You don’t have to be a football fan to appreciate terrazzo – but if you are, you might like the footie connection with one of our limited edition designs. Tottenham Hotspur was founded in 1882 (when Diespeker was celebrating its first birthday), and the club had always played their matches at White Hart Lane. Spurs decided way back in 2007 that they needed to upgrade the stadium. The project wasn’t […]
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We are extremely excited at Diespeker to reveal more of our plans to upgrade our premises in Bermondsey. Ormside Street and the surrounding area is undergoing lots of change at the moment, and so are we! We are super proud of having the chance to give a makeover to the building and factory. While this is first and foremost a working premises within an industrial sector, we wanted to give
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As part of our celebrations marking 140 years as a specialist in terrazzo and natural stone, we are keen to learn more about heritage projects undertaken by the company. So in return for your help, we’re offering the opportunity to win one of four cash prizes during 2022. Diespeker’s early work is in evidence across the country, from Scotland to Dorset, Blackpool to Brighton and Newcastle to the Cornish coast.
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We are always excited to learn more about the early years of Diespeker. Although there isn’t much in the way of documentation, We were recently contacted by Murray Peterson, who brought to our attention archive photos of the Pavilion Theatre in The Canmore National Record of the Historic Environment. Amongst the archive were several photos of mosaic flooring and stairs in the lobby of the theatre. The design is extremely
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Newly competitive prices for handpicked terrazzo-effect porcelain collection We’ve upped the game for our porcelain tiles by bringing our prices down! Why? Because we love the benefits porcelain offers and we want more people to appreciate this superb choice of decorative tile. Now, more than ever, our collection provides everyone with the opportunity to enjoy the beauty of terrazzo without the price tag that comes with the real thing. In
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As with many during lockdown, we’ve been reminiscing and looking back on previous work we’ve completed. In this retrospective, we take a look at a floor we created in 2018 for interior designer Tamzin Greenhill. Tamzin will be forever remembered at Diespeker for her dedication to getting it right! She wanted a bespoke, seamless floor for her basement room and knew exactly where to find it. Tamzin was already aware
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Diespeker is known for collaborating with specialist suppliers overseas including Italy, Greece and China. However, as a British company, we have also been looking at working more closely with homegrown suppliers too. We’ve recently started stocking Portland stone, a quintessentially British material from Dorset in the beautiful West Country. Portland stone is an oolitic limestone from the late Jurassic period – it’s impossible to put an exact date on its
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Diespeker resin based terrazzo flooring now provides a seamless surface for the refurbished 12 Gough Square, EC4. The multi-let office was originally built in 1992 on the south side of Gough Square and is an attractive building with an enviable location. It was acquired by London investor Dorrington in 2016 before undergoing substantial refurbishment using innovative design to attract a diverse tenant base. Diespeker provided over 200m² of poured bespoke resin based
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In 2017, Diespeker was proud to be instrumental in the creation of a bench designed by Will Yates-Johnson for London’s renowned Science Museum. Here we chat to Will about the project. Hi Will. Can you tell us a bit about your background? My father is a dedicated shed-workshop guru, and I’ve always been a disciple of designing and making, despite a detour to study architecture at Nottingham, where I missed
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Diespeker has a strong history of providing exquisite flooring solutions for interior designers and contractors working with retailers including Reiss in the UK, Europe and the States, and exclusive stores in London such as Paul Smith and J&M Davidson. However, sometimes we are asked to try something rather different and we always strive to achieve the best possible results. So, when we were asked to turn an old concrete screed
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