Rethink, restructure and redesign your working environment
The Amos Beech Video
And now it is finally here, our company video! On quality, on budget and sort of on-time... About a year ago we started filming the first scenes. We have filmed in Edinburgh, Stirling, Falkirk, London and Castalla Spain. We've had snow, rain and even managed to get sunburnt ! Our film crew struggled with the Scottish accent in a lunchroom in Bannockburn. Some Amos Beech team members really felt foreign when they had to order food from a menu in the Spanish language and ate things that they didn't actually ask for. I suppose the funniest anecdote was trying to order a traditional British breakfast tea and then a confused waiter delivering a coffee with a tea bag in it! Seriously?
Anyway, a lot of hard work has been put in to produce this video, or video's, as we have four of them! Hard work, not just by the production team but certainly by the 'actors'. We also couldn't have been successful without the massive help we got from our clients, suppliers, local businesses, members of the public and the staff here at Amos Beech.
Rethink, restructure and redesign your working environment
But although we have put great effort into producing this video and had lots of fun along the way, it is not about us.
It’s about your business & your goals! From that perspective our objective is clear:
It’s to rethink the creation of your brand in the built environment;
It’s to restructure your space by embracing new ways of working, collaboration & communication;
and it’s to redesign your working environment so that it works just as hard as you do.
That’s what your journey with us is all about!
What we do
Workplace Consultancy
"The solutions we present following the fact finding missions are inevitably on point, relevant and appreciated for their true value by our clients"
Interior Design
"An interest in the design and origin of every piece of furniture. We take the time to carefully research each and every project, making sure that the end result is exactly as it should be – right for the client"
Fit Out
"Projects are completed on time, on budget and on quality"
Credits
A great thank you to all who have helped us to create this video!
Clients, suppliers and locations
ST Microelectronics, Edinburgh
CitNOW, Stirling
Mackenzie School of English, Edinburgh
Orocco Pier Boutique Hotel & (great) Restaurant, South Queensferry
The Helix Visitor & Information Centre, Falkirk
The Clerkenwell Design Week, London
Vantage Spaces, London
Actiu, Castalla
Modulyss, London
Orangebox, London
Actors:
Deborah McAulay
Sam James
Roy James
The Amos Beech team and family members
Production:
Iris Media, Raalte
All Talent Agency, Glasgow
The making of:
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Our Grove in the Scottish Highlands has just grown by the size of The Mackenzie School of English's new space!
Just imagine, that is 9000 SqFt of native Scottish trees! The trees such as Scots Pine, Rowan, dwarf Birch and Aspen will help to transform the open hillsides into healthy young woodland, rich in wildlife such as red squirrel, black grouse, capercaillie and wood ant!
Thanks to The Mackenzie School of English an additional 117 new native trees will be planted in the wild Caledonian Forest in the Amos Beech grove of trees with all the wonderful wildlife that will inhabit their new environment.
The Mackenzie School of English moved in to their new space in Leith, Edinburgh in the first week of May.
As part of our Corporate Social Responsibility, we have started our own grove in partnership with the award-winning charity Trees for Life. Trees for Life works on the restoration of Scotland's ancient Caledonian Forest in the Scottish Highlands.
You can plant trees yourself!
Like it?
Well, you don't necessarily have to redesign and fit our your space with us to achieve this, because you can plant trees yourself!
Have a look at the Amos Beech Trees for Life page:
Amos Beech – improving every environment we touch
SALONE DEL MOBILE . MILANO 2018
As Clerkenwell is fast approaching, it’s only appropriate I write my review on Salone de Mobile and Fuorisalone to compare findings and inspiration for the year ahead. The design trip was last minute; a now or never opportunity regarding 2018 so I was grateful to join the wave of people that jet set from every corner of the globe.
SALONE DEL MOBILE . MILANO 2018
With the flood of designers, exhibitors and creatives, accommodation was initially a slight struggle with business owners and money makers hitching up prices almost quadruple the price. However, I managed to book an apartment with a beautiful terrace in the Tortorna District of Milan. If your time is limited, I would recommend staying in Tortona as it is one of the more highly concentrated areas of ‘Fuorisalone’ crammed with exhibitions, cafes and events. The Brera district is very similar in this respect too, if not more so. But to really see as much as possible, confirmed as the world’s largest furniture furniture and design fair, Salone del Mobile at Rho Fiera is a must. Although, it’s easy to get lost in the labyrinth of displays and multiple halls, so be sure to make note prior of the exhibitors you’d like to see.
From an overall viewpoint, I noticed there was less of a focus placed on new product launches but rather exhibitors making a conscious effort to create memorable experiences, in fact very shareable as well. Particularly in the age of the selfie, mirrors and reflective surfaces was a prevalent player performing as a disruption to the spatial realm generating paradoxical type arrangements. COS supported the work of the California-based artist Philip K. Smith to bring ‘Open Sky’ an installation to Palazzo Isimbardi. That comprised of a series of mirrored panels each tilted at a 47-degree angle, which respectfully gave a nod to the experience, the architecture and Milan itself.
Continuing the theatrical-like illusion, the emergence of larger-than-life translucent and see-through products that act as a divider in any setting, a flexible alternative to facilitates our everchanging needs and wants. One of the most magical experiences was visiting HAY at Palazzo Clerici, the location oozed with historical features poetically juxtaposed with a series of installation that conveyed examples of past and future living scenarios; with a human-centric approach to interior design, rather than focusing on the structure. The Rayures modular screen in fluted glass for Glass Italia designed by the Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec was a notable highlight. A recurring expression of drama also took the form of translucent floor to ceiling draperies, which would add a show-stopping, yet fluid and soft tactile feature to any environment.
Many pieces of furniture acquired the shape of an exaggerated figure with plumper silhouettes, inflated curves and ballooned proportions. The Tacchini exhibition was a great example of softness and the continuing fluidity in mix of dusty pink, pastel yellow and off-set geometrics, all adding to the cocooning type feeling prevailed. I had taken a similar emotional response to CC-Tapis, especially the rug designed by Patricia Urquiola with the comparable tonal colour composition and a hyper tactile surface.
The integration of biophilia within products, exhibitions, and displays experience remained strong throughout Salone de Mobile and Fuorisalone, the recognition of the well-being benefits of biophilic design as reached a global scale, and the outlook being the trend is here to stay. The miniforms collection plays with shape and form to provide a seamless stand to place your plants, whether be it on the wall, floor or reflecting against a mirror. A perfect opportunity to add height and interest to any environment.
As well as nature, designers are looking up to the skies for inspiration as they explore the symbolism of the sun, moon, and space. This could be due to increasing cultural interest in spirituality, which can be seen to inform objects and settings to ignite people’s wonder and delight through magical and cosmic-like shapes. Equally, many exhibitions featured the use mismatching of materiality, furniture shapes, and products through styling, which also envelopes a similar unusual sense of awe due to the unexpected and uncanny (a.k.a the googly eyes).
Milan took me through an unexpected and unimaginable journey, I didn’t know what to expect. With just over 48 hours in the city, I consumed an incredible amount of design, good food, some wine and walked around 40km. Even now it’s still taking some time to digest everything I saw and experienced.
A blog post by Flora Hogg