Bethan Gray is delighted to announce her collaboration with YOO Home, which opened in a dedicated space at Harrods recently. As well as providing key pieces from her Boutique collection, Bethan has designed an exclusive coffee table version of her Stud table. Delicate studded detailing in brass adorns the rim of the tabletop, reminiscent of the ornamental decoration found in the Asian and Arabic worlds, adding a luxurious quality.
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Morse Studio is a branding and design consultancy specialising in brand identity, art direction, and graphic design for print, web and environments.
Our work is informed by research and analysis and inspired by the outlook and values of the people we work with. We provide insightful visual direction and design that is considered, expressive and engaging. We believe that effective design solutions are driven by purity of concept and a sensitive balance of restraint and expression – although solutions for each project are bespoke, this ideology is a constant.
Notable clients include Falcon Enamelware, Lorraine Pascale, The British Library, M&S and McDonald’s Europe.
CLEO B, the luxury shoe and accessory brand is excited to introduce their Spring/Summer collection 2014, Sea of Monsters.
Come and learn how to make mosaics! Daytime, evening and weekend courses are available. Student numbers are limited to five, and both beginners and more experienced students are welcome.
Afroditi Krassa has been working on a project with Curzon Cinemas on their cinematic design scheme for their flagship new site in London Victoria.
Wild Interior, Suky Best’s solo show will feature several short looping films about our relationship to nature as well as printed works. Showing at Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, 23rd May – 15th June 2014.
Private view: Thurs 10th April 2014
Exhibition runs: Tues 8th – Fri 11th April 2014
Location: Gallery & Project space
Feral Film Productions invites you to the launch of the Feral Film Foundation, promoting community based wildlife conservation through film.
A private view of limited edition African wildlife prints by Jimmy Greenwoodand auction of single editions to raise funds for the Foundation in association with The Tongwe Trust and Fauna & Flora International.
For more information please visit: www.feral.tv
Private view: 24th Apr
Exhibition runs: 24th Apr – 1st May 2014
Location: Gallery & Project space
An exploration of functional sculptural form for the living environment.
Where an idea becomes a flowing line, a shape, a texture. Where the eye is drawn and the hand seduced.
An exhibition presenting the extraordinary work of individual artist-makers sharing the philosophy that furniture has the ability to stimulate and engage far beyond its required utility.
How is the artist able to translate a mere thought, an inspiration and the origin of an abstract expression into a fully realized manifest object where more often than not the resultant piece equates to far more than the sum of its parts would perhaps suggest?
What is it that makes a work truly unique, enthralling and captivating?
Welcome to the material mind – showcasing exceptional sculptural works hewn, shaped and crafted from wood metal and glass, where a synergy of form and function radiates from within. Functional works of art for the way we live tomorrow.
Featuring: David Gates, Alun Heslop – chaircreative, Ian Spencer – Yard Sale Project, Charlie Whinney and Simon Yates.
There will be a series of talks ‘Inside the Material Mind’ presented at the Private View.
David Gates designs and makes furniture that has a relationship with architecture. Winner of the Jerwood Award for Contemporary Making 2010 and the Wesley-Barrell prize in 2011, Gates’ London practice draws together a multi-stranded approach to designing and making. His work embraces functional expediency as well as exploring our relationship with the stuff around us.
Award winning design artist Alun Heslop of the chaircreative specialises in the design and creation of exceptional sculptural chairs & seating. They encapsulate a timeless elegance and appeal through implementation of good design and appropriate ‘truth to materials’.
chaircreative studio produces large scale site-specific exterior installations for public and private spaces as well as design and creation of seating works and sculptural projects for residential and corporate interiors.
Ian Spencer and Cairn Young together make Yard Sale Project. They create one-off and small batch pieces of furniture that combine the unique design skills of Young with the making talents of Spencer. All Yard Sale Project items are made by them in their workshop and studio in South London, aiming to bring together the ‘cool’ of the world of design with the obsessive applied skills of handmade one-offs.
Charlie Whinney’s Design Workshop exists to explore the relationships between materials, people and the environment sometimes finding where beauty and usefulness meet.
Currently all of the design work and much of the planning and making is done by Charlie Whinney, and almost everything is made in the workshop in Beck Head, Cumbria, using locally sourced materials.
From his studio north of London, Simon Yates makes individual pieces of furniture emphasising structure, balance and the idea of movement and texture. Experimenting with technique and process has allowed Simon to challenge the normal preconceptions about furniture making and has given him a depth of understanding of the material and how far the boundaries can be pushed within his pieces.
