News 2010

We have lots of exciting new pictures on our website through the 'About Us' section with pictures of properties we have worked on around the world:  'extracts from our client list'.

Silk rugs in minimalist designs have been created for a Mansion in fashionable Belgravia in London.

A special rug was created for a special launch party for Beefeater's Gin new 24 brand in Madrid, carefully following the logo and hand stitching effect.

A series of rugs were produced for a luxury block of offices in different shapes and sizes.

Following on from new products launched last year, we start 2010 with our new website finally completed, although it is constantly changing as we are continually adding new images.

We start the year with current projects in Hawaii, New Zealand, The Middle East, Moscow, Switzerland, and Italy, as well as ones in London and throughout the U.K..

We supplied some beautiful, fine silk Persian carpets for an apartment in London, with some individual rugs fetching as much as £40,000.00 and these were sold competitively and selected from London for Russian clients.

We broke new ground with Sunseeker on one of their larger 30m yachts and creating hand made carpets with borders:  one around the bed in the Master bedroom suite and another in the Saloon in front of the seating area, with a textured design in the centre panel.  These we made and fitted in seven weeks!

We are using blends of silk and wool to create more competitive carpets with the luxury of silk and are now working with bamboo yarn which has a 'silky' appearance.

Hand knotted carpets were created and supplied for the entrance and study areas at the beautiful Castle Hill in Devon and look extremely handsome.

We look forward to working with you in the new decade.

With best wishes

 

John Stockwell

 

For 2009, Craigie Stockwell are launching a number of new products:

Some luxury machine made products in silk, silk and worsted wool and wool in either plain colours or in stripes.

Although we have never actively promoted them, we often are asked to supply exclusive machine woven carpets in fine Wilton or Axminster weaves and our work in this area has included carpets for European Royalty as well as for a number of exclusive residences including No. 10 Downing Street carpets and No 11 Downing Street.  Special carpets were also woven in fine worsted yarn for the Savoy Theatre and some time ago for the Savoy Oyster Bar!

The third area we offer a service with is fine Oriental carpets where we can offer the finest silk Persian or Iranian carpets in traditional patterns of the very highest quality.

All these items will be featured on our website.

2009 saw three beautiful new Craigie Stockwell carpets and rugs installed at London's fashionable restaurant 'Sketch' which is one of the finest gourmet restaurants in London and with amazingly stunning interiors by Gabhan O'Keeffe.

'Sketch' offer a special lunch menu at an extremely reasonable price to allow you to sample Pierre Gagnoire's creations.

We are designing carpets for a 58m and a 65m yacht as well as a very luxurious 30 metre following a new trend to have several smaller yachts in different ports rather than move a larger one around the seven seas.

Alexandra has designed a New Collection for us based on 'nature' and is in tune with current trends.

We are working on several new Superyacht projects, a penthouse overlooking Central Park in Manhattan and projects in various other parts of the world.

New products

We have just launched two exciting new products:

Protective Covering

A versatile environmentally friendly protective covering for hand made and luxury carpeting, dyed to match any colour and tailored to the shape of any room..  This is especially suitable to the luxury super and mega yacht markets as well as to protect luxury carpets in one of several homes owned by the same person.

Nepalese plain silk

We have a luxurious new hand knotted silk quality available a selected number of neutral shades, available in your specified rectangular size to a maximum seamless size of 20 foot by 30 foot and made within a twelve week delivery period.
 
New Images for 2008:

The new Apsley's Restaurant at the Lanesborough Hotel in London:

Working with international New York based Tihany, we created these stunning rugs for the new 'Apsleys' Italian restaurant in The Lanesborough Hotel in London which opened to much aclaim in April 2008.

We have now put 'Photographs of some of our Bespoke Carpets' as a new section and uploaded a number of great room shots - a number of which are modern in feel.

We have just created a carpet based on elements of the famous ceiling in the Vatican by Michaelangelo:  a huge quantitiy of colour shades were involved in this.

New contracts include the exciting new 'Apsleys' restaurant at the Lanesborough Hotel.

We have made the artwork pages more accessible, and added to them, to show a 'glimpse' of our substantial design archive.

Craigie Stockwell are in 'Vogue'

We closed 2007 and thus started 2008, with a specific mention in 'Vogue' magazine's December issue on the what is 'in' and what is 'unfashionable' and we are pleased to say that 'Vogue' find our carpets very much 'in', with a picture of a beautiful carpet we created for Chatsworth House.

