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93FT WIN ‘BEST INTERIOR DESIGN PRACTICE’ IN THE NORTHERN DESIGN AWARDS 2012

Monday, December 3rd, 2012

Our creators and permanent residents  93ft, have been announced as the winners of the ‘Best Interior Design Practice’ in the North of England.

A stellar line up of nationally acclaimed experts in design including Sir Terence Conran, Livingetc’s editor, Suzanne Imre, Linda Barker and Wayne Hemingway MBE judged 93ft the winners of the category based on the strength of their interiors portfolio.

Uniquely representing Yorkshire and shortlisted out of hundreds of entries, 93ft competed against four other design houses from the North at the awards for the prestigious title of ‘Interior Design Practice of the Year’.

93ft are regarded by the industry as specialists in presenting bespoke turnkey design which pushes past ‘just’ interior design and incorporates ID and Brand to accompany interior solutions that gives their clients the platforms they need to develop and improve their business in commercial, retail, leisure and hospitality environments.

Based in Sheffield but working all over the UK and into Europe 93ft led by owner Tim Hubbard, 93ft work with brands who are willing to use interior design as a way to improve their business prospects and to elevate their brand to a level which reflects products they sell, environment or the ethos in which they run their day to day.

Hubbard comments ‘We work with a great range of clients with varying budgets and timescales. A new interior often means closing – and the inevitable loss of trading time. We not only design bespoke but direct and project manage to ensure our clients open as fast as possible but with exceptionally high standard results, to be recognised for this in this economic climate is not only reassuring but immensely pleasing.’

An important part of 93ft’s design ethos is the use of high quality reclaim and salvage materials which have been rescued, restored and applied into architectural interiors. Hubbard comments ‘using reclaim isn’t always the easiest way – but the results of historic woods and antique leathers, materials with meaning and heritage make all the difference to us and our clients.’

ENDS

Fact Box

93ft is based in Sheffield, Kelham Island. They have been established for 8 years.

93ft are a Design and Brand Embassy who specialise in delivering solutions for brand and creative content, web design and development, product innovation, photography and interior architecture, including sourcing and specification. They work nationally and internationally.

Practicing what they preach they purchased a ‘restoration project’ in 2009 ‘The Chimney House’ and are based there full time with an office of 6 staff.

Tim Hubbard is owner and Director of Interiors working all over the UK and into Europe on interiors and architecture as well as on full time sourcing and salvaging for ‘The Stock Room’ an online perusal portal for architectural reclaim and highly prized pieces which have been reworked in-house to apply into interiors as part of 93ft.

For further images and more details please contact sally@larkpr.com

93ft Website

To view the 93ft winning entry for The Northern Design Awards click here

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93ft Representing Yorkshire for Interior Design in the Northern Design Awards 2012

Sunday, November 4th, 2012

Our rescuers, restorers and creators -  93ft have been announced as the only Yorkshire finalists in the Northern Design Awards 2012. Here come the deets!

Shortlisted out of hundreds 93ft accompany four other design houses from the North of England for the prestigious title of ‘Interior Design Practice of the Year’.

93ft are regarded by the industry as specialists in presenting bespoke turnkey design which pushes past ‘just’ interior design and incorporates ID and Brand to accompany interior solutions that gives their clients the platforms they need to develop and improve their business.

Based in Sheffield but working all over the UK and into Europe 93ft led by owner Tim Hubbard, 93ft work with brands who are willing to use interior design as a way to improve their business prospects and to elevate their brand to a level which reflects products they sell, environment or the ethos in which they run their day to day.

Hubbard comments ‘Many of of our clients are working to tight budgets and even tighter time scale. A new interior often means closing  – and the inevitable loss of trading time. We not only design bespoke but direct and project manage to ensure our clients open as fast as possible but with exceptionally high standard results, to be recognised for this in this economic climate is not only reassuring but immensely pleasing.’

