Thanks so much if you made it down to see the installation at Clerkenwell design week. Our limited addition shoes made especially for the event are now in the TN-29 shop and still on display at the Moroso showroom, Rosebery Avenue.

Highlights of the week was a lunchtime talk with Moroso’s creative director Patrizia Moroso, Piero Gandini the director of Flos and designers Tord Boontje and Paul Cocksedge. The talk discussed the manufacture / designer relationship, using Tord’s pressed ‘flower table’ as an example.

It was interesting to hear how technicalities and problems of importing pressed flowers from overseas led to such an appealing development in the project. Making the decision to source flowers grown locally to the factory meant that his tables manufactured in spring, summer or autumn all vary in appearance depending on the season of production.

Designer Paul Cocksedge spoke about his ambitious interactive installation ‘The Kiss’ which may be installed in Covent Garden this Christmas. Check out his ‘Life’ object - a vase that lights up when the flower is alive and fresh and slowly fades when the plant withers.

Say no more, the Vice crowd know how to have a good party. Free bar all night and loads of swings hanging from the rafters for all to swing freely. Optimistic artist Matthew Stone played a couple of dj sets and electro-rock duo The Big Pink performed, including their great tune ‘Velvet’. The bar staff were all wearing Kigu’s and candy floss was the order of the evening.

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As you enter the Barbican’s The Surreal House, a cacophonous minor progression echoes against its Brutalist walls. The source, aptly revealed through a labyrinth of rooms later, underscores the tone of the exhibition – the home as a portrait of self. Yet, through the work of Dali and Duchamp, Bourgeois and Bacon, the ‘maison surréaliste’ questions the rational interplay of our deepest fears and wildest fascinations. For the theatre of the domestic is never what one expects it to be.

The Surreal House at the Barbican, 10 June 2010 to 12 September 2010.

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Hidden amongst the hanging shoes of 29 Marylebone Lane are a number of accessories that have accumulated along the way. For instance, Nina