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Landscaping and building materials specialist Marshalls has opened a new design centre at The Leather Market, a short walk from London Bridge station.
The centre is designed with creativity in mind, enabling visitors to visualise its product ranges virtually and experiment with a wide variety of material types, and is a relocation of the Marshalls centre in Clerkenwell, recognising the growth of the SE1 postcode as a hub for landscape architects and designers.
The new unit features a workshop-style setting with advanced digital features, enabling customers to explore ranges and laying patterns using augmented and virtual reality technology. The space offers a hands-on approach to testing materials and design concepts, with clients able to touch and feel physical samples and explore various colours, textures, and finishes. The modelling area helps turn digital models into reality with the ability to set out miniature street scenes with their chosen options.
James Gosden, National Specification Manager for Marshalls Landscape Products, said: “Whether customers are networking, seeking inspiration for a scheme or development or just want a location to mind-map ideas, our new Design Space is the perfect environment to spark creativity. Located in the London Bridge area, we’re now much closer to many of our customers, too, making it easier for them to pop by at a time that suits them. We can’t wait to start welcoming people to this exciting new space.”
Alongside its new London showroom, Marshalls has a second Design Space in Birmingham, located just a five-minute walk from Birmingham New Street Station.
