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Insights from our trusted family professionals
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We look at same-sex surrogacy in the UK
Perfect
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A luxury break in the Palm Springs of the Algarve
Here’s Looking
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We take a trip to Chester Zoo with Jamie Christon
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Perfect Portugal
A luxury break in the Palm Springs of the Algarve
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31 REGULARS 006 | Publisher’s letter 008 | Contributors 012 | My life in Cheshire Andrew Tallents, Head Of Leadership Development At Orcid Partnership shares his life in Cheshire with us 015 | Notebook Your guide to the finest things to do in Cheshire and beyond
FEATURES 022 | Here’s Looking at Zoo! We take a trip to Chester Zoo with Jamie Christon 026 | Two Daddies We look at same-sex surrogacy in the UK 031 | Northern Star Reece Noi chats to us about his new Netflix drama
COLLECTION 036 | Jewellery & Watches From love bugs and
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eco-friendly jewels to decorated ears and the latest Aquatimer, the season of sunshine is brimming with must-have collections and trends you simply can’t afford to miss
STYLE 042 | Fashion Shoot Weekend Max Mara’s Nantucket collection, worn by model of the moment Hailey Bieber, draws on the charm of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, one of America’s favourite seaside resort 048 | Health, Beauty & Wellness We review some of the best beauty products, treatments and fragrances 050 | Wellness Review Richard Greenhalgh wakes up early to review Inner Strength Pilates in Knutsford
FAMILY 053 | Family We’re going all red, white and blue in celebration of our little island
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056 | Pet’s Corner All the very latest news and fabulous things for your furry family members
FOOD & DRINK 060 | Food & Drink From fine dining restaurants and enticing new menus to the best
116 cocktail bars in the Northwest. Explore chef interviews, gourmet food and drink news 064 | Meet the ‘Fit’ Chef Meet Matthew and William Co-Founders of Fit Chef, a UK wide service that helps you reach your fitness goals by delivering healthy, tasty dishes direct to your door 067 | The Sunday Roast Review The quintessentially British Sunday Roast is one of our most popular dishes, so we sent the team out to sample some of the best in the region
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Our social pages this month are filled with fizz, fun, fundraising and a whole lot of fashion from the region’s events
DRIVE 101 | Drive Behind the wheel of the latest luxury motors, from classic cars to the fastest four-wheelers; whether it sail, fly, ride or drive 104 | One Car to Rule Them All After years of writing about cars, James Fossdyke reckons he’s finally found perfection
HOME & PROPERTY 112 | Interiors News The very latest news, advice and trends from the world of interior design
116 | Feature: Make a 073 | Travel Statement The finest hotels and travel Wallpaper has been inspiration from across the making a bit of a comeback world. First-class reviews and in the past few years; we holiday recommendations, take-a-closer-look! from UK retreats and European city breaks to 121 | Trend far-flung tropical beaches Terrazzo is back and it’s more colourful, more 076 | Bodysgallen Hall playful and looks great Lindsay Rocke travelled to mixed with some North Wales to visit a 17th contemporary colours Century, National Trust haven 128 | Property Through the keyhole of 080 | The Palm Springs of the the finest addresses in the Algarve North West. Find palatial Matt Hawtin Roper properties, interior discovers the incredible inspiration and exclusive Quinta do Lago, Portugal interviews with the capital’s most in-demand architects 087 | Local Scene
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Craig Hough chats to Chester Zoo COO Jamie Christon about his life, career, the infamous fire and the overwhelming support he received in the aftermath Background
I’m originally from Northallerton, a market town in North Yorkshire which left when I was 18 to go to university in Leicester to read Politics and Public Order (as I wanted to join the police). I was accepted on a fast track scheme, but their recruitment was delayed, so I took up my other passion for retail, and my first real job was for a supermarket company in Frodsham, Cheshire. Having moved to London, I spent another eight years working in retail in for House of Fraser and Greggs. I enjoyed living in London as a young 25-year-old, and that’s where I let my hair down for a few years going out in Brixton and the West End.
