Isos Collection at NEC Furniture Fair 07

The ISOS Collection joined with some of the best London manufacturing businesses to develop new furniture products for launch at the NEC Furniture Fair 2007 further extending the existing collection of furniture and lighting.

Showing for its third successful year, ISOS Collection united some of London's best design talent and manufacturing capability with many of the UK’s finest contemporary designers including Tomoko Azumi, Studio 212, Mark Gabbertas, Max Lamb, Tom Price, Martin Grierson, Wills Watson & Associates, &Made, Conscious Forms and Massimo Fenati.

The range of items, first launched in 2005, was developed to include mirrors, upholstery, occasional and dining furniture, cabinets, lighting and rugs. The collection has been designed to sit together as a range of complimentary products; however each item has the ability to work as a stand-alone piece.

New products launched for 2007 included two new lighting designs from Tomoko Azumi and Conscious Forms. Conscious Forms created Orb lights manufactured by QM in a cast terrazzo whilst Tomoko Azumi experimented with the light diffusing properties of paper to develop Millefeuille lights with Davis Cash.

Tomoko Azumi’s Millefeuille lights won the most Innovative Product award from Living Etc proving the commercial appeal of this understated lighting piece.

2007 also saw a new sideboard design from &Made. Manufactured by Andrew Stanley Woodworking in sweet chestnut, the design takes the traditional craft of wood turning and subverts it into an exiting new piece of furniture.

Eliot is a range of die cut felt rugs by Massimo Fenati, manufactured by Stamp Creative, which comes in three distinct designs, and a variety of rich, contemporary colours.

Mark Gabbertas designed a new series of occasional tables entitled On the Corner. The table designs combine formed legs, and a glass top. The tables reveal a striking new innovation, as two seemingly oppositional materials are UV bonded with no apparent seams this piece was manufactured my I-Glass who are experts in UV bonding technology.

Once again Isos has proved the benefit and innovation that can come from collaborations, London designers and manufacturers working together to develop commercially viable pieces and the success that comes from this.