Lampoon Magazine – May 2020
Milan’s Lampoon Magazine ‘promotes worldwide cultures, aesthetics, design, fashion & all sustainable matters’, and they have featured us at Full Grown. Have a read: Lampoon Magazine article
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Milan’s Lampoon Magazine ‘promotes worldwide cultures, aesthetics, design, fashion & all sustainable matters’, and they have featured us at Full Grown. Have a read: Lampoon Magazine article
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A very exciting parcel arrived today – May 9th 2020 75 Designers pour un Monde Durable. Or 75 Designers for a sustainable world. It’s all in French so will take us a little while to read it, but it’s a beautiful, beautiful book. Thanks so much to Geneviève Gallot – we’re deeply honoured! […]
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One of the really exciting things about this project is the amazing people we meet along the way. Back in 2015, the lovely Joseph Clements got in touch, wanting to learn more about Grown Furniture for his studies in Horticulture at the amazing Kew Gardens. A firm friendship developed, & Joe studied the concept of growing furniture, teaching […]
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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 […]
READ MOREA lovely, sunny, sparkly morning to welcome the delightful Heidi Booth from BBC Radio Derby to the Furniture Field.
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