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Ascential Conference – January 26th 2020

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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Talk at IMM Furniture Fair – 14 January 2020

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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Grown Chair on display in Leipzig at the Designers' Open. Photo. NH Wien

Designers’ Open, Leipzig 25-27 October 2019

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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Lucy holding the People's Choice Blue Patch Award

 Blue Patch Award Winners! October 2019

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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Lisa White on the Gatti Chair

WGSN Trend Day – 30th September 2019

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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Anti_Fashion – Marseille 28 – 29 June 2019

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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The Designers' Designer, Rossana Orlandi. Picture by Aline Johnson

London Design Fair with Blue Patch – 19-21 September 2019

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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