Commenting on Kate Green’s  article in the 9 November issue of Country Life (‘Specialist building in crisis as firms collapse’), Symm Chief Executive Aidan Mortimer responds in this week’s copy to reassure that all is not necessarily all ‘doom and gloom’…

Gadgets such as iPods and iPads have transformed the way we live.  Lucy Alexander speaks to Symm Director Angus Gibson about the impact that Apple has had on home design.  To read the article follow the link below.

Annabel Freyberg visits Duck End House, a 17th century Oxfordshire house which Symm helped owners Philip and Catherine Mould bring back to life. Philip comments on Symm ‘They held our hand.  The experience was like working with an experienced picture restorer’.  Photographs are by Tim Beddow.

Andrea Watson of the Daily Express speaks to Symm Director Angus Gibson about advances in technology for the home, which he will talk about at Decorex on 27 September.  His talk is entitled ‘Home Technology for Today’s Savvy Client’.

Symm is involved in the Prince’s Craft Apprenticeship programme, where students are sent on placements across the UK to work alongside master craftspeople and organisations who share their philosophy and values.

Symm feature in an article by The English Home magazine on built-in storage.

Symm have just featured in a full page article in the FT about the lack of craftspeople and skills in the building trade.

Symm , who are regular sponsors of the WMF since 2008, detail their continued commitment to WMF study days and events.

Symm, who are regular sponsors of the WMF, get mentioned and photographed in the latest WMF newsletter. There is also an interesting article on the plight of Shobden Church, the interior of which Symm copied several years ago for a client in America.

APS Masonry, the stone division of Symm, has completed a commission from the creative agency Spark to manufacture a large stone Marmite jar. The sculpture has been installed in Burton-upon-Trent, home of the popular yeast spread.