I popped over to Earls Court last week for a quick visit to Home, Craft & Top Drawer on the opening day just to see what was happening and to keep my “commercial” eye in. This was the first time that there was a dedicated Craft section and I was curious to discover who was […]
Fairs
Lighting by Bert Frank
A lamp is for life, not just Christmas and British brand Bert Frank hit the mark with their lights designed and made to truly last a lifetime. There is a mid-20th Century, mid-European feel to them; you can see the quality. Love the adjustable pendant light above. All products come in a range of colours and with […]
Made London – part 3 – textiles
Here is a brief selection of the variety of textiles I saw, all worth investigating through their sites. Holly Berry weaves morse code into her textiles. She also works to commission, so you can specify the message you would like. Look at her site to see her woven morse code alphabet. The scarf below spells “hold”. […]
Made London – part 2
Funny how different things catch your eye at different times: this was Danish glassmaker Line Gottfred Petersen‘s second time at Made London. I enjoyed the purity of line and subtlety of colour in her beautifully finished sandblasted and faceted glass which asks to be held as well as seen.Sian Patterson from Glasgow was a first-time exhibitor; […]
Felt from Kyrgyzystan
I do confess to checking the spelling of Kyrgyzstan as well as its location (between Tajikistan and China) as it’s not exactly well-known. This is one of those NGO projects that is developing products for first world countries using the traditional skills of rural communities and seems to be heading in the right direction. Their main […]
New floor and wall encaustic tiles by Lindsey Lang
Lindsey Lang, whose work I’ve written about before, has recently developed a tile collection that expands the asymmetrical abstract themes already seen in her textiles into repeat with flooring. Patterns now repeat ad infinitum in a very satisfying way.The seemingly unbalanced look of “Leaf” (the big grey tile in the centre below) is resolved when […]