Tigerlily launches in Edinburgh's George Street…

Montpeliers new restaurant and hotel opens tonight…

Graven Images has designed the whole package; all thirty-three bedrooms with their own individual character, the public spaces, and all graphic materials, from menus to room keys. The brand echoes the Georgian opulence of the Grade A-listed building but is cool and fresh at the same time.

We were able to design special furniture and specify some of the most fabulous wall coverings and fabrics on the market.

Tigerlily will be one of the world’s best boutique hotels and one of Edinburgh’s best restaurants.

The bedrooms are sumptuous and the bathrooms are good enough to spend all night in.

There are two bars and a 200 cover restaurant.

If you want to book a room or table for the night, please visit www.tigerlilyedinburgh.co.uk (we designed the website too).

Article in Herald

We were appointed in January 2004, after an intensive selection process, as approved interior design consultants for South Lanarkshire Council’s projects.

We are working across a wide variety of SLC facilities including adult residential, respite care, day-care centres, children’s homes, and resource centres.

As part of this ongoing process we have collaborated with Strathclyde University and Farm7 to ensure that the knowledge generated in these projects is captured and benefits ongoing and future projects.

Farm7 have collaborated with the Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care (SIRCC) in a project to evaluate the impact of design within children’s care homes, and used our redesign of children’s homes as a case study.

The Herald have written a piece on this project. Please click here to view.

Talking Arse

Our in-house capabilities extend beyond graphic, interior and exhibition design. We also have a house band. Talking Arse made their debut in August 2005 at the Farm7 arena. They sample and interpret classics and are currently working on their first single.

Even above a shared love of music, these guys love to dress up.

To mark TA2 at Glasgow’s Bacchus, we designed this limited edition t-shirt which supporters wear with pride. To order, please visit our merchandise site “gravenbooks” at www.gravenbooks.co.uk or click here.

Prospect Magazine

Our redesign of the Radisson SAS Hotel on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile is featured in this month’s edition of Prospect. Our scope included the redesign of the 248 bedrooms, the reception area and the hotel bar/restaurant which we renamed “Itchycoo”.

Thanks to Penny Lewis at Prospect.

Tinderbox, Glasgow—New Site

After years of speculation about whether there would ever be more than two Tinderboxes, we have now been commissioned to design a new Tinderbox in Glasgow. Our client, Matthew Algie is the UK’s leading (and best) independent coffee roaster. We designed the first Tinderbox in 1998 on Byres Road, Glasgow, as an outlet to showcase Matthew Algie coffee and a laboratory to test their products. There was a retail area selling specialist coffee kit, music and other suitable stuff. It quickly became a local landmark, and we went on to design a North London version in Islington in 2001. It was another big hit with the locals but with much greater take-out business.

The next Tinderbox will move things into a new generation of coffee. Interestingly it is only a couple of hundred yards from the original site of the Ingram Street Tearooms that made Miss Cranston famous.

Alba Town Showflat

We have just completed the fit-out of the showflat of “The Merchant Building” —a new housing development at Glasgow Cross.

To find information on this new development click here.

Chocolate Soup—New Site

We are nearly finished the interior design of a new Chocolate Soup outlet at the Whitewater Shopping Centre in Dublin.

This will bring the total number of Chocolate Soups to four: in Rose Street Edinburgh, Hunter Square, Edinburgh and Roches Stores in Dublin.

They really do sell Chocolate Soup, as well as coffee and lovely food.

Ocean Bar & Grill, Edinburgh

We have just completed an interior branding exercise for Ocean Kitchen Bar & Grill – a communal food court at Ocean Terminal in Edinburgh.

We added coherent signage and branding elements to make the space easier for the customer to navigate.

‘Bazaar’, City Halls

We have just completed the interior fit-out of Bazaar—a new café in Glasgow’s newly-refurbished City Halls on Candleriggs, Merchant City. As well as doing the interior fit-out, we also designed large graphic panels to identify the space, as well as menus, loyalty cards and wine lists.

gravenbooks.co.uk

You can now buy “Design in a Cold Climate” on our online bookstore, gravenbooks. The book was published as part of a series of monographs by the interior architecture magazine Frame.

A selection of our interior and exhibition projects is combined with colourful graphic interpretations by Equipe GM, including a new typeface created specifically for the book.

Go to:
www.gravenbooks.co.uk