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Summer in the City 2008

Summer in the City 2008

Portrait photographer Hainsley Brown shot summer 08 look book.        
Mail Order

Mail Order

Spring/Summer 2005  mini mail order catalogue.  Shot beautifully by portrait photographer –  Hainsley Brown .      
Summer Collection 2009

Summer Collection 2009

 
Kantha Quilts

Kantha Quilts

Kantha comprises of the simplest stitch in the language of embroidery - the running stitch. It is the way in which this stitch is used, in different arrangements, that forms the complex vocabulary of kantha.
Marquis Toliver @Leighton House - Holland Park

Marquis Toliver @Leighton House – Holland Park

After more than a century as a museum, one of the capital’s best-kept secrets,  is open to the public following a refurbishment which has restored the ambience it boasted when Leighton died there in his simple bedroom in 1896. It’s been a painstaking task. Floors and walls have been stripped; original decorative schemes have been...
The 'Hand' Sale

The ‘Hand’ Sale

We are joining the exclusive hand picked selection of designers and sellers at Gail and Suzanne’s bi yearly bazaar. Here  you’ll find unusual and beautiful clothes, jewellery and furniture from some of the very bestkept secret artisans in London.   The 20th Century Theatre Westbourne Grove, London W11   Thursday 19th June  from 6pm till 9pm...

Secret Shop and Coffee Morning for Macmillan Cancer Support

Every year for the last 10 years Carole Davis, director of “Itsneat” hand made jewellery company, hosts a private shopping event with coffee and cakes as part of Macmillan Cancer Support’s biggest fundraising event .  She invited us and other  independent designers and buyers to her home in Little Venice – Maida Vale.  Lots of...
No. 1 Zenoria Street, East Dulwich, London, SE22 8HP

No. 1 Zenoria Street, East Dulwich, London, SE22 8HP

We love this 18thcentury horse and coach house, filled to the rafters with chandeliers. Its the perfect place for us to show Autumn/Winter 09. The East Dulwich Warehouse, is the quirky south london store at the above address. Its off the beaten track away from the standard high street fare, and is a real find...
Bamboo bikes from Ghana

Bamboo bikes from Ghana

I love anything that comes from Ghana! My latest infatuation are the Black Star football team! “The New Brazil” I was born  in Ghana and grew up there until I was 12, so I might be slightly biased, but its not only me and other nationalists who thinks that Ghanaians are incredibly creative. Indeed, for...
Door ways in Marrakesh

Door ways in Marrakesh

Gretle Blagg / Artist

Gretle Blagg / Artist

What I like best about London are the secret things that lie happily hidden away until some synchronised moment reveals them to someone who tells someone else until we all find out and somewhere else in London the same thing is happening all over again. Hidden away in south east London in a unusually original...
Pop-Up Weekend Shop Dec 8th 2007

Pop-Up Weekend Shop Dec 8th 2007

The Arches! One of our earliest Pop-Up shops at the ‘WhirledArt’ cinema and studio arches in Loughborough Junction, London. Inspite of the wind and rain last weekend the shop was a huge success!. On what must have been the busiest weekend of the year it was so good to see everyone and hear how much you...
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