Design Awards 2024: Overall Winner and Commendation for Sustainability.
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Cabin 50
A thoughtful kitchen and bathroom making use of small spaces with rich tones and textures. The plywood edge of the Foresso worktop has been stained to match the plywood cabinetry.
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Kensal Rise Kitchen
This material first kitchen uses raw plaster walls paired with our Bianco London Plane timber terrazzo to create a textural space that comes alive in different light. Simple cabinetry and well-chosen hardware complete the kitchen. In the next door flat one extra sheet of Bianco London Plane is used to create a textural worktop and backsplash. By optimising the dimensions around the sheet size there is no waste from the sheet, ensuring a zero-waste install.
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Taigh na Coille House
Taigh na Coille - House of the Woods - is a new sustainable two-bedroom cabin on Sutherland's wild Atlantic coastline. A core ambition of the project was to create a building that has minimal impact on the environment, achieves Passive House levels of insulation and uses low-carbon materials. Our Charcoal Walnut was chosen for the kitchen to create a link between the material language of the house and the everyday kitchen space. A core ambition of the project was to minimise the local and global environmental impacts of the building by adopting a rigorous approach to sustainability that is holistic, defined, measurable and robust. The design targeted the most stringent standards of the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge, which will be tested now that the building is in use.
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Wivelsfield Kitchen
In this busy family home we supplied both Azure and Sage No-Chip for counters, joinery, and cupboard fronts. This was paired with a textural oak veneered plywood to bring warmth and depth to the entire space. By pairing our No-Chip surfaces with clean white walls and accent woodwork the client created a pratical but design led home full of details to be enjoyed everyday.
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Lyndhurst Gardens
In the tight confines of a traditional kitchen recess within this Victorian flat the client looked to maximise functionality without losing sight of a mid-century aesthetic. Pairing Pewter No-Chip with cherry cabinetry and bespoke hardware kept the material language thoughtful without overwhelming the space. Material choice in small spaces encourages the use of gentle texture and materials that have continued interest when viewed closely. Our gentle products such as No-Chip and Elenite, are uniquely suited to a use such as this.
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Bahr Residence
This unique project for 212box's ambitious Bahr Residence in Texas, USA, incorporated Walnut planks into the Charcoal Walnut flooring. Each plank was cut and inlaid by hand to produce this unique floor. With the penthouse flooded with light every fine detail of the timber is highlighted and sits in harmony with a staggering array of handmade furniture, objects, and artwork. In the master bedroom the inlaid plank tiles were used to deliniate living and seating areas while the bed and its bespoke rug took a quieter approach on standard Charcoal Walnut tiles.
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