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Ethel Larcombe
Laura Ethel Larcombe (known as Ethel, 1876-1940) was a British illustrator, typographer and book cover designer. She was active in the late 19th ce...
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Marion Dorn
Marion Dorn (1896-1964) was an American designer best known for her wall hangings, carpets and rugs.
In her early career she was based in New York ...
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Enid Marx
Enid Marx (1902-1998) was a pioneering designer who mostly famously created seating moquette fabric for London Transport.
In the 1920s she was alr...
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Sonia Delaunay - abstract print queen
Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) was a leading designer of abstract prints and patterns in the 1920s and 30s. She originally trained in Russia and German...
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Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1863-1933) was a Scottish designer and key figure in the ‘Glasgow style’ of the 1890s. She joined Glasgow School of ...
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Raoul Dufy
We’re loving Art Deco at the moment and looking at artists such as Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), who is best known as a painter but also had an influenti...
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Marianne Straub - textile designer
Marianne Straub (1909-1994), one of the leading commercial textile designers in Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s. Born in Switzerland, she studi...
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Edouard Benedictus - chemist and textile designer
Edouard Benedictus (1878-1930) was born in France and his career spanned several diverse disciplines including, chemistry, music composition and te...
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History of soap & soap dishes
We make and sell a lot of soap dishes so we started to wonder about bars of soap…and here are the fun facts we found out!
When was soap invented?
T...
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New stockist - The People Hive
We’re working with The People Hive based in Twickenham. People Hive is a charity and the shop showcases around local 160 artists/ makers. Profits f...
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Talwin Morris - book cover designer
This month we are celebrating the birthday of Talwin Morris (1865-1911), book cover designer of the Art Nouveau movement. He was initially employed...
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New stockist - SoLo Craft Fair
We’re profiling our new stockist, SoLo Craft Fair.
This enterprise was originally set up by Catherine Dunne and Rebecca Hunter in 2016 as South Lon...
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