It's bonfire night and I'm busy putting together a press feature, inspired by the rainbows of colour evident absolutely everywhere at the London Design Festival 09. This should be a really cheerful blog post, all in all, and sorely needed for this very blustery, wet and miserable November week. The guys are busy tiling in... Continue Reading →
Design: 100% Design Official post show report – with my comments in red ;-)
100% Design London 27 October 2009 100% Design London delivered one of its most successful shows to date with over 26,549 visitors (plus 2,475 public visitors) coming through the doors of Earls Court; an increase of 1.5% from last year. Celebrating its fifteenth birthday proved the show was bang on trend with a mix of contemporary interior furniture,... Continue Reading →
Review: Launch night at the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Spinningfields, Manchester 2009
If dusty, musty and fusty are words which spring to mind when you hear the word 'craft', then you can't be keeping up with the not so quiet revolution going on right now. The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair was conceived and nurtured by two lovely South Manchester women, Ann-Marie Franey and Angela Mann, and... Continue Reading →
Design- Ana-Maria Pasescu Stewart, The Dock, LDF 09, & styling Emma Watson
As a little addendum to the last post about Starck's new kitchens, I watched Design for Life on BBC2 last night. Starck is working his way with a verbal machete through a load of British design students, in order to find a new talent to whom to give a 6 month apprenticeship with his design... Continue Reading →
Design – London Design Festival 09 steps into the Limelight
London Design Festival 09 reminded me of my very favourite drink this year - a long (as it snaked around London), slender (as it was more streamlined than last year), refreshing (as ever!) G&T with a great big slice of zesty lime to smack your tastebuds where it matters. Everywhere you turned, a certain vibrant... Continue Reading →
JAM’s style and funky bikes at 100% Design
As creative directors for this year's 100% Design, it certainly felt like branding consultants extraordinaire JAM - http://www.jamdesign.co.uk/ - stamped their own style on the show and it all felt a bit less 'corporate'. Their theme was Britishness, and there was most definitely a sense of fun to the event, and a far greater get... Continue Reading →
Moregeous at the London Design Festival 2009 – My poor feet!
I think Posh Spice has spent far too much time heading up my blog, time to fill her shoes.... and as I've tucked up my sleeve plenty of stylish, gorgeous, quirky and desirable bits and bobs to fill those amazingly high creations, it's time to boot her off the front page. It's taken me almost... Continue Reading →