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home: event [ Clerkenwell Design Week ]

home: event [ Clerkenwell Design Week ]

Back for it’s seventh year, Clerkenwell Design Week runs over three days and is full of exibitions, workshops and talks. See some of the best furniture, lighting and product design from the UK and globally.

‘Clerkenwell is home to more creative businesses and architects per square mile than anywhere else on the planet, making it truly one of the most important design hubs in the world. To celebrate this rich and diverse community, Clerkenwell Design Week has created a showcase of leading UK and international brands and companies presented in a series of showroom events,  exhibitions and special installations that take place across the area.’

Tickets are free – register online for access to all the events.

[ 24th – 26th May 2016 ]

www.clerkenwelldesignweek.com

home: event [ ArtSnug at West Elm ] 

home: event [ ArtSnug at West Elm ] 

West Elm are champinioning a great little business again, with another 3 day pop up shop – this time featuring print store ArtSnug 

‘With spring just around the corner, it is time to start thinking about refreshing the look of your home. And what better way to do it than with art? Find the perfect artwork for your home at ArtSnug’s pop-up art shop at West Elm from Friday 29th April – Sunday 1st May. With 150 individual art pieces by 30 artists and prices starting at only £25 there is something for every budget and every taste!’

West Elm / 29.05.16 – 01.05.16

Tottenham Court Road, London W1

home: event [The Potting Shed ]

home: event [ The Potting Shed ]

Get creative on the 22nd or 23rd May by joining ceramic artists Fliff Carr and Matilda Moreton at Town House, Spitalfields, making unique floral decorated plates inspired by 18th century botanical prints.
Learn how to create impressions in clay and apply colour, as well as using a variety of textured floral fabrics, lace and rubber stamps to decorate.

Sessions last 45 minutes and cost £10, including all materials and firing [ Extra cost for plates to be sent to you, but you can collect free of charge two weeks later ].

The Potting Shed
Townhouse
5 Fournier Street
Spitalfields
E16QE

Get tickets from eventsbrite.co.uk

home: event [ antiques market ] 

home: event [ antiques market ] 

With the weather improving and warmer days coming – it’s time to get back into outdoor market shopping. 

Our favourite, and everyone’s favourite worst kept secret, is the incredible Sunbury Antiques Market which has had its home, for now 37 years, at the vast Kempton Park Racecourse. This epic, endless land, houses over 700 outdoor and indoor stalls with furniture, accessories and paraphernalia up for sale. Every era, style, taste and price range is covered here. Nab anything from a bargain 1960s chair for a fiver to old industrial buckets for a tenner or splurge on incredible antique or midcentury furniture. There is many a design classic to be had. 

Visit this haven for interiors shopping on the second or last Tuesday of every month. 

Next market // Tuesday 12th April 

Free // opens at 6.30am 

Kempton Park Racecourse, Sunbury-On-Thames  

home: event [ The Barbican ]

home: event [ The Barbican Exhibition ]

The Barbican in London is a fascinating and wonderful place to walk around on any day, but when they have a great exhibition it makes the trip all the more worth while.
The Barbican Exhibition: Designing for a Living City is a new exhibition tracing the controversial design of the 1970s residential development – explore the range of flat types and interiors which would accommodate some 6000 people within 35 acres. The display includes the original 1971 residential layout and landscape plan, as well as original fittings, archival illustrations, leaflets, brochures and films.
A must for any Barbican fan, and those interest in architecture and interior design of the past. Plus after, take some time to explore the building, visit the conservatory, take a tour or browse the shop.

[ 19th March – 16th October 2016 ]

home: event [ pop up shop ]

home: event [ pop up shop ] 

West Elm continue to support and give opportunities for new designers, and up and coming brands to get a platform to raise their profile. Here again they have cool, unique brand Refunk’d popping up shop in April at their Tottenham Court Road, London store. 

Running from 15-17th of April, head to West Elm and shop the one-off pieces of furniture and homeware. 

Opening hours 10am – 5pm / 209 Tottenham Court Road W1T 7PN 

” Set up in 2010 Refunk’d by Ursh Stevens in order to create one off pieces of awesomeness from preloved furniture & scrap yard finds.

From glamorous air hostess came the skip rat, salvage specialist, award winning furniture designer Ursh Stevens the owner of Refunk’d. Using scrap yard finds Ursh creates one of pieces that are far removed from the identikit furniture found on the high street. ” 

  

home: event [ Makers Exchange ]

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home: event [ Makers Exchange ]

This great market is back at Chrisp Street throughout March. Selling anything from food produce to fashion, arts and crafts to upcycled furniture, with everything in the market made by locals with love.
Open the next two Saturdays [ 10am – 4pm ]

Closest DLR stations All Saints and Langdon Park

home: event [ interior design course ] 

home: event [ interior design course ] 

Learn the inside outs of interior decoration and styling with this 5 day course running at University of the Arts, London – 
stimulating introduction to the decoration and styling process, you will develop your skills and references around a domestic project, devised for a fictional client. This course will Introduce you to the history of interior decoration as you become familiar with the vocabulary of design, period, styles, colour, materials and finishes…
5 day course / £699 / available in April, July and August 

  

home: event [ The School of Stuff ]

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home: event [ The School of Stuff ]

The School of Stuff is a studio dedicated to teaching furniture crafts in Dalston, with courses including cabinetmaking, furniture restoration, upholstery and rag rug making. Based in an old industrial building on Shacklewell Lane, The School of Stuff is a great place to try your hand at a new skill, with all courses run by experienced tutors. You can choose anything from a weekend taster up to a two year course, which means there’s something for everyone.

Head to theschoolofstuff.co.uk to see availability and prices.

home: events [ sale ] 

home: events [ Anthropologie sale ] 

Without leaving the comfort of you own home you can visit the super Anthropolgie sale, that already had some great bargains, but now has an extra 30% off on the homeware sale event. 

Homeware delights from coffee tables to rugs, napkins to mugs, cushions to an oh so gorgeous rocking chair to choose from. 

Treat yourself