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