All articles by Toby Maxwell

Toby Maxwell

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

Flooring Focus: Q&A

Although most of our time is spent in contact with it, flooring designs are an often neglected and unsung hero of interior spaces. FX canvasses a range of established experts for their takes on what makes for good flooring design

Hotel Projects

A showcase of some of the best examples of innovative hotel design around the world, from biophilic villas in the Maldives to unique woodwork in Slovenia and a repurposed vintage basketball court in LA

Bar and Leisure Focus: Neon Creations

Neon sign specialists Neon Creations report a surge in enquiries as restaurants get back on their feet after the pandemic

Bar and Leisure Focus: Bardem and Chicken Mafia

A cocktail bar in Helskini and an upscale fast food in Moscow

Bar and Leisure Focus: Kin + Deum and KOL

A family-run Thai restaurant by Maker Studio, and a material-focused design for a Mezcaleria by A-nrd