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

BBC Good Food Show Scotland at the SECC

A fantastic weekend at the Good Food Show Scotland in Glasgow. Many thanks to Lovely Bubbly!

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.

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.

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 8^th 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.

Champagne Trays

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 – 10^th October 2010 – launch of Champagne Trays

Taste of Christmas, ExCel, London, 3 – 5^th December 2010

Further information and high-resolution images are available on request.

Dirleton Gallery Exhibition

Fiona Campbell Furniture's Flush Top Bench is currently being exhibited in Dirleton Gallery, East Lothian.

Solid oak with rounded off flush top legs

1400 x 450 x 340mm

£950

Scotland's Countryside Festival

Champagne Trays were exhibiting with Lovely Bubbly this weekend in the beautiful Glamis Castle at Scotland's Countryside Festival. The weather was fantastic and the champagne was flowing. A great success all round.




Many thanks to Lovely Bubbly...

Foodies

Fiona Campbell Champagne Trays exhibited at Foodies Festival this weekend with Gulp Foods.

Gulp Foods will be selling Fiona Campbell Champagne Trays from now on in their newly opened shop and in their extensive online store.

Gulp sells 'everything (inedible!) for cooking, eating , drinking, entertaining and giving.' The founder Miriam, has put together a fantastic collection of all her favourite glassware, kitchen utensils and catering equipment.

Her passion for food and all that comes with it can be seen through her blog and website.

Miriam says "I love things that work, things that do what they say on the box.
I love things that are lovely to look at and lovely to hold (some would say, beautifully designed.)
My favourite things are functional as well as either fun or smart (smart clever or smart looking.)"

Taste Of London

Taste Of London was a great success. Lots of orders, lots of interest and a fantastic way to spend a weekend. A big thanks to Lovely Bubbly for all the help.

Taste of London - "The Worlds Greatest Restaurant Festival"

'Taste' is the annual celebration of the finest food and drink the capital has to offer in conjunction with Channel 4 and in partnership with British Airways.

This weekend we are exhibiting Champagne Trays at Taste of London with Lovely Bubbly, an expert team of champagne importers who specialise in offering the customer the complete champagne experience.

Taste of London is in its seventh year of bringing together the worlds top food and drink experts. This year exhibitors include Heston Blumenthal, Giorgio Locatelli, Michel Roux Jr, Tamarind, The Cinnamon Club, Gaucho and Tom's Kitchen.

www.lovelybubbly.co.uk

www.tastefestivals.com/london

Every party needs champagne..

The Debut Exhibition of Method Furniture will be held in a secret location in Edinburgh on 19th June. They have asked a handful of other artists and designers to add pieces to their exhibition.

Champagne Trays will be exhibited and used to serve drinks on the night. They are expecting a large turnout and do not want any spillages!

Method furniture is a collaboration between Callum Robinson, a Designer / Cabinetmaker, and Architect Marisa Giannasi. I love their series of Method Test Cubes (see photo). I wish them all the luck with their launch.


www.methodfurniture.co.uk

Art News

A photograph of a Fiona Campbell Loop Leg Planter and an article about 'Studio D Presents' was featured in this months edition of Art News.

Gallery Opening

Alan Connell, Fiona Campbell, Nicolas Perring, Ray Todhunter, Patti Yuill, Catherine Cains, Robbie Reid and Louise Johnston

A successful opening for 'Studio D Presents' on Saturday night.
Paintings, furniture, photography and jewellery were exhibited in this collaborative exhibition in Dirleton Gallery.

Art Mag Feature

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Studio D Presents

'Studio D Presents' opens today in Dirleton Gallery, East Lothian. Fiona Campbell Furniture is launching a range of Champagne Trays and exhibiting a range of oak mirrors, a flush top bench and a loop leg planter.

As an innovative way of celebrating her first year at Dirleton Gallery, Catherine Cains decided to put together a one-off exhibition of work from Studio D which includes painting, furniture, design, jewellery and installation art. Studio D houses a range of artists and cabinet makers working alonside each other in the Gilmerton Estate, East Lothian. The various elements will be accompanied by original music inspired by some of the works, composed and played by Louise Johnston and Ray Todhunter live at the preview.

Artists and cabinet makers include Fiona Campbell Furniture, Totum Woodworks, Patti Yuill, Chris Burgess, Robbie Ried Furniture, Grace Paul and Allan Connell.

www.dirletongallery.co.uk

'Wych Elm' Review

Fiona Campbell Furniture featured in a book that was published alongside the Wych Elm Exhibition in October.
Here is British Wildlife magazine's review.

Wych Elm Published

The hardback 'Wych Elm' has been published alongside the opening of the exhibition.

It describes the ecological and cultural history of Ulma glabra, the Wych or Scot's elm. Ravaged by Dutch elm disease but more resistant than field elms and hence still thriving in some of it's preferred cool habitats such as the Highlands and West coast of Scotland.

The second half of the book is a celebration of a 200 year old tree felled in Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. It describes how it has been utilised by some of Scotland's cabinet makers in a series of commissioned pieces for the Wych Elm project and exhibition, and also features work by artists who have incorporated the timber in diverse ways into their work.

Wych Elm Project Exhibition

Fiona Campbell Furniture is currently exhibiting work in the Wych Elm Project which runs for the next five months.

www.wychelmproject.org

The exhibition celebrates the opening of the beautiful new building, The John Hope Gateway, in Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden.

The Wych Elm Project is unique in that all the work has been commissioned. The Botanic Gardens commissioned six champagne trays for them to exhibit and use on opening night to serve drinks.

The Wych Elm Project follows on from two very successful exhibitions seen at the gardens. In 1993 Tim Stead used all of an ash tree from the Botanic Garden to make a huge range of sculpture and furniture. In 2001 the OneTree Exhibition brought a collection of art, sculpture and furniture made from a single English oak. The third in the trilogy is using a much loved elm tree that sadly had to be felled in the Botanic Garden.

The wood was dried out over several years and passed out to Scotlands leading craftspeople and makers to create pieces of art, sculpture, furniture and jewellery.

The exhibition also reports on the wych elm community projects that combine creativity and conservation.

Elms are rapidly disappearing from Edinburgh’s streets and parks due to dutch elm disease and the project aims to highlight the unique value of this tree and the timber it provides.