Career Path
I was Head Hunted by East Midlands Airport (Manchester Airport Group) at a time when low-cost airlines were booming. The model was to sell flights at a lower price at volume and to recoup the income from passengers at the airport from retail, car parking and food and beverage. It’s here where I met my future husband, who was the PR Manager. Within a few weeks of meeting, he had moved into my house, and we spent 11 years together. My old MD at Manchester Airport messaged to say he had joined another airport company in the South West, so I moved down to Devon, living on Dartmoor for five beautiful years in a conservation village, where we had the most fantastic time. As keen gardeners, we had a beautiful rose garden that looked out onto Dartmoor which we opened 22
up to the public each year, with all donations going to charity. I worked at Exeter Airport as Managing Director, and when the recession hit I realised that living in Devon wasn’t sustainable career-wise. This prompted my decision to move back north as a director for Stena Line managing their Irish Sea operations in Anglesey. It was a beautiful place to live in the summer, but a difficult place to live in the winter months with the climate and not much to do there.
Moving Back To Chester
I moved to Chester to be closer to Manchester Airport (as i was travelling a lot), and I was sitting
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“We are the most engaged with zoo in the world” at home one Sunday reading The Times, and there was an advertisement for a vacancy of Managing Director of Chester Zoo. They were looking for someone with a commercial background, so I applied, and six years later, I’m still here. I now live 10 minutes away from work in a beautiful Victorian villa in Hoole with my dog Patch, who is my baby. I get the opportunity to travel to many places around the world to see what we are doing as a conservation organisation. I love living in Chester and wouldn’t live anywhere else.
38 messages in a minute! I went to my phone and contacted the Duty Manager who said smoke and fire were coming from a building. While I was on the phone, I went upstairs in my house, and out of the window I could see the smoke and flames, and I live about 2 miles away from the zoo. Within half an hour, I had 20 Managers from the Zoo and the emergency response team on site, and we started organising what was going to happen. In the end, we had 15 fire engines from 3 different counties and 100 firefighters tackling the flames along with our emergency response team. We had category red animals in that building, so we had to ensure they were protected, as well as our staff, the public and firefighters.
Love For The City
Chester is not too big; it’s not too small, I regard it as a safe place to live, with a personality. I know lots of people in the city and feel living in a bigger city can be quite unwelcoming or unfriendly. If I want to go to places like Manchester, Liverpool or London, it’s a train journey away. Chester is close to a large airport if I need to get away. It has a race course, a great university, beautiful Roman architecture and the river.
The Fire At Chester Zoo
It was a typical Saturday and had planned to go to Manchester with some friends for a night out. My phone is linked to all the fire alarms at work, and at about half-past 11, I was in the lounge, and I could hear my phone messaging me. I think I had
Dealing With The Media Glare
As the Zoo was open, within a couple of minutes of the fire starting, it was on social media. Within half an hour it was across the national news. We have an amazing PR team, and the entire team came to work, so they could manage the PR, allowing me to manage the crisis. We didn’t do any media interviews that day to enable me to concentrate on what I needed to do. The next day we were on BBC, ITV, Sky News, all the regionals and even abroad as well.
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Craig Hough sits down with the founder of twodaddies.co.uk Michael Johnson-Ellis to discuss his same-sex surrogacy journey When did you and partner Wes start to consider becoming parents via surrogacy? It was pretty early on in our relationship, Wes has a 15-year-old daughter with his ex-wife and I’ve also been married to a woman previously. For me I’ve always wanted children, I’ve just never been in the right relationship to have them. When I first met Wes back in June 2012 we had the conversation very early on in our relationship and I remember asking him if he wanted more, hoping he was as keen as I was. Luckily he felt the same and we pretty much started exploring surrogacy straight away.
