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DESIGN FEVER
French designer Sophie Digard creates artworks that beg to be touched - curious crochet flowers with velvety soft buds, each leaf and petal knitted individually. Alongside her super sweet roses are beautifully crafted jewellery, scarves and berets in intricately patterned stripes and swirls, reminiscent of a painting by Klimt. Visit our object catalogue to order one of her pieces from £45 (excludes p&p) www.selvedge.org
Hidden Art is busy this month! Not only are they showing off the best of their work at 100% Design (Earls Court 2, 20-23 September) but they’ll also be hosting the 8th Hidden Art Forum, ‘Anticipating the Future’. With panel discussions, ‘speed networking’ and eminent speakers such as Jeremy Myerson Professor of Design Studies at the RCA it promises to be a frenetic and stimulating event. 26 September www.hiddenartlondon.co.uk. Don’t forget to check out the new goodies in their online shop too! www.hiddenartshop.com
Another online boutique to catch our eye is stylish www.luxeadornment.com. The Bangalore based company prides itself on producing simple, sculptural ‘wearable art’ and with a clothing collection that wraps and drapes around the body in linen and vivid silks, space-dyed stoles and jewellery in hand-made paper and wood, their fusion of natural materials and modern design is a must see. For a preview of their new collection (pictured) contact them via their website. Hot off the press... From the theatricals of
the catwalk to the real thing...an intriguing site-specific play
entitled ‘Quality’ will be staged
at Tracey Neuls’TN29 shoe boutique during
London Fashion Week. Canadian director Kathleen Weiss highlights
our obsessions with beauty, sex and of course, shoes. 6-23
September www.qualitytheplay.co.uk...another
shop that will be dazzling us this month is the Society
of Designer Craftsmen (SDC) Gallery. Opening on 7 September,
and extolling the traditional values of the 120 year old national
treasure - craftsmanship and innovation - it will nevertheless
have its finger firmly on the pulse in trendy Shoreditch. What
better place to browse, buy or commission work from some of Britain’s
most skilled makers? www.SDCgallery.org.uk |
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SELVEDGE
EVENT See the latest collections from the world’s finest textile showrooms at Focus 2007 and come to the Selvedge Lecture! Our speaker, Christine Woods will discuss ‘Flights of Fancy: select decorative schemes of the 1920s and 30s’, a vibrant exhibition opening at the Whitworth Art Gallery in October. Focus 2007, Chelsea Harbour: 23-25 September (trade), 26 September (public); Selvedge lecture: Mon 24 September, 11am www.chelsea-harbour.co.uk |
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| DATES FOR YOUR DIARY... | ||
| Until 10 Sept | Making Changes: Contemporary Craft in Ireland |
Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown www.craftni.org |
| 4 Sept-3 Nov | Hiroyuki Suzuki | Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne www.northernprint.org.uk |
| 6 Sept-2 Oct | ‘Together: The Birds & Us’ Fiber Works |
Artes Gallery at Nowy Dziennik, NY Blezni@aol.com |
| 7-29 Sept | Deidre Scherer (& family) | Moore Free Library, Newfane, Vermont deidre@dscherer.com |
| 7-30 Sept | ‘Promised Lands’: stitch art by f. marquespenteado |
V22 Ashwinstreet gallery, London www.v22ashwinstreet.com |
| 8-23 Sept | Devon Art Works 2007 | Open studios, Devon www.devonartworks.info |
| 9-11 Sept | Top Drawer Autumn | Olympia, London www.topdrawerautumn.com |
| 12 Sept, 2-4 Jun | Tomita and the Art of Kasuri lecture |
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London www.dajf.org.uk |
| 15 Sept | Textile Society 25th Anniversary Symposium |
V&A Museum, London www.textilesociety.org.uk |
| 15 Sept-6 Jan | The Art of Lee Miller | V&A Museum, London www.vam.ac.uk |
| 15-25 Sept | London Design Festival | Various locations, London www.londondesignfestival.com |
| 15-20 Sept | London Fashion Week | Various locations, London www.londonfashionweek.co.uk |
| 18-21 Sept | Premiervision | Parc d’Expositions de Paris Nord Villepinte, France www.premiervision.fr |
| 20-23 Sept | 100% Design | Earls Court 2, London www.100percentdesign.co.uk |
| 20-23 Sept | Tent London | Truman Brewery, London www.tentlondon.co.uk |
| 23-26 Sept | Decorex | Royal Hospital Chelsea, London www.decorex.com |
| 25 Sept-5 Jan | The shape of things: Rezia Wahid textiles |
Crafts Study Centre, UCCA, Farnham www.csc.ucreative.ac.uk |
| 26 Sept | Fashion Takes Action Eco-Couture Gala |
Evergreen Brick Works, Toronto www.fashiontakesaction.com |
| 27-30 Sept | Brighton Art Fair | Corn Exchange, Brighton www.brightonartfair.co.uk |
| 29 Sept | Cornwall Lace & Thread Festival |
Kingsford Venue, Helston, Cornwall www.kingsfordvenue.co.uk |
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