Harrods Stand, Sleep Exhibition, London 2015

[Old Mod]

Rays' got some great tiles, looks amazing @3_fall and you leant a bit from the experts hope they were gentle with you

Hahaha No! Haha

 

[Spud]

The pictures look great Marc and it was a real pleasure working with you

 

[Qwerty]

That is quite some awesome bookmatching there!!!

 

[Spud]

That is quite some awesome bookmatching there!!!

It's the best I have seen

 

[Old Mod]

See now I used the term bookmatching in the thread, then I checked Ray's original post cos couldn't remember the name of the tile.
And in his thread he made a point of saying they weren't bookmatched but a running design! Haha oh well!

 

[jobdone]

awesome. It just looks great, only wish i had the space and money for tiles like that.

 

[AMC]

.......so as u've probably already seen, @Ray TT @ Porcel-Thin exhibits at the Sleep Exhibition every year, and has done for the past 4-5, sorry can't remember exactly.
Anyway, it's Europes premier exhibition for the hotel industry.

Welcome to Sleep - Sleep

Well this year Ray was contacted by Harrods, they have an inhouse design team that go by the name of 'The Studio', and they asked if Ray would collaborate with them, quite a prestigious invitation I'm sure you'll agree!

Home - The Studio at Harrods

Well several weeks ago Ray started a thread about some Porcel-Thin tiles called 'Calcutta' a tile with a running design that ran throughout the tiles.

Well this is what the designer at 'The Studio' asked for.

So Sat morning @GaryTheTiler, @Ray TT @ Porcel-Thin, two lads from Gary's and Ray's teams, John and Brian, and myself set off for the BDC in Isslington Noth London (British Design Centre) to start preparing the set for Harrods.

We encountered the usual shopfitting type problems on a large scale! Haha
Hundreds of bodies, tons of kit, absolutely no space and tons of jobsworths everywhere!
So after lugging tons of kit and boxes of tiles up to the second floor and down narrow walkways we finally arrived on the same floor as the stand,
but not particularly near it!
After sorting everything out and getting prepped and hassling the joiners who were still building the set!
We finally put our first tile down at 3.30!
Bearing in mind we were being thrown out (quite literally!) at 6pm on the dot!!
So we at least made a start!
Sunday we were allowed entry at 9am and again ejected at 6pm.
Well we fixed everything bar one small cut, reason for that was I cut it 3mm too long and it didn't fit and they would NOT allow me to trim it and fit it. Told u they were jobsworths!
But we did everything else.
Monday we grouted in the morning and as u know helped Ray with his own set after that!
And I must say, all things considered, we done bloody well!
It was a good team effort and everyone pulled more than their weight!
I was lucky enough to work alongside both Ray and Gary, that was a great experience and a lot of fun!
Well ok, some of it was fun, the rest was graft! Haha
And I must say, a privilege as well!
I'd certainly do it again tomorrow!
For me it was learning experience of the biggest kind. Didn't have time to think about laying a format I'd not used before, it was just a case of hurry up! Haha
A great way to learn tho, and certainly from two of he best out there, thanks guys!!

Now I've bored u to death I'll shut up and let u see what we managed to accomplish.
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As u can see once the pattern comes to an end, all 4.8 X 3m of it, u switch it around and start again. It also bas the ability to wrap around a room and still bond with the floor! Haha it was fun sorting them out! Hahahaha
And the last image, for those who have yet to have the privilege, is of the man himself
Ray tt!
Mind u he was only posing for the camera! Hahaha
We ALL worked out arses off!
'The Studio' we're delighted with it, as was every other passer by!!!
And it was by FAR the best tiling at the show, of course!

That's class , fair play

 

[Ste-G]

Great job, hat's off to all involved.
It takes tiling to another level. Pity it was for a display, work like that deserves to last for more than just a few days. Hope to use some of this product sooner rather than later myself.

 

[Rizzle from the Portizzle]

well you can have the best tiles in the world but its the tilers who fix them that make that diffrence .and fix them they did under huge pressure but never let there standards slip .if its not good enoght for me its not good enghout for you .thats the way to fix every tile .if these boys were fixing for the pound shop or harrods the the out come would be the same standard there only one way to work every time .

 

[Andy Allen]

Very nice....
When I look at those tiles a picture of something seems to jump out at me....the one above the bath is an eagle flying over a mountain range..lol