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home: event [ pyrography ]

home: event [ pyrography ]

If you fancy learning a new craft, then why not try pyrography at London Craft Club.

Learn the techiques for creating patterns and shapes in wooden and leather objects. You then get to take home your designs.

‘You don’t need any experience at all If you can hold a pen then you’ll be able to do pyrography. There are 19 different iron tips to choose from. Some tips allow you to draw or write freehand just like a pen. You can either make up your own design, or use our templates to create patterns or words‘

Go to londoncraftclub.co.uk for bookings

home: event [ gallery exhibitions ]

home: event [ gallery exhibitions ]

In London in September? Get yourself to Jealous in Shoreditch, East London. It’s a multitude of greatness under one roof – print exhibitions, print publisher and print studio.

Get current unique prints for your home and support the incredible new wealth of artists of this generation.

Running in September is artists exhibitions plus the Jealous 10th anniversary exhibition celebrating a decade of great artists and their artwork – plus a big party.

53 Curtain Road, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3PT

home: event [ London Design Biennale 2018 ]

home: event [ London Design Biennale 2018 ]

Back again this year at Somerset House, the London Design Biennale will let you explore the best design, architecture, writers and artists, including energing talents.

‘The 2018 London Design Biennale is devoted to the theme, Emotional States. Taking over the entirety of Somerset House, including The Edmond J. Safra Fountain Court and River Terrace, it will explore big questions and ideas about sustainability, migration, pollution, energy, cities, and social equality. Visitors will enjoy engaging and interactive installations, innovations, artworks and proposed design solutions – all in an immersive, inspiring and entertaining tour of the world‘

Sept 4-23

£19.50

somersethouse.org.uk

home: event [ pottery exhibition ]

home: event [ In Design pottery exhibition ]

As part of this year’s Design Festival, the London Potters will be showcasing 10 designers work over two weekends. Explore tableware, decorative pieces and jewellery, on 13-16th and 20-23rd September at Grosvenor Arch, Circus Village West, Battersea Power Station, London SW11 8AH.

Free entry

They say;

We’re delighted to be hosting two selected showcase selling events as part of this year’s London Design Festival.  We’ll be open over two weekends with 10 different exhibitors each week. Explore a diverse range of ceramics from tableware to decorative objects, ceramic jewellery and striking one-off collectors’ pieces, all reflecting the wide use of clay in design.

Over the two weekends of London Design Festival, visitors to In Design @ Battersea can take part in an interactive ceramic activity to create a growing modelled installation, inspired by the surrounding cityscape area of Battersea Power Station. We hope the public will contribute and enjoy the creative experience, learning new clay skills and observing the surroundings in closer detail.

home: event [ boot fair ]

home: event [ boot fair ]

Time to get up early because you’ll want to grab the best furniture and homeware bargains first. Date for your diary – Boot fair on Sunday 9 September, from 11.30am, get yourself to East Dulwich!

At;

Goodrich Community Primary School

Dunstans road

East Dulwich

London

SE22 0EP

35 sellers packed Full of vintage,retro items clothes, toys book, furniture

home: event [ Awestruck exhibition ]

home: event [ Awestruck exhibition ]

This week long exhibition get us thinking about the connection between interior design and wellbeing.

The interesting idea of Biophilia is explored through workshops, talks and sensory experiences.

‘Biophilia is the innate human affinity we have with nature and the outdoors; literally, it means “love of life or living systems‘

For more information head to eventbrite.co.uk

30th July – 3rd Aug

Craftwork Studios, London

[ free ]

home: event [ lustrous surfaces ]

home: event [ lustrous surfaces ]

Connecting well to the current Eastern interiors trend (featured on Friday), we love this exhibition at the V&A – Lustrous Surfaces.

Featuring 110 objects located throughout the Museum, including shrines, chests and rare Latin American examples, this display highlights the varied manufacturing techniques, surface treatments, decorative styles and application around the world.

This free exhibition runs til September.

home: event [ Home Futures exhibition ]

home: event [ Home Futures exhibition ]

Put a date in the diary for this intriguing exhibition at the Design Museum. Home Futures explores the ideas and predictions of 20th Century designers and architects, and their vision of the future.

‘Discover more than 200 objects and experiences to trace the key social and technological aspirations that have driven change in the home. Historical notions of the mechanised home and the compact home are displayed alongside contemporary phenomena such as connected devices and the sharing economy‘

Tickets available here

7th Nov 2018 – 24th Mar 2019

home: events [ art + antiques for everyone ]

home: events [ art + antiques for everyone ]

Pop this date in your diary for July and get yourself a ticket for the Art + Antiques for Everyone event at Birmingham NEC.

Art & Antiques for Everyone is the largest and most established vetted art, interiors and antiques fair outside of London. Bringing together more than 200 specialist art and antiques dealers at the NEC in Birmingham. Buy with confidence from an inspiring array of eclectic categories of beautiful, unusual and rare objects from antiquity to the present day.

Discover a diversity of periods and styles crossing a variety of disciplines including ceramics, glass, paintings, jewellery and British and continental furniture to 20th century design, art deco items, silver, decorative collectables and contemporary pieces.

The Art & Antiques Summer Fair is taking place between Thursday 19 – Sunday 22 July 2018

Opening times:

Thursday – Saturday: 11am – 6pm
Sunday: 11am – 5pm

Book your tickets here

home: event [ macrame workshop ]

Get in quick and get your place at this Thursdays macrame workshop at West Elm, Tottenham Court Road, London.

They say;

Learn how to create the most iconic of all macramé projects: the Plant Hanger. Brooke will show you how to create a hanger out of cotton rope tied into simple square knots and half square knots. This project is totally customizable and deal for beginner’s who are keen to learn the basic knots and techniques that will hold the pot perfectly

Thursday 28 June / 6.15pm – 8.15pm