Terrazzo News
All the latest terrazzo news from Diespeker
Curved cladding
One of the wonders of working with Diespeker’s resin terrazzo is our ability to create beautiful curves. A recent project for Swiss-based vegetarian and vegan restaurant chain Tibits shows the…
Kitchen magic as Diespeker scales the heights
Alongside our commercial work, Diespeker also provides services to the domestic market, in particular unusual and often unique kitchen tops for discerning customers. For one such project in Kensington our…
Refurbishment for the Dixon Hotel, Tower Bridge, London
Well before its recent renaissance, terrazzo was an immensely popular choice for flooring in many types of buildings, from hospitals and schools to civic buildings and theatres. It was also…
Terrazzo and granite feature in ongoing projects for WeWork
Diespeker & Co is proud of our ongoing relationship with workspace provider, WeWork. Starting in the UK with an initial location in South Bank, WeWork now has over 40 locations…
Diespeker wakes up and smells the coffee!
Origin Coffee is an ethical brand with a direct trade to coffee sourcing. The company sells coffee, provides training courses and has a number of retail coffee shops in Cornwall…
Terrazzo for Channel 4’s Old House New Home
Channel 4 programme Old House New Home finds architect George Clarke tackling old properties with history, uncovering their potential as working, modern homes. Diespeker was approached by production company, Amazing…
Return to Reiss
Back in 2015, Diespeker not only supplied 230m² of terrazzo to designer brand Reiss’s store in Leeds, but sent a small team to install it, after the sub-contractor was unable to…
Beehive stairs get a facelift
Diespeker was part of the team giving new life to a university accommodation block called the Beehive, in Oxford. The building was built between 1958 and 1960 and is thought to…
Bringing the Med to Pimlico
Mediterranean restaurant Omar’s Place in Pimlico opened earlier this year after the shell of a Victorian corner pub was given a substantial makeover. Diespeker terrazzo became a key element in…
Terrazzo chocolate by KUFstudios
Diespeker & Co recently came to the rescue of Danish designer Kia Utzon-Frank of KUFstudios – and in the process discovered that edible terrazzo actually exists. Kia told us she…
Terrazzo-style quartz
Tables for the Royal Academy of Arts
Pick and mix at Diespeker
Design input spanned the generations when an entire family turned up to get involved with the creation of their new kitchen island countertop. The Khandelwal family arrived en masse at…
We’re not ribbing you!
Our ongoing relationship with WeWork has led to experimentation in design techniques for terrazzo. WeWork has been using a ‘ribbed’ effect in wood in some of its office projects. Diespeker…
Baby change meets terrazzo
Something very different for Diespeker was involvement with terrazzo for a sculpture that used a baby change unit. The bespoke terrazzo was created using chunks of marble chosen by artist Nicole…
Palladiana terrazzo in St Tropez
Diespeker recently created a Palladiana terrazzo table for Zimmerman’s first shop in St Tropez, for Centreline. Palladiana is a particular type of terrazzo similar to a mosaic finish, that uses…
Everything you need to know about terrazzo
Legend has it that terrazzo first surfaced in Italy when quarry workers took offcuts of marble home for use on their own floors. These offcuts were set into some form…
Nougat-effect terrazzo for London kitchen
Diespeker loves it when clients are fired up with their own creative ideas for bespoke terrazzo projects. We recently worked with Witlof Design to achieve exactly the look wanted for…
Bleu de Paris
Diespeker has recently completed a new project for WeWork, this one on the illustrious Champs Elysees in the heart of Paris. The project includes a stunning blue (or bleu) terrazzo…
Spiral staircase for Burberry Dubai
Diespeker supplied terrazzo for a stunning spiral staircase that is being created at the prestigious Burberry store in the Dubai Mall, Dubai. The project uses terrazzo TE070 from Diespeker’s Standard…
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