Superb Tent

It’s always a pleasure to visit Tent London. Now in its fifth year at the Old Truman Brewery, the design event hosts over 200 international exhibitors, showing the very latest in contemporary interior products - furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, materials and accessories.

We discussed wallpaper with Famille Summerbelle, treated to homemade muffins on Muffin Pouffes ’ stand, shared jokes with Mini Moderns, and overall, were smitten by the incredible work of some designers.

 X benches from Adam Xander

Little red riding hood cushions from Naori Priestly

 Spray cap stools and mug chairs from Alex Garnett



Count on me chair from Seks  

 PlayShapes Sculptural relief from Miller Goodman

Alphabet lampshade by Design Bark

Ghost lamps from Design Collective

  New tea towels and ribbon tapes from Famille Summerbelle

  

Whitby porcelain collection from Mini Moderns & Magpie

The oh-so-yummy Muffin Pouffes

 

The next edition of Tent London will take place on 20 - 23 September 2012.

All For Children

Tomorrow sees the launch of  H&M and UNICEF’s special range of children’s clothing, All for Children.

The collaborative collection will be available in 150 stores worldwide and on-line, with 25% of all sales going directly to UNICEF’s project, working towards the promotion of children’s rights to education and protection  in some of the poorest parts of the world, where many of H&M’s clothes are made.

Children can read about Moritz the sheep in an accompanying picture book full of games, then dress their very own Moritz in exactly the same outfits, with a wardrobe full of mini-versions of the collection.

The collection includes patterned jumpers or aviator jackets for boys and floral print trousers or character t-shirts for girls.

Children can help children this September and be fashionable for a good cause.

 

When in Shoreditch ...

We stopped by one of our favourite stores SCP, who was hosting new product launches during the London Design Festival. 

Here are a few of the design store's goodies.

Donna Wilson

New textile and home products from the "knitting queen"

Frank Treecloud pouffe

Make you own magpie kit

Snowflake decorative mat

swan and house scarfs  

Rob Ryan

Ruler for measuring the growth of human beings is Rob Ryan’s first piece for SCP and features his characteristic paper cut design.



Rota Stacka 

Super-robust stacking indoor & outdoor stool manufactured in England, from 100% recyclable rotationally moulded polyethylene.

SCP East
135 Curtain Road
London
EC2A 3BX

It's Tea Time!

Fancy a proper brew? First, you have to pick one of these Hidden Art Kids mugs.


Born from a collaboration between school pupils in East London and creativee collective CUSTHOM, the colourful designs reflect the London environment with its buses, urban housing, rows of terraces and street art.

Printed onto high quality bone-china, we guarantee the perfect cuppa!

Hidden Art Kids mugs - £10 (each)