Welcome to the Furniture Makers press centre
Here you’ll find press releases covering all the latest news about the Company’s various activities – in particular about its Guild Mark schemes and training courses for furniture design students and young managers.
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Press Releases
2 April 2012
John Lewis Partnership signs up to support Design Guild Mark
The Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers has announced that the John Lewis Partnership will sponsor and support its Design Guild Mark in the run up to the 2013 awards and beyond. This will help to further develop the Design Guild Mark as the award that all aspiring British designers working in the UK or abroad will want to achieve.
Design Guild Mark
23 November 2011
An Award for Excellence in British Furniture Design – call for entries
The Furniture Makers’ Company are calling for entries for The Design Guild Mark 2012. The Design Guild Mark rewards excellence in the design of furniture in volume production. By the award of this Guild Mark for designs which meet the Furniture Makers’ Company’s criteria, the designers will receive due recognition and the industry will be made more aware of the importance of investment in design. The Design Guild Mark rewards the work of the finest designers working in Britain and the best of British designers working abroad.
Deadlines for Applications for the 2012 Design Guild Marks
Deadline for applications will be 27th February 2012. Application forms can be found on the following website: www.furnituremakers.org.uk
Design Guild Mark
19 October 2011
New sustainability award for British manufacturers
The efforts of British furniture manufacturers to become greener are to be recognised by a new annual award from the industry’s Livery company, the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers.
General News
23 September 2011
Industry's Charities to Merge
The Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers has announced that its charitable arm is to merge with the furniture and furnishing industry’s other charity, the Furnishing Industry Trust.
The two entities will combine their administrations but the Livery Company will continue to foster the industry, while the Trust will concern itself with supporting the industry’s people.
The combined charities will operate from Furniture Makers’ Hall in Austin Friars, EC2.
General News
20 September 2011
An Award for Excellence in British Furniture Design – The Design Guild Mark call for entries at 100% Design, Directors Cut
The Furniture Makers’ Company are launching the call for entries for The Design Guild Mark 2012 at 100% Design Exhibition, 22nd-25th September, Earls Court, London
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