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INDUSTRY UPDATE THE TILE ASSOCIATION COLUMN THE KBSA COLUMN
Kbsa announces 2020/21 Designer Award winners
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TTA hosted by Spanish tile manufacturers
R
ecently a group of TTA representatives spent four days in Castellón, Spain, hosted by ASCER (The Spanish Ceramic
Tile Manufacturers’ Association) and the Castellón Chamber of Commerce. The UK group was organised by TTA, but the visit, including flights,
accommodation and most meals, was fully funded by the Spanish hosts, for which TTA is very grateful. The UK is the world’s third largest export market for the Spanish tile
producers. The TTA group was invited to the country’s most important tile producing region to learn about the new generation of large format tiles, and they heard presentations from a number of leading manufacturers during the trip, and had the opportunity for some hands-on experience as well. Large format tiles and panels, although accounting for a small segment of the UK market currently, are now growing very rapidly in terms of market penetration. The TTA group comprised mainly tile installers, retailers and distributors
and the Spanish hosts put on a highly informative programme of activities for their benefit. The visitors enjoyed a number of visits to factories and showrooms belonging to some of the major players in the large format tile sector in the Castellón area, such as Grespania and Idylium. The programme also included a day of training, which was delivered by
Proalso, the Spanish Tile Installers Association. The TTA guests found this particularly useful, as it helped answer many of the queries that they had regarding the applicability and installation of large format tiles. As well as a great learning opportunity for the TTA group, the visit
further strengthened the relationship that TTA now has with ASCER. These relations are already highly productive, following a marketing collaboration which started last year between the two associations. The TTA visit did not go unnoticed by the local media and was featured
on the local Castellón television news. The clip can be viewed on TTA’s Facebook page.
he Kbsa has announced the winners for the 2020/21 Kbsa Designer Awards.
The winners were chosen by the independent judging panel that
includes Ainhoa Bilbao, kitchen designer at Bulthaup; Martin Gill, managing director at And So To Bed Ltd; Andrea Hillier, national retail services manager at Blum UK; Keith Myers, director at The Myers Touch, and Adrian Stoneham, managing director at Stoneham Kitchens. The judges said that the overall quality of designs this year is
outstanding and that there is some great young talent coming through via the Young Designer Award.
The list of winners is as follows:
Kitchens up to £25K sponsored by AEG • Matthew Grantham – Kreativ Kitchens
Kitchens £25k-£50k sponsored by Blanco • Diane Berry – Diane Berry Kitchens Ltd
Kitchens over £50k sponsored by Neff • Diane Berry – Diane Berry Kitchens Ltd
Bathroom Designer sponsored by Airflow Developments Ltd • Stuart Hendry – Kutchenhaus Stamford
Young Designer sponsored by Franke • Charlotte Jewkes – KC Design House
Kitchen Concept Designer sponsored by Blum • Adam Bomok – cu_cucine Each of the winners receive a unique trophy made by corporate
member CLR Stone, a certificate, a graphics panel of their winning project for display in their showroom, and a cash prize of £1,000. Charlotte Jewkes, winner of the Young Designer Award wins a cash
prize of £1000 and an additional award of £1500 in the form of an educational/training grant which can be used to improve knowledge and skills of kitchen design related topics. In addition to the designer awards, the customer service award,
sponsored by Fisher & Paykel Appliances, was won by retailer Hale & Murray and the Supplier Award sponsored by QANW & Clear Insurance Management was won by Quooker. All of the shortlisted projects and winners are now featured on the
Kbsa website and can be seen at
https://www.kbsa.org.uk/design-awards-2021/
u For further information or to join TTA visit
www.tiles.org.uk/join
38 BKU JANUARY 2022
uMore details are available from The KBSA
www.kbsa.org.uk or call 01623 818808
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