Isabel’s Picks for April 2011

Isabel’s Picks for April 2011

A TIME OF RENEWAL

With some brand new products

1. LIGHT PENDANT

Manufacturer: Foscarini

Designer: Vicente Garcia Jimenez

Name: Le Soleil

Price Range: €800

Material: Polycarbonate – available in white, red or aquamarine.

Lamps: 3x60w G9 Halogen energy saver / 1x75w GU10 Halogen UV.

Available to Ireland from: www.designer-lights.com

2. SEAMLESS WINDOW

Manufacturer: Vrogum – Svarre A/S

Name: Svarre

Price Range: n/a

Material: Timber and triple glass.

Key Features: The outside of the svarre window is all glass and presents a seamless, flat, shiny surface. The border of the glass is coloured and covers the timber frame on the inside. Maintenance free. 6 mm toughened safety glass on the outside. Excellent soundproof qualities with up to DB 38. Ug values of 0,9 as standard. 2 weather seals. 3 layers of glass with different thickness. Burglary proof hardware.

Available in Ireland from: Danhus Window Systems

3. EASTER DECORATIONS

Price Range: €12 per set of 18 pieces

Materials: Felt.

Available to Ireland from: Velvet & Brown

4. MICRO-CHP BOILER

Manufacturer: Baxi

Name: Baxi Ecogen™

Price Range: over €6,000 (including installation)

Key Facts: High efficiency CHP boiler. CHP stands for ‘combined heat and power’. This means the Baxi Ecogen is a dual energy system that generates heat and electricity at the same time. Not only provides highly efficient heating and hot water, it also generates low cost, low carbon electricity (up to 1kW per hour) in the process.

Available in Ireland from: Potterton Myson Ireland

5. PLEXWOOD

Trademark: Plexwood

Price Range: €33-106/m2

Materials: Plexwood is composed of veneer layers of end-grain wood and wood with the grain, giving it a typical line structure. Available in birch, beech, oak, pine, pine/ocoume, meranti, ocoume, poplar and deal.

Applications: Floor, wall, doors, furniture, ornaments. Plexwood is available as strip, parquet strip, plank, tile, panel one-sided, panel two-sided, panel flexible, solid, profile and special.

Available to Ireland from: Plexwood

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