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Glasseco - news and views

Best Eco Design - May 2010

Grand DesignsGLASSeco is chosen as winner of "Best Eco Design" at the Grand Design Awards 2010. The judging criteria included: aesthetics, use of materials, originality, consumer appeal, sustainabity and cost. GLASSeco ticked every single box. Click here for a full list of award winners and watch the awards dinner hosted by Kevin McCloud.

Kitchens & Bathrooms News

Jan 2010: GLASSeco is highly commended by the UK's professional kitchen and bathroom designers as one of the top green product launched in 2009. See Kitchens and Bathrooms News for the full results.

EcoBuild

See Glasseco at EcoBuild - March 2010

www.ecobuild.co.uk

DIY SOS / Children In Need

children in needWe were delighted to be asked by BBC1's Julia Kendall - from DIY SOS - to provide a turquoise splashback for the special Children in Need show. We crushed over 200 jam-jars and two large mirrors to make a fabulously "bling-bling" panel, see the results on BBC1 on 10th Dec. See DIY SOS

The Home Show

george clark - the home showGeorge Clarke recently spent a day at the GLASSeco factory and was so impressed he ended up rolling-up his sleeves and lending a hand! Watch his tour and hear his views on the Channel 4 website; The Home Show from the end of October. He said: "People call GLASSeco art and I wouldn't disagree with that - this stuff is beautiful". The Home Show

Designer Magazine

GLASSeco Limited has scooped the GOLD MEDAL at the 2009 uber-stylish design awards presented by designer magazine . We are incredibly pleased and proud! Click here to see what the judges said about us and who else was a winner on the night. If you'd like award-winning worktops call us for a chat today.

In 2008, in our first 12 months of business, GLASSeco Limited scooped a prestigious National Recycling Award. Click here to read more about these important awards.

TV presenter Naomi Cleaver recently visited Bill's house and loved his GLASSeco kitchen worktops. For her guided tour around his RIBA award-winning home - with lots of green living tips - please click here

10-July-2008

GLASSeco recently picked up two Environmental Awards for our committment to sustainability and the environment. The award organisers sent a film crew to our premises to make a short film about how GLASSeco is made. Watch the video below to see us at work and how we are using the country's empties....."


GLASSeco Bromley Environmental Award from Spectrecom Films on Vimeo

GLASSeco was featured in Eco Home & Garden Magazine this month. Read the stylish magazine by clicking here http://www.ecohomeandgarden.co.uk see what they wrote about us on page 6.


"GLASSeco ROCKS" - Kevin McCloud Grand Designs

Read Kevin McCloud's letter to Glasseco.     


The Sunday Times Style Counsel featured GLASSeco on April 6th. Click on the link to see the coverage.

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Chameleon Interiors

http://chameleoninteriors.blogspot.com/2008/05/western-mail-article-16th-may-2008.html


Essential Kitchen and Bathroom magazine wrote a great four page article about GLASSeco. Amongst lots of other nice things they said ".. it is available in any number of colours, depending on the ratio of clear to coloured glass used and is made in an environmentally-conscious factory."

idFX included GLASSeco in its round-up of the latest eco products in its May edition. Use the link below to open the style bible. They said "It is made using lowest possible energy output, ensuring the worktops have a tiny carbon footprint."

view style bible

We were stunned when top architects Foster + Partners included GLASSeco in its staff newsletter as a "highlight" of the Ecobuild show.


CONTRACT/TRADE ENQUIRIES

GLASSeco received unprecedented professional praise and feedback from property developers, architects, designers and even the 2012 Olympics Development Authority at the huge Ecobuild Show at Earls Court.

Kevin McCloud - who opened the show - loved the material. We were overwhelmed with contract enquiries. Do please bear with us if you are waiting for a sample block for your Materials Library, we are sending them out like hot-cakes. If you are an architect or developer and would like to talk to us about a commercial project do please call us to discuss. 01959 576897.


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