FOUNTAIN DESIGN & INSTALLATION SPECIALISTS

Some of our work as pictured above:

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A CLASSICAL CASCADE in TWICKENHAM, SURREY, ENGLAND

The fountain design for the Oceanides (known locally as ‘Naked Ladies’) fountain at York House in Twickenham was created in 1906. The statues were originally carved in Italy and then bought by Whitaker Wright for his estate of follies Witley Park in Surrey. They were never unpacked from their shipping crates until they were sold to Sir Ratan Tata for his house in Twickenham. For Sir Ratan Tata to create the water feature design it had to be guessed how the ladies should be arranged as there was no original fountain design to reference. In 1924 the grounds of York House became the property of Twickenham Council who opened them as a public park.

Richmond, Wandsworth and Westminster councils combined have had the fountain fully restored using fountain and water feature designer’s Fountainhead Ltd www.fountainheadlimited.com for the water engineering and Stonewest Ltd www.stonewest.co.uk for the stonework.

LONDON HOTEL BAR:

Fountain design and install by Fountainhead. In a collaboration with ADS Design www.ads-design.co.uk this Crowne Plaza hotel development was overseen by Hamiltons Architects www.halondon.com. The water feature is in the ground floor bar area of the hotel on the south bank of the river Thames close to the Houses of Parliament in London. The water feature design is a wall of 3 concertinaed mirror-polished stainless steel waterwalls separated by dry granite cladding panels.

THE WORLD RENOWNED ETON COLLEGE:

A Fountainhead collaboration with John Simpson Architects www.johnsimpsonarchitects.com for the new Beckynton Field wing of Eton College www.etoncollege.com. The main contractor was Feltham Construction www.felthamconstruction.co.uk. The fountain design comprises 7 powder-coated stainless steel weirs projecting from a wall of pre-patinated copper panels. The water from the weirs cuts cleanly into a semi-circular pool below a stone arch in the wall of the new lecture theatre. The building was opened by the then Prince, now King, Charles in 2015.

KINGS CROSS, LONDON

Internally illuminated by fibre-optics, fountains bubble from a water-covered black granite surface. The water feature covers the whole floor space of an internal courtyard of a penthouse overlooking the Thomas Hetherwick conjoined coal shed roofs in the fashionable Kings Cross area of north London. The fountain design includes raised granite stepping stones leading to a central spiral staircase which ascends to a roof terrace. This water feature is a Fountainhead collaboration with Stefano Marinaz Landscape www.stefanomarinaz.com and Jonathan Tuckey Design www.jonathantuckey.com .

HERTFORD STREET, MAYFAIR, LONDON

Set in an internal courtyard of central London townhouse. This water feature design and install is a collaboration between Fountainhead, international interior designer Anna Owens Designs www.annaowensdesigns.com and specialist glass company Fusion Glass www.chelsea-fusion.com . The water feature design is an 8m high stack of individually cut 10mm thick glass panels – this means that eight hundred 2m wide glass plates have been cut and stacked to form this undulating glass waterfall. As can be seen the waterfall is edged by rock and ‘green-wall’ live planting.

SHANGRI-LA HOTEL @ THE SHARD, LONDON

Fountainhead designed and installed this combined water feature and sign for the Shangri-La Hotel at the Shard in London. Shangri-La International www.shangri-la.com required that the fountain design was a self-contained water feature, sign and security barrier. Water runs gently over both the front and back stone faces of the water feature design whilst stainless steel pins hold the individual letters proud of the stone surfaces. The fountain design was developed in conjunction with the Shangri-La Group’s design team and installation was assisted by main contractor Sellar www.sellar.com.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY, LONDON

This fountain design was commissioned by the Dean & Chapter of Westminster Abbey and is situated in the College Garden. The brief was to create a relatively traditional water feature design but with no pool due to the close proximity of Westminster College and its inquisitive younger pupils. The ‘pool’ is a flat circular plane of polished black granite and it has a central well from which a single fountain jet rises. The ‘pool’ has 8 low bubbler jets evenly spaced around the midpoint of its radius. These bubbler jets spread a rippling surface layer of water over the whole granite surface. The water from the granite surface and the fountain falls into the well and runs to an underground reservoir where it is re-circulated.

A 100ft FOUNTAIN in a LAKE

This fountain rises 100ft vertically from a rock at the centre of a lake. The fountain design and installation required clever engineering and access to incorporate the mechanical elements into existing lakebed tunnels and structures. The fountain height can be controlled remotely by smartphone. The fountain jet is Illuminated from below to add night-time drama. The fountain design was by Fountainhead who also carried out the installation with access enabled by an innovative amphibious mobile platform provided by Falmouth based company WorkFloat www.workfloat.co.uk.