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home: event [ inside an almshouse ] 

home: event [ inside an almshouse] 

Visit the Geoffrye Museum for their latest step back in time for interiors. There are various opening dates and times for this special exhibition, onwards from April 19th, with audio guides available. Visit their calendar of events for full listings. 

Geffrye’s restored 18th-century almshouse, which has been taken back to its original condition and offers a rare glimpse into the lives of London’s poor and elderly in the 1780s and 1880s.

‘An almshouse is charitable housing provided to enable people (typically elderly people who can no longer work to earn enough to pay rent) to live in a particular community.’ 


home: event [ Harvey Nichols ]

home: event [ Harvey Nichols ]

Head to Harvey Nichols, London on the 20th April for the official launch event for their homeware department. Full of top brands including Kartell, Andrew Martin, One World, Phaidon, as well as our featured giveaway brand from last month Rockett St George.

On the night you will have the chance to meet the brand founders, see the latest products, sit in on tutorials and no doubt a free gift or two. Take a stroll around the floor with a glass of prosecco in hand and be inspired.

Thursday 20th April [ 6:30pm – 9:00pm ]

Free event – no ticket required

Harvey Nichols
Knightsbridge

London

home: event [ ceramic painting ] 

home: event [ ceramic painting ]  

Not to be missed, this great workshop at Heals, London, with ceramicist Amanda-Sue Rope gives you the opportunity to create a painted set of four coasters for just £25. 


THIS WORKSHOP IS AN INTRODUCTION TO CERAMIC DECORATION; HISTORY, TECHNICAL SKILLS AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE.

Ceramicist Amanda-Sue Rope comes to Heal’s for an exclusive workshop. In this class she will teach her techniques for decorating pottery, and guests will paint a full set of coasters which they can collect from Heal’s after firing.

Amanda has prepared a set of 4 different ceramic coasters for each guest, made from white stoneware, red stoneware, grey stained clay and porcelain-slipped clay.

You will be introduced to different approaches to paint application including brush, sponge, stencilling and splattering. Amanda will discuss how to create a coherently designed set, and show examples of different methods of paint application and decoration across different makers, cultures and time periods.

Heal’s Tottenham Court Road

Sunday 23rd April, 12:00 – 14:00 

£25

home: event [ Heals ]

home: event [ Heals ]

One event not to be missed in April is the MADE IN LONDON launch party at Heals. Their modern craft market showcases the city’s craft community woth drop-in workshops and demonstrations.

With exhibits including 19th century loom weaving, soap cutting workshop, pottery painting, chair caning, furniture upholstery as well as a chance to meet with the makers there is lots to see and do and the best thing it’s free.

April 20th [ 18:00 – 21:00 ]

Heals

Tottenham Court Road

Heals.com 

home: event [ Ideal Home Show ] 

home: event [ Ideal Home Show ] 

The Ideal Home Show will return 24 March – 9 April 2017 at Olympia, London

From kitchens and bathrooms, to bedrooms and basements, fixtures and fittings to fine food, gardens and the latest high tech gadgets, to fashion beauty and gifts, you’ll find it all under one roof at this award-winning show.

To book tickets click here 

home: event [ The American Dream ]

home: event [ The American Dream ]

This new exhibition at the British Museum explores 1960’s art in America and the iconic pieces that look at society and divisions around at the time.

‘Starting with the ezplosion of pop arr in the 1960, the exhibition includes worka by the most celebrated American artists. From Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauuschenberg to Ed Ruscha, Kara Walker and Julie Mehretu – all boldly experimented with printmaking. Experience this extraordinary history through their eyes’  

An insightful and inspiring exhibition well worth a visit. [ Tickets cost £16.50 ]

9th March – 18th June

Americandreamexhibition.org 

home: event [ kitchen design workshop ] 

home: event [ kitchen design workshop ] 

The new Tom Howley showroom in Royal Tunbridge Wells is the setting for this special event where Country Homes & Interiors will welcome guests before Design Director Tom Howley shares over 30 years of expertise on what makes the perfect kitchen.

The day will also include the chance to ask questions, learn more about Tom’s top design tips and you will enjoy a live cooking demonstration and lunch from a guest chef.

Tickets cost £25 including coffee, lunch (with wine) cooked in the showroom and complimentary gift bag.

Thu 23 March 2017

11:00 – 14:30 

Tom Howley 35 High Street 

Royal Tunbridge Wells TN1 1XL

home: event [ Alternative London ]

home: event [ Alternative London ]

Combining an art tour and workshop, Alternative London offers the opportunity to learn about street art in London as well as a graffiti workshop creating your own artwork.

‘one of our expert streer artist guides will take you on a graffiti and street art walking tour of East London where you’ll see some od the World’s finest streer art by Banksy, ROA, Shepard Fairey, Jimmy C, Invader, Stik and many many more. Then, after a refreshment break it’s back to the Alternative London workshop to try it for yourself!’

£30 for 4 hr session

Head to alternativeldn.co.uk for tickets and availablity

home: event [ exhibition ] 

home: event [ exhibition ] 

Head to The Geffrye Museum for this great insight to the room that is far from interior design and most likely very different to the rest if your designed and styled home, but quite possibly a design inspiration and full of powerful ideas and styling. 

Running til June at The Geffrye Museum the Teenage Bedroom exhibition is a fun, must-see. 

‘A rare glimpse into the often secret, out-of-bounds world of the teenage bedroom. Guest curator Carey Newson and photographer Kyna Gourley documented the bedrooms of 26 London teenagers revealing how identity, memory and friendship are expressed within these eclectic private spaces and highlighting the contradictions of a room that is both within the family home and a space apart.

Carey Newson is an ESRC-funded doctoral researcher from the Centre for Studies of Home – a partnership between the Geffrye and Queen Mary, University of London. The project is supported by the Centre for Public Engagement, Queen Mary, University of London.’

The Geffrye Museum, 136 Kingsland Road, Hoxton, London E2 8EA (between Pearson and Cremer Streets)

home: event [ arm knitting workshop ]

home: event [ arm knitting workshop ]

Ever thought about learning to knit with your arms? Well now you can with Drink, Shop & Do and their beginners workshop where you will learn how to make an arm knit throw. 

‘Join us for a lazy Sunday morning of arm knitting and learn all the knotty skills required to make a super cosy throw using Wooly Mahoosives Mammoth yarn’

26.02.17 / Tickets cost £50 with wool included, unlimited tea and slice of cake. Head to drinkshopdo.com to find out more.