All articles by Toby Maxwell

Toby Maxwell

Bar & Leisure Focus – Meet John Burton

Meet John Burton the designer behind Merlin’s new World of Jumanji. Burton’s designs work hard to bring the fantastical and the dream-like to life in spectacular fashion

Toby Maxwell’s Flooring Focus Products

Discover the latest flooring collections and ideas.

Toby Maxwell’s Flooring Focus Projects

Three projects on how to get flooring right. University of Surrey, Guilford; Insight Direct, Manchester; and StirrUps Bar and Restaurant, Eversham.

Toby Maxwell’s Hotel Focus Projects: A showcase of some of the hotel projects around the world

Showcasing some of the best and most innovative hotel designs from around the world, from the UK and Europe to as far flung as countries like Indonesia, China and even two unique examples from the Arab world

Toby Maxwell’s Hotel Focus Q&As

Dustin Wekesser, associate principle at CallisonRTKL on its scheme for the Grand Hyatt hotel in Kuwait, and Tim Rooney, project manager and principle at Jeffrey Beers International on partnering with the Hard Rock brand.

Bars & Leisure Focus: Q&A with Ewald Damen from Virgile + Partners

Creative change has been picking up pace since the pandemic. Ewald Damen, creative director at Virgile + Partners, says that clients’ understanding of factors such as sustainability, community, ethics, digital integration and entertainment have accelerated exponentially…

Bars & Leisure Focus: Project – Colonel Saab

COLONEL SAAB is an authentic and unique, luxury Indian dining concept in Central London created by entrepreneur Roop Partap Choudhary, who has carefully crafted the menu and art-filled destination as a ‘love letter’ to his family and India.

Bars & Leisure Focus: Project – Kew Gardens Family Kitchen

Designed By Architects HOK with front of house interiors by Mizzi Studio and Lumsden Design, the Family Kitchen & Shop at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is an environmentally driven, education-led food space.

Flooring Focus: Products

Discover the latests designs, products and partnerships that can be combined in unique and creative ways to achieve floor designs that not only stand out, but can be seamlessly integrated to serve the needs of the end user

Flooring Focus: Projects

From student accommodations, to oncology wards and even the offices of major law firms, flooring design can have an immense impact on the user experience and these projects showcase all the different ways intelligent floor design works