Tartan Carpet Company 'Stevens & Graham' Covering The World's Floors

8th January 2015

Smart Scottish hotels get the tartan touch thanks to Stevens & Graham, the world's biggest tartan carpet supplier.

Stevens & Graham, the world's biggest tartan carpet designer and manufacturer, has brought a splash of contemporary colour to two of Scotland's best-loved hotels as part of a series of new contract wins.

The Glasgow-based company, which supplies carpets to international names such as Brooks Brothers, Tommy Hilfiger and House of Fraser, was called on by the Dumbuck House Hotel at the gateway to Dumbarton and Strathblane's ever-popular Kirkhouse Inn to provide stunning new carpets throughout their public areas.

Both hotels ordered up to 500 square metres of Stevens & Graham's Scottish-designed and craftsman-woven floor coverings at a cost of up to £60,000 give their establishments a unique new look.

Stevens & Graham managing director John McIlvogue, who acquired the company last year, said: "Both these exciting hotels have a loyal following in their local communities and from further afield and they want to offer their clients the best possible quality.

"The carpets they have chosen were designed from first principles by our design team at Jessie Street in Glasgow's Polmadie and created to our specifications by UK craft weavers who are at the top of their profession."

The Dumbuck House Hotel, an 18th century mansion house close to Helensburgh's elegant promenades and the splendours of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, has just undergone a comprehensive refurbishment.

As part of its dramatic style statement, it commissioned a tartan from Stevens & Graham based on Farrow & Ball paint colours, creating a tartan of pinks and greys in a unique, contemporary and design-led pattern. It features in the reception, hallways and function hall areas.

The Kirkhouse Inn, which was built in 1601 and has a rich and varied history in the parish of Strathblane, just outside Glasgow, has also benefited from major refurbishments in recent times.

The owners of the landmark building, close to the famous Glengoyne whisky distillery, chose a more traditional Scottish theme based on Stevens & Graham's Heather Green, one of its unsurpassable range of 136 tartans.

The company has also recently won another accolade from a top-end Glasgow restaurant with a five-figure contract for the laying of a Chisholm Hunting tartan - in muted shades of greens, blues and browns - in the Buttery.

Stevens & Graham, which was founded in 1947, has recently created up to eight new jobs with the opening this summer of its exclusive Chelsea Harbour-style showroom in the heart of Glasgow.

It has also signed an exclusive distribution agreement worth up to $1 million a year with US-based business Stark, the $500 million turnover New York-headquartered carpet, fabric and wallcoverings business.

Mr McIlvogue said: "Sales of this kind in the UK are a great shop window for our products. These hotels are associated in the public mind with quality and style and seeing our carpets in positions of prominence there will reinforce that message."

For further information, contact John McIlvogue, managing director, Stevens & Graham, 203 Bath Street, Glasgow, or 50 Jessie Street, Glasgow G42 0PG, Scotland. T: 0141 423 3299. W: www.tartancarpets.co.uk