Many thanks to Louis Vuitton for our inclusion in their amazing Louis 200 project to celebrate the eponymous man’s 200th birthday and for giving each of the 200 visionaries the opportunity to help to support so many brilliant charities. While each one seems so valuable and is making a massive contribution to so many vital […]
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We’re beyond thrilled to have been invited to join the visionaries for Louis Vuitton‘s celebrations for their founder’s 200th birthday. We were invited to use a ‘blank’ trunk to create a piece of art, so we couldn’t resist using it as a table for a “Mad Tea Party” from Alice in Wonderland. This is as […]
READ MOREWe love the Netherlands, and find so much of their design and art very inspiring. Here was another exhibtion we were sad to miss in person, but glad to see online! The exhibition runs from 10th July – 3rd October 2021, DESIGN BY NATURE – IN COLLABORATION WITH BIOBASED CREATIONS An exhibition about inventive […]
READ MOREAfter the huge honour of exhibiting at the A Labour Of Love Exhibition and the additional tremendous excitement at being part of the accompanying book by Li Edelkoort and Philip Fimmano, the invitation to speak to the audience of the World Hope Forum was yet another incredible step for us. The choice of International Workers’ Day seemed […]
READ MORESpreading the word – Education, Education, Education! We’re very interested in making sure that the concept of shaping trees and working in closer collaboration with Nature spreads as widely as possible, so were delighted to be invited to take part in a Bioart Symposium with Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. Later we also conducted a […]
READ MOREBrave Green World – How Science Can Save Our Planet is written by Chris Forman and Claire Asher and published by MIT Press in March 2021. Here’s a Link to the book in the MIT Bookshop, from where the summary of this fascinating book below comes: How we can harness cutting-edge biology and manufacturing to […]
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We were really happy to be asked to appear in the Building Sustainability Podcast with Jeffrey the Natural Builder – Jeffrey was charming, relaxing, full of interesting ideas and it was altogether a pleasure to spend time chatting with him. It felt like a really coherent discussion of our project, which isn’t always easy! Link […]
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The Book of the Exhibition: A Labour of Love A LABOUR OF LOVE offers insight into how designers are giving shape to materials and process, from reviving the loom and recycling waste to social inclusion and growing matter. A LABOUR OF LOVE is a 448-page publication by design curators and authors Lidewij Edelkoort and Philip Fimmano.
READ MOREWe were thrilled to be invited to take part in the Plant Fever exhibition and book. A travelling exhibit, the exhibition was held at CID Grand Hornu from 18th of October 2020 until 7th March 2021, and we were so pleased to send the Edwardes Chair there to take part. A touring exhibition, a book and a manifesto […]
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Back in October 2019, we’d been thrilled to take part on the Designers’ Open in Leipzig, and had sent a grown chair over to Germany for exhibition. Regular life intervened, as well as Covid, and it took almost a year for our trusty delivery driver to finally collect and deliver the Storm Chair back to […]
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