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How Modernism arrived in Britain – Magnus Englund, director of The Isokon Gallery Trust

Co-author of Phaidon’s Walter Gropius: An Illustrated Biography, author of a further five books on design and architecture, retail specialist, director of The Isokon Gallery Trustand Trustee of the Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation, we grabbed some time with Magnus Englund...

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Tough Moment – Matthew Hilton’s inaugural sculpture exhibition at Paul Smith

Always thoughtful, with a clarity of form and rigorous attention to detail, Matthew Hilton and his studio are world-renowned for their product design output. We are now rewarded with his first sculpture exhibition, ‘Tough Moment’ at  Paul Smith Albemarle street...

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Tom Broughton, founder of Cubitts and resident of the Isokon Flats – home to artists and intellectuals

Once home to Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school, the Isokon Flats in North London has been rightfully rescued and restored, and now awarded Grade I listed status. This follows a number of tumultuous years when this Modernist gem...

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A life in art – Robin Vousden, Howard Hodgkin’s long-term art dealer

A lesson in following your heart – and being encouraged to do it – working hard and by his accounts ‘with wonderful luck’, and how to survive in the art world via the Whitworth in Manchester, Anthony d’Offay in London,...

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Laura Fulmine – the gallerist building a creative community in East London

In between running a gallery and concept store in the heart of the burgeoning creative scene in East London, not far from our Christopher Farr Shoreditch Studio, we grab some time with Laura Fulmine, curator of the latest installation in...

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London Design Festival 2023 – Conversation and Drinks

In our London Shoreditch Studio space to celebrate our LDF 2023 exhibition – Women Behind the Weave: Bauhaus to Bosphorus – on Tues 19th September, we will host a panel of experts to explore themes covering social innovation, welfare initiatives,...

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We talk to Henry House, Sotheby’s Global Head of Furniture & Decorative Arts

How do you paid get paid to relive Grand Tours and go shopping for some of the finest examples of craftsmanship from around the world? Running alongside our partnership with Sotheby’s for their Classic Design Series, we chat to Henry...

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Artwise – trailblazers channelling art for good

Working with the most sought after names in the international artworld, Artwise see themselves as collaborators, and curators with a small ‘c’, preferring to keep the spotlight on the artists and causes that they represent. Artwise, founded by Susie Allen...

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Pattern and colour queen Bethan Laura Wood

During London Design Festival in our new Shoreditch studio in London, we previewed the prototype of ‘Jelly’ Salad’, our collaboration with the one and only Bethan Laura Wood. Continuing Bethan’s exploration of food presentation and representation, ‘Jelly Salad’, is a...

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