The Luxury Network

On Thursday the 19th March, we held a private event in our London showroom on the King's Road . The event was organised through 'The Luxury Network'.
The Luxury network are 'a private consortium of premium brands in each luxury capital of the world.'

The event was a great success and it was lovely to see people networking and making some valuable connections, whilst enjoying our showroom and the luxury vehicles.

 I was at the event representing the 'design consultancy' service that is now available from Kahn Design.   The service is project managed by a designer,   they will be looking at everything from colour schemes, leather upgrades, to unique metal work and embroidery. 

We had many guests at the showroom, from fellow Luxury Network Members to VIP clients. 
A bespoke tailor was in attendance,  Graham from Norton & Townsend. We also had a representative from Blue Harbour Vodka, which sponsored the after party at Le Peep Boutique Park Lane. 

Here are some images from the event at our boutique in Chelsea...

A luxury raffle with prizes consisting of a Kahn Design Swiss Watch, Blue Harbour Vodka & a bespoke suit from Norton & Townsend.

A speech was given from our Marketing Manager Matthew,  who gave details of the vehicles on display.

The event showcased our new Range Rover RS650 in Volcanic Rock, Satin.

We also had the Range Rover Sport 400LE  on show in Aleutian Silver.

Geneva 2015

The Kahn group have just exhibited for their third time at the Geneva Motor Show, and its safe to say it has been the best year yet...

I wanted to do a blog post to show the Kahn team in Switzerland hard at work at the biggest automotive event of the year!

Geneva begins for us months ahead of the show, so here is a photo diary of my Geneva experience.

The majority of the pictures in this blog have been used on our social media pages, so for updates on all things 'Kahn' take a look and follow these accounts on instagram:

@akahndesign

@chelseatruckco

photo credit @jessyjayne_xox

Once we were open for business, we began each morning with a team meeting.

There was a lot of press interest due to the unveiling of our new coach built 6x6, the 'Flying Huntsman'. 

Along with all the press interest, we also had a camera crew following our every move... all will be revealed soon enough!

photo credit @jessyjayne_xox

The evenings were a time for everyone to relax and spend some down time together, we were very fortunate to have some beautiful accommodation situated by the Swiss Alps. 

The cars we exhibited were all 'Volcanic Rock'.  This has been the most desired paint finish for the brand in the past few months.

There are more images of the vehicles we exhibited on the website, the majority can also be found on all our social media outputs.

Graham our photographer took some beautiful images not just of our cars, but other vehicles being exhibited. 

For example this lovely McLaren...

To explore more of our social media feeds, take a look at the following twitter accounts:
@akahndesign
@chelseatruckco
@projectkahn

Lake Geneva

Goodbye Geneva!

All the photos (bar a few) were taken by @Rogue86photog

Behind The Scenes

Wednesday  I took the chance to go out on a photo shoot with the Photographer & Videographer here at Kahn Design.

Manos (left) & Graham (right) at the Leeds Showroom

 I asked the two guys to write a short paragraph about themselves and what they do so you can get acquainted :

Graham Taylor

" I'm the photographer at Kahn Design. I cover a lot of things from product defects, PR for the company, car sales and full photo shoots for commercial and editorial advertising. Cars have been my passion for as long as I can remember, so being able to couple the proximity with high-end cars with a job-role that allows me to share my own vision of them makes me very lucky."

Manos Kountouris

"My role is A videographer / Multimedia Editor.  I was employed about two years ago to set up and run the Multimedia side of A Kahn Design.  I was always in to cars and film making so, combine these two together create the perfect environment to work and be creative."

The shoot involved driving a Range Rover Vogue 600 LE luxury Edition around the Leeds area, finding a quiet area to photograph the vehicle with some strange contraption attached to it called a camera rig.  Which in my opinion would be best described as scaffolding!

I always wondered how they took such intricate photographs of cars when they appear to be driving so fast! WELL! Little did I know that this is one way to do it! The other easy way is to use software but that would of made for a boring day out ...

So essentially this device is made up of some tubing and clamps that allows you to take a rolling shot of a car. In the past, this was done by "tracking" from the back of another vehicle moving at the same speed as the subject car. Rigs have made this process a lot easier (and safer!) and it allows you to get an image where the car looks like it's driving very fast but in reality may not even have the engine switched on and is being pushed along. This is achieved by using a very slow shutter speed on the camera.

For anyone wondering, I took the behind the scenes shots!

I was loving tottering around in my heels in a muddy field.

Image captured on the rig

Thursday I was also going to go out with the team on a shoot with a different Range Rover but had meetings preventing me! So Graham kindly took some gorgeous images showing you behind the scenes of this static shoot, the car and location look beautiful. 

Marsden Moor

The lighting can vary so much on outdoor shoots, using mobile lighting like the one in the picture can give certain panels on the car extra light, which is great if they are needing images in more detail.

For the static shots, the guys use various different tools for helping them with lighting and so on. Things like a polarizing lens can help increase colour saturation and decrease reflections.

The car on Thursdays shoot was a Range Rover Sport Luxury Edition.
Both the cars in these shoots you can see in the new Leeds Showroom.

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Seen as I post every Friday, I wanted to finish my post with a lovely in house picture again!
 Today most of the girls here at Kahn Design went out on a nice lunch to Nandos to celebrate it being the weekend!

A quick pic after enjoying a lovely lunch! Myself, Suzanne, Charlotte, Ada & Emma. Have a great weekend people!

Boys Toys

Todays blog was going to be me showing you guys what the Photographer & Videographers here at Kahn do on a day to day basis! However, Graham (name and shame) forgot to tell me when they were leaving the building the other day so that content is now for next weeks blog!

Today I have been bothering the boys in the design team and managed to rope 2 guys into showing me their cars & making them smile for an awkard photo!

My first unlucky victim was Ashley Burrows.  Ash is a Automotive Alias Designer, he drives a BMW M3. A pointless fact for you all aswell, Ash's favourite biscuit is a chocolate Hob nob.

 

New wheels:

 

 

Dream Car:

 Pagani Zonda Revolucion

 

 

 

 

Manos Kountouris is the A. Kahn Design Videographer/ Editor. He drives a 1993 Toyota Supra.

 

Dream Car:

Lamborghini Diablo SV

 

This is me and my little car, Rupert.

 

I dont really have a dream car, but I do love the Mclaren SLR we have in from last weeks blog :

 

 

This is me extremely happy it's Friday! Ash doing his zoolander pose and Manos thinking I'm  strange!

Have a great weekend everyone!