The 'Floral' pattern gets printed at the printing workshop of
CutCNC in Uxbridge
And this is the result - birch plywood pegboards printed in various pattern
And then we did a photo shoot with Yeshen - our favourite photographer - to get some nice pictures for our website.
Oven that burns the wood chips from the cnc cutting machines.
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Custom made sliding door pegboards in Canada.
Display pegboard for a French bag and notebook designer.
Pegboard in an artist studio for storing brushes, paints and more.
Pegboard used to display plants and home accessories.
Pegboard in a kitchen
Pegboard to hold plants and planters in New York.
Custom size painted pegboard in our standard grey colour in a kitchen in the UK
Looking at contemporary designers & makers that are fellow plywood lovers here some of them:
Curated by Creative Clerkenwell
Moments, mementos and memories. What makes a good London design souvenir? What are the elements of a creative London life? Creative Clerkenwell heads east with a pop–up shop and installation featuring favourite souvenirs designed and made in London, plus small-space solutions and bespoke pegboard shop-fittings by Kreisdesign.
Others exhibitors include: Sato Hisao, Monokraum, Maiko Dawson, I AM A pencil bar, Line Dot Studio, Oxx Jewellery, Product of Your Environment
Location: 13 Calvert Avenue, E2 7JP
Dates: 20th-25th September 2016
General opening hours: Tues-Sat 11am-6pm | Sun 11am-5pm
Late night opening hours: Tue 20th September until 8pm
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Blue Patch is a colourful catalogue of British made products and services with a sustainability edge. The one thing Blue Patch businesses have in common is a commitment to improving their sustainability.
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Happy to have this lovely neighbour at my booth: Debbie from Digetex showing her digital printed wallpapers and fabrics.
Other British designers exhibiting are Jim Rokos with his fabulous vases.
Cycloc - store your bike in style!
Katie Brown from Ireland showing her lovely cushions and fabrics.
Rebecca from Raw Xclusive - with her cool printed fabrics!
Hope to see you next year at ICFF 2016!
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See below some impressions.
Love Bessie's cards
Our plywood desk accessories.
Drinks were served
Our plywood jewellery
Pegboard in natural birch plywood
Love Bessie's Fifty Shades of Dirty tea towel - the bestseller of the studio!
Betty the dog from next door looking for crisps :)
The Studio dog watching over us :)
Bracelets made from birch ply with neon string details
Some great ceramics seen in an upstairs studio
The theme was neon - from shoes...
...to signage...
...and vintage Vogue displayed in the letter tray.
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Where:
21 Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DX
33-35 St John’s Square, London EC1M 4DS
When:
Thursday 7 May: 5-8pm
Friday 8 May: 12noon - 8pm
Saturday 9 May: 12-5pm
Sunday 10 May: 12-5pm
Haute Hunt with their fab cushions and duvet covers!
Julia from Winter's Moon shows talking to customers.
Some of our photographic impression:
Katie Treggiden with the first edition of the FIERA Magazine
Fiera magazine - fresh off the press
Camilla Barnard and Bud Moore from Designersblock and an elephant
Megan Taylor from Tent London
Guests savouring the whiskey cocktails served
Eva Kohl from Luva with her cool lamp "Lampralin"ate! www.luva.ch
Cables with knitted sleeves at Schneeweisschen & Rosenrot - a concept store for young design labels www.ateliersr.ch
A 'half-a-teaspoon' by Sarah Marti www.glasring.ch
Lamp shades made from Nespresso capsules that have been flattened - great recycling design! One of the designers: George Lanter. See them here www.2mol.ch
IKEA stool with a knitted winter coat :)
If you would like to see more about the show: designgut.ch
There are 8 very large halls - where to start?
Hall 8 - the coolest of them all!
Signage on the floor: just follow the arrows...
First stop: Rform by Randy Feys from Belgium - simple, stylish plywood furniture.
Copper is still very much 'in'!
As well as all shades of turquoise - lamps....
...ceramics - by Bleu d'argile...
