We love the world’s most recycled material…
The Bradley Collection remains true to its origins and the company’s blacksmiths still manufacture Steel finials and brackets on the forge. In fact, around 80% of the company’s current output is created from steel.
As the worlds most re-cycled material, enough steel is re-cycled every day to make the equivalent of 150 Eiffel Towers. Recycling has been carried out in the steel industry since steel was first made. According to the Steel Association, ‘Steel is 100% recyclable and can be recycled over and over again to create new steel products in a closed material loop. Recycled steel maintains the inherent properties of the original steel. The magnetic property of steel ensures easy and affordable recovery for recycling from almost any waste stream while the high value of steel scrap guarantees the economic viability of recycling.’
At the Bradley Collection we are fully behind recycling as a practical solution to the planet’s emerging resource crunch. “As reserves of key resources such as rare earth metals and minerals are diminishing, while exploration and material extraction costs are rising. The current ‘take-make-dispose’ linear economy approach results in massive waste – according to Richard Girling’s book Rubbish! published in 2005, 90% of the raw materials used in manufacturing become waste before the product leaves the factory while 80% of products made get thrown away within the first six months of their life.” The Guardian.
As well as majoring in this most recycled material, we also create products to last a lifetime, rather than to wear out and be replaced. Lets all work to ensure sustainability remains a core priority in society and doesn’t become a passing fashion trend.
For the first time ever, we have pulled together a branded ‘designer’s edit’.
This is a custom made offer drawing on popular high end influences but with limited choices of finial and finish. This approach allows us to batch produce and finish components meaning your clients have access to high end, custom product at an excellent price and value. A choice of flint, acrylic or chrome plated pole at 30mm (1 3/16”) diameter. Full made to measure and bending services. A minimalist stud finial and matching chromed components. No separate plating charge. Easy to specify with simple pricing structure.
Available now and for a limited time only.
Folio Two is carefully designed to work hand-in-hand with The Bradley Collection Bespoke curtain poles and tracks. This new fabric collection will be previewed at Decorex with full availability for 2015.
The collection embodies hints of delicately distressed fresco and flowing organic shapes sitting comfortably alongside geometric forms.
An understated neutral and grey base is shot through with subtle, often iridescent hues, which combine harmoniously and gracefully, with the occasional unexpected use of bold citrus or inky blue providing both drama and theatre.
There are 33 fabrics in the collection, of which four feature designs provide scale, with Helmingham, a distressed fresco pomegranate motif being particularly distinctive. These feature designs are complemented by four smaller-scale abstract and geometric patterns for layering and texture. Each colour story is underpinned by an elegant upholstery option, to provide a total room solution.
All fabrics in Folio Two are designed and woven in Suffolk using age-old techniques, experience and knowledge to ensure best quality fabric and finish.
Fabrics are woven to order and are subject to a minimum order quantity of 10m.
The Bradley Collection launches its first ever textile collection; the silk-rich Folio One.
Folio One compliments The Bradley Collection’s curtain poles and embodies the design values of traditional grandeur. The collection combines dramatically decadent design with supreme fabric quality, including natural silk in all fabrics. The collection is delivered through a distinctive and opulent colour palette.
There are 30 fabrics in total with 5 exquisite feature patterns and 2 coordinating bold stripes. Designs include Brockford and Kentwell damasks, both being ornate and grand in scale, lustrous and bold. Coordinating stripes are available. Cavendish Grand Damask is the design diva of the collection, resplendent with vivid, metallic classical motifs and pattern. Holkham is an all-over design in a charming almost paisley effect, while Chilton is a lovely delicate, flowing small scale floral. Throughout the collection, light-reflecting metallic gold and silver is interspersed stunningly with rich teal, cerise, mauve, navy, black and charcoal to dramatic effect. All fabrics in Folio One have some silk content and are designed and woven in Suffolk using age-old techniques, experience and knowledge to ensure best quality fabric and finish.
All these exclusive fabrics are woven to order and are subject to a minimum order quantity of 10m.
Exquisite classical styling meets engineered perfection in Baroco, The Bradley Collection’s new range of decorative wooden and brass curtain poles.
