CDW: Brand activations & installations at Material Source Studio London.
Clerkenwell Design Week kicks off tomorrow at Material Source Studio London from 8am. In preparation, we wanted to share a preview of what you can expect by way of activations and installations from our Studio Partner brands.
From a sculptural design trail, to disruptive colour palettes, circular tiles, and world-first regenerative materials, in addition to our packed events programme, there's so much to explore at 120 Saffron Hill all this week - and beyond.
Register for your free CDW badge here. And we'll see you from tomorrow.
Agua Fabrics
Immerse yourself in soft, sumptuous spotlight materials from Agua Fabrics, including Rizada, Oruga and Segunda.
All stunning aesthetically, and optimum in performance for commercial interior settings.
Agua - Segunda
Agua - Oruga
Ash & Lacy
An innovative, real brick cladding system - now BBA Certified - will be showcased by Ash & Lacy.
Mechslip is not an extruded brick slip. This genuine brick innovation allows architects and specifiers to use real brick slips with the inspired efficiency and versatility of a mechanically fixed brick slip cladding system.
The MechSlip Brick Cladding Systems offers more than integrity of design. Featuring tough, yet lightweight 6063T6 grade aluminium support rails, it exceeds the rigorous testing standards set by the Centre for Window and Cladding Technology (CWCT).
Ash & Lacy will also exhibit its Rainscreen Façades - cladding systems applied either during the initial construction of a building or as over-cladding as part of refurbishment of an existing building. The VariAL CF is a concealed fix baffle jointed cassette rainscreen system, with a range of fully adjustable aluminium support systems. Best suited to horizontal applications, with options for installation to suit both walls and soffits.
Explore these new architectural solutions all this week.
Arte Wallcoverings
Arte is a passionate designer & manufacturer of sophisticated wallcoverings.
Explore the latest from their collections throughout the week, as well as joining their panel discussion: Walls That Speak - The Future of Texture, Pattern and Innovation in Interior Wallcoverings.
Join designers Toni Black of House of Black and Sadie Bengali of David Collins Studio, alongside Arte Senior Designer Gemma Verheijen-Beenen, for an insightful conversation exploring design innovation and the growing role of wallcoverings in interiors, hosted by Elspeth Pridham of The Insider.
BRITA
Family-owned BRITA has been at the forefront of filtration and water dispensing technology since 1966.
Headquartered in Germany – but now operational across 69 countries globally – BRITA specialises in fully-supported water programmes that help businesses achieve their health, wellness, and sustainability goals.
During Clerkenwell Design Week, you can explore BRITA's interactive POD, as well as joining its Single Origin Coffee Tasting: To Filter or Not to Filter - drop in sessions 2-4pm on Wednesday.
CDUK: Materials Revived, Surfaces Reformed
Materials Revived, Surfaces Reformed launches at CDW - a design trail crafted by CDUK and comprising a celebration of narrative-rich surfaces, transformed into sculpture.
Located inside Material Source Studio London, a series of crafted artworks tell the stories – past and present – of unique surface solutions from CDUK, including Polygood®, PaperStone®, and Corian®, all either made from recycled matter, or latterly, repurposed and reutilised through the Vita Nova take-back scheme and Reutilize.
See it for yourself at 120 Saffron Hill.
In addition to the design trail, you can also explore CDUK's refreshed POD, now featuring the ability to test materials under varying light temperatures to support specification in your schemes.
CDUK will also launch a new product offering: Montelli® Surfaces - a decorative solid surface material, which can be used in a variety of interior applications in both commercial and residential sectors.
A composite polyester product, Montelli® is produced by a continuous casting process, meeting strict quality control standards. It is also silica-free, making it a safer choice for both fabricators and manufacturers. The 20mm slab thickness offers an ideal value-engineered solution for kitchen and bathroom surfaces, while the 12mm thick sheet provides additional flexibility for fabrication and installation.
CDUK - Materials Revived Surfaces Reformed
Consort Architectural Hardware
A selection of Consort's latest collections, including Premium and Bespoke Pull Handles & Premium Lever Handles & Matching Accessories, will be highlighted alongside the team's capability within the bespoke services of ironmongery.
Throughout the week, Consort will also be offering a preview of its new Revit Scheduling Integration (plug-in), which aims to simplify and automate the door hardware schedule for architects.
Colour Stories: Baked Clay
Curated by the Material Source Studio Creative Team, Colour Stories: Baked Clay explores materiality through the lens of a medium that takes on a spectrum of patina over the course of its life. Clay reveals hidden landscapes underneath our feet. The ground is both a surface and vessel, a place where the past exists not as fixed marks, but as forces in constant transformation.
Expressed in palette form, Baked Clay features products from our London Partner brands. Explore rich terracottas through the likes of Crown Paints' colours, Saison, Burning Incense and Cherrywood; and Forbo Furniture Linoleum - a furniture and flooring solution made from 94% natural raw materials - presented in shades of Brick and Burgundy.
