Sian Elin @ Tent London

Sian Elin's work really caught my eye at Tent London; I loved her charming bright geo prints, especially the colourful peacocks that were so quirky and fun.

Sian is a creative surface pattern designer and illustrator from Wales who launched her new range of wallpaper and textiles at Tent London after working as a children’s book designer for Penguin and Oxford University Press for five years. Sian started her own surface pattern design business called Sian Elin at the end of 2011. Sian is fascinated by the built environment and that is reflected in her bold hand-drawn colourful prints and illustrations.

"Sian Elin employs British manufacturers and suppliers and is keen to create a sustainable business in the UK."

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Laura Felicity @ Tent London

When I came across Laura Felicity's work at Tent London my heart skipped a beat. Her delicate wallpaper print, entitled "dotty bird", adorned in bird cages, birds, dots and machine embroidery was so precious I had to stop and find out more...

"Laura Felicty is a London based Designer-Maker whose hand drawn patterns and developed skills in Silk Screen Printing create her luxury Handmade Wallpapers and Soft Interior Homeware."

Laura graduated from The University of Hertfordshire in June 2009 and interned for well renowned designers Catherine Hammerton and Selina Rose before starting her own business in April 2010. Her company of the same name designs and creates the most delightful bespoke and retail interior pieces. Laura's graceful work combines layers of prints in a fresh unique way, all in a pared down shabby chic colour palette. Laura sources all her product materials within Britain and her hand drawn hand crafted collection is silk screen printed with the UK.

You can buy all of Laura's pretty interior treasures, including 6 metre rolls of wallpaper, art prints, hand embroidery finished cushions, lampshades, lavender bags, cards, lace embedded coasters at her online boutique, Laura Felicity. For her bespoke wallpapers that have metallic foils, embroidery and layered surfaces ,check out her website.

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The London Design Festival 2012 - Tent London

Zoltan Lubloy @ Tent London

Knitted furniture @ Tent London

Ikuko Iwamoto Ceramics @ Tent London

Claire-Anne O'Brien lampshades @ Tent London

Cath Ball @ Tent London

Sarah Pouros @ Tent by Torie Jayne

"Tent London is one of the largest design trade shows taking place during the London Design Festival each September. Now in its sixth year at the Old Truman Brewery, Tent London presents over 200 international exhibitors, showing the very latest in contemporary interior products - furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, materials and accessories."

Tent London was my favourite of all the shows; there was just stand after stand of loveliness, from chinky knitted furniture hand stitched butterfly ceramics. The prettiest of prints and the quirkiest of accessories. More on that later...

Suitably inspired by all the loveliness I saw at The London Design Festival I am now getting ready for Autumn. While I show you all my favourite inspiration on Torie Jayne over the next few days I will be getting super organized and baking some sweet treats.

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The London Design Festival 2012 - Design Junction

Myung Nam An @ Design Junction

Myung Nam An @ Design Junction

Baccarat chandelier

"Now in its second year, Design Junction has cemented its reputation for showcasing the finest selection of international design brands. This year Design Junction welcomes the Tramshed into the event to create an even more powerful showcase for design in London’s largest non-purpose built event space."

"Design Junction will feature more than 100 world-class international brands set against the industrial surrounds of a 1960’s sorting office. Moving away from the traditional trade show environment, Design Junction strikes the balance between creative and commercial, offering visitors a vibrant yet relaxed atmosphere to engage and connect with design."

It was such a cool venue but due to the lighting I was unable to take many decent photos so instead just enjoyed the atmosphere and admired all the treasures on show. My favourite was the wall display from Myung Nam An made up of beautifully sculpted glass ornaments in a gorgeous colour palette of peach, mint and white with pops of yellow and orange. The chandeliers from Baccarat were gorgeously decadent and quirky due to the fact they were housed under big cream umbrellas!

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The London Design Festival 2012 - Super Brands London

Sé @ Super Brands London

Ginger & Jagger @ Super Brands London

Whiter than White by Materials Council

"Super Brands London is an interiors trade fair exclusively for established global design brands. Co-located with Tent London - a main destination hub during the London Design Festival, the exhibition occupies a 2,500m2 ground floor space of the ex-industrial, now impressive exhibition space - the Old Truman Brewery; bringing together two floors of pure design."

Upon arriving I fell in love with Ginger & Jagger's glamorous stand. There were plush velvet chairs, hammered metal stools, and twig legged tables, all in a beautiful opulent colour palette of gold, silver, copper and cream. Another favourite was Sé whose "young tree" lacquered aluminium lamps' use of gold within the shades cast a lovely warm glow. There was also a great exhibition by the Materials Council called Whiter than White. It was a demonstration on the white options available to architects when selecting materials that shape our surroundings and how these choices influence our experience of the built environment. Small and large-scale samples across a range of architectural materials – glass, metal, natural stone, man-made stone, concrete, timber, textiles, etc were laid out on long wooden tables. One of my favourite materials was the woven pearlized leather.

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The London Design Festival 2012 - 100% Design

On the hunt for new interior inspiration, last friday I spent the day at four interior trade shows taking part in the London Design Festival. I started my day off at 100% Design, from there I took a tube across town to Tent London & Super Brands London, where I met up with a friend for some afternoon fuel, then a quick tube into the centre of town for Design Junction and after a short bus trip even managed a quick shopping trip to Anthropologie! Over the next few days I will share with you my highlights from my whirlwind tour of the London Design Festival...

"In just 10 years, the London Design Festival has built a reputation for being
the most innovative and thrilling design festival in the world."

