thankyou for coming to see us in hereford

we are back from the hereford contemporary craft fair and want to say a huge thankyou to everyone that came to see us there. it's such a lovely show to take part in and it's always nice to catch up with our customers in that part of the country.
if you didn't make it to the show (or you want to come and see us again!) hopefully we'll see you in a couple of weeks time at made by hand in Newport, Wales - more details about the show coming soon with a little ticket giveaway too!

thanks again for coming to see us at the weekend & for buying some of your xmas presents from us ..... we totally sold out of our leaf lanterns again but will have plenty more made in time for made by hand (3rd - 5th dec).


{credits}

pachadesign {website}

image: leaf lanterns by pachadesign copyright © pachadesign 2010

hereford contemporary craft fair this weekend

our first xmas show of the year is the hereford contemporary craft fair this friday, saturday & sunday (12th - 14th nov). the show is held at the courtyard centre for the arts and showcases 58 of the finest makers in contemporary craft - jewellery, furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, stone carving, basketry, porcelain, fashion, metal work, sculpture & more.

we will have a range of work for sale at the show including furniture, large sculptural mirrors, a range of clocks, oak & slate lamps, leaf lanterns, our new slate sushi plates & coasters, a range of different size mirrors & our oak chopping boards.

we hope to see you at the show.

pachadesign {website}

hereford contemporary craft fair
courtyard centre for the arts, edgar street, hereford, hr4 9jr
12-14 nov (fri & sat 10-6, sun 10-5)
for more info: www.h-craftfair.co.uk

wo & wé collection

we had a lovely email the other day from Olivier at wo & wé collection telling us how he liked our work and asking us if we would have a look at his work. so, we had a look and we loved it and we thought we'd share it with you.

Olivier is a light "creator-assembler" and makes the coolest adjustable vintage lamps, restored & re-assembled from industrial components. He is based in Lyon, France and has been creating, restoring and assembling his pieces over the last four months.





we think they are very cool. we love where he photographs them too. hope you enjoy looking at his work as much as we did.


{credits}

wo & wé collection {website}

images: copyright © wo and wé collection

surf jumble & board swap

there are lots of events happening this xmas but we think this one is a little different. a mix of surf related jumble, a bit of lovely art, yummy cakes & tea and the place to swap your board with someone else. {read more here}

our mate cai, over at gul bude, sent us this lovely poster with all the details. if you are interested in having a stall contact cai at gul (details on poster) and maybe we'll see you there.






{credits}

gul bude {blog} & {twitter}

midlake

hope you all had a wicked halloween. we spent ours at a great little gig watching these guys. last night was the first night of their euro tour - catch them if you can {here}





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midlake {website}

studio mumbai

we've been enjoying looking at the work of studio mumbai based in india (found via one of our favourite blogs - the best time of the day). beautiful use of wood, glass, stone, water, fabric, with beautiful shapes that play with light & dark. we love the wooden slated screens that occur in many of their projects and the use of agricultural shade net that wraps the structure of the reading room project to let in light & air.




"The essence of our work lies in the relationship between land and architecture, it requires coming to terms with the presence of the environment through the succession of seasons. Projects are developed through careful consideration of place and a practice that draws from traditional skills, local building techniques, materials, and an ingenuity arising from limited resources"

studio mumbai

{credits}

studio mumbai {website}
all images from studio mumbai website

busy + work in progress

we've been pretty busy over the last couple of weeks .... hence our lack of posts lately. lots of orders made for shops & galleries ready for xmas and we've been working on two large scale pieces that will be finished very very soon (all will be revealed soon).


I've been making lots of our leaf lanterns but still have to make more for xmas shows we have coming up. we'll be posting details about the shows & exhibitions we are doing this xmas soon.




work in progress: metal & oak for the two pieces we are working on at the moment. we are really looking forward to showing you these when they are finished.

{credits}

pachadesign leaf lanterns {here}

images: leaf lanterns + work in progress by pachadesign copyright © pachadesign 2010

happy weekend

the sun is shining today and we are off to the beach for a little surf competition.

enjoy your weekend.





{credits}

image: beach 1 copyright © pachadesign 2010

story + deli

story has always been one of our favourite places - it's such a beautiful space and ann shores styling is perfect. we went to the story deli for pizza twice while we were exhibiting at Origin - if you haven't already been, we think you should.




story {website}

assemblage 1 by studio toogood

studio toogood can do no wrong in our eyes - we were so gutted to have missed the debut during the london design festival of their 1st collection of objects (the project called super natural was on at the same time as we were exhibiting at Origin, so we couldn't go).

the collection, titled assemblage 1, features furniture, lighting & textiles of simple geometric forms from wood, stone & brass. we think the collection is beautiful and, as always with studio toogood, the styling of the project is perfect. our favourite pieces are element table, element light in stone, mobile and diagonal textile 1.






to see more: assemblage 1 {here} & super natural {here}


{credits}

studio toogood {website}

stuff we liked at origin 2010

as promised, a little selection of more stuff we liked at this years Origin. if you missed our other post of things we were looking forward to seeing - click {here}.



derek wilson's stunning ceramics {website}




laura bennett's lovely fragile jewellery {website}




kaori tatebayashi's beautiful teapots {website}




claire loder's cool & always so perfectly titled ceramic heads {website}




gary allson's beautiful tactile plates & bowls {website}
p.s. don't forget to vote for gary's work at the british design awards {here}

solo exhibition at makers gallery

we spent monday setting up our solo exhibition at Makers Gallery in Taunton, Somerset. the exhibition features a selection of our accessories including our little mirrors, some larger pieces like our panoramic mirrors and large portrait mirrors and a squares configuration, as well as clocks and little gold leaf bowl lanterns.




the exhibition opened on tuesday 5th and runs until 14th november but we will also be putting work into the xmas exhibition which runs until the end of december.




we thought we'd show you a few pictures that we took of the exhibition - hope you like them and if you are in the area, do go and have a look (our exhibition is upstairs in the gallery). Makers is a co-operative gallery run by it's members so features work by them which includes pottery, textiles, woodwork, jewellery, etchings & more.






{credits}

pachadesign solo exhibition (accessories only)
makers gallery, 6 bath place, taunton, somerset, ta1 4er
01823 251121

pachadesign {website}


images: pachadesign solo exhibition at makers gallery 2010 copyright © pachadesign 2010