93ft’s trademark for both residential and commercial schemes is the use of reclaim and salvage materials which have been rescued, restored and applied into architectural interiors. Hubbard comments ‘using reclaim isn’t always the easiest way – but the results of historic woods and antique leathers, materials with meaning and heritage make all the difference to us and our clients.’

Judges responsible for drawing up the shortlist for The Northern Design Awards include Sir Terence Conran and Livingetc’s editor, Suzanne Imre, Linda Barker and Wayne Hemingway MBE.

Wayne Hemingway MBE is hosting the ‘must attend’ Awards ceremony in Manchester on the 30th November 2012.

Fact Box

93ft,  based in Sheffield, Kelham Island. They have been established for 8 years.

93ft are a Design and Brand Embassy who specialise in delivering solutions for brand and creative content, web design and development, product innovation, photography and interior architecture, including sourcing and specification. They work nationally and internationally.

Practicing what they preach they purchased a ‘restoration project’ in 2009 ‘The Chimney House’ and are based there full time with an office of 6 staff.

Tim Hubbard is owner and Director of Interiors working all over the UK and into Europe on interiors and architecture as well as on full time sourcing and salvaging for ‘The Stock Room’ an online perusal portal for architectural reclaim and highly prized pieces which have been reworked in-house to apply into interiors as part of 93ft.

The 93ft Website – http://www.93ft.com/

To view the 93ft entry for The Northern Design Awards and to for the other finalists – http://www.northerndesignawards.com/short-list

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The Perfect Location for a Christmas Shoot – says UK Locations

Thursday, September 13th, 2012

Very pleased to have received a very cool shout out from UK Locations…

This is what they’ve said… ‘This Yorkshire-based location has everything you’ll need for the perfect Christmas shoot. It can be dressed exactly as you like – think boughs of holly, glimmering candles, English florals and crackling log fires! It has lots of free parking, lunch can be provided on site and it’s only 1 hour from both Manchester and Leeds.’

UK Locations team has over 30 years’ experience in the media and entertainment industry and over the years have worked on films, BAFTA award winning contemporary TV drama, period dramas, comedy shows, commercials, pop promos and stills photographic shoots…So we’re pretty damn pleased to be in their News and Chat as well as their newsletter…

They have used our shots from our Chrissie Photoshoot as well shot by James at 93ft…. So you get to drool over tasty festive items from our menus as well…

Thanks to UK Locations!!!

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Article in The Guardian’s Northener! The Meeting Room at The Chimney House Sheffield

Monday, July 9th, 2012

It seems our Summer Supper of celebration for our World ranking piqued the interest of one of our journalist guests enough to write us a fabulous piece for The Guardian’s Northerner.

We’re totally delighted…Of course…This is what was said…(We’ve added a couple more shots of our Summer House Party in here!!) The pics from the pro photographer that accompanies the piece  are on the link below!

Credit and reference The Guardian – The Northerner

Sheffield’s Chimney House celebrates ‘second best boardroom in the world’
A curious building with a curious past, it once housed an elephant used for carrying heavy components in armaments manufacture during the First World War. Marishka Van Steenbergen takes a look

Sheffield’s independent venue The Chimney House has just munched through a summer supper to celebrate being ranked at the top of a list of the ‘most creatively designed boardrooms’ in the world.

Judges were both startled and inspired by the room’s recreation of the building’s history which includes an elephant and free fishing for steel workers in the river which laps at the former factory’s walls.

Defying the current odd weather, guests from local business and the neighbourhood were treated to a sit-down do in the Meeting Room , which won the prize, by the building’s co-owners Sally Clark and Tim Hubbard. They rescued and restored the grade II listed monument in Sheffield’s old industrial heartland of Kelham Island in 2010, transforming a warren of small businesses with recycled material from architectural salvage yards and reclaim sites.