Colour Stories: Baked Clay
Continuing the conversation in design dialogue are ceramic artworks by London-based ceramicists, specially-selected in response to Baked Clay.
Heather Gibson - Surfacing
Heather Gibson’s ceramics explore the threshold between art and the everyday object. Her making process is through a combination of sculptural hand-building, gestural mark-making and glaze alchemy – utilising both electric, gas and wood reduction firing techniques.
Through her process she uses clay as a canvas to explore trace, time, memory and mark-making. Drawing inspiration from geology, archaeology and abstract expressionism, her ceramics serve as portals into the intricate topographies of human memory, and unseen landscapes concealed beneath the Earth’s surface.
As part of Colour Stories: Baked Clay, Heather exhibits with us key pieces from Surfacing, her first solo show at County Hall Pottery, for its inaugural Potter in Residence.
Heather Gibson - Surfacing
Jihyun Kim in collaboration with Golden Earth Studio - Teoju
Jihyun Kim is a Korean ceramicist based in Cockpit Studios. Teoju is made using London construction clay in collaboration with Golden Earth Studio and will be on display as part of Colour Stories: Baked Clay.
Teoju is inspired by the Korean God, Teojusin, traditionally represented as the god of land, who protects the earth where the home is located.
In this piece, Jihyun Kim interprets this narrative by incorporating earth sourced from beneath London homes, layering the work with a sense of place and quiet reverence. This connection between material and meaning transforms Teoju into a contemplative vessel, both protective and poetic, rooted in cultural symbolism and urban archeology.
Jihyun Kim in collaboration with Golden Earth Studio - Teoju
Crown Paints: Disrupt launch
Disrupt is the latest colour palette to have been born out of Crown Paints psychology-driven expertise, introduced through a large-scale mural, and explored through a paint workshop event.
From a product perspective, Crown Paints will showcase indoor and outdoor solutions, including Crown Trade Clean Extreme, Crown Trade Fastflow, Sandtex Trade Extreme Exposure, and Sadolin Superdec.
Crown Paints will also host an inclusive design panel at Clerkenwell Design Week - bringing together leading experts in neurodiversity and dementia for a discussion exploring how colour and design can create more inclusive environments.
The Inclusive by Design: Colour, Lived Experience and Inclusion panel will take place in our Theatre, and will be chaired by Emily Jeffers, Diversity & Inclusion Specialist for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
The panellists include:
- Magda Mostafa - Founding Partner and Principal of StudioTM, a design consultancy specialising in Autism and Neuro-Inclusive Design
- Dave Wilson-Wynne - Dementia care specialist at the University of Stirling and thought leader
- Kelly Grainger - Autistic / ADHD neurodiversity consultant, specialising in inclusive workplaces
- Kathryn Lloyd - Colour specialist at Crown Paints with experience of utilising colour within inclusive designs
Crown Paints - Disrupt
Crown Paints - Disrupt
Crown Paints - Disrupt
Enea
Joining us from the Basque Country, cooperative furniture brand Enea will showcase pieces from its collections including Ekuru - a lounge chair designed to allow users to enjoy moments of peace and quiet; Gura - a workspace solution designed as an enveloping shape to provide a balance between comfort and beauty; and Lore - a comfortable and elegant seating solution that can be crafted in multiple configurations to fit your project's specification needs.
Fired Earth
Brand-new for Clerkenwell Design Week, Fired Earth unveils a stunning selection of product samples from its popular collections, including: Ixworth; Medina Zellige; Monet Marble; Jaipur; East Hampton Marble; Seaspray Green Marble; Provence; Forecast; Louvre Marble; Carnival; Aegean Pink Marble Blends; Avalon Marble; Calcatta Viola Marble.
Fired Earth
Fired Earth
Fired Earth
Fired Earth
Fired Earth
Future Materials Library®
During CDW you can explore our extensive Future Materials Library® - the UK's largest open collection of regenerative materials for built environment use. With over 100 material samples, including our seminar panellist, Hannah Elisabeth Jones' 100% GRASS, joining us for Future Materials: The challenges of specifying them, on Wednesday 20 May, 2pm.
Also featured are Partner products from CDUK and Impact Acoustics, supporters of our seminar event too, with PaperStone and Polygood included from the former brand, and Tofu Tiles from the latter.
It's worth noting that the Future Materials Library® is a permanent feature across all our Studio locations, all year round.
Future Materials Library® - Credit: Tim Ainsworth
Forbo Flooring Systems
Discover the latest collections from Forbo Flooring Systems with hundreds of samples at its dedicated POD, including Allura Decibel, Flotex Planks, and Tessera.
Allura Decibel
Grestec Tiles
For CDW, Grestec Tiles focuses on two brand-new launches.
Circularity - Artiza and Marika will launch during the show, both featuring 61% recycled content. Artiza is a standout for it’s elongated 60x185mm brick format with a handcrafted, high-gloss aesthetic.
Technical Innovation - Grestec's new Coretone™ technology will be debuted across the Erde and Brindle ranges. A through-body porcelain where the design and minerals are fused throughout the full depth of the tile rather than just printed on the surface, both are engineered for high-traffic areas with a safety rating of ≥36 PTV.
