Introducing the Italian Collection - a collaboration between Graphenstone X Kate Watson Smyth
The Italian Collection - a set of 12 colours combining the deeply romantic shades of Italy with the softer palette of the British Countryside created in collaboration with Graphenstone paints for the home of Kate Watson Smyth near Turin.
Knots Rugs launches the English Country Garden Collection in collaboration with artist, Charlotte Krone of Rediscovered By
Charlotte Krone at Keythorpe Hall with her Wildflower Rug created by Knots Rugs
The art of knit with Clemence Joly
Parisian artist Clemence Joly recently created a wool butchery for Vintage Furniture and lighting brand Merchant & Found during London Craft Week … a showstopper that featured giant T-bone steaks alongside charcuterie .. each sausage lovingly knitted by hand. We speak to the Central St Martins trained artist on where her love for knitting began and what next…
National Portrait Gallery Shop celebrates the work of Black British designers and makers
National Portrait Gallery Shop celebrates the work of Black British designers and makers in new capsule collection to accompany major new exhibition, The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure.
Merchant & Found brings you the Vintage Supermarket - 6,000 sq ft pop up in Soho for London Craft Week
Merchant & Found, the UKs leading online vintage furniture and lighting brand, is launching a 6000 sq ft Vintage Supermarket in Soho, London at the Vinyl Factory from 15-18th May.
Championing the legendary makers of vintage furniture and lighting and celebrating and championing the skill of contemporary makers in association with London Craft Week and Vinterior.
Merchant & Found has commissioned a diverse range of makers united by their use of primary natural materials, textiles, paper, glass, stone and wood whilst also highlighting a number of endangered heritage crafts.
Graphenstone collaborates with Michelle Ogundehin
Graphenstone Purifying Paints, one of the most widely certified paint brands in the world has collaborated with Michelle Ogundehin, one of the most influential figures in British Interior Design on an edit of sixteen soothing paint shades. The new collection which launches in April, lovingly crafted by Michelle, is designed for wellbeing and selected for ease. It is a foundational palette for the entire home.
Learn the ancient and endangered craft of 'ink floating' marbling with artist Natascha Maksimovic (Nat Maks) at Knots Rugs during London Craft Week
Knots Rugs will host an immersive and interactive workshop during London Craft Week with collaborator Nat Maks (above), the Margate based marbling artist who will also launch her first book on the subject at the event during London Craft Week on Tuesday 14th May from 5pm – 9pm at Knots Chelsea Store.
National Portrait Gallery Shop announces exclusive bone china range created in collaboration with Tracey Emin
You can now eat and drink from an Emin…
Knots Rugs Naturals Collection for 2024 celebrates natural fibres
Knots Rugs has launched a new collection of all natural rugs for 2024 combining materials such as nettle and cactus which are found wild and using ancient techniques to create soft and tactile floor coverings.
Glassmaking techniques added to UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Late in 2023, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, met in Kasane (Botswana), and decided to add glassmaking techniques to the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. For ten thousand years, humans have been shaping glass objects for everyday life.
Knots Rugs launches second Suminagashi Collection - Fleur
Knots Rugs has launched a second Suminagashi collection of smaller rugs called ‘Fleur’ based on an original artwork created by its fine artist founder, Bonnie Sutton at the Margate studio of NatMaks in vibrant colourways - red, orange, green , yellow and blue - that can be layered in a group or individually.
Own your own piece of British Art History...
The Imperial War Museum has launched a capsule collection of limited edition products that have been handcrafted from the original stretcher wood from Stanley Spencer's iconic 'Shipbuilding on the Clyde' series of paintings on display at its new Blavatnik art, film and photography gallery.
Handmade in the workshops of IWM London, each item in the range is signed by Stanley Spencer (a copy of which was provided by his grandson) and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Colour trends 2024 - Graphenstone creative ways with colour and pattern
Creative ways with colour and pattern for 2024 from checks to stripes and colour drenching in richly pigmented, Norfolk based Graphenstone - one of the world’s most certified eco paints.
Best Christmas Baubles and Decorations for your Tree in 2023
The best Christmas Baubles and Tree Decorations to buy now from the Lux to the Kitch…
LALIQUE launches the Lianes Feuilles Champs-Elysees
LIANES FEUILLES CHAMPS-ELYSEES
Using the iconic pattern of the CHAMPS-ELYSEES leaf, Lalique Interior Design offers a bespoke lighting fixture which brings a gentle and delicate light to any area. Each Champs-Elysées leaf is individually lit at their center, and their placement and angle can vary depending on the environment; As a vine like chain of crystal falling down from the ceiling, or as a dense foliage across the length of a table.
The Lianes concept of the Champs-Elysées can be spread out, or concentrated into small clouds, offering an ever-adapting product for any chosen space or environment. (The number of leaves and their placement, and drop can all be modified).
KNOTS RUGS COLLABORATES WITH ARTIST NAT MAKS ON LIMITED EDITION ‘SUMINAGASHI’ COLLECTION
Knots Rugs is to launch a collaboration with Nat Maks, the Margate studio founded by artist Natascha Maksimovic, who works with the ancient Japanese technique of Suminagashi ‘ink floating’ Marbling. Eight original artworks in individual colourways have been painstakingly and sensitively reinterpreted by Knots Rugs and its fine artist founder, Bonnie Sutton.
Celebrating creativity and craft this Christmas at The National Portrait Gallery Shops
The National Portrait Gallery has launched the perfect edit of decorations, wrapping, cards, gifts for all the family for Christmas at its new shops and online. Many of the pieces are exclusive, from small batch makers across the UK.
DREAM WEAVER .. Step inside the London Home of textile artist Aiveen Daly
The hallway in the home of Aiveen Daly in North West London. A combination of vibrant stair runner and brightly patterned original floor tiles contrasts energetically with the cossetting blue of the Graphenstone Blue Steel walls and ceiling
National Portrait Gallery launches capsule home accessories collection using the Gainsborough fabric from its new Gallery walls
The National Portrait Gallery, which reopened on 22 June 2023, will launch a celebratory capsule collection ‘Enfilade’ of ultra-limited-edition cushions, throws, quilts, and table runners using offcuts from the fabrics that line its new Gallery walls.
Designed as ‘collector’s items of the future,’ each piece in the range which spans large and medium sized throws, cushions and a table runner is limited in number and inspired by the bold colour combinations on the walls of the new third floor gallery spaces – an Enfilade – a visual feast for the visitor with multiple colorways to be viewed at once.
Exclusive and limited edition gifts from The Imperial War Museum Shops
Imperial War Museums (IWM) Shop is launching all new and exclusive Christmas Spitfire gift ranges this September. These products will be available to buy both online and in on-site shops in time for Christmas.

