Grand Designs Live: Emerging Brands
The new brands to look out for at the upcoming Grand Designs Live show at London Excel on 2-5 May 2025
Grand Designs Live London, sponsored by Daikin, is fast approaching with just a couple of short weeks to go until the big event.
This year we are really excited for the Emerging Brands feature – it’s all about discovering fresh talent and the newest, and most exciting innovations that are just breaking into the market.
The Emerging Brands area is a chance for those newer brands to showcase their new ideas, whether it’s creative materials or inspired design concepts that could soon make a big impact on the market.
It’s the perfect place for enthusiasts to discover what’s next in the world of home design and to explore fresh inspiration with the ‘ones to watch’.
Emerging brands at Grand Designs Live 2025
Here, we’ve outlined the brands featuring in the Emerging Brands section of Grand Designs Live, so you can get a sneak peek before the event of what to look out for.
tomeasure
Founded with the view to make high-end fitting furniture more affordable and accessible, tomeasure offers a simplified installation process and wardrobe planner to enable customers to design and install their own wardrobes.
This makes the often daunting and expensive process more cost-effective and user-friendly.
It’s going to be game-changing for the bespoke fitted furniture industry.
Photo: tomeasure
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Tyrecrete
The idea for Tyrecrete came when the founder was working as a civil engineering manager in Afghanistan.
It was an austere environment with a shortage of natural aggregates but an abundance of damaged tyres; with space at a premium, many waste tyres were burnt.
This led to the idea of using shredded and chipped tyres as aggregates.
On arrival back in the UK, he also discovered that we have a huge problem with disposal of tyres, too.
To avoid the unnecessary pollution, fire hazards and health risks – this new sustainable concept ensures none of the tyre contents are sent to landfill.
Alongside these environmental benefits, Tyrecrete improves concrete in many ways such as flexural, acoustic, thermal, ballistic, crack resistance and reduced weight.
It’s a great problem-solving innovation on a global scale.
Photo: Tyrecrete
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Lakeland Paints
Are you looking for safe, zero VOC, odourless paint?
This new innovation has superlative sustainability credentials, including being 7000-12,000 times purer than the low VOC and other zero VOC paints currently on the market.
Lakeland Paints promise super quality with three times the usual pigment, easy application and splatter free, all without fumes and heavy metals.
The range comes in 372 colours with 43 types of paint and the offer of next-day delivery.
We’re very intrigued!
Photo: Lakeland Paints
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Graphenstone
These purifying paints are at the forefront of sustainable change in the paints industry.
Offering high quality, health-conscious paints that combine traditional raw materials with an innovative material: graphene, which is an inert carbon, enhances the paint’s durability, compression and coverage.
Graphenstone’s lime-based paints actually help to purify the air as they cure (the majority in the first 30 days after application).
The Ambient Pro+ range actually continually eliminates airborne pollutants and toxic gases allowing for healthier and more visually appealing spaces.
It’s already recognised as one of the world’s most certified and sustainable paint brands, it was chosen for its natural paints that are ideal for heritage properties.
Photo: Graphenstone
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Jade Dawn & by Donna Reeves
These two designers collaborate to create bespoke mirrors and upcycled furniture featuring alcohol ink, mosaics and resin.
The result is an exciting range of mirrors, splashbacks and salvaged furniture that is bound to impress.
Photo: Jade Dawn & By Donna Reeves
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The Marchmont Workshop
The Marchmont Workshop was founded in 2020 by furniture designers Sam Cooper and Richard Platt.
It’s one of the last manufacturers of rush chairs in the UK and utilises traditional techniques and materials to create timeless pieces of furniture.
Designed from tree to home, each piece is crafted from sustainably sourced woodlands around the workshop in the Scottish borders. Each chair has a light but long lasting seat woven from handpicked common river rushes.
Photo: The Marchmont Workshop
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Flooring by Nature
Born out of a desire to create inspiring spaces and improve wellbeing, Flooring by Nature offers premium, sustainable flooring solutions.
Offering natural materials over plastic alternatives, this marks a positive change to our homes and environment.
It was established with a commitment to delivering outstanding service nationwide, whilst retaining the eco-friendly principles.
The brand work closely with homeowners, interior designers, architects and contractors to provide a wide selection of high quality flooring options.
Photo: Flooring by Nature
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WeGrillTable™
Enjoy a barbecue without the smoky eyes or chilly UK weather with this amazing new Danish innovation, now available at UK garden centres.
WeGrillTable offers a social dining experience. It’s a solid Nordic oak table with a built-in smokeless charcoal grill, which allows people to grill together, enjoying the warmth and company.
The patented 5-in-1 grill table is designed to utilise energy from the briquettes to create an internal airflow. This takes on the shape of two vortices just under the cooking grate, and these collect and guide any smoke away and out through the flue. It’s a wonderful innovation that will transform barbecues and outdoor dining forever.
Photo: WeGrillTable
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Find out more and book your tickets to Grand Designs Live here.
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