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More recognition for our award winning furniture!
Another couple of British furniture awards to pop under our belt (or should we say Coffee table?)
We still don’t go out of our way to seek these but we are always pleased to get them so we thought we’d just update last years posts before getting on with our work.
BUILD Architecture Awards 2024 – Best Bespoke Industrial-Style Furniture Manufacturer 2024 – South West England
UK Enterprise Awards 2024 hosted by SME News. – Sustainable Designer Furniture Retailer of the Year 2024 – South West England
Last year we won the following three three awards:
Global Awards Winners Guide 2023/24 Luxury Furniture Retailer of the Year.
Southern Enterprise awards – Best Sustainable Home & outdoor Furniture Brand 2023
Build Magazine. Architecture Awards 2023 -Best Custom Industrial-Style Furniture Studio 2023 – South West England – https://www.build-review.com/winners/iron-fire/
https://www.build-review.com/build-magazine-announces-the-winners-of-the-2023-architecture-awards/
We are never sure about the culture of Awards, and we certainly don’t put ourselves forward for them. But it also seems like being a bit backwards if we don’t tell anyone when we get one! In fact, this year, we have been awarded 3 and we should say thanks for the acknowledgement and recognition!
It’s a difficult balance – we want to promote our environmentally friendly furniture but at the same time we’re disdainful of boasting about what we do (which is just, a common sense approach most makers should be following?)
Even if we all make our best efforts we can always improve and of course we all eagerly consume the comforts we’ve come to take for granted. That means there’s not really anything for any manufacturer to boast about and it’s irritating to see TV adverts crowing about some blue chip’s ecological awareness when they could do so much more. Of course any improvement is a step forward, and In fact in a global economy it’s difficult to make a meaningful personal contribution and only too easy to forget that the answer has to be lots of people changing their habits – just a bit.
It’s good too that people are starting to realise how much fast furniture contributes to global warming. Fast furniture items are mass produced and shipped around the world, sold at budget prices allowing us to quickly and cheaply update our homes. The impact, however, on global forests and landfill is horrendous and it’s estimated that, just in the UK, we throw away 22 million bits of furniture every year. That’s a lot of stuff that ends up in landfill and uses many toxins in the production of chipboard and synthetic fabrics, not to mention having being shipped around the globe.
