Diespeker was delighted to work again with visionary architect Freehaus to provide terrazzo for the countertop and cladding at the Benugo pop-up in Topshop’s store in Oxford Street. The Benugo brand is a unique catering company that operates in the high street and public buildings and spaces. There are Benugo pop-ups in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Natural History Museum and Windsor Great Park, as well as John Lewis and […]
Never one to turn down a challenge, Diespeker recently made the longest single-piece bespoke resin based terrazzo countertop to date. The 4-metre countertop was made by hand in the Diespeker workshops in South East London. It was designed to match cement based terrazzo from our standard range. To ensure the extra-long countertop was viable, our specialist team researched and sourced a honeycomb lightweight aluminium backing panel – the first time
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Diespeker & Co is delighted with the results of a marble installation for clothing retailer, END. Clothing, which has launched its second store, this one in Glasgow. The new END. store is located in Ingram Street in Glasgow’s ‘Style Mile’ and boasts a stunning interior look created using Arabescato. This is a grey marble with black veining often in a circular pattern – but for END. the marble was used
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Since 2000, Pantone has released a new colour of the year, which it believes reflects current topics and the global mood at the time the colour is created. For 2017, the colour (Pantone 15-0343) is a fresh yellow-green – called, simply Greenery. ‘A refreshing and revitalizing shade, Greenery is symbolic of new beginnings. Greenery is a fresh and zesty yellow-green shade that evokes the first days of spring when nature’s
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We were very excited recently to get a mention in the Telegraph’s Stella Magazine for an interior design project. Diespeker & Co worked with set designer Anna Burns of Anna Burns Studio to provide a stunningly different marble floor for her new bathroom. Anna visited our South East London yard, where we stock hundreds of samples of natural stone and terrazzo, to choose different types of marble to suit the
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Diespeker & Co has been working with Alexander Harris, Founder and Creative Director of Harris & Harris London, to create a new look for lighting using bespoke resin based terrazzo. Harris & Harris was set up in 2013 to concentrate on furniture, interiors and products for hotels, restaurants and the home. Alexander was keen to design a collection of lighting, and in December 2015, approached lighting specialist Heathfield & Co
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Diespeker has been working with a young designer business to create unique table lamps featuring natural stone. Designer Louis Jobst previously worked in sculpture fabrication before starting his own business specialising in sculptural furniture and lighting. For his ‘Monument Lamps’, Louis took inspiration from monoliths and monuments, exploring the theory of what a column is, using simple geometric shapes to symbolise the capital of a stone column to create a
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As well as our many commercial projects, Diespeker also works with clients needing marble, granite or terrazzo solutions for domestic homes. We work either directly with customers or in collaboration with interior designers making and supplying flooring, counters, sinks and bespoke items for the home. Marble is, quite rightly, ever popular as a solution for bathrooms and kitchens, and recently we finished a beautiful marble kitchen in West London, working
Diespeker has been busy in the hectic world of restaurants and bars in recent months, supplying flooring, counter and table tops as well as bespoke pieces. Benugo Top Shop Benugo is an arts venue and high street restaurant brand, running cafes, restaurants and ancillary services in spaces like the ENO, the Victoria & Albert Museum and John Lewis, Oxford Street. Diespeker is supplying terrazzo for the countertop and cladding
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Vegetarian restaurant Ethos has updated its look with engineered stone table tops supplied by Diespeker & Co. The Eastcastle Street, W1W restaurant is dedicated to serving delicious, creative meat-free cuisine and restaurant owner Jessica Kruger is as keen to give her customers a stunning environment in which to enjoy their meals. She had previously used black marble table tops, but wanted to avoid the problem of staining that had previously
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