attic 2 blog: 08.09

attic 2 originals

>> 26.8.09

DESIGN
attic 2 originals soft-seating catalogue 09 is our studio's signature upholstery collection and are designed in-house and made in Wales. Our ethos is to create furniture concepts of design excellence that are individual, distinctive, flexible, sustainable and timeless classics - what we call our 'modern antiques of the future'.

FUNCTION
All our products are designed with high flexibility and adaptability in mind, creating seating solutions for use in a wide spectrum of commercial and domestic environments - bars, clubs, hotels, leisure, receptions, TV sets, break-out areas, restaurants and exhibitions.

DETAIL
Without compromise, all our products are built to a high contract specification and are handmade with a high degree of craftsmanship ensuring immaculate attention to detail in materials and finishes at all times. Quality is paramount and we believe in designing and producing products to last a life time.

FUTURE-THINKING
All our products are designed and produced in line with our sustainable practices and our environmental policy Future-Thinking. We specifically adhere where possible to our 4 critical guidelines - Less Local Lasting and Love.

WANT ONE?
We'd love to hear from you so for contract, trade or direct retail sales please call us on +44 (0) 29 2049 0498 or contact sale@attic2.co.uk for more details of Originals including our pdf catalogue and prices.

Plan sofa

Plan is a simple and well proportioned sofa range and chair. Specific to this design are the soft clean lines with compact proportions and footprint. The chair has been designed as a division of all the sofa units allowing it to behave in a more modular and flexible way. The contoured but slender arms ensure maximum seat area. Plan units can be grouped using imaginative layouts by mixing units, colours and textures to create graphically interesting layouts.

Designer - Angela Gidden 2002

Data -
Designed and made in Wales to high contract specification
Sofa 4+: w2640 x 680 x h755 mm
Sofa 3: w1980 x d680 x h755 mm
Sofa 2c: w1320 x d680 x h755 mm
Chair: w660 x d680 x h755mm

Plan Chairs

Plan Chair adapts well to to being used in a wide range of environments and is ideal for meeting areas, reception areas and spaces where a more formal linear configuration or a more intimate cluster is required. Shown in Divina wool felt from Kvadrat

Designer - Angela Gidden 2002

Data -
Designed and made in Wales to high contract specification
Chair: w660 x d680 x h755mm

Mode Sofa, Bench and Slab Stool

Mode Sofa is a clean-lined contemporary adaptation of the classic chesterfield with a fixed back and fixed seat giving Mode a simple unfussy look. Mode benches are a family of modular units creating a flexible and sociable solution to seating for the workplace, leisure environments and the home.

Shown in Divina wool felt from Kvadrat

Designer - Angela Gidden 2002

Data -
Designed and made in Wales to high contract specification
X Large Sofa: w2530 x d920 x h700 mm
Large Sofa: w2030 x d920 x h700 mm
Small Sofa: w1750 x d920 x h700 mm
X Large Bench: w2060 x d860 x h700 mm
Large Bench: w1560 x d860 x h700 mm
Small Bench: w1320 x d860 x h700 mm
Chair: w970 x d920 x h700mm
Slab Stool: w830 x d830 x h430 mm

Stretch Benches

Stretch offers users a low back flexible and informal solution to soft-seating within any contract or domestic environment. Stretch benches can cluster or meander in a strong graphic way creating a dynamic sociable landscape. Shown in Divina wool felt from Kvadrat

Designer - Angela Gidden 2001

Data -
Designed and made in Wales to high contract specification
2.0 Bench: w2000 x d980 x h570 mm
1.5 Bench: w1500 x d980 x h570 mm
1.0 Bench: w1000 x d980 x h570 mm

Stretch Sofa & Bench - red

Stretch is designed to be a flexible sociable landscape of soft seating for use in any formal or informal workplace environment, bars, hotels or domestic interiors. Shown in Divina wool felt from Kvadrat

Designer - Angela Gidden 2001

Data -
Designed and made in Wales to high contract specification

2.5 Sofa: w2500 x d980 x h750 mm
2.0 Sofa: w2000 x d980 x h750 mm
2.0 Bench: w2000 x d980 x h570 mm
1.5 Bench: w1500 x d980 x h570 mm
1.0 Bench: w1000 x d980 x h570 mm
Chair: w1040 x d9800 x h 750mm
Stool: w500 x d390 x h 400mm

Stretch Sofa & Bench - grey

Stretch is designed to be a flexible sociable landscape of soft seating for use in any formal or informal workplace environment, bars, hotels or domestic interiors. Shown in Divina wool felt from Kvadrat

