home: event [ acid etching ]

home: event [ acid etching ]

This workshop is not as scary as it sounds. Learn the safe techniques of acid etching onto glass creating a unique piece for your home or a gift. You will have the opportunity to practise on sheets of glass and then move onto a bottle, tumblers or perfume bottle.

Pick from templates provided, create your own design or use a font template to make words.

This 2 hour workshop is hosted by London Craft Club. [ £49 ]

Tuesday 5th Sept / 7pm – 9pm

Book you place at londoncraftclub.co.uk

home: event [ interiors styling workshop ] 

home: event [ interiors styling workshop ]

A definite must-do workshop for advice and guidance for new interior stylists and people wanting expert teaching on professional styling. Great for individuals or small businesses looking to improve their visual presence, store or space design or learn ways to style and present homes and interiors in everyday work or even personal spaces. 

Book your place on this workshop on Wednesday 23 August at the Future + Found store in London. 

225A Brecknock Road, London N19 5AA

6pm – 8pm 

WORKSHOP DETAILS; 

An interior styling workshop covering editorial and commercial styling. Discovering the real life workings of one of the UKs most successful contemporary interior stylists. Learning about differnet project types, you will begin to understand the stages from initial brief, research, design, and sourcing through to final concept. An outline of types of styling will be examined through out the workshop: permanent design / decoration, non permanent space such as a trade show, and editorial shoots in a magazine. 

Despina Curtis is an experienced Interior Stylist, Art Director and Spacial Designer who has worked in the interiors and design industry for over 10 years. Despina started her career as Style Editor of Elle Decoration UK before moving onto Wallpaper* magazine as Deputy Interiors Editor. Other editorial titles Despina has worked on are The Guardian and Observer magazines, Surface, Vanity Fair, Esquire and PORT. She is a contributing editor of Living Corriere magazine in Milan.

Includes wine & refreshments.


www.futureandfound.com



home: event [ Colour Clinic ]

home: event [ Colour Clinic ]

If you love experimenting with colour in your home but are unsure which colours work together or how best to make the most of a colour, then this afternoon course is for you.

Hosted by Future & Found and Rebecca Harkness you will explore how colour effects our daily life and how we make decisions based on those colours.

Get tickets here.

Sunday 1st Oct [ 14:00 – 16:00 ]

Futureandfound.com

[ £45 ]

home: event [ Hackney Walk ]

home: event [ Hackney Walk ]

July is upon us, so get the diary out and start penciling in some great events. We have found some to keep your weekends busy and they can all be found at outlet district Hackney Walk. During July they are hosting Hackney Garden; a selection of plant inspired workshops, including bouquet arranging [ That Flower Shop ], candle making [ Earl Of East ] and terrarium building [ Grace & Thorn ]. Whilst you are there hang out after on the Darkroom designed deckchairs and enjoy food and drink.

Limited free tickets are available so be quick.

Also popping up this month is the fab Rockett St George with their first London warehouse sale [ 15th July ]. Full of seconds, samples and ex display, with up to 70% off! Be sure to get there early so as not to be dissapointed.

Hackneywalk.com 

home: event [ ceramic painting workshop ]

home: event [ ceramic painting workshop ]

If you are in London on the 29th of June and looking for a fun way to spend the evening then consider this workshop, hosted at West Elm by illustrator Niki Groom.

This beginners workshop will guide you through the materials and techniques required for painting on ceramics. Included in the price is a West Elm plate [ which you will be decorating ], paint and brushes which you can then take home with you after.

Thurs 29th June

18:30 – 20:30

Click here for tickets [ £50 ]

home: event [ make a lampshade ] 

home: event [ make a lamp shade ] 

If you’re in London today it’s not to late to get a place on the London Craft Club‘s ‘make a lamp shade‘ workshop in Highgate ( Lauderdale House N6) but if you miss out,  explore their website and find another great creative workshop and sign up. 

Other inspiring tutorials include embroidery, pyrography and decoupage. 

londoncraftclub.co.uk 

home: event [ craft classes ] 

home: event [ craft classes ] 

Creating something yourself for your home is so rewarding. 

Rag rug making is fun, accessible for all ages and a great way to bring colour into the home. 

Search through at CraftClasses.com and find a class near you across the UK to have a go at making your own. 

Prices from £30 

home: event [ A Home for All ]

home: event [ A Home for All ]

Selfridges, London is running a season of workshops and events exploring the ideas and objects that make house a home.

‘Drawing on the creative spirit of The New Craftsmen’s makers, A Home for All is themed around a series of domestic rituals, which you can journey through to nurture your inner maker. Whether making sourdough bread around the table or albering in.haystacks – craft and materiality combine the physical activity, encouraging a sense of community, discussion, play and imagination.’

Running from March 31st – June 9th 2017.

There are still tickets available for May and June. Pick from sourdough making, rug weaving, maquette making and much more.

Head to Selfridges.com

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