Friday, 11 November 2011
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Champagne Trays at Royal Ascot
Champagne Trays have been put to excellent use this week at Royal Ascot!
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Champagne Trays at Taste Festivals
Champagne Trays will again be exhibiting with Lovely Bubbly this June and July at Taste of London and Taste of Edinburgh. Come along for a glass of lovely bubbly champagne and enjoy the food, drink and atmosphere.Taste of London 17 - 20 June in Regent's Park
Taste of Edinburgh 1 - 3 July in the Meadows
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Painted Coffee Table
Large coffee table designed and made by Fiona Campbell Furniture.Key Features
- solid sycamore top
- painted base and shelf
- book matched top
1m x 1m x 40cm
Matching side tables
Rennie MacIntosh Occasional Wall Table
Solid Sycamore occasional wall table designed for an Edinburgh based customer. She asked for the design to be based on her favourite earrings.Key Features
- loop leg design
- purple stain glass inside legs
- toughened 12mm glass top
- matching side tables
- laminated legs
180cm x 90cm x 32cm
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Spice, Slice and Stripes
This set of kitchen furniture was designed by Fiona Campbell Furniture for, and with a local customer. They wanted a versatile kitchen island that would allow different types of storage and act as a kitchen table for eating suppers. It was to become the hub of the kitchen. The walnut strips flow through the stools, handles and top giving continuity. It is set on four castors so that it can be wheeled in and out of the kitchen. This piece was a joy to make.
Island - Key Features :
Solid oak, solid walnut and oak veneered boards.
Spice racks
Two large drawers
Flap down bread drawer
Removable shelving
Matching stools that slot into the unit
Two hidden cupboards
Flap up surface for eating.
Shadow gap on top and stools
This island has over 100 joints and required four people to lift it.
Matching Stools
These stools were designed to match the oak and walnut kitchen island. The pair slide easily into each end of the unit.Key features :
Solid oak
Solid walnut stripes
Shadow gap
Foot rest
Slanted back rest
Monday, 20 December 2010
Onto The Pipeline
Fiona Campbell Champagne Trays has been accepted on to Business Gateways Growth Pipeline. Achieving a place on the Pipeline comes after a lot of hard work at the Chamber of Commerce and Business Gateway. A big thanks to everyone who helped. Very excited about the next two years.
The plan is to the develop the original design, commercialize the product, go global and develop future products and ranges.
Monday, 29 November 2010
Edinburgh Reporter Chats to Fiona Campbell
Phyllis Stephen at the Edinburgh Reporter published this interview with Fiona Campbell this week. Fiona and Phyllis chat about what it is like to run a business and work in the city of Edinburgh.Please follow this link to read the full article.
Thursday, 28 October 2010
Essentially Catering Feature
Champagne Trays feature in the news section of Essentially Catering magazine this month."As ever, the simple ideas are the best. Designed by Fiona Campbell - who graduated as 'Student of the Year' from the Chippendale International School of Furniture in 2000 - these stackable trays, which are available in a range of colours, allow glasses (champagne, red and white wine) to sit snugly in holes making life as a wine waiter or waitress a whole lot easier."
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Thursday, 21 October 2010
BBC Good Food Show Scotland
Fiona Campbell Champagne Trays will be on exhibition this weekend at BBC Good Food Show Scotland in the SECC, Glasgow.
Gulp Foods has donated beautiful bottomless silver champagne flutes and Matz Borgstrom shot glasses to show with the trays.
We will be on stand D44 - come along and find us and enjoy a glass of Lovely Bubbly Champagne.
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Channel 4 Wedding House - Champagne Tray
Fiona Campbell Champagne Trays had their television debut on Channel 4s Wedding House tonight. The producers were looking to find a tray that would eliminate the problem of their waiters or the wind toppling glasses of champagne or wine whilst serving drinks in the grounds of the wedding venue, Sundridge Park Manor.
Monday, 4 October 2010
Grand Designs LIVE
Champagne Trays will be on exhibition with Lovely Bubbly at Grand Designs LIVE from 8th - 10th October in Birmingham NEC.
Grand Desings LIVE is the UK’s number one, award-winning home show packed with design and inspiration for your home. Come along and have a lovely glass of bubbly at stand F17 in the Grand Food Court if you are around.
Saturday, 25 September 2010
Press Release
No more spilled champagne and broken glasses! Fiona Campbell designs and produces an innovative tray for serving champagne and wine. Fiona Campbell Furniture launches its new website and full range of Perspex and wooden Champagne Trays on 8th October at Grand Designs LIVE.
About
Fiona Campbell, who graduated as ‘Student of the Year’ at the Chippendale International School of Furniture in 2000, set up her business, Fiona Campbell Furniture, in 2001. She later gained a Master’s degree in Design from Dundee University.
Applying traditional cabinet making to contemporary design techniques, Fiona produces pieces that are innovative and enduring.
Fiona’s latest range takes her business in a new direction. She has designed a series of safe drinks trays that eliminate the problem of dropping glasses while serving champagne or wine.
Background
Fiona was commissioned to design and make wooden trays for a local catering company. They asked her to come up with a design that would overcome the problem of spillages and breakages in busy, confined spaces, as they estimated they lost £50 worth of glasses and champagne a week in dropped trays.
Fiona, who has worked as a waitress in the past, developed a unique design that allows glasses to sit snuggly in holes around the tray. The trays provide a high quality, aesthetic accessory for safely serving champagne flutes, and red and white wine glasses.
The trays, which are stackable, are now available in a range of colours of Perspex manufactured in an Edinburgh-based factory. Fiona is particularly proud that the trays are designed and manufactured in Scotland.
She says, ‘The way the glasses are suspended adds to the theatre and beauty of serving. Saving catering companies the embarrassment and expense of broken glasses and wasted champagne also adds real value.’
Website Launch
This year, Fiona’s website has undergone a complete update and revamp, introducing a blog and links to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. With these additions, the site has become an interactive media. Fiona encourages visitors to the site to comment on her work, recommend it to their friends and give feedback.
Sales
Champagne Trays have become regularly used in some of the country’s most prestigious hotels, catering companies, theatres and restaurants since their soft launch in May 2010. The trays also feature in Channel 4’s newest wedding programme, Wedding House.
Exhibitions
This year, Fiona has exhibited her trays in:
Wych Elm Exhibition, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
Studio D Presents, East Lothian
Method Furnishings, Edinburgh
Taste of London, Regents Park, London
Foodies Festival, Edinburgh
Scotland’s Countryside Festival, Glamis Castle, Scotland
Gulp, North Berwick
Upcoming events:
Grand Designs LIVE, Birmingham NEC, 8 – 10th October 2010 – launch of Champagne Trays
Taste of Christmas, ExCel, London, 3 – 5th December 2010
Further information and high-resolution images are available on request.
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