I had to include these two, both at the entrance to the building: Giles Miller Studio – who can not like this? London based with UK manufacturing they produce intriguing and innovative surfaces. This entrance, the Clerkenwell Arch, was the first thing I saw on arrival. For a photo of the whole thing visit their website […]
Clerkenwell Design Festival Part 3 – Installations at the Farmiloe
Clerkenwell Design Festival at the Farmiloe Part 2 – pop up shops
There was just too much to fit into 1 minute so here is a bit more… this time online shops and real shops had little pop-up stores so you could actually see product normally only viewed online. One such was Veja, showing their Brazilian organic cotton and leather trainers and accessories. Really cute with zingy colours. The Lollipop […]
Clerkenwell Design Festival at the Farmiloe Building – Part 1
This is one of my highlights during the festival. I love seeing the mix of new, developing and established brands along with displays and site-specific installations. It was all here this time and so relaxed; maybe that was just my frame of mind! I was delighted to see Ian McIntyre’s ceramics with Another Country displaying new products (see my […]
Collect London – metal and ceramics
Have any of you been following the series Metalworks on BBC4? It was only 3 episodes but absolutely fascinating; I hope they produce more. As a friend of and regular visitor to the V&A I enjoyed learning more about their collections too. Anyway, back to the metal and ceramics picked out at Collect. Looking back through […]
Collect London – Jewellery
Jewellery at Collect is an area that can overwhelm as there is so much of it shown. Here is a tiny selection however of items that caught my eye. Antonella Villanova, a jewellery and design gallery in Florence showed this Klein blue spattered mineral necklace by Catalina Brenes. It was good to see a large piece rather than just the […]
International Makers on show at Collect – Galeri Format from Norway
I always look forward to Collect which took place last weekend. Galleries from the world over gather at the Saatchi Gallery off the King’s Road in London to present the work of makers. The first piece I noticed was this filigree cut and layered felt hanging by May Bente Aronsen on the Galeri Format stand. […]