Clark, who owns LARK PR , says that holding regular house parties to thank supporters is now part of business life in the aptly-named social networking age:

I’m a firm believer that if people are supporting you on Facebook and Twitter, you should say thank you. The parties are also a ‘come and have a look around’ for people whom we would like to introduce to The Chimney House. So it’s a mix of people and it’s our appreciation of people being ambassadors for us.

The Chimney House now incorporates Hubbard’s design office 93ft, Clark’s LARK and the Meeting Room which is designed to be an ‘away-from-home’ boardroom for business hire, conferences and training days, as well as parties and weddings. A local husband and wife team, Coco Catering, do all the food and drink. Clark says:

They’ve been working with us for a year and a half now and they’ve been on this whole journey with us.

That journey took 18 months and was a labour of love, says Hubbard:

It’s more like a way of life for us. It’s really inspirational for people, transcending far beyond just a place where people come to meet. We find that everybody who comes here says that they have a much more creative meeting, more relaxing and with a lot more output.

Their accolade has been given by eVenues of Seattle, seekers after strange and wonderful spaces around the world, who put the Sheffielders comfortably ahead of slick rivals in Baltimore, Cape Town and Berlin and second only to a spoof submarine used by a games company in San Francisco. eVenues describes the Meeting Room as refreshing in comparison with the ‘sleek, futuristic’ boardrooms judges had already seen.

The red brick walls, hardwood floors and salvaged furniture and décor give the place a welcoming, ‘lived-in’ feeling which is sure to make anyone feel at home the moment they walk in.

The Chimney House got its name from its 93ft chimney, which soars straight through the room’s floor and out of its roof. The history of the building has been tracked back to 1860 and the origins of the steel rolling mills which made Kelham Island famous.

For the rest of the article – click here!

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Sheffield Venue Wins Award – says The Sheffield Telegraph!

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

Been covered in The Sheffield Telegraph n Star today…Thanks chaps!

This is what they said…

SHEFFIELD venue The Chimney House has been ranked at the top of the list for the most creatively designed boardrooms in the World.

Seattle-based experts eVenues, who deal with meetings, events and unique spaces from around the globe, placed The Chimney House in Kelham Island at number two ahead of top creative meeting spaces and boardrooms in Baltimore, Cape Town and Berlin.

A spokesman for eVenues said: “While most of the creative boardroom designs sport a sleek futuristic look, it was refreshing to find the Sheffield meeting room at a UK venue called The Chimney House.

“The red-brick walls, hardwood floors and salvaged furniture and decor give the place a welcoming, lived-in, feeling which is sure to make anyone feel at home the moment they walk in.”

A former factory, The Chimney House building was rescued and restored by design house 93ft. It is used for meetings, launches and conferences and attracts companies, brands and businesses from all the UK and Europe.

Co-owner Sally Clark said: “Every element of The Chimney House has been designed to be inspirational and innovative – we’re delighted that we have ranked with the best in the world.”

Read the full article here!

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World Class Ranking for Kelham Island Venue Space – by Postcode Gazette

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

We’re delighted to have been featured in Postcode Gazette today… Chris Savage has written a super cool piece on us! Thanks Chris!

He’s what he had to say…

‘Venue space, The Meeting Room, in The Chimney House on Kelham Island, has been ranked the second most creatively designed boardroom in the world.

eVenues, Seattle-based experts in meeting, events and unique spaces, announced the shortlist on their blog last week.

The Chimney House is a grade II listed building and is part of the industrial heritage of Kelham Island.

eVenues said: “The red-brick walls, hardwood floors and salvaged furniture and décor give the place a welcoming, “lived-in” feeling.”

This uniquely ‘Sheffield’ space beat a boardroom in a Baltimore bank vault, a meeting room with a Lego brick table in an Irish advertising agency, and a room in Cape Town that changes colour based on ambient light.

Since opening in 2010, the venue has been used for meetings, training sessions, workshops, away days and conferences, even weddings.

