Gavin had the honour of talking at the Accentual Conference 2020 in the wonderful company of speakers Tessa Clarke of OLIO OLIO, the fantastic food sharing app, and Safia Minney MBE, one of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs and founder of PeopleTree. Ascential is the parent company of Lisa White’s WGSN, at whose conference Gavin spoke last year, […]
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A wonderful opportunity today – Gavin was invited to give a talk at the Internationale Möbelmesse IMM Cologne, the world’s biggest Furniture Fair. This was something to make the 18 year old design student still in Gavin quake, as it is one of the world’s biggest design fairs. Thanks for a lovely time Cologne! Thanks Lars […]
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At the London Design Fair Alice met the fascinating (& rather fabulous!) Niels Holger Wien, who is a trend & colour expert in Germany. He invited us to exhibit at Designers’ Open in Leipzig from the 25-27 October, & we were delighted to accept (but devastated not to attend in person – Alice studied close […]
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Blue Patch Award – We’ve been collaborating with our friends and colleagues at Blue Patch for a while (See also London Design Fair with Blue Patch 19-21 September 2019) It’s a design collective for ‘Inspiringly fine things – made in the British Isles’ – A sustainable marketplace for UK design, ethical fashion, eco-furniture, green gifts, organic & […]
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WGSN Trend Days We exhibited in the spring at the St Etienne Design Biennale 2019 at the very kind invitation of Lisa White, curator of the whole event. Lisa’s day job is as a trend forecaster for WGSN. Again, she invited us to make an appearance in illustrious company at one of the WGSN Trend Forecasting […]
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We were absolutely staggered to be invited to represent the United Kingdom in Beijing Summer 2019 – many countries exhibited, bringing the worlds of horticulture closer together. We received a lovely email from the very charming Sara Everett OBE, the UK Commissioner General & Project Director for the Beijing Expo 2019; “I felt very proud […]
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A lovely, sunny, sparkly morning to welcome the delightful Heidi Booth from BBC Radio Derby to the Furniture Field.
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We were really honoured to speak at the Anti_Fashion part of the fashion world’s response to Lidewij Edelkoort’s Anti Fashion statement, an attempt to persuade the fashion industry to think about ‘reinventing the system to make it conscious, positive and humane.’ Inspirational speakers, fabulous Marseille & very hot!
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We’ve been working with the magnificent Blue Patch Collective for a few years. The sustainable marketplace for UK design, ethical fashion, eco-furniture, green gifts, organic & fair trade food has been really supportive & provided us with a number of platforms at which to showcase our grown furniture, so when they asked us along to be […]
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Thrilled that the World Economic Forum has written about our grown furniture in their sustainable development section… https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/10/growing-furniture-deforestation-farm-chairs/
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