What did you already know about same-sex surrogacy in the UK and what did you do to find out more? Back when Wes and I met we knew very little about surrogacy generally. Our perception back then was that UK surrogacy wasn’t even an option for gay men in the UK, but we were clearly wrong. We spent over 3 years researching all our options, internationally and in the UK. We even travelled abroad and attended numerous international fertility exhibitions. We explored India, Thailand, Nepal, US, Canada and Mexiconone of which felt right for us, either due to our sexuality, the cost or their experience generally. We finally decided to explore the UK so we contacted the three main not-for-profit agencies that support intended parents and surrogates. We quickly discovered that none of the main three at that period in time (2014) were taking new applications from same-sex male intended parents due
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to overwhelming numbers of intended parents and not enough surrogates. Based on the knowledge we had thus far and from what we’d learnt from Surrogacy UK (our favoured not-forprofit) we decided to conduct more research into UK surrogacy. First, we needed to understand the law so we met one of the UK’s leading surrogacy law experts Bev Jones from JMW Law in Liverpool and we began to understand the Surrogacy Act in a lot more detail and how we had to work within the current guidelines. This is partly why we set up TwoDads.U.K, because there isn’t an organisation that exclusively supports intended fathers (and fertility clinics) with UK surrogacy.
Can you talk me through the process of finding a surrogate? If you use one of the not-for-profits they will have surrogates that register with them, just as intended parents do. For those that want an independent route, there are some excellent closed community Facebook groups which allow surrogates and intended parents
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to get to know each other and hopefully ‘match’ with a view to creating a family. It’s important to realise that it is illegal in the UK currently to advertise for a surrogate. A surrogate can’t be paid commercially for carrying a child, they are currently only allowed to claim reasonable expenses which vary depending on the surrogate and her circumstances. Our process was fairly straightforward. We began talking to women who wanted to become surrogates, and really only ever met with our current surrogate as it felt right. It’s really important that friendships are established first and foremost. We spent almost 10 months getting to know our surrogate and her family before we started fertility treatment. Once the relationship was formed we chose a fertility clinic in Manchester (Care Fertility) as they had experience of same-sex surrogacy and could find us an egg donor that matched our criteria. Two/three months later they found our donor and then we were ready to begin treatment.
You have a gorgeous little girl called Talulah, how was the experience of having your first child with Wes? It literally was the most magical day of my life. As Talulah was being born by elective C-Section you can only have one person in theatre. This means that for parents who have a child via surrogacy, one parent may end up missing the birth of their child. We decided that if only one of us could see our child born, then neither of us would. We’re working on ways to change this behind the scenes to make it less discriminatory. It was also important that our surrogate was comfortable, so having her husband hold her hand was the most obvious and sensible option. We waited for our surrogate’s husband to bring our baby into a side room of the delivery ward. He knocked on the door but we could see no baby. Panic set in but he simply said ‘Get some scrubs on and come watch your baby being born’. Even saying it now, I still cry, it was totally
unexpected and so overwhelming. So at 06:00 on the 16/10/16 we witnessed Talulah enter the world, weighing 8lb exactly.
