Craftsmen
‘The Makers Who Make Us’ – Soane’s 25 years of British craftsmanship
To mark their 25th anniversary Soane has launched the Egyptomania collection of fabrics, furniture and lighting. The collection is inspired by thousands of years of Egyptian ...
Cox London’s New Showcase
How art, the decorative arts and the world of antiques shaped the lighting, furniture and sculptural forms of Cox London. by Cheryl Knorr. I remember visiting ...
Introducing the Artists of DKT Artworks
TheHouseDirectory meets five artists from DKT Artworks to discuss their craft and to gain an insight into some of their projects DKT Artworks was established in ...
Cox London on the Polypore Chandelier
Nicola and Christopher Cox, the husband and wife team behind Cox London, have created the Polypore Dish Chandelier, a handcrafted, four-tier organic light made with thousands of ...
Atkey & Company – new Contemporary Doors
Atkey and Company are makers of authentically designed period doors and joinery with a catalogue spanning 300 years of design. This winter saw the launch of ...
Clare Mosley’s eglomisé glass
Gilder Clare Mosley makes eglomisé mirrors and panels, decorated crystal lampbases and a range of water gilded and toned curtain finials. Everything is handmade in her ...
Waddesdon in gingerbread
A fantastical gingerbread recreation of Waddesdon Manor, made entirely in biscuit, icing and fondant paste, has just gone on display at Waddesdon. It’s the creation of ...
Floors of Stone’ new ceramic tiles
Floors of Stone have just launched an exclusive range of handmade ceramic tiles, created and designed in their on-site ceramics studio, at their Cotes Mill showroom. ...
All about straw marquetry, with Simon Orrell
Simon Orrell designs furniture and objects made in unusual and exotic materials, such as shagreen and parchment, mica, gold & silver leaf, and mother of pearl. ...
Marthe Armitage’s new fabrics
Renowned maker Marthe Armitage creates and hand-prints her wallpapers from lino blocks in her studio in Chiswick, in London. Her intricate wallpaper designs, available through archive ...
MYB and the last Nottingham lace looms
The company Morton Young and Borland Ltd was founded in 1900 in Ayrshire, Scotland, to manufacture Scottish Leno Gauze weave, later known as Scottish Madras. MYB ...
Soane’s map of British craftsmen
Soane has just produced this delightful illustrated ‘Map of Remarkable British Craftsmen & their Workshops’. All of Soane’s furniture, lighting and fabrics is made in workshops ...
Graphic Africa
One of the most exciting exhibitions we visited as part of this year’s London Design Festival was Graphic Africa, at Habitat in London’s King’s Road. It ...
A visit to Cox London’s workshop
We set off last week for Tottenham Hale, in north London, for a tour of Cox London‘s studio and workshop, where a team of thirteen ...
Ochre’s Seed Cloud
OCHRE‘s ‘Seed Cloud’ chandelier is a beautifully-made piece which is more like a sculpture than a light. Although it has a clean and contemporary feel, ...
The Royal School of Needlework: archive photos
The Royal School of Neeedlework was established in 1872 to provide a source of income for women with no financial support and to safeguard traditional ...
George Jackson’s early 19th century showroom
George Jackson began creating interior decorative elements around 1780 and is recognised for introducing fibrous plaster into the UK. His company grew into one of ...
Soane’s rattan workshop
British furniture company Soane has saved the traditional skill of rattan furniture weaving from extinction by stepping in when one of Britain’s last rattan furniture-making ...
Spoons
These beautiful spoons are designed by Kirsten Hecktermann and hand-made in Kenya where she grew up. The wooden ones are carved from local managed hardwoods and the ...
‘Best of British’ at Ann Sacks
American tile company Ann Sacks hosted an inspiring talk last week on ‘Best of British Design’ by Philip Cooper, Design Director at Sibyl Colefax & John ...