Metal lace panel @ 100% Design

Hanji Dancheong

Hanji Dancheong

"100% Design is the largest and most prestigious single-site design event in the UK. As one of the world’s most important design trade events, 100% Design is the commercial cornerstone of the annual London Design Festival. The show attracts exhibitors, visitors, designers and press from around the world"

The sleek show was split into four section: 100% Interiors, 100% Office, 100% Kitchen & Bathrooms and 100% Eco Design & Build. There were some great new products, like corian worktops in an ever expanding colour palette and magnetic walls that were strong enough to holds saucepans and potted herbs! In 100% Eco Design they had living green walls for indoors using preserved moss. In 100% Interiors the decorative metal lace panels projected the prettiest patterns but my absolute favourite was the pressed paper wall and ceiling decorations from Hanji Dancheong. I loved everything about them, from the colour palette of dusky pink, grey, putty and white, to the subtle texture and intricate pattern.

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Cute stationery @ Top Drawer

There were lots of lovely stationery brands at the trend show, Top Drawer. My top three favourites were Pleased to Meet, Katy & June and Gellie Design.

Pleased to Meet is the brainchild of Daniel and Marcel Could Hornung. The pair met in the US and when they moved to Berlin in 2004 they started designing first class products locally printed on fine papers and lovingly hand packaged. Their style can be described as retro, with simple aesthetics inspired by their love of American Mid Century Design. On show were bird print cards in pale blue and ochre, woodland themed gift wrap in taupe, and deep blue fish paper. The stationery was beautifully styled on top of wooden crates with vintage typewriters, pops of yellow string and bright red stools.




Katy & June was founded by Katy Lee and June Kim who wanted to bring Korean stationery and gift products to the world! They have selected a broad range of stationery and gifts, like deer printed ringbinders, natural woodland themed gift wrap, and tags and graphic printed notebooks.





Gellie Design is a small greeting card publisher based in High Wycombe which designs and produces beautiful, contemporary and unique greeting cards. Printed and hand finished in the UK they had all occasions covered with cute cards. I loved their mix of prints and use of embellishments with embossed and glittered details.

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Rex International

Today I want to show you some more lovely treasures from the trend show, Top Drawer, that I visited on Tuesday. This time it's my go-to brand for sweet gifts and cute baking supplies, Rex International, available to buy online at Dotcomgiftshop.
Their stand was packed full of lovely ranges from the retro looking industrial bicycle horn, enamel wall clocks and scales in candy colours, to the butterfly and floral printed measuring spoons and dinnerware. For the avid baker they had a bunch of cute cupcake cases, panettone boxes, striped drinking straws and cake boxes. Last but not least they also had decoration of the moment, honeycomb balls!





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Bohemia @ Top Drawer & Giveaway

Another one of my highlights from the trade show, Top Drawer, was seeing Bohemia. I absolutely adore my Morrocon pouffe from Bohemia that I got for my birthday a couple of years ago. They have them in so many colours that I could quite happily have one in each room, but it was their stand out handmade leather briefcases in a dizzying array of colours that really caught my eye at the show...



So I'm delighted to announce a giveaway of a Boho briefcase worth over £115 in your choice of colour, with free delivery, from Bohemia, and it's open to readers worldwide!

From the website:
Our new Boho leather briefcases are designed in-house and handmade exclusively for us by a small team of master leather craftsmen. We created these briefcases with good looks and functionality in mind. Deeper than our traditional school satchels, the briefcase is the perfect size for school or university, the office or a day out. It can easily carry an iPad, your A4 files and folders or small laptop. These stunning satchels have easy-to-open tabs neatly hidden under the buckles. With a detachable cross body or shoulder strap and comfy top handle the options for how to carry your new Boho Briefcase make this a versatile and rather beautiful handy bag! And with a multitude of colours, you'll be spoilt for choice!

To enter:

1. Like Bohemia Design page on Facebook
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4. Leave a comment here with what colour you would choose, and your name and email address so I can contact you if you win!
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The giveaway ends on Saturday, October 6th 2012 at 10pm (BST), open to readers worldwide.




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Bombay Duck @ Top Drawer

Today I want to show you some more lovely treasures from the trend show, Top Drawer, that I visited on Tuesday; this time from the cute brand Bombay Duck. Their new collection, designed in London, as always will brighten up your life whatever the weather! They have some delectable new china, like the beautiful Belle scalloped-edge set in the prettiest shades of duck egg blue, lavender mist, champagne cream and blush pink. They have a new collaboration with "Buttongirl" to produce sweet handmade accessories and of course lots of knockout knobs and hooks, bright brollies and cute cupcake pots!

To get all the latest news from Bombay Duck check out their Facebook page.




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Pip Studio @ Top Drawer

On Tuesday I went to Top Drawer, a London based trade show of over 700 carefully selected British and international suppliers of home accessories, gift ideas, kids products, stationery and fashion accessories. Top Drawer showcases the newest product launches, cutting edge designs and must-have products for 2012.

Today I wanted to show you all the loveliness from one of my favourite labels, Pip Studio. The Pip Studio stand was a riot of colour and prints, from the racks of nightwear beautifully hung on fabric covered, gingham ribbon-trimmed hangers to the piles of gorgeous porcelain. I fell in love with the books of quirky wallpaper and I have to get my hands on some of the brightly coloured gift wrap! It was pure eye candy...



One of my lovely sponsors, Daisy Park, sells a host of Pip Studio treasures and right now she has a sale on with some lovely Pip Studio duvet sets at a reduced price.

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