Topps Tiles Case Study
For many years, we’ve worked in partnership with Topps Tiles to develop their store format and environment, constantly looking to enhance their brand and customer in-store experience. We’ve been instrumental in the design and implementation of numerous rollouts of display fixtures, alongside full store re-vamps across the estate including more recently working with their commercial tile brand Parkside to create stunning showrooms.
It’s safe to say that the Topps Tiles that you see today is in part, due to the work from the team at Ripple over the years. Alongside the store format development, we’ve designed and manufactured a whole range of products and solutions, geared to drive customer engagement in the stores, maximise ROI and improve the overall experience.
Topps Tiles is just one of the household names that we’re proud to be working in partnership with on continually improving the merchant experience alongside Dulux Decorator Centres, Marshalls, MKM, Parkside, Norman Piette and many more.
Trespass Windsor Store Case Study
Trespass is a brand where adventure comes first, they constantly push the boundaries of innovation and have brought numerous ‘firsts’ to market including Tres-Tex, Tres-Shield and Tres-Tex 3 layer fabric. The brand now has over 300 stores worldwide and are constantly expanding, at pace, with over 100 of those stores opening in the last couple of years.
Having worked with Trespass for a number of years and supporting their monumental growth, when the brand opened a new flagship store in Windsor, the team at Ripple were called upon to manufacture a range of dynamic new look furniture and fixtures, embracing their brand and the great outdoors.
This evolution of their in-store design and brand is part of a larger scale roll out to their other premier retail locations across the country.
Using a visual combination of multi-faceted oak veneer and hard-wearing textured steel, the new look really brings to life the organic and outdoorsy feel that the team at Trespass were looking to achieve.
The technical specifications and manufacturing processes on this project were a great challenge for our designers and facility, we managed the full process from design to manufacture and successfully delivered the installations on time and within budget. We really look forward to working with the team at Trespass once again to continue the roll-out.
David’s Bridal Birmingham Store
With more than 60 years of experience dressing women for life’s special occasions, David’s Bridal are known for offering an unbeatable selection of exquisitely crafted wedding dresses, bridesmaid dresses, party dresses, and accessories, all at amazing prices.
In November 2016, the wedding giant made their mark on U.K soil with the opening of their flagship store in Birmingham and the team at Ripple were thrilled to be chosen to design, manufacture and install a range of furniture, fixtures and fittings.
Working closely with the interior design firm Child Gratton Lewis, Our creative and technical designers played a pivotal role in bringing David’s Bridal vision to life with a series of concepts and then technical specifications, our in-house manufacturing facility then crafted the range and our teams fully managed the install.
This elegant store really stands out from the competition and offers bridal parties an ultimate luxury experience when planning their special day. The layout of the store is designed to inspire customers, and help them choose a dress and accessories to perfectly suit their style.
Parkside Clerkenwell Design Studio
Long-standing partners of Ripple, Parkside Architectural Tiles, approached Ripple alongside Architects Feix & Merlin, to help bring their vision of a light-filled, and engaging showroom, office and exhibition space to life, in their flagship Clerkenwell branch in central London.
Working closely with the architects and client, our teams helped to visualize the concepts with render and mockups, we then translated these concepts into functional pieces of equipment and furniture that would then be crafted in our in-house manufacturing facility.
Each component of the build was then delivered to the site and expertly installed by our fitters, whilst our account management team careful managed the whole project.
We hope that, together with Feix and Merlin, we have created a relaxed, creative space and a hub for the local design community, that helps to inspire everyone who uses it.
Akzo Nobel Customer Experience Centre
With hundreds of well-known and well-trusted brands under its belt such as Dulux, Cuprinol, Hammerite, Pollyfilla and many more, AkzoNobel are experts in making coatings, and chances are that you’re never more than a few metres away from one of their products. We worked closely with AkzoNobel and design agency, V2 Studios to help transform 6,400 square feet of space within the head office, into a high-tech customer centre for the business to showcase its brands. The new space allows retailers to immerse themselves in the customer experience and view product innovations before they go to market. The multifunctional environment was designed to inspire, educate and engage not only AkzoNobel customers but also its staff. The Ripple design team worked with V2 to interpret their concepts and then translate them into tangible products, furniture and displays. Following the sign off of our technical specifications, we then manufactured in-house and carried out the installation in Slough.
Parkside Design Studio Project
We’ve been working with Parkside for a number of years now, and recently posted about the London design studio that we worked on in 2019. Well, we’ve been working hard over the last couple of months with their internal teams to complete their head office design studio, based in Leicester.
The brief focused on creating an open plan, industrial-style space to showcase their large format tile samples along with a huge variety of different textures and colours, the studio features thousands of premium tile samples, but it has been designed in a way where it doesn’t feel overwhelming. Ripple was commissioned to design, manufacture and install the majority of the tile display units that you see here in keeping with the design and style of the rest of the fit-out, we worked closely with the internal design teams at Parkside along with a number of other contractors and studios, to help bring the project together perfectly.
Parkside has created full 360-degree internal tours of their studios that you can browse on their website, this includes both the recent Leicester projects and our last Clerkenwell job, have a browse in the following link..
