Oliver Hemming the British designer who is creating a reputation for producing the very best alarm
clocks and combining them with first class audio, is off to a good start in 2019 by picking up a prestigious GOOD
DESIGN® Award for his Songbird speaker alarm.
The GOOD DESIGN® Awards are the world’s most prestigious and oldest Design Awards program and are organ-
ized annually by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design. They were founded in Chicago in
1950 by architects Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.
This will be of keen interest to interior designers and operators who are looking for the best new accessories to
compliment their Hotel rooms and Songbird is now the Bluetooth speaker alarm clock of choice for many of the
world’s finest Hotels.
The Uptown model is best suited to smaller bedside spaces and the Downtown fits better in more open areas, but
both have the exact same specification and performance.
Oliver’s background in designing and making contemporary clocks goes back 40 years to when he graduated
from Art School as a silversmith in England and this skill is probably best represented today by his beautiful Desire
Alarm clocks.
Luxury Hotels need the very best, and until these
finely detailed designs came along that was
hard to find at a reasonable cost.
The hand polished steel cases
have bevelled mineral glass lenses and a
jewel like quality that comes from the
exquisite attention to detail . The
simple graphics of the dial are
illuminated at night by a light
that comes on only when the
clock is picked up or tilted slightly
backwards, so there are no
annoying lights to disturb the guest
at night. They also have a 100% silent
sweep action movement so neither
will there be any ticking.
The Desire series is now approved
by the some of the world’s best hoteliers
and comes in chrome, rose gold, black, yellow gold
and brushed gold as shown here.