We are sharing a stand with Affordable Art again, so please come along and catch up, we have our new Glass Fusions range on display. We can be found on stand M16.

The Crafts Council is launching a internet based scheme to show just how much support there is for contemporary craft based businesses like Florentine Designs, showing the best of UK hand-made designs. Spokeswomen Jill Read says; “we know that craft matters to thousands of people across the UK and we want to show this body [...]

Here are some pictures of our new booth, as the organisers are refurbing our floor we will be moving to a new booth next Spring, so look out for a whole new look then.

We are now Farrow and Ball specifiers and are able to offer their range of colours on our various frames, both inner and outer frames. So now you can specify a truly unique design. Please get in touch if you need colour swatches.

We now have a Twitter site, follow us here http://twitter.com/lifeintheframe

With so much of our business being conducted in the US, to make it easier (and cheaper) for our US based customers to get in touch, we now have a US based phone number ……… (+1) 336 609 7057. During High Point market this phone will ring on our booth for the High Point Showroom, [...]

Having tried the fax to email service and found it to be truly liberating and having received a phone bill that scared the life out of us, we have been reviewing our whole communication strategy. For those of you that having tried to reach us, despite voicemail and the like, with the time we spend [...]

We have been reviewing just how often our fax rings, as you might guess with more and more of our business being transacted over email and with the time we spend away from the office either working for customers on site or away at trade shows and fairs, we will be testing a new fax [...]

I was talking to a Florentine customer the other day, and they asked me about contract framing. They actually asked if I could recommend someone ! I pointed them to the tBFW website, it took a while, but then the penny dropped, ‘oh, thats you’ they said rather embarrassed. They needed a framing company that could handle the [...]

Back in 2006, long before the whole ‘eco’ thing became as big as it is now. BIDA, British Interior Design Association, recognized the trend and awarded Florentine Designs an award in the following category ‘Products of Outstanding Quality & Design Innovation’. The whole release can be seen here on the BIDA website please note the old address and [...]