Seen in the House of Detention during Clerkenwell Design Week (hence the fuzzy photos as it’s very dark down there) A Rum Fellow, run by Caroline Lindsell and Dylan O’Shea, showed their Mayan range of textiles. Dylan helpfully told me about their mission to promote traditional crafts skills in a contemporary way. I can’t agree with him […]
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Ptolemy Mann’s collaboration with Johnson Tiles at Clerkenwell Design Week
One of the installations at Clerkenwell Design Week was Ptolemy Mann’s wall produced with Johnson Tiles using all 68 colours available in their Prismatics range. A straightforward, even basic product used with imagination becomes magical. We need more artistic interventions such as this.
The Artful Project – a new online gallery for prints
Joshua Blackburn, who I met during Clerkenwell Design Week, recently launched The Artful Project with his partner Rachel Hotchkiss, selling limited edition contemporary photographic prints. They spotted a gap in the market for affordable prints, either framed or unframed at incredibly reasonable prices (starting from just £75). No need to go to a standard shop […]
Upcycling and bikes
Upcycling, bikes and design – what’s not to like? I saw this when popping in to Grand Designs Live to collect some stuff and it was probably my favourite thing there. Harry Dwyer is one of the designers in a TV series Kevin’s Supersize Salvage challenged to use every aspect of a decommissioned Airbus A320 aircraft to make something not […]
Margo Selby Textiles
I first came across Margo Selby when she was a student and I was in the silk business as one of our Indian suppliers took her on for a placement. A master weaver, her style is very distinctive and I was impressed by the progression in terms of design and fabrication of her furnishing fabrics, several of […]
Crafted: Makers of the Exceptional – textiles
I’ve already written about Margo Selby in an earlier post so here are some other makers I saw at the show. Fair Isle Knitwear, set up by “blow-in” Mati Ventrillon who now lives on the island, offers bespoke traditionally knitted Fair Isle jumpers, all dried on the ” woolly horse” wooden rack, a rather lovely thing […]