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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 ...

Enid Marx (1902-1998) was a pioneering designer who mostly famously created  seating moquette fabric for London Transport. In the 1920s she was alr...

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...

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1863-1933) was a Scottish designer and key figure in the ‘Glasgow style’ of the 1890s. She joined Glasgow School of ...

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...

Marianne Straub (1909-1994), one of the leading commercial textile designers in Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s. Born in Switzerland, she studi...

Edouard Benedictus (1878-1930) was born in France and his career spanned several diverse disciplines including, chemistry, music composition and te...

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...

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...

This month we are celebrating the birthday of Talwin Morris (1865-1911), book cover designer of the Art Nouveau movement. He was initially employed...

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...

This month we are celebrating the birthday of Charles Ashbee (1863-1942), multi-disciplinary designer and architect of the Art Nouveau movement. As...