Baroco delivers the dramatic and ornate on a grand scale as solid wood or brass poles at 50mm or 63mm are teamed with chrome or brass brackets and solid brass or hand-painted finials. There are eight finial designs ranging from the understated, simple Sphere to the flamboyant, highly sculptured, cut-crystal Floret. The backbone of the Collection is the handsome, grandiose architrave bracket, which supports these grand poles with ease. Recess brackets are provided as an option for tight spaces. Poles can also be shaped to fit bay windows and utilise a special passing ring system.
An Interior Designer’s paradise, finish choices are endless from the palette of 20 finishes which can be combined as desired for all poles and finals. Finishes range from hand-painting to wood stains for pole and finial. Aged brass and polished brass give an authentic period feel, while chrome plated brass options bring a degree of glamour. A colour matching service is also available.
Uncompromising quality, authentic materials and design with maximum strength in mind means Baroco is the key to over-the-top grandeur.
With views of Bel Air, the Getty Museum and the Pacific Ocean, this hill top home has a large expanse of west facing windows. To brave the elements, the versatile stainless steel Mio Collection finished in Parchment was specified. A span of 60 continuous feet was created with outdoor drapery panels stacking along the face of the home. The project was designed with passing “C” rings and brackets to allow the panels to fully stack to the right or left of the 60 foot system. As the sun moves across the sky, individual panels are opened and closed to create the right amount of shading inside the house and on the terrace.
CREDITS
Year: 2010
Company: Susanna Kost
Interior Design, Inc.
Designer: Susanna Kost
Workroom: Crest Curtain & Drapery
Photography: Latham Robertson
Learn more about the project at: www.susannakost.com
The clean architectural lines of Mio brushed stainless steel supports these lustrous sheer curtains. The rhythm of the curtains subtle grid of seams reduces the scale of the spaces while creating visual interest.
CREDITS
Year: 2009
Company: Mary Bright
Designer: Erik Bruce
Interior: Jendretzki LLC
Photography: Brooklyn Digital Foundry
Learn more about the project at www.marybright.com
Subtle curves at the ends of the track create the impression of a single plane while masking corner risers. The crisply tailored box pleats of the master bedroom curtain provide fullness, while the microfiber ultra suede ensures lightness and a soft touch. The Edge drapery hardware blends the ease of operation of a track with the refinement of a rod.
CREDITS
Year: 2005
Company: Mary Bright
Designer: Erik Bruce
Interior: 212box LLC
Photography: Brooklyn Digital Foundry
Learn more about the project at www.marybright.com
The natural tone of this new shade continues the warm tones of the décor, conspiring with the subtle opacity of the flat linen panels to establish a gentle threshold between the apartment and the city beyond. This dialogue between privacy and view extends into the master bedroom, where richly colored layers of washed sheer linen and netting overlap one another. Edge track negotiated this challenging ceiling through the use of vertical ceiling brackets and a 90 degree bend.
CREDITS
Year: 2006
Company: Mary Bright
Designer: Erik Bruce
Interior: Shimaya Gilo
Photography: Brooklyn Digital Foundry
Learn more about the project at www.marybright.com
The variety of installations speak to the range of spaces in this urban home. The stationary, metallic white vinyl and bobbinet panels in the living room mask the low roofs of adjacent buildings, improving the view and ensuring privacy. Designer, Erik Bruce used a combination of standard brushed stainless steel Mio hardware and custom Mio hardware to create these textile arrangements. The master and guest bedrooms use overlapping layers of crinkled fabric to create an impression of ephemeral petals and airy screens. Brightly colored coated linen sheer rotate on custom stainless rods to provide changing personality and degrees of privacy in the children’s rooms.
CREDITS
Year: 2007
Company: Mary Bright
Designer: Erik Bruce
Interior: Stamberg Aferiat Architecture
Photography: Brooklyn Digital Foundry
Learn more about the project at www.marybright.com
24 August – 5 November 2007
The Bradley Collection was a Bronze Sponsor for the 2007 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. The pavilion was designed by Olafur Elisson and Kjetil Thorsen. Bradley was approached by architects from the Snøhetta practice, to design and install one of the most challenging pole systems yet. The brief was for a 50mm diameter, 30m long spiraling curved pole to be fitted with 11 custom passing brackets (each one different). Special custom ‘C’ rings had to be developed to pass the new bracket design. The timeframe for the project was incredibly tight as we undertook the entire project from design through installation in under 4 weeks.