In March we saw a full page feature on John Stockwell 'bespoke carpetmaker' as a specialist profile in their insider news column with illustrations of our more colourful modern ideas for carpets and rugs. 

Before the year end we saw the completion of a further two Superyachts:  M/Y Wind, fitted out in Italy at the famous Bennetti yard, and which was shown at Monaco and M/Y Montigne for a fast refit in Nice Old Port, for her new owner.  We are currently working on five new yachts.

2007 also saw projects for some classic mansions and palaces around the world including one for Cairo, another in Jeddah, some in Moscow and St Petersburg,  a special project in Salt Lake City and a number of exciting carpets for old customers around the world.

We wish all our existing, past and future customers all the very best for 2008 and we are continuing our policy of striving towards helping the ecology of the planet by using abundant and managed natural materials in all our carpets and rugs.

Happy New Year!

New Collections:

For 2008 we are already working on some new ideas on textures and subtle colour and tone management as well as continuing our push for brighter things:  these will be launched later in the year.    '

SIMPLY STYLISH' and 'DAMASK' are still attracting a great deal of attention, - both designed by Sharon Reid, our Director of Design in London.  These can both be found in our 'Modern Collections' section. Our Colour Splash Collection has been featured in a number of prominent Newspapers and magazines including 'The Times' Saturday Colour Supplement.

 

Peterhouse:

The oldest College at Cambridge University, Peterhouse has a luxurious new carpet in the Ward Library manufactured in one piece.

Stockwell in The Kremlin:

We were commissioned to make a substantial carpet in one piece for The Kremlin in Moscow.  The carpet measured approximately 17m x 16m and had a deep blue ground colour.  To meet a VVIP deadline, we managed to produce it in 6/8 weeks!

This follows in the footsteps of carpets made for the Cabinet Room a 10 Downing Street and carpets for  several Presidential and Royal buildings throughout the world.

New German Office for Superyachts:

We have established a new office in Hamburg to give local assistance to the quality German and Dutch superyacht industries and to carry on servicing the interior design and luxury hotel markets there.

Exhibitions:

New Collections will be launched at the Monaco Yacht Show in September and further ones at Extravaganza in Moscow.

Recent projects:

'White Rose of Drachs' at Monaco

Exquisite carpets have been created recently for the Superyachts 'White Rose of Drachs', MitSEAah,and Talitha G. Both White Rose and MitSEAah were featured on the front cover of 'Boat International'.

Several ornate carpets were created for The Ritz Casino.

Our modern collections have been the inspiration for a number of private houses and mansions both in the USA and Europe.

Our Carpets on the Front Cover:

Our beautiful carpets designed exclusively for the Superyacht 'MitSEAah' was featured  on the front cover of Boat International 'White Rose of Drachs' was featured on the front cover of Boat International and the Superyacht 'Lady Christine' was featured on no less than three superyacht publications' front covers:

'Boat International' 'The Superyachts' and 'Boat Interiors ' all gave prominence to the owners' cabin carpet which we designed in one piece to cover the whole area.

Another  creation for one of the very largest yachts in the World, was on the front cover of the …. Edition of 'Captain's Log', in a private cinema.

We have now been profiled in a four page editorial feature in  'Boat International' magazine and their name is mentioned .....on the front cover

Our Carpets immortalised:

In her thriller entitled 'Missing Joseph' best selling crime writer Elizabeth George refers to the fancy shmanzy ..Craigie Stockwell Carpet on the floor of the Mansion where the murder is committed. Naturally they were delighted that no blood was spilled on the rug: so were the insurance company.

A Touch of Silk'

A brand new collection of carpets with silk highlights is being created by Rob Holmes and Sharon Reid in our London Studio. Watch this web site to see their development.

Who stole our prize?

When our 'Botanical Collection' was awarded Best New Collection First Prize by 'House and Garden' Magazine, we were given an engraved decanter to commemorate the event. Guess what? Somebody stole it from our showroom! We are used to having our designs stolen, but this is a first……


Our Carpets in Bond Street

The Stockwell Carpet name appears engraved in the brass plaque as a donor towards the beautiful sculpture of Sir Winston Churchill and Theadore Rooseveldt at the junction of Old and New Bond Streets in London's Mayfair District.  Incidentally, Stockwell Carpets first London home was at 16 Grafton Street, just round the corner.

Our Carpets are featured in the new magazine for the super rich:  Midas.  An article about John Stockwell's childhood and relationship with boats was a ten page feature in the first issue, and an article by him on 'hand made carpets' appears in the second issue.

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