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AUGUST 2020 | 39
Products
FARROW & BALL FOR RESIDENCE
As one of the brightest
and most respected consumer
brands in the window and door
sector, The Residence Collection
of premium windows and
doors is often associated with
other prominent brands and
none more so than paint icons
Farrow & Ball.
Farrow & Ball is the most
influential brand when it comes
to heritage inspired paints
and recently featured an R7
window in Chalk White on its
official Instagram page, which
boasts over 968k followers. The
post itself has enjoyed 8,961
likes.
The paints featured are
Strong White and Moles Breath
and the R7 window in Chalk
White complements these
colours perfectly, adding an understated
elegance and brightness
to the room shown.
With one of the largest
platforms of any window and
door company in the UK on
social media, The Residence
Collection are highly active on
all platforms, including several
mood boards on Pinterest to
inspire style savvy consumers,
where the traffic generated
amounts to over 143k monthly
views. There’s a Chalk White
page on this influential platform
which shows off an R7
window, along with sample
swatch images of Elephant’s
Breath, Skimming Stone, Strong
White and Wimborne White,
again all from Farrow & Ball.
Sarah Hitchings, sales and
marketing director of The Residence
Collection, commented:
“Like our product designs have
‘
elegance and
brightness
’
broken the mould in terms of
careful detailing, our consumer
marketing and social media
engagement in particular, really
help us stand out and that’s
great for our trade partners and
ultimately for consumers.”
www.residencecollection.co.uk
www.residencecollectiontrade.
co.uk
EPWIN WINDOW SYSTEMS’ NEW COLOUR COLLECTION
REFLECTS THE LATEST TRENDS IN COLOUR
Epwin Window Systems’ new Colour
Collection has been designed to help
its customers lead the way in colour by
offering the latest trends in colour today
and the favourites of the future; including
an expanded number of popular heritage
shades, including Sage, Claystone, Pebble
Grey, Anthracite Grey Smooth and Cream
on White.
Gerald Allen, Marketing Manager at
Epwin Window Systems, said: “By reflecting
the latest colour trends and direction,
we can give our customers a clear point of
difference.
The trend is for understated, natural
shades that recall times gone by – it’s
something that’s echoed in the popularity
of Farrow & Ball colours, for example. Our
new colours tap into this trend and take it
one step further.
“Our prediction is that the Covid-19 pandemic
will mean order values will continue
to increase. The new Colour Collection
perfectly places our customers to benefit
from any growth.”
As well as introducing new shades, the
new Colour Collection makes more colours
available from stock. There are also 30 Made
to Order colours that includes more of the
popular contemporary greys and blacks along
with new metallics to capitalise on the growing
demand for aluminium alternatives.
The new Colour Collection is the latest
move in Epwin Window Systems’ investment
in colour. The systems company
invested in several new twin lines last year
and is also using the world’s first Luna R
automatic profile wrapping machine to
ensure that colour quality is unsurpassed.
www.epwinwindowsystems.co.uk
Solar Controlled Blinds Are The Smart Option
Eco-friendly, solar powered
integral blinds from Morley
Glass & Glazing have been
given a stylish makeover and an
energy efficiency boost.
Renamed the “W Smart” system,
the former W Swipe system,
is a range of venetian, pleated
or black-out blinds encapsulated
within a 20, 22, 27, 29 or 32-mm
cavity, equipped with a 3.6V
internal motor, and powered by
a lithium-ion battery housed in
a restyled battery module. The
battery can be either recharged
via a micro-USB connector or by
means of an external solar panel,
both available as options. The
blind can also be controlled by
a 99-channel remote control, associated
with the radio receiver
that is integrated in the battery
module as standard.
The innovation brought by the
new battery module is not only
about style, which was developed
by professional designers in Italy,
but also about the functionality
of the device, which has been
improved by the introduction of
two L.E.D. arrows that intuitively
show the commands given to the
blind through the module or the
need for recharging. The slim size
of the device (only 18 mm deep)
allows it to be placed on sliding
windows, in vertical or horizontal
positions.
The “W Smart” system is ideal
for residential and commercial
environments and can be used in
all types of windows, including
retrofitting into existing ones.
The system can be fitted quickly
and easily and is a halfway
option between a manual system
and a hard-wired motorised
system.
www.morleyglass.co.uk