This article was published 10 years Designer-maker Heather Scott has created a wall-mounted plinth to display plants, working with Falmouth based plant studio and shop Toro. The brief was to change the way that house plants are presented, moving them from floor or tabletop to eye level by somehow affixing them to the…
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Skinflint find and restore midcentury lighting
This article was published 10 years Once they’ve found the right pieces, they soda blast, polish, lacquer and / or rewire them to give them a new lease of life, bringing them up to today’s safety standards in the process, all without compromising their character. With over a thousand types…
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Win a Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant
This article was published 10 years Tom Raffield Ltd designs and makes a range of contemporary furniture and lighting that represents their beliefs, promotes good design and champions the materials they love. Every piece is hand-made by a skilled set of craftsmen in a woodland workshop in Cornwall, England, and…
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interview :: amy isles freeman
This article was published 10 yearsAmy Isles Freeman will be exhibiting at the London Design Fair 22 –25 September 2016. Register for your tickets here. Portrait photograph by Paul Whittaker. This article was published 10 years
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interview :: heather scott
This article was published 10 yearsYou can find out more about Heather and buy her products at The Maker Place. This article was published 10 years
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Max Lamb designs glasses shaped like two lemons
This article was published 10 yearsThe use of specific glasses for specific drinks is not a new idea – wine, beer and cocktails are all traditionally served in specialist glasses said to improve aroma and flavour. But soft drinks usually just get chucked into the nearest tumbler. That’s all set…
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Clerkenwell Design Week adopts new ‘spine’ layout
This article was published 10 years Having written an article for the Clerkenwell Post about the ‘masterplan’ for 2016’s Clerkenwell Design Week, confessions of a design geek editor Katie Treggiden was better placed than most to navigate the new ‘spine’ layout of this year’s festival, so forewarned and forearmed, she…
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Studio Haran champions sustainable design
This article was published 10 years Kate Brewer, founder of Look Like Love, profiles a different new designer every week. With the tagline “support, nurture, promote” echoing confessions of a design geek’s own “discover, champion and inspire” and a similar commitment to advocating for emerging talent, the parallels between Look Like…
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interview :: studio haran
This article was published 10 years I met husband and wife team Studio Haran on my travels during confessions of a design geek’s Cornish Design Season at the end of last year. Falmouth University graduates Joel and Helena design and make sustainable furniture and lighting from their farm courtyard workshop. They…
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interview :: stranger collective
This article was published 11 years I have long been inspired by the work of ‘creative content studio’ Stranger Collective, headed up by my very talented sister Clare Howdle and her business partner Helen Gilchrist. Having worked with them on a few projects, I have frequently been impressed by…
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Tom Raffield’s Scots Light is made from 80 steam-bent ‘leaves’
This article was published 11 years Cornwall-based design Tom Raffield has launched a new wooden lampshade hand made from approximately 80 individually cut and steam-bent leaves of ash. Inspired by a pinecone, the Scots Light is built around a laser-cut birch wood frame, to which the ash leaves are attached….
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interview :: toro
This article was published 11 years I discovered Toro last time I was in Falmouth. On the surface, it is just a plant shop, but it is a very beautiful plant shop – it somehow feels like my favourite corners of Instagram made real, so I knew I had to…
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photos of numbers :: 2, 2378 & 7654321
This article was published 12 yearsI’ve been writing this column for quite some time now, a celebration both of typography in all its guises and of the fact that inspiration can sneak up on you absolutely anywhere if you stay open to it. I can remember being super-nervous to launch…
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photos of numbers :: 324, 202 & SS268
This article was published 12 yearsI might have been on a complete break in Cornwall, but I couldn’t resist snapping a few numbers while I was there. The 324 was on the side of a boat in a tiny fishing village on The Lizard called Cadgwith Cove. The 202 on…
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out and about :: cornish inspiration
This article was published 12 years Carl Jung proposed that anything taken to extreme becomes its opposite. When you do what you love for a living, the temptation is to work really hard and to work all the time. The danger is, that taken to extreme, the thing you love…
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design for good :: bee blocks
This article was published 12 years I love Cornish design studio Green and Blue‘s bee blocks, launched at Home London in January and designed and handmade in the UK. Designer Gavin Christman says, “Inspired by solitary bees’ use of holes in old walls for laying their eggs, we’ve created a…
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photos of numbers :: 8, 28 & 49
This article was published 13 yearsMore photos of numbers spotted on my recent trip to Cornwall… I love the underlined “no” in the top one and the sea styling on the middle one. The bottom one was on the window of an art gallery in St Ives. Have a lovely…
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photos of numbers :: 5,5 & 2
This article was published 13 yearsSo, despite the fact I was supposed to be taking a complete break in Cornwall, I couldn’t help but snap a few photos of numbers! Here are the first three. First up, another fox door knocker on a grey door! (If I start a tumblr…
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out and about :: cornwall
This article was published 13 years After a pretty hectic couple of months that included the preview of BRINK, publishing a 60 page review of the London Design Festival, making two films – one about Tent London and one about designjunction and everything else that LDF had to offer, followed in quick succession by a trip to Eindhoven…