Once upon a time, the building was home to a working elephant, Sarah, who helped out with the heavy lifting in the area’s rolling mills.

Sally Clark, owner of The Chimney House, said: “The Meeting Room has been designed to be inspirational and innovative – we’re delighted that we have ranked with the best in the world.

“Every element of the design, furniture and items in The Meeting Room tells a story of recycling and reworked purpose which we’re proud to be recognised for.”

The Meeting Room can hold from four to 55 people.’

You can see the whole article and images here


Sally can be contacted at The Chimney House on 0114 276 7885 and sally@thechimneyhouse.com

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Ranked Number 2 in The World’s Most Creatively Designed Meeting Rooms Shortlist!

Friday, May 25th, 2012

Now here’s a lovely Friday afternoon accolade!!

The Meeting Room at The Chimney House, Sheffield has been ranked NUMBER 2 in The World’s Most Creatively Designed Meeting Rooms..Alongside Meeting Rooms in Berlin, Cape Town and Baltimore!

This is what they said…

‘While most of the creative boardroom designs sport a sleek futuristic look, it was refreshing to find the Sheffield meeting room at a UK venue called The Chimney House. The red-brick walls, hardwood floors and salvaged furniture and decor give the place a welcoming, “lived-in” feeling which is sure to make anyone feel at home the moment they walk in. Not only that but it comes equipped with a projector, screen, WiFi and audio system to meet any presentation’s needs.’

One thing that sets this venue apart from all the rest is that the design studio 93ft (Strange coincidence, but the Chimney House happens to be 93ft tall) which restored and rescued this 19th Century building actually makes their home here–so there was extra incentive to get it right!’

To see the full shortlist have a peek here…

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Codename ‘Chimney House’!! Celebrations all round with WANdisco at The Chimney House, Sheffield

Friday, April 27th, 2012

We’re super pleased to be celebrating with WANdisco later today…We are actually a CODENAME (Chimney House) for their latest software release otherwise known as uberSVN 12.04…YIKES!!!!

We’re mega thrilled and of course are throwing a little party… As it’s a bit of a triple celebration – what with our ‘naming’ and it’s uberSVN’s first birthday AND they are bringing uberSVN out of beta.

We’re talking champers, ale and CAKE tonight with the WANdisco crew arriving to The Chimney House en masse to toast the day!

Below is WANdisco’s official word – including full details… Thanks chaps! See you laters!

We’re very excited to announce that with the brand-new uberSVN ‘Chimney House’ release, our free, open ALM platform for Apache Subversion is now officially out of beta! Even better, this milestone comes just as uberSVN is turning one year old. This has been a fantastic twelve months for uberSVN, and we can’t think of a better way to celebrate uberSVN’s first birthday, than bringing our award winning product out of beta.

Not only does uberSVN move out of beta with the 12.04 release, but there’s plenty of new features and enhanced functionality to boot, including:

  • New plugin API architecture and core upgrade that allows WANdisco registered plugins to work with uberSVN. We’re particularly excited about this one, as it lays the foundations for future uberSVN SDK releases.
  • Subversion Access Control’s 4.1 LDAP functionality (apart from some advanced features linked directly to Access Control) has been integrated into uberSVN’s ‘Default LDAP’ tab (accessible through the ‘Administration’ section.) This is the feature uberSVN users have requested the most.
  • A new file upload function has been added to the uberSVN Updates tab. This allows us to hand build updates for installations, push updates to users who aren’t connected to the internet, and deliver specialist packages to specific installations.
  • A new option to subscribe to our Latest Release Channel or wait for us to deliver fixes highlighted by our early adopters in a Stable Release Channel. Set your preference within uberSVN.
  • Plus, the usual list of bug fixes, including updates to the activity feed posts.

