Interior Design

Terrazzo tops the bill at Llewelyn’s

Diespeker contributed towards a unique, contemporary interior for independent restaurant, Llewelyn’s in Herne Hill, London. When Diesepeker was brought into the mix, the architect, Henry Harker of new London practice HH+, had already agreed a palette with the client. They initially intended to use Corian throughout, but during discussions decided that terrazzo would be a better look for the interior of the restaurant. The change of heart brought Henry and […]

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Have you got the bottle?

Most of us dutifully recycle our bottles – but how many think about using them decoratively? Diespeker recently did just this, working with joinery and furniture specialist, JBL Furniture to produce a unique terrazzo display panel and countertop for an international bank. The creative idea was to use crushed green beer bottles as the aggregate for terrazzo – with the challenge to exactly match the finishes of resin based terrazzo

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Bonne Année for Big Mamma

Our first major project to use tiles from our extended standard terrazzo range was for the Big Mamma brand in Paris. Big Mamma restaurants are based around authentic, homemade Italian food, using genuine ingredients sourced from Italy. Therefore using an authentic Italian material like terrazzo for their interiors was a natural choice. The Big Mamma brand includes East Mamma, Ober Mamma, Mamma Primi and the Biglove Caffè. And now Diespeker has

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Pop-up terrazzo!

Diespeker was delighted to work again with visionary architect Freehaus to provide terrazzo for the countertop and cladding at the Benugo pop-up in Topshop’s store in Oxford Street. The Benugo brand is a unique catering company that operates in the high street and public buildings and spaces. There are Benugo pop-ups in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Natural History Museum and Windsor Great Park, as well as John Lewis and

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The countertop that goes on… and on!

Never one to turn down a challenge, Diespeker recently made the longest single-piece bespoke resin based terrazzo countertop to date. The 4-metre countertop was made by hand in the Diespeker workshops in South East London. It was designed to match cement based terrazzo from our standard range. To ensure the extra-long countertop was viable, our specialist team researched and sourced a honeycomb lightweight aluminium backing panel – the first time

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No END. of marvellous marble

Diespeker & Co is delighted with the results of a marble installation for clothing retailer, END. Clothing, which has launched its second store, this one in Glasgow. The new END. store is located in Ingram Street in Glasgow’s ‘Style Mile’ and boasts a stunning interior look created using Arabescato. This is a grey marble with black veining often in a circular pattern – but for END. the marble was used

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Colour me Greenery

Since 2000, Pantone has released a new colour of the year, which it believes reflects current topics and the global mood at the time the colour is created. For 2017, the colour (Pantone 15-0343) is a fresh yellow-green – called, simply Greenery. ‘A refreshing and revitalizing shade, Greenery is symbolic of new beginnings. Greenery is a fresh and zesty yellow-green shade that evokes the first days of spring when nature’s

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Going glossy in Stella Magazine

We were very excited recently to get a mention in the Telegraph’s Stella Magazine for an interior design project. Diespeker & Co worked with set designer Anna Burns of Anna Burns Studio to provide a stunningly different marble floor for her new bathroom. Anna visited our South East London yard, where we stock hundreds of samples of natural stone and terrazzo, to choose different types of marble to suit the

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Beating the blues with new generation designer lights

Diespeker & Co has been working with Alexander Harris, Founder and Creative Director of Harris & Harris London, to create a new look for lighting using bespoke resin based terrazzo. Harris & Harris was set up in 2013 to concentrate on furniture, interiors and products for hotels, restaurants and the home. Alexander was keen to design a collection of lighting, and in December 2015, approached lighting specialist Heathfield & Co

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Unique illumination featuring natural stone

Diespeker has been working with a young designer business to create unique table lamps featuring natural stone. Designer Louis Jobst previously worked in sculpture fabrication before starting his own business specialising in sculptural furniture and lighting. For his ‘Monument Lamps’, Louis took inspiration from monoliths and monuments, exploring the theory of what a column is, using simple geometric shapes to symbolise the capital of a stone column to create a

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