Designer - Angela Gidden 2001

Data -
Designed and made in Wales to high contract specification
2.5 Sofa: w2500 x d980 x h750 mm
2.0 Sofa: w2000 x d980 x h750 mm
2.0 Bench: w2000 x d980 x h570 mm
1.5 Bench: w1500 x d980 x h570 mm
1.0 Bench: w1000 x d980 x h570 mm
Chair: w1040 x d9800 x h 750mm
Stool: w500 x d390 x h 400mm

Caerdydd Chair

Caerdydd (Cardiff) is a classic retro styled chair designed as a complimentary accent to a mix of contract and domestic interiors from offices, bars, hotels, visual merchandise shop interiors to classic and contemporary homes. Shown in distressed leather

Designer - Angela Gidden 1998

Data -
Designed and made in Wales to high contract specification
3 seater Sofa: w1880 x d850 x h750 mm
2 seater Sofa: w1300 x d850 x h750 mm
Armchair: w850 x d850 x h 750mm

Lolfa Sofa & Chair

Lolfa is Welsh for lounge. This is one of our original 'Original's'. Lolfa is designed around the classic chesterfield sofa but with a clean contemporary twist. Shown in nubuck.

Designer - Angela Gidden 1997

Data -
Designed and made in Wales to high contract specification
Large Sofa: w1940 x d940 x h740 mm
Med Sofa: w1760 x d940 x h740 mm
Chair: w1020 x d940 x h 740mm

Chromozone

Modular and highly flexible modular seating created for relaxed social areas in the workplace or lounge bars and reception spaces.

Designer - Angela Gidden 2000

Data -
Designed and made in Wales to high contract specification
Slouch: w1910 x d900 x h740 mm
Bachelor: w1420 x d900 x h740 mm
Slab: w1040 x d900 x h 380mm

Retail - The Conran Shop

>> 23.8.09

Model - Lola
Client - The Conran Shop - London, Paris, Japan, New York
Year - 2005
Designer - Angela Gidden

Lola is still a current and key product within The Conran Shops furniture range since being launched in 2006. The Conran Shop commissioned Angela to design a compact upholstery collection that would would work well for customers looking for a simple timeless solution for compact living. Lola was also designed to offer the Japanese market a product to suit the growing demand for smaller furniture based on the even greater living space constraints.

Model - Terrain
Client - The Conran Shop
Year - 2005
Designer - Angela Gidden

Model - Felix
Client - The Conran Shop
Year - 2006
Designer - Angela Gidden

Model - Cennem
Client - Liberty of London
Year - 2007
Designer - Angela Gidden

The Cennen was launched during London Design Festival 2007 and remains part of their furniture collection on the infamous 4th Floor. Liberty commissioned Angela to design a soft informal but clean-lined sofa collection offering their customers a high quality timeless product.

The story of the Pacino, Habitat

Model - Pacino
Client - Habitat, Worldwide
Year - 1994
Designer - Angela Gidden

This is where it all began....

Here's some commercial facts we love about the Pacino -
Pacino launched in July 1994
Pacino was projected to sell around 220 units per week
Pacino was selling at a rate of over 340 units per week by week 4 after launch
Pacino was later selling at a rate of over 700 units per week by December 1994
Pacino was Habitat's best selling sofa range ever
Pacino was a key product in Habitats range for over 10 years
Pacino became Habitats longest selling product - second to the Chicken Brick introduced by Terrence Conran in the mid 1960's

Model - Cordoba
Client - Habitat, UK, France
Year - 1996
Designer - Angela Gidden

Model - Aquilla
Client - Habitat, UK, France
Year - 1995
Designer - Angela Gidden

Heals Discovers

Design - Haven for Heals Discovers

Client - Heals, London

Designers - Angela Gidden

Angela was selected and commissioned to design an upholstery range for the Heal's Discovers collection 2004 which was launched during the London Design Festival 2004. Following the exhibition Haven was introduced onto the shopfloor and sold for 3 years after.

Design - Alano - Exclusive Upholstery

Client - Heals, London

Designers - Angela Gidden

This was the first design we produced for Heal's in 1996 followed by Tinker, Aziza and Haven

The House for the Future

Project - The House For The Future
Client - National Museum Wales
Designers - Angela Gidden & Lynsey Jackson

This is where design for sustainability all started for the attic 2 Studio

We were commissioned to work on the furniture and interior concept for the Museum of Welsh Life project, House For The Future working with London architects and winner of the House For The Future architecture competition and Redrow house buliders sponsors and builders of the actual house within the grounds of the Museum, Cardiff.

The project was our first real intensive sustainable design project - where every design solution threw up a whole new set of environmental challenges and every twist and turn in the project questioned the sustainable viability. The result was an innovative approach to the design of products for living in the future - without the 'oats and muesli' aesthetics and an over-dependence on hi-technology.

