The Art of Design Issue 21 2016 | Page 54

Brick Chic Opportunities for creating exciting levels and covering the wall above with Staffordshire blue quarry tiles and facades in brick have never been better for pistol slips to play with the shadows and pavers both inside the centre and on architects and interior designers. Ketley give an urban chic feel to the designer the surrounding landscaped terrace and Brick have recently launched a range of store. The resulting brick wall is a striking greenhouse. The project celebrates both extruded brick slips and quarry tiles, all feature. light and nature and by using the same frost resistant and equally suitable for both indoor and outdoor projects. flooring material both inside and out, the Virgile and Partners have continued the designers have allowed the building to brick theme in the new International merge with the surrounding landscape. Manufactured in the UK from the same Menswear department of Harvey Nichols clay, using the same processes as the Knightsbridge. This time they selected Using a combination of Ketley Dudley blue Ketley Class A engineering bricks, they a range of Ketley brick slips in browns brick slips and Staffordshire blue bricks, deliver the same technical characteristics and reds, in a variety of smooth, sanded Universal Design Studios transformed a of very low water absorption and very high and rustic finishes to create a warm, previously dreary business hotel into the strength while having only 30% of the cosmopolitan look to the wall, which again uber cool Ace Hotel in Shoreditch. This embodied carbon of a cut brick, making is highly effective. project, which has become a beacon of them a highly durable, sustainable and urban style, was awarded a prestigious cost effective choice for designers and The new Peyton and Byrne café in architects. London’s Great Portland Street features Ketley’s bespoke glazed brick slips on their A brand new Harvey Nichols store, at deli counter. Charlotte McCarthy, of Lot Birmingham’s exclusive Mail Box shopping Design Studios, has put together an earthy centre features Ketley Dudley Blue smooth selection of glazed slips to reflect the brick slips and pistols to create an eye- brand’s artisan range of fresh foods. catching backdrop to their luxury designer brands. The designers Virgile and Partners A new Maggie Centre in Manchester, have created a stunning visual by laying designed by Foster and Partners to the brick slips in a vertical bond at lower embrace the therapeutic qualities of nature and the outdoors features Ketley’s Brick Award for Best Refurbishment. www.ketley-brick.co.uk