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What next for The Garden Centre Group?
Lechlade and Cheddar make it 132 for The Garden Centre Group
GIMA director Neil Gow resigns
Amazing August is 30% up – let's shout about it!
Haskins hold 'brew-off' to find top baristas
Orchids win the battle against tomatoes
Ex-Tesco man to manage Bents store
If you’re going to Glee to find your new bestsellers for next year…
Centre's £1.5m restaurant plan gets go-ahead
RHS endorsed Burgon & Ball tools are hot sellers
Will your Christmas trees come from a champion grower?
Crystals and light: the next big thing for Christmas displays?
GIMA trial 'speed dating' for Glee exhibitors...
Over 50% of customers are willing to pay more to eat in a restaurant that is run sustainably.
World Champion at Studley Garden Centre
Exchange damaged CC trolleys at South West Growers Show
Green manure seeds are new bestsellers
Gardman unwrap details of new sales campaign
Fine food retailers in fine fetttle says survey
Strictly come gardening…
Growing media makes up for lost ground
How can ‘horticulture’ solve its image problem?
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Crystals and light: the next big thing for Christmas displays?


Fancy creating a pair of 6.5-metre mythical creatures for your Christmas display, using just steel cables and crystals? Inspired By Design have the technoloogy…

Armed with a brief to design and produce a pair of delicately handcrafted crystal Chinese Dragons, Inspired By Design (IBD) rose to the challenge. These dramatic lighting installations, developed by IBD founder Simon Shuck and featuring extravagant Chinese Dragons, were destined for Buddha-Bar, in Knightsbridge, currently hailed as London’s most fashionable East-meets-West restaurant. The dragons are suspended over two levels of the restaurant, animated only by coloured RGB lights.

 Shuck said: “We are always excited by new projects that involve a bit of ingenuity and resourcefulness. On top of which we had to suspend these huge and majestic beast within each of the two stair voids, attached to only a bespoke floor and ceiling plate”.

Now, that must give ambitious garden centres food for thought…

For more information, go to www.inspired-by-design.co.uk

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