Event Furniture Rental
Aug 12th
Valiant Hire has a sensational new collection of event furniture for the upcoming spring/summer event season. The “bling” event furniture hire range has sparkling bright gold lounges, gold and silver armchairs and many other pieces of cool furniture to make an event nothing less than “sensational”. The collection also includes a new range of bar stools, some funky outdoor lounges as well as many other unique and interesting pieces of sparkling furniture. Check out just a few pieces in the photos below.
Cool office furniture and design
Aug 11th
You have to tip your proverbial hats to Google and the design of their offices. Look at the photos below of the Google office in Zurich!
What a great place to have a meeting..in a cable car! The design and architectural firm Camenzind Evolution managed to not only create these fantastic offices but also come in on budget! Quite a coup!
For other cool office and environment design visit www.thecoolhunter.net/offices
Neocon 2010
Jun 18th
Valiant Hire visited Chicago this week for Neocon 2010 World’s Trade Fair at the Merchandise Mart.
The big 3, Herman Miller, Haworth and Steelcase all had razzle dazzle displays with some interesting new products. The mesh back office chair is definitely the “look” at the moment.
Workstations continue to become more flexible, easily configurated and with lower height screens. All manufacturers had these workstation systems but I think the Herman Miller Sense workstation is still the best!
There is a continuing emphasis on green products and the range of green furniture is vastly superior to the previous years.
The Stryde chair by Lowenstein was the cool new product for my proverbial money.
The show was very busy, so perhaps the economy is indeed starting to turn the corner!
Cool Exhibit
Jun 8th
For those of you lucky enough to be in London soon, Mint is opening its summer show this week. The exhibition, entitled Kaleidoscope, will include many unique works that challenge the boundaries between design, art and fashion. As well as furniture from Established & Sons’ new collection, the show will feature vibrant paintings by Natasha Law and clothing by award-winning Gluejeans.
Kaleidoscope, June 10-July 10th, Mint , 2 North Terrace, London
www.mintshop.co.uk
Valiant Hire partners Sydney Biennale
May 17th
17th Sydney Biennale opened on May 12th and it is the most ambitious program in the 37 year history of the event. The show is being held at 7 different venues across Sydney and is free to the public. Venues include Cockatoo Island, Sydney Opera House, Art Gallery of NSW and Pier 2/3.
Valiant Hire is pleased to be a partner of the Biennale and provided furniture for both the opening party and for various events running for the whole Biennale. The range of artists represented is quite astonishing from Louis Borgeois to Cai Guo-Qiang.
To see what’s on go to the official website:www.bos17.com
Your office chair
May 13th
An interesting article appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek about what damage sitting in an office chair for 8.9 hours a day can cause. One of the better options is the Herman Miller Aeron chair. So make sure that you have a correct chair and better to sit as little as possible. See also the story below “If you must, sit on these…….”
Naturally if you want a good chair to rent to Valiant Hire for both the Aeron Chair as well as the Haworth Zody Chair.
Good Sitting or Standing!!
See the stories at Your Office Chair Is Killing You
Design encore!
Mar 23rd
Every Friday, the FT or Financial Times publish a column called “20 questions”. The most recent one with the “entrepreneur, restauranteur and father of modern British design”, Sir Terence Conran was particularly illuminating!
The designer, restaurateur and retailer was born in 1931. He founded the Habitat home furnishings stores that revolutionised the UK high street in the 1960s and 1970s by bringing modern design to the masses. Today he is chairman of the Conran Group, which has businesses round the world. Most recently, he has opened the Boundary and Lutyens restaurants in London.
20 questions: Sir Terence Conran
By Emma Jacobs
What are your three best features?
Imagination, perseverance and a discerning eye.
And your three worst?
I’m impatient, possess impossibly high standards and have a chronically painful bad back.
Is good design always commercial?
It doesn’t have to be but for a businessman it certainly helps.
Which product do you wish you had designed?
On a grand level something that captured people’s imagination like Concorde. More practically, perhaps a Thonet Bentwood café chair.
Which business lessons have you taught your children?
Work hard, express yourself creatively and follow a sensible business plan. They’ve all turned out rather well, I must add.
Best non-Conran restaurant for a working lunch?
Wilton’s in Jermyn Street. The snug booths are perfect to plot, plan and scheme over excellent British food.
Continue reading at FT/Financial Times:
Asia Week
Mar 22nd
Asia Week in New York from Sunday March 20th -28th is a remarkable and diverse display of the arts and cultures of China, Japan, India, Korea, the Himalayas and SouthEast Asia. It is a brilliant week of lectures, events, panel discussions and parties of course!
Particularly worth checking out are the shows at JJ Lally & Co at 41 East 51st, and Eskenazi at 2 east 79th st.
Design spanning the world
Mar 1st
Ron Arad ’s first solo exhibition “Restless” in the UK displays a retrospective of his work while also highlighting the quirky and fun spirit that it embraces. Visitors to the show can take it all in while also being encouraged to play video games on many LED screens or enjoy a game of table tennis.
Also this week is the opening of the first exhibition at Design Museum Holon, in Arad’s native Israel. The museum, a giant spiral of ochre-coloured steel, is the designer’s first major architectural project. “The State of Things”, the museum’s debut display is a look at contemporary design through all its eccentric branches and factions.
Automobiles are fundamental to 20th century design, but what about the structures that house them? The National Building Museum in Washington DC, is celebrating the car park with an exhibition tracing its architectural evolution. It looks back to the parking garage as a sign of 1950’s prosperity and moves to its depiction in films and television asa place for clandestine encounters and intrigue.
“House of Cars” www.nbm.org
Green-Valiant Hire at Sustainable Living Festival
Feb 26th
Recently in Melbourne the Sustainable Living Festival was held, the aim of which is to “inspire and empower everyday Australians to accelerate the uptake of sustainable living”. It was a great success and worth visiting the website http://festival.slf.org.au
Valiant Hire was pleased to be involved by donating furniture to the performance GLOBAL WARMING IS OVER ! if you want it.