Retail - The Conran Shop

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

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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.

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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

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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

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Exclusive designs for retail - A snap shot

Back to our roots! This is essentially where Angela and the attic 2 studio started - designing exclusive upholstery products for retailers such as Habitat, Ikea, Heal's, The Conran Shop, Liberty and many other lifestyle and high street retailers.


 In 1994 Angela designed for Habitat what is arguably her most famous and certainly most sat on design - the Pacino




Followed by the Cordoba in 1996
And the Aquilla in 1995


Alano was the first exclusive design produced for Heal's, followed by Tinker, Aziza and Haven....

Angela was commissioned to design the Haven Snug sofa for Heal's Discovers

The Cennen was launched at Liberty during London Design Festival 2007

In 2006 Angela designed the compact, clean-lined Lola exclusively for The Conran Shop

Also for The Conran Shop Angela designed Terrain in 2005

and the Felix in 2006

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Nomad & Nest

Nomad & Nest is one of most important home-grown brands created by the attic 2 Studio. Originally inspired by the mounds of character-rich leather and fabric off-cuts hoarded for years by us resourceful designers, the fashion label has become a brand and business in it's own right with an sustainable philosophy evolved out of attic 2's Future-Thinking. We are responsible for the brand, products and website design and creative direction (working with our WonderCulture collaborator's and design agency Hoffi on the latter). Nomad & Nest feeds our soul. We'll say no more as the brand site and and online store speaks for itself. We're really proud guardians of this home-grown brand!

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