What challenges have you faced through surrogacy? We’ve had a very straight forward experience. Don’t get me wrong we get the odd stare or the odd ‘troll’ comment on Facebook or Instagram, but again, that’s why we’re raising more awareness about same-sex parenting. We did have one small bump in the road with the NHS Trust when we went for our 20 week consultant appointment. The hospital had never had a surrogacy journey before, so their policy was outdated and all based on the guidance available at the time. We had to involve our lawyer and issue an intent to sue letter, as the Trust were discriminating against us. However, the Trust were more than amicable and we managed to resolve the issues without the need to sue. Since our journey, we’ve assisted the Department of Health re-write its guidelines for Surrogates and IP’s (Intended Parents) for Healthcare Professionals
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Weekend Max Mara’s Nantucket collection, worn by model of the moment Hailey Bieber, draws on the charm of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, one of America’s favourite seaside resort
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Sunday Roast REVIEW The quintessentially British Sunday Roast is one of our most popular dishes, so we sent the team out to sample some of the best in the region
THE ROEBUCK INN, MOBBERLEY 4 for Sunday lunch in the heart of Mobberley, Cheshire The Roebuck is an award-winning inn situated in the leafy village of Mobberley. It is a Grade II listed building dating back to 1708 and is the oldest inn in the village. In 2016 the Roebuck re-opened its doors after a lengthy closure. Mary Mclaughlin and Tim Bird acquired it and restored it over 18 months basing their restoration on a ‘petit hotel and bistro’ feel within a traditional old English inn. We were warmly greeted by Chris, the General Manager and his uber friendly team. We decided upon a sharing platter to start, and we were not disappointed, the Roebuck Bistro Board was a revelation, scrumptious from chickpea fritters and Gruyere croquettes to pork meatballs and tempura cauliflower served with homemade pickles, Bosciola olives,
freshly baked bread and infused oils, what’s not to love! Our Sunday lunch mains continued with this level of satisfaction, hearty helpings of meat and vegetables perfectly cooked and a Yorkshire pudding worthy of the name (and there were three Yorkshiremen at the table that day!). A standout point was that each meat was served with its own dedicated meat gravy, a fabulously tasty touch. With a wide selection of food and drink, this is a hidden gem tucked away from the hustle and bustle, one not to be missed! Mill Lane, Mobberley, Knutsford, Cheshire, WA16 7HX www.roebuckinnmobberley.co.uk 67
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here is something very exciting about the Algarve in the southwestern part of Portugal. The climate, with its 300 days of sunshine, unspoilt coastline and if you’re a sports enthusiast, it quite simply is a ‘Disneyland’ for adults. If you look out the window as you make the final approach into Faro Airport, you will gaze down at scenery resembling the Florida Everglades. You almost have to pinch yourself to be reminded that you’ve only been flying for three hours and you’re still in the same time zone as the UK. We were met at the airport by a QDL shuttle, and after a short drive through some quaint Portuguese scenery, we turned off the main road onto a winding country lane, suddenly reaching the hidden gem that is Quinto de Lago. Over four times the size of Monaco, it’s home to some of Europe’s finest golf courses, sports facilities, finedining and acres filled with beautiful upscale villas and breath-taking 5-star hotels. We stayed at the brand new Magnolia Hotel. A unique two-story boutique property, complete with a retro neon sign that offers a taste of Palm Springs; a homage to that 1950’s Motel vibe. The property has 74 well-configured rooms
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and three suites across its two floors, plus seven lodge style self-catering cottages. It’s a resort that has been designed to offer affordable 4-star accommodation for families, golfers, or people that want a relaxing, poolside escape. The rooms are compact but contemporary, with either a balcony on the upper floor or small patio that offers direct access to the pool. This may be a 4-star hotel, but you can expect all the luxuries of something grander. Features include a high-quality, king-size bed with 300 count cotton sheets and duvets, blackout blinds, plush bath towels, and a waterfall walk-in shower with a range of branded aromatherapy skincare products. It’s obvious the owners have invested in quality where it matters. Thoughtful little touches like USB charger points, UK and International sockets, and a large flat screen TV with all the UK digital channels, give you home away from home convenience; the attention to detail adding to the air of luxury. The seven pastel-coloured cabins offer the flexibility of self-catering accommodation.