This project was filmed from start to end and beyond by BBC Wales as a TV series The House For The Future where they introduced a real life family to live in and test drive the house for a few weeks. Some of solutions and ideas were more successful than others but what we learned from this point on was as designers we were responsible and that we must design with sustainability and a focus on the future at the core. This was the start of design for sustainability for the attic 2 Studio. This is where we began to shape our 'Future-Thinking' sustainable and environmental policy.

Union Undeb

Project - Union Undeb private owners club 2003
Client - Manic Street Preachers & Mean Fiddler Group
Designers - Angela Gidden & Lynsey Jackson

We were commissioned to create a complete bespoke furniture concept for 4 floors of an old bonded store in the heart of Cardiff's city centre including 3 bars, restaurant, VIP area and reception as part of the conversion into a private members club owned by the Manic Street Preachers. We were also commissioned to create the colour scheme throughout the club as well as design some bespoke lighting for the reception area, the VIP area and a lightbox to the bar on level 2.

BBC Wales canteen

Project - BBC Wales Canteen redesign and refurbishnent 2003
Client - BBC
Designers - Angela Gidden & Lynsey Jackson working with Roger Witchell Architects

The project was a major re-design and refit of the BBC canteen which had not been refurbed since the 1970's. The challenge was to create an environment that inspired staff to use the space for eating, meetings and networking, to increase seating capacity, to improve the efficiency of the daily running of the canteen and to create an environment that would feel comfortable and fresh. We designed and produced a range of soft-seating, canteen tables, dining tables and stools as well as working on the layout and the colour scheme.

Wales Rocks Sydney - NSW, Australia

Project - Wales Rocks Sydney a contemporary showcase of Wales 2003
Client - Wales Assembly Government
Designers - Angela Gidden & Lynsey Jackson

Angela Gidden was commissioned to create a contemporary showcase within the Museum of Contemporary Art in Circular Quays Sydney. The brief included a key element - genealogy.
The exhibition took place within the American Express Hall in the museum. We designed a reusable cocoon structure in order to envelop 'an experience of Wales - the landscape, the people, the soul, and sound of Wales' in a contemporary context.

The entrance to the main exhibition experience - a purpose designed and constructed aluminium truss structure within which an abstract graphic map of Wales was laid to the floor, a short film commissioned with a piece of music composed specially were played on a loop, a gallery of people in Wales with the 10 most popular surnames was presented. The whole space evoked a spirit of Wales and drew people in to enable connections to be made.

Casa Foa - Buenos Aires, Argentine

Project - 'Cartref' Wales contemporary loft apartment showcase 2005
Client - Wales Assembly Government
Designers - Angela Gidden, Jonathan Adams, Lynsey Jackson, Matt Jones

Casa Foa is an interior exhibition that takes place each year in Buenos Aires Argentina. Wales were invited as the 2005 Guest Nation to create an apartment interior within the exhibition space. Casa Foa took over the early twentieth century derelict Piccaluga textile factory in the Barracas area of Buenos Aires prior to its restoration and urban redevelopment as loft apartments, cafe's and bars. The Wales Assembly Government commissioned Angela Gidden and architect Jonathan Adams to design a contemporary loft apartment called 'Cartref" showcasing art, design, literature, film and music from Wales to mark the 140th anniversary of the Welsh colony in Patagonia. The design inspiration was drawn from the organic form and materials of the landscape of Wales. The concept was both dynamic and unique. Over 70,000 people visited Casa Foa and 'Cartref' was voted the best interior space by the public as well as winning an honorary award at the Casa Foa Awards Ceremony.

The upper landscape of the main living space. The whole living space was and principal structural elements were planked with timber strips complimented with a stacked glass wall to the side.

A view from the upper level with the main sleeping deck at the top moving down to the chill-out level with water feature then down to lower and main living space with kitchen.

Aspect from living space up rising to upper levels. All furniture, art and interior products were sourced, designed and made in Wales.

The dining counter was made in Corian along with the kitchen area to the back.

Along the glass stack hallway and to the rear of the main living space on the ground level a therapy bedroom was created with a photographic light box and included an ensuite shower area within a forest of suspended timber logs

The Piccaluga textile factory reinvigorated with Casa Foa bringing it to life

Gidden & Storey

>> 22.8.09

Kootch was a design collaboration between reknowned British fashion designer Helen Storey and Angela Gidden working together to adapt the unconventional. The Kootch is a couture sofa collection influenced by Story's interest in the work of Henry Moore and Gidden's passion for the dynamic coastal landscape of Wales. Design - 1997

Moovit - 'take-away' sofa

We designed Moovit in 1998 as our solution to the ultimate 'take-away' sofa, ideal for compact living and squeezing into small spaces. The take-away modular approach allows the customer to buy individual componants to create their own design. The design uses a single size foam block which together with the structural slip-on covers can create either a bench or corner units.

Designers - Angela Gidden & Lynsey Jackson 1998

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