This article was published 14 years I love Linda Bloomfield’s work, especially her gorgeous teaset. Her products are perfectly formed to fit the human hand, incredibly tactile and well designed – the teapot pours perfectly without spilling a drop. So it is with great pleasure that I present a little…
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creative spaces :: chase and wonder
This article was published 14 years Chase and Wonder make gorgeous screenprinted stationery and home accessories from a converted cowshed in rural Worcestershire. Well, if that’s not worth a creative spaces post, I don’t know what is! It was a shell when they found it, no electricity, no wall panels…
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creative spaces :: foodie bugle hq
This article was published 14 years Silvana de Soissons is the editor of online food magazine, The Foodie Bugle, which I have had the great honour of contributing to on a couple of occasions. This is her creative space. It is a long and narrow room, approximately 8m x 4m,…
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creative spaces :: jonathan adler
This article was published 14 years Jonathan told us that people often think his products “just are” – they don’t imagine that they are all hand thrown and all start from this building. Even though I have studied pottery, I must confess, I have never really thought about it either,…
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creative spaces :: stockholm furniture fair
This article was published 14 yearsThis week’s creative spaces post is a little different from usual in that it’s not one person’s space, but rather a collection of all the great products I saw at the Stockholm Furniture Fair designed for creative people’s working environments. I believe that the space…
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creative spaces :: nancy & betty
This article was published 14 yearsTaking their name from Creative Director Hannah Bidmead’s Grandma and her twin sister, Nancy & Betty are purveyors of fine stationery… I first came across them at the Whitstable Oyster Festival, and being a bit a stationery geek, was instantly smitten! So I was very…
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creative spaces :: raw
This article was published 15 yearsThis creative space is home to design agency Raw and is housed within the Engine House of Salford’s Islington Mill. The original features, airy spaces and personal touches conspire to make this a really inspirational environment that Raw hope to call home for many years…
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creative spaces :: dovetail
This article was published 15 yearsI was recently very lucky to be invited to the home of Dovetail to explore their wonderful creative space in the middle of the woods in Hampshire; the perfect environment for ‘workers in wood’. Awaiting a new straw-bale constructed studio which will feature a soundproof glass…
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creative spaces :: woop studio
This article was published 15 yearsAn ostentation of peacocks, a hum of bees, a stand of flamingoes… there’s something almost mischievous about collective nouns. They are irresistible to anyone with a love of words – but to discover that Woop Studios have produced more than 100 limited edition prints bringing them…
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creative spaces :: graeae
This article was published 15 yearsDuring Open House London this year, I was lucky enough to have a quick explore of Banbury Studios, the home of theatre company Graeae. Graeae describes itself “as a force for change in world-class theatre, breaking down barriers, challenging preconceptions and boldly placing disabled artists…
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creative spaces :: people will always need plates
This article was published 15 yearsIt’s no secret that I love People Will Always Need Plates, so I was very excited when they kindly invited me to see their studio, which is nestled in the top of their gorgeous home. After tea and homemade cookies (oh yes!), we headed up…
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creative spaces :: maggie’s cancer caring centre
I found my visit to Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre London inspiring and humbling. Most of all it was an important reminder of what design is for. It’s for making people’s lives better, and I can’t think of a better example of that than Maggie’s.
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creative spaces :: allan manham
Allan Manham’s pots have a wonderful organic quality that drew me to them from the first time I saw them. So you can imagine how excited I was when Allan agreed to show me around his studio.
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creative spaces :: alexandra abraham
Alexandra sees the beauty in things others have discarded. She collects them, she arranges them, she covers them in gold leaf and then rubs it away, and in doing so reveals the beauty she first spied in the mud or the sand, so that we can see it too.
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creative spaces :: emulsion
This article was published 15 yearsThis month’s creative space is Emulsion, an architecture studio in Baker’s Yard; a little-known 1980s industrial estate in Clerkenwell, tucked away at the bottom of Back Hill and just down the road from The Eagle; reputedly the first ever ‘gastropub’. They’re on the top floor, in…
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creative spaces :: wimbledon art studios
For the latest in my series of creative spaces features, artist Fiona Brown very kindly invited me along to see her space at Wimbledon Art Studios and suggested I time my visit to coincide with Open Studios weekend so I could also get a look those of her fellow artists.
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creative spaces :: ian lettice
Ian first noticed the building that is now his studio when helping out with the local scouts. Once a bomb shelter to the factory building that is now the scout hut, its door hadn’t been opened for 20 years.
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creative spaces :: emma bond
This month’s creative spaces post features the enchantingly titled “Orchard Studio;” home to Emma Bond’s garden design business. The wonderful photography is all by Emma herself.
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creative spaces :: michael anastassiades
For the second post in my series of sneaky peaks behind the scenes into the thinking, working, and making spaces of designers, I was lucky enough to be given a rare glimpse into the studio of Michael Anastassiades.