Grestec - Artista
Grestec - Artista
Grestec - Artista
Grestec - Artista
Grestec - Artista
Grestec: Erde
Grestec: Erde
Grestec: Erde
Grestec: Erde
Grestec: Marika
Grestec: Marika
Grestec: Marika
Grestec: Marika
Grestec: Marika
Grestec: Marika
Habitech
Habitech's theme for CDW is the 'Sound of Intent'. While structure, light, and thermal performance are usually at the forefront of specification decisions, sound, Habitech believes, often gets left to chance.
The team invites you to visit the Sonance Design Gallery: providing project inspiration. And in Meeting Room 2, you're invited to experience a demo of the Sonance Invisible Speakers.
ILIV
ILIV is a trend-led premium fabric brand, known for designing stylish high-performance fabrics for hospitality, commercial and residential spaces.
During CDW, explore its latest fabric collections with takeaway samples, plus attend its Pastries, Pattern & Performance Painting Workshop on 19 May, 11am.
Impact Acoustic
Fancy getting your hands dirty? Grab a coat and make your own Biocircular Tile with Impact Acoustics. The Cotton Making Lab is taking daily walk-ins between 8am and 7pm at Material Source Studio London. Rethink how acoustics are made. Visit the pop-up lab to dive into the material science of Impact's fully circular products and physically shape your own custom acoustic tile.
The technicians will be working live in our Studio window - you can't miss them.
Liquidline
Liquidline creates premium workspace refreshment solutions that enhance the everyday workplace experience. Visit the team during CDW for a coffee and a demo of their latest coffee and water stations.
Lumenear
Lumenear brings spaces to life with innovative acoustic lighting that transforms both sight and sound.
Crafted in the Netherlands from sustainable PET Felt, Lumenear's lighting not only illuminates but also absorbs noise, creating a perfect balance of atmosphere and comfort.
Meet the team during CDW and explore the latest products through interactive workshops each day.
Mode Lighting
Founded in 1970, Mode Lighting is a British manufacturer of architectural lighting control systems with over five decades of industry experience. Explore their latest solutions during CDW.
Muraspec
Muraspec Wallcoverings is an international leader in the commercial and bespoke wallcoverings industry.
During CDW, you can explore its latest collections including its brand-new murals. Muraspec is also hosting an event on Thursday: Restore, Realign & Rejuvenate.
Orac
Orac unveils its new Art Deco Collection at CDW, created in collaboration with interior architect Aurélie Penneman to mark 100-years of Art Deco.
The collection reframes Art Deco as a design language of proportion, rhythm and precision, expressed through six themes: Infinity, Myline, Vertical Lines, Horizontal Lines, Rounded Shapes & Arches, and Fluidity & Pattern.
New launches include Infinity cornices (C992, C993, C994), S425 Scallop skirting, panel mouldings P9902 Link, P9903 Bobbin, P9904 Pearl and P9905 Medallion, plus 3D wall panels W125/W125A Swirl and W126 Chain.
Orac - Art Deco
Orac - Art Deco
Orac - Art Deco
Parkside Architectural Tiles
This week will see the launch of TerrazzoTech from Parkside Architectural Tiles, offering a modern approach to traditional terrazzo. Crafted from premium marble pieces bonded with resin, it delivers a refined through‑body Terrazzo surface with exceptional visual depth.
Its innovative production method enhances strength and technical performance while allowing for a reduced thickness - minimising raw material use, weight and cost without compromising durability.
TerrazzoTech is available in 45 colours, multiple formats and six finishes, including contemporary fluted textures.
Moreover, in collaboration with Harmony, Parkside Architectural Tiles is also introducing 4 new wall tile ranges.
Parkside
Parkside
Parkside
Radii
Radii is a specialist in the design, manufacture and installation of the highest-standard partitioning, stunning architectural glass solutions and certified glazed fire rated systems.
See Radii's bespoke solutions in situ in the Studio, and attend its drop in clinics, CPDs, seminar session on vertical farming, and 'one for the road' closing party.
Schlüter-Systems
Brand-new Partner at Material Source Studio London, explore Schlüter-Systems' comprehensive portfolio of products developed to support architects, designers and contractors across the UK. New ranges include edge protection profiles, waterproofing and uncoupling membranes, underfloor heating, drainage systems and design finishes.
Combining German engineering with dedicated UK technical expertise, Schlüter-Systems provides specification support, RIBA-accredited CPDs, and hands-on training.
Whirlpool Bath & Spa Co
Whirlpool Bath & Spa Co.
Join Whirlpool Bath & Spa Co. at CDW 2026 for an exclusive preview of Glacier – a brand-new bath collection.
With a selection of contemporary styles and finishes available, Glacier is perfect on its own or enhanced with one of Whirlpool's bespoke spa systems. Technically superior, the matt baths are the ideal solution for residential, hospitality, marine and healthcare settings alike.
Discover their POD all week during CDW.
