V&A East will open its doors to the public on 18 April, marking a significant moment in East London’s growing cultural landscape. Alongside the museum’s opening, visitors will discover a new on-site shop dedicated to celebrating creativity, craft, and the spirit of making.

 The new V&A East shop will feature a carefully curated range of products that champion the creativity of East London, spotlight small-batch makers, and offer exclusive items unavailable elsewhere. Accessibility has been central to the curation, with more than 70% of the range priced under £30, ensuring the offer appeals to a broad audience.

A name to know… Humberto da Mata’s paper, fabric and ceramic designs have captured many an imagination writes Rory Robertson for Living etc. Humberto’s designs - all made at his Brazilian atelier have graced many an international interior with a client base that includes Kelly Wearstler. Now available in London for the first time @JIG studio.

Launching in London in Spring, Lalique continues its artistic journey through the four elements and turns its gaze skyward.

Air, the most elusive of them all, is captured in crystal through decorative objects, where savoir-faire, heritage, and modern elegance meet in a living expression of Art de Vivre.

The Conran Shop partners with the design duo Supergroup to launch an exclusive range celebrating colour, craft, and the joy of decorative objects Oddments, an exclusive new collection of decorative accessories. The range brings together expressive craftsmanship, bold material experimentation, and a playful design language that reimagines the role of decorative objects.

“Oddments began with a fascination we both have around decorative objects,” says Supergroup. “All the designs have been hand-drawn, and we developed a range of playful surface applications and colours across the collection — from double-dipped glazes to sgraffito and hand-painting techniques. We were inspired by the rich colour history within ceramics, including references

like chrome green and celadon blue. We loved playing with conventional material histories while taking a more joyful, exploratory approach to the medium.”

Across fourteen individual works, JIG Studio brings together material-led practices that foreground ancestry, experimentation, and handcraft at Collect 2026. Works were shown at the JIG Studio stand on the ground floor with a further selection presented in the Collectors’ Lounge, presented by Trimble SketchUp and designed by Tola Ojuolape Studio.

Opening on 12 February and running until 4 May, Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting is the first UK museum exhibition devoted exclusively to Freud’s works on paper, bringing together drawings that reveal the foundations of his painterly practice — many of them on public view for the first time.

The accompanying capsule collection will launch at the NPG Shop and takes its name from a phrase Freud often used and appears in the exhibition’s opening section: “Everything is a Portrait.” For Freud, any subject — human, animal or botanical — could be approached with the same forensic intensity.

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British textile artist Kate Jenkins to launch a joyful collection of limited-edition festive jumpers, tree decorations and “Fishmass Tree”.

As Brazilian creativity continues to command global attention, JIG Studio offers London a vivid new lens through which to view the country’s bold, emotionally resonant design culture.

The Conran Shop launched their latest furniture collection, Tamilla designed by Francis Sultana during London Design Festival 2025 (13-21 September).

Inspired by the heritage of the Conran Shop and the aesthetic of its founder Sir Terence Conran, the full collection reflects a pared-back European sensibility.

The range includes an armchair, daybed, and two- seater, each crafted with a solid oak frame, natural rattan side panels, and Belgian linen upholstery in a choice of Oatmeal, Sage, or Dahlia. Complementing the seating is a pair of marble side tables, available in either Bulgari Red or Verde Marl tops, both set on coordinating oak bases.

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The Conran Shop has collaborated with celebrated ceramicist Arjan Van Dal on an exclusive new collection, Family of Vases, inspired by an original series designed by Sir Terence Conran in the 1990s. This marks the first time the London-based potter has worked on a large-scale production, having previously focused on one-off pieces. The resulting collection spans 21 distinctive vases across nine complementary hues, each designed to be displayed individually or as a collected series.

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Merchant & Found, the UK’s leading online vintage retailer is to launch a series of ‘curated collections’ which have been sourced by the artist Carolyn Quartermaine over many years for her homes and studios in London and St Paul de Vence, South of France,

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Bentley Home has created its first ever picnic collection, Hyde, developed in direct response to customer demand. With each piece designed to provide a practical and elegant outdoor dining experience, the new collection features four new product designs and accessories including Murano champagne flutes and Italian linen napkins.

Tracey Emin has collaborated once again with the National Portrait Gallery Shop on a new range of tea towels, featuring three of Emin’s preparatory acrylics on paper drawings from the 2023 commission The Doors which cover the entrance doors to the Gallery.  Exclusive to the National Portrait Gallery Shop, they are available to pre-order from 19 May, each tea towel is made in the UK from organic cotton and priced at £15.00.

Launched at a gallery deep in the Marais during Paris Design Week in January, the new Spring Summer 2025 collections at Lalique have now hit the London stores. A bold and striking new collection that celebrates the earth in all its forms and imperfections - jewels for the home.