I could have called this ‘Best of Design Week’, but ‘Bits of Design Week I Made It To’ would be more accurate. The old schedule is a bit squeezed this week, but I did manage to amble round Hoxton on the Icon Design Trail on Tuesday night. First stop, SCP, where Donna Wilson‘s new collection […]
I just stumbled across this old (wonky) tear sheet from a yonks-ago issue of Elle Deco and was bold over again by the concrete tiles by Eileen Elliott. She won various design awards for them back in 2005. The tiles are hand printed with images of Persian and kilim rugs, apparently taken from books on […]
Just back from attending an event at Drink, Shop & Do on the Caledonian Road. The event was Matthew Stinchcomb, Etsy founder, giving a talk about selling your wares online (like I, er, don’t). It was good, but a lack of seating led to some of the audience having to sit at his feet like […]
Big thanks to one of our readers who, after some research, found out the name behind some pin cushions I talked about a while back. They are by designer Naori Priestly and a quick dash around her website revealed a few I hadn’t seen before. Quite impressed that she chose to shoot the fried egg […]
Yes, here’s my round up of what I bought on my trip to la Braderie. I bought this first one early on, and carried it round, like a pet chiwawa, all day. We bonded. Next up a biology poster, hand painted I think, from a school. Any French speakers out there? On seconds thoughts, maybe […]