FESTIVE COMPETITION!

We've been having fun with the letter picker in our shop, trying to think of festive words to use in the forthcoming POP-UP SHOP.

..if you can think of something better, please email* a screen shot to us and we will choose the best, and send a prize!

*You can find our email on the web site, we wont put it here or we'll get nasty spam!

To "PICK YOUR OWN" go here

Paul Bommer

Our friend Paul recently had a lovely show of his work ... if you missed it, worry not!
His prints will be at our Pop Up!

Jo Gordon

Its cold out there! so our thoughts are of knitting....and our friend Jo Gordon

ALEKSANDR

Aleksandr (english subtitle) from Aleksandr Team on Vimeo.

Christmas Pop-Up Shop

EATTERBURY

Jane just dicovered this blog by photographer  Elizabeth Atterbury

We both love the colour and odd atmosphere of her work.

I have no idea what is going on in some of the photos, which makes me like them even more!

Her web site is here

Brilliant!

Bookshelves!

Lots of bookshelves, here
Found on Olympia Le Tans site..

SCUBA

Our friends SCUBA have been busy since we last met, they now reside in Santa Fe and this is some of their new 3D work, shown at CALDERA they are so productive!

You can also see their latest show MOVE IN WITH ME in San Francisco at LAKE Gallery 
It'll be good!
Go see it, go on.

FOR SALE

This amazing house is for sale...!
For more details, see here

Turner & Harper at Labour and Wait

If you happen to be near Redchurch St this Design Week, go see these BEAUTIFULLY made brushes & homewares by Turner & Harper.

Agnes Richter's Jacket

 

When we first talked about opening Shelf I was keen to do a project involving Costume Designers and prison uniforms, I thought there could be a really interesting exhibition exploring how people express their personalities and their character through the constraints of uniform and I was particularly keen on having Costume Designers, whose job it is to find and express character through clothing, work with prisoners and uniforms. 

Outsider Art was always something Katy and I were interested in. 

Anyway, the shop took a different course and I never really thought about that idea much again.

But yesterday I was reading this quarter's Selvedge magazine where there's an article about prison clothing and I was reminded of the exhibition idea and Agnes Richter's jacket which I had become aware of around the same time. I can't remember which website I originally discovered the jacket on, I read about it such a long time ago, so I rummaged around again this morning and found a few listings with information - here and here. 

Agnes was a mental patient in Austria in the 1890's and the jacket was standard issue of the time. The embroidery is beautiful and intense. Fascinating, unstoppable self expression. 

NOTE: The jacket is in The Prinzhorn collection in Heidelberg, which is where the photograph originally stems, I haven't linked to the collection because the English translation isn't working today.

Michael Marriott

And another thing at SCP this week: Mr. Marriotts homage to Brancusi installation.
If you are in the neighbourhood, do pop in and see all the beautiful things in store for Design week.

Donna Wilson

Donna Wilson has a new collection out!
Go see it in the flesh, from tomorrow at SCP

House Industries

 

As a fan of the ampersand, I think House Industries designed this table just for me.

KH