Archive for the ‘Gifts’ Category
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

This summer, Darkroom is going colourful with their latest in-store event, titled Into Africa. Kicking off in April, the showcase explores modernist interpretations of indigenous Africa textiles, jewellery and art. (more…)
Tags: 6876, Bloomsbury, Corrie Williamson, Darkroom, David David, Florian, Harris Elliott, Into Africa, Kenneth MacKenzie, Noel Stewart
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010

SKITSCH is an Italian producer and retailer of contemporary design, which launched with aplomb in Milan in April 2009. Now they have opened a new 350-square-metre store on Brompton Road, in the heart of the Brompton Design District. (more…)
Tags: 5.5 Designers, Bertjan Pot, Brompton, Cristina Morozzi, Front, Giles Miller, Jean-Marie Massaud, Luca Nichetto, Maarten Baas, Marc Sadler, Marcel Wanders, Peter Marigold, Skitsch, Xavier Lust
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Design duo Hannah Dipper and Robin Farquhar of People Will Always Need Plates have created three new teatowel designs to raise money for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres and boost awareness of the charity’s Love Maggie’s Day on 26th March 2010. (more…)
Tags: cancer, charity, Dundee, Fife, Frank Gehry, london, Love Maggie's Day, Maggie Keswick Jencks, Maggie's, Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres, People Will Always Need Plates, Richard Rogers, teatowel, Zaha Hadid
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Friday, December 18th, 2009

The Super Christmas Market returns to Somerset House this year and, due to popularity, will stay open for more days. Some of the UK’s best and most interesting designers are selling original Christmas gifts at affordable prices. (more…)
Tags: Aldwych, Somerset House, Super Christmas Market
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Creative agency YCN has collaborated with Jiggery Pokery on a Christmas shop comprising specially commissioned festive items from a diverse group of illustrators, graphic designers, and product designers. The name of the event is My Two Front Teeth. (more…)
Tags: 72 Rivington Street, Jiggery Pokery, My Two Front Teeth, Shoreditch, YCN
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Design producer and distributor, Thorsten van Elten, is clinching the Christmas market with his own pop-up shop in the Brompton Design District. The event is called “Thorsten’s 12 days of Christmas” and is a good spot to pick up well-designed gifts. (more…)
Tags: brompton design district, Sample & Seconds Sale, Thorsten van Elten, Thorsten's 12 Days of Christmas
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

It’s December and the Christmas season is well and truly upon us. The annual dilemma as to what to buy our discerning friends and family is here, and to make life a bit easier, we have searched the stores featured in LONDON DESIGN GUIDE to bring our pick of the top 20 products from 20 great places. (more…)
Tags: Alessi, Aram, Contemporary Applied Arts, Darkroom, Design Museum Shop, Dover Street Market, Few and Far, Hannah Martin, Jacqueline Rabun, Jasper Morrison Shop, Mar Mar Co, Phaidon, placesandspaces, SCP, sigmar, Skandium, Thorsten van Elten, twentytwentyone, Uniform Wares, viaduct
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SHOP: THE LOLLIPOP SHOPPE (SPITALFIELDS)
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010Successful Brighton design store The Lollipop Shoppe has opened its first London outlet within Old Spitalfields Market, selling a diverse portfolio of products from watches to furniture and cushions to lighting. (more…)
Tags: Found Associates, Old Spitalfields Market, Spitalfields, The Lollipop Shoppe
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