Continuing our tradition of codenaming our releases after local venues in Sheffield, UK, we’re pleased to announce that uberSVN 12.04 is codenamed ‘Chimney House’ after The Chimney House venue in Kelham Island, Sheffield. We’re all looking forward to popping to The Chimney House to celebrate the joint release of uberSVN 12.04, uberSVN moving out of beta, and uberSVN’s first birthday.

Thank you to everyone who downloaded, deployed and provided feedback on the beta release. We have even more exciting announcements lined up over the coming months, so if you haven’t given uberSVN a go, now’s the perfect time! It’s free to download and free to use, just visit http://www.ubersvn.com/download to grab your copy.

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Rock n Roll Bride Workshop at The Chimney House, Sheffield

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

As a fitting ‘hats off’ for the arrival of Kat Williams -  the Queen of Rock n Roll weddings…The Rock n Roll Bride – we thought it only perfectly perfect to accessorise  The Chimney House with some delicious smelling candy pink florals and to grant sitting rights on our queenly perch – our much lusted after Elizabeth Royal chair.

The workshop hosted by the Rock n Roll Bride was hailed as a fab event by the 20 attendees  all of which sat very prettily in The Meeting Room conducting their business with gusto, drinking freshly ground coffee and snacking on pastel perfect mini eggs served up by us in tinky vintage stylee surrounded by the flickering trade mark candles of The Chimney House.

We were delighted to host the event – as not only did it give us chance to show how we present a ‘different from the norm’ in terms of our presentation of a Sheffield Meeting Room – we could also show off our Pop Up Dining Hall and exquisite wedding reception and wedding party venue in Sheffield

This is what they said…

‘The day was held at the amazing Chimney House. It was perfect for our intimate event (20 students in total) and Sally and her team made us feel very welcome.’

We say – very glad you came – and good luck with the rest of your workshops!

For more on the workshop have a peek at Kat’s blog here…

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9 Buildings in the running for top property awards!

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

And we’re one of them!!

Read all about it!

Nine of Sheffield’s new buildings and property schemes have been shortlisted in the 2011 RICS Pro-Yorkshire Awards.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors received 69 entries for the awards, which are regarded as the region’s property Oscars.

After initial judging, 56 entries have made the shortlist and are now in with a chance of winning one of the nine awards which are presented annually to the region’s most inspirational initiatives in the property and construction sectors.

The nine short-listed schemes in Sheffield are: Western Bank Library, The Chimney House, the refurbishment of the Crucible Theatre, 2 St Paul’s Place, Sheffield Digital Campus (Building 2 and Electric Works), Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience, The Soundhouse, Norfolk Park and the new sustainable housing for Urban Regeneration.

Chairman of the RICS Yorkshire and Humberside judging panel Colin Harrop, said: “The awards are an excellent showcase for the importance of good design and inspiring construction in people’s lives.

“Great buildings really do make a difference to our home, work and private lives.”

Mr Harrop, who is also a Senior Associate at King Sturge in Leeds, added: “The RICS Pro-Yorkshire Awards also present an ideal opportunity to shout about the exemplary developments in land, property and construction in the Yorkshire region, as well as the resilience and talent of our property and construction professionals.

“We were delighted to receive such a high number of entries – one of the highest in the country – having suffered some challenging economic conditions in recent years.

“On the other hand, with some many great schemes around it has made the short-listing process particularly tough this year.”

There are eight award categories – Building Conservation, Commercial, Community Benefit, Design & Innovation, Regeneration, Residential, Sustainability and Tourism & Leisure – and the prestigious accolade ‘Project of the Year’ is awarded to the entry judged to have scored the highest across all categories.

Each year the regional winners in four of the categories (Building Conservation, Sustainability, Community Benefit and Regeneration) are automatically entered into the national RICS Awards, where they compete against other leading projects from across the UK.

Judging of the Pro-Yorkshire short-listed entries is now underway and the winners will be announced at an awards dinner on May 20 at The Pavilion, Elland Road, in Leeds.

Published on Thursday 24 March 2011 Sheffield Telegraph

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