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Tucked away at the rear of the property, with views across green fields are tennis courts. You almost wish they were sitting at the edge of the sea when you step out of them. They are unique and individual in design and ideally suited to guests looking to book a more extended stay or those with families. If you venture into the basement of the main accommodation complex, you will find one of the best hotel gyms you’ve ever seen. You can understand why the hotel is proving a popular destination with international athletes and sports teams in their training season. The beautiful heated pool separating the restaurant and bar from the accommodation is surrounded by sun loungers, allowing good use of the vibrant red beach towel and flip flops the hotel leaves you in your welcome pack. The restaurant’s original menu was designed by ex Soho House Chef, Tom Briggs, but we were told
there is a new menu arriving featuring local influences from their new Head Chef, Luigo. It really ticks all the boxes, not to mention it’s reasonably priced and they cater for all with their signature “Mag” burger and also kid’s favourites like fish fingers should they want it. In the summer evenings, it has outdoor movie nights projected onto the side of the hotel, with live music and DJ nights giving you that true members club in Miami feeling. You get the impression they have tried hard to give their guests a relaxed boutique experience where anything is available without giving it that exclusive 5-star stuffy feeling. After lunch, we took a drive into the heart of Quinto do Lago. It holds a long-standing heritage as Portugal’s finest residential resort - something we will be writing about in a future issue. You drive by some of the most breath-taking Villas, each surrounded by electric gates and palm trees. You’d be forgiven for thinking you’d just driven into Beverly Hills. Residents in QDL don’t talk about who lives here, but you can see why A-list celebs and athletes choose to build here as it really is the place of dreams. If sports and fitness is your thing, The Campus is a €10 million multi training and wellness retreat. If you took the very best David Lloyd Club, fused it together with Soho Farmhouse and then add a Stadium quality training pitch, you would be close to imagining the vision behind this unique state of the art innovation. Framed light grey panelling really gives it that calming exclusive retreat feeling, and these design influences are continued throughout the complex. What makes it stand out, though, is the facilities. There are two bright and airy gyms with all the equipment a gym goer could dream of, plus spin and exercise studio on the upper floors. The Hydro Centre offers a quiet retreat touch. With two amazing aromatherapy steam/ sauna rooms complete with a cold plunge pool and jacuzzi. There is a wellness and rehabilitation spa opposite offering a wide selection of massages
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Pulse of Perfumery Host Exclusive Event With Simone Andreoli Vermilion Studios, Knutsford At this UK exclusive event hosted by Pulse of Perfumery, guests were entertained by Italian perfumer Simone Andreoli who spoke of his passion for scent while guests both smelled and tasted the fragrances in especially created gelato, and were gifted a scent Simone created especially for the evening. SCOTT & RICHARD ILLINGWORTH-HARRISON, SIMONE ANDREOLI AND MELANIE SEDDON
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Launch Of The North West Football Awards 2019 The Hilton Manchester The Ladbrokes Northwest Football Awards (NWFA), celebrates the Northwest region’s footballing elite and pays tribute to those from both on and off the pitch, who have excelled in the 2018/19 season. Now in its 12th year, the 2019 ceremony will see 22 awards presented to those who have achieved footballing excellence, from grassroots level through to the elite level of the beautiful game. www.northwestfootballawards.com
DANNY WEBBER, FABRICE MUAMBA, LIVERPOOL WOMEN’S JEMMA PURFIELD, CARINA WHITE, KYLE WALKER AND JOE THOMPSON PICTURED AT THE LAUNCH OF THE LADBROKES NORTHWEST FOOTBALL AWARDS 2019
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TO RULE Them All After years of writing about cars, James Fossdyke reckons he’s finally found perfection...
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ack in the early 2000s, Oasis told us true perfection had to be imperfect, and for many years I’ve agreed. I’ve spent hours driving everything from Ferraris to Fiats and from Maseratis to Mazdas in a bid to find the automotive holy grail. And although I’ve been close - the Lexus LC I drove a few months ago, for example, got under my skin like few cars before or since - nothing has ever been spot on. I always thought it was just me. I thought I was too demanding and too needy. Maybe I was a haughty perfectionist, out of touch with the realities of compromise, or just too cynical to appreciate the qualities before me. Then, this month, all that changed. Because I drove the Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo. Essentially an estate version of Porsche’s Panamera four-door saloon (the one that, like an automotive Gareth Southgate, used to be ugly but now looks kind of handsome), it didn’t sound like the most exciting proposition on the planet. But it’s actually quite a handsome devil. I like the full-width light across the back and the four LEDs in the headlights. The proportions
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are just right, too, with the slightly taller rear end that somehow makes it look more elegant than its four-door sibling. And it’s great inside, where you sit in sports seats that manage to be unbelievably comfortable without doing anything especially clever. They’re supportive and soft and even kind of cool in a minimalist, German sort of way. Most importantly, though, you can sit in those seats for hours and get out feeling as though
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you’d only just sat down. They are, in a way, a metaphor for the Porsche’s cabin as a whole. It isn’t chintzy or ostentatious like some luxury cars, but it’s incredibly well built, everything works as it should and it’s outrageously spacious for what is, when all’s said and done, a Porsche. But that doesn’t make it boring. There’s a massive touchscreen that’s almost infinitely customisable, and you even get a host of displays in the instrument cluster to tell you your lap times or tyre pressures or which junction to take off the M56. You could while away hours just playing with the technology.
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The forward-thinking team at illustrious design practice Design by UBER recently visited Milan to attend one of the world’s most renowned design shows, Salone del Mobile.
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he Salone is held each Spring and is a key date in the calendar for design industry professionals as well as anyone with a passion for shape and form. Since its inception in the 1960s, the show has gained a reputation for launching exciting new talent and is firmly established at the forefront of dynamic design. For the team at Design by UBER the Salone offers a unique opportunity to explore the very best new ideas and products from around the world all showcased under one roof. The first thing that strikes home is the sheer scale of the show, spread over multiple halls it covers over 200,000 square metres and showcases more than 2,300 of the world’s most pioneering design companies. This year also featured the
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biennial event, Euroluxe in which four halls are dedicated to lighting alone. The Salone focuses on three distinct style categories. Namely Classic, which draws on the values of tradition, craftsmanship and skill; Design where products speak of functionality, innovation and an innate sense of style; and xLux where timeless luxury is re-written in a contemporary key. A definite trend this year was towards designing with clean and simple lines executed with superlative craftsmanship. There was an emphasis on strong architectural aesthetics, with linear forms sculpted from luxury materials and the finest of finishes featuring prominently. Design by UBER had the opportunity to explore new lighting designs from seasoned brands as well as from experimental up and coming companies and designers. Across the board innovation and creativity proliferated with contemporary cluster lighting arrangements and stylish geometric shapes being very much en vogue. Lighting was crafted from a variety of materials with a leaning towards bronze and brass, often in combination with blown glass or alabaster creating a perfect pallet of finishes. Euroluxe proved itself to be a hub of dynamic ingenuity with brands to watch including Serip, CTO Lighting, Terzani, Paolo Castelli, SkLO and Occhio. The main exhibition halls bombarded the senses with room sets and individual furniture pieces which epitomised the pinnacle of stylised design. Marble table tops featured heavily ranging from those
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formed from the classical Calacatta and Emperador stone through to more eclectic green and red toned marbles. Occasional tables arranged in clusters worked particularly well and it was interesting to see how the combination of upholstered elements with both wooden and marble table tops created layers of interest. In line with the trend demonstrated in EuroLuxe, the furniture exhibitors, whilst each remaining true to their own clear identity, showed a predilection for bronze and brass finishes. Design by UBER were especially impressed by designers such as Frato, Flexform, Aleal, Signorini and Coco, and Arketipo. The Salone also showcased numerous outdoor furniture exhibitors which seems to be a clear reflection of the emphasis now placed on seamless indoor
outdoor living. The bar is constantly being raised, with outdoor furniture becoming ever more chic and stylish. Furniture from suppliers such as Royal Botania, Tribu and Dedon are easily able to pass for indoor furniture, therefore offering a very sophisticated approach to outside spaces. Salone del Mobile is a visionary exhibition which shines a light on the art of design from around the world. Being at the leading edge of interior design, knowledge of global product innovation allows the team at Design by UBER to offer both their interior design clients, and their retail clients through their sister company Uber Interiors, the very best in design-led products from around the world. www.uber-interiors.com www.designbyuber.com
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