pachadesign: June 2011

29 Jun 2011

recent press

we've had some nice features about us recently on some lovely blogs so we wanted to say thankyou to:
trouver les bonnes choses for their kind words about our new groupies tables {here}
wood design for the feature they did on their lovely blog {here}
and lisa from natural modern interiors blog for her lovely email & feature {here}

pachadesign {website}

27 Jun 2011

sun

the last day of our open studio was yesterday and was lovely and warm and sunny. it felt like how summer is supposed to feel .... but today went back to grey and mist and rain. we want more sunshine please.

thanks to everyone that popped in to see us at the studio over the weekend. it was nice to see friends and meet some new people too. details about more summer shows coming up soon.

26 Jun 2011

1 day left

the sun is shining today, at last .... one day left of our june open studio, we'll be open until 4pm so we hope to see you here.

23 Jun 2011

our june open studio

we open tomorrow from 10.30am - hope to see you this weekend.

contemporary craft fair update

thankyou to everyone that visited us at this years Contemporary Craft Fair at Bovey Tracey. despite the awful weather on the sunday, we still had a good show and it was nice to catch up with you all.
no pictures of our stand this year unfortunately ..... we left it until last thing on sunday to take some photographs and realised we'd left the battery for our camera at home.

so we thought we'd share a photograph we took of this lovely little pot that we bought at the show by maker Lucianna Gallucci. Lucianna's work and her stand at the show looked beautiful - her website will be online soon.
as always, there was lots of beautiful work at the show - we'll do a little collection of our favourites next week.

16 Jun 2011

ed sheeran

we love this song and video by ed sheeran.
hope you enjoy it too.

ed sheeran {website}

9 Jun 2011

this weekend

we hope to see you this weekend at The Contemporary Craft Fair
{10th - 12th june, open daily 10am - 5pm}
click here for info

8 Jun 2011

calgary by bon iver

we've been waiting for this.

calgary by bon iver {website}

7 Jun 2011

the contemporary craft fair 2011

The Contemporary Craft Fair at Bovey Tracey is this friday, saturday & sunday {10 - 12 june}. we will be exhibiting new work there so we hope you can make it along to the event - we are stand A29.

The event showcases 165 of the uk's finest designer makers from many disciplines including ceramics, glass, textiles, furniture, jewellery, metal, fashion, mixed media and more. there is also workshops, demonstrations, children's craft tent, entertainment, great food & live music over the 3 day event.

our little selection of some of the lovely work you can see at the show (including our new work): top left - pachadesign, top right - cleo mussi, bottom left - adam buick, bottom right - tanja ufer

for more info: The Contemporary Craft Fair {website}

6 Jun 2011

precious

a long overdue thankyou to everyone that came to see us at our 2nd love factor group exhibition precious in appledore. everyones work looked amazing in the huge white space of the old glove factory (thanks again to Sandy for letting us hold the exhibition there).

© pachadesign

new rustic {kitchen/dining table with benches} & square off-set slate mirror by pachadesign, rest as above

© pachadesign

we each had a display box filled with things that were precious to us - this one is ours.

there are more images from the exhibition on the love factor blog {here}

3 Jun 2011

new work - groupies

our latest work is called groupies, a collection of small tables combining raw materials: steel + brass + old oak.

© pachadesign

our concept behind groupies started with little pieces of reclaimed oak that we had been saving - too precious to not be made into something beautiful like these little tables.
always passionate about the imperfections in the materials we use, we felt that with groupies they should be left as raw as possible.
the oak is left natural and the metal bases show the welds and the colour change that happens durning the heating process. as a contrast to the thick gnarly old oak tops of most of the groupies, one table has a thin polished brass top.

© pachadesign

groupies designed & made by pachadesign {website}
for more info & images on our website click here

a missing month

we've been off the radar for about a month.
we had been catching up and planning stuff and working hard and, before we knew it, may had come and gone. so, we have loads of stuff to tell you about and we have summer events coming up so hopefully we'll catch up with some of you too. thankyou to everyone that visited us at our easter open studio and our 2nd love factor exhibition precious (photographs from the show coming up on the blog soon). lots of details about the summer shows coming up over the next few posts as well and we are going to show you our latest work next - hope you like it.