...and accessories. Here by applicata, a Danish company.
More colours that we saw everywhere are fluorescent orange and pink.
Here at the Tom Dixon stand. He also still shows a lot of copper.
Tom Dixon stand
Some interesting lamps - this one by Jerome Pereira - beautifully hand crafted individual pieces.
Kimudesign lamps - part of Fresh Taiwan
The Monocle stand did radio, made coffee and sold their latest book "Guide to good business"
I fell in love with this sofa: ruud van oosterhout design
Tom Dixon shop with a 'Scent Filling Station"
London brick diffusers - Tom Dixon
Beautiful stationary at nomess.dk
Lights that look like summer hats at enostudio.net
Korean ceramics
Aki Hiltunen from formosis.com a Finnish lighting producer
A new way of opening your bottle of wine - and its a beautiful object by Swiss shibui.ch
Constanze Schweda with her brushed brass mirror at kirigram.com
The Beesnees by All lovely stuff - housing for solitary bees
Tara with one of her peg boards by block design
It is massive - this is just Hall 6!
Au revoir! See you next year!
Joining the queue... midday
Grande dame of shopping!
Happy I brought my little stool, to give my feet a rest!
Queue around the second corner - I can almost see the door!
People are getting comfy & everybody is chatting - one big family of designers :)
Kyla from Foldability - coffee break
Nikki, Julie and Kyla
The whole day was filmed - out on YouTube soon....
Once inside the building - we waited on the stairs - 4 floors up to the top!
Nearly there - top floor - take your pick!
'Holding area' before the pitch presentation
Michele Rashman and Paula from Mouse to Minx having a chat about Pom-Poms and chairs :)
'Liberty's Den' - buyers listening to the pitch of designers - "Do they like it or not?" that's the question!
Liberty's buyer Bryony and Ellena with designer Paula from Mouse to Minx
End of an exciting, exhausting day at Liberty's British Design Open Call - chairs are stacked up.
Existing Lighting Department at Liberty's
My proposal suggests to create a frame and focal point to display their lighting range.
Good luck to all the designers who took part - nice to meet some of you!
Props ready for the shoot...
Camera, set, laptop - ready!
Sometimes taking pictures involves getting on a ladder :)
Yeshen at work
Result: one of the pictures of our fruit tray
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People gather in the SCP shop on Curtain Rd for a look around their great shop and a glass of wine.
Side tables on sale
Great wooden rolling pins!
Introduction to the tour by the curator of the 'useful & beautiful' exhibition at the Geffrye Museum, Alex Goddard.
Duncan Riches talks about the history of SCP and shows their first ads in Blueprint magazine for a Jasper Morrison designed sofa.
The tour continues with a walk to the Tord Boontje showroom on Charlotte Rd, Shoreditch
Inside the Tord Boontje showroom
Collection of recycled glass vases
Beautiful felt carpet on the wall
The design studio
The iconic Garland Light
Next stop: Jasper Morrison's studio on 24b Kingsland Road
We are welcomed by John Tree of Jasper Morrison's studio, who gave us an interesting insight into the steps of product development and working with manufacturers. BTW they have a great little shop within the studio with amazing products procured from all over the world! Well worth a visit :)
Next - and last - stop: The studio and workshop of Very Good & Proper http://www.verygoodandproper.co.uk/
Introduction to the studio by Ed Carpenter - the designer behind the iconic 'Pigeon light'
Accessories
Chair made out of recycled plastic bags
Skin like silicon seating by Gigi from 9191.co.uk
Corian side table - Katharina Gross katharinagrossdesign.com
Map of the show space
Clover Lewis from Clover Lewis Swimwear with Doug Richard
Our pegboard as a display for Clover Lewis Swimwear
Claudette from Ink Bandit - loves triangles!
Cute!
Mock Duck model making service that specialises in creating engaging characters for animation, live action and stills.
One of the many talks that they had on during the show (here with Doug Richard)
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Clover from Clover Lewis swimwear talking to visitors