FLOORING
Locher House guides visitors through a calmer, more intuitive journey, encouraging them to stop, interact and spend time within the environment rather than moving quickly through it.
The concept centres on creating a calm, open and welcoming environment that works for a wide range of needs, recognising that not everyone engages with or experiences spaces in the same way. Rather than presenting a single way of moving through the space, visitors can choose how they explore – whether that’ s feeling the materials, taking part in a workshop or simply taking a moment out of the flow and bustle of CDW.
Inside, the experience unfolds through a series of interconnected spaces that bring together creativity, collaboration and choice. Amtico’ s in-house design team has developed a series of sector-focused installations, styled to reflect real commercial environments across workplace, retail and hospitality. These life-sized moodboard-style compositions combine flooring with furniture, lighting and material palettes, showing how pattern, colour and texture come together.
Alongside this, a more hands-on approach to design runs throughout the three days. Visitors can engage directly with materials through interactive installations and creative sessions, including a collaborative LVT artwork that evolves over the course of the event. By repositioning individual pieces, visitors can explore how subtle shifts, such as changing the colour, wood or stone, can transform the overall feel of a floor in real time.
A programme of workshops and talks adds further depth to the experience. Mindful origami papercraft sessions, led by Origami Est, offer a quieter, tactile moment within the day, while‘ create your own’ LVT artwork sessions invite visitors to produce small, take-away pieces – designed as reminders to take a moment of calm and the role materiality plays in shaping atmosphere.
During the event, a seminar led by Dr Craig Knight will explore the relationship between wellbeing, biophilic design and human-centred spaces, reflecting the thinking behind the wider concept. More informal moments, including drinks, live music and a dedicated breakfast briefing on bespoke design, create opportunities for conversation and connection across the three days.
While the focus is on experience, specification remains integral. Throughout the space, Amtico’ s core collections – including Spacia, Signature, Form and Décor – are used to demonstrate how flooring can be adapted and combined to suit different environments. From standard designs to fully bespoke outcomes, the emphasis is on flexibility, allowing designers to bring their own ideas to life.
With over 60 years of design and manufacturing expertise in the UK, Amtico brings together creativity, collaboration and choice. At Clerkenwell, this is expressed through a space that is as much about how people feel as how things look.
In a festival defined by energy, The Amtico Retreat offers a reason to pause – and a place to experience flooring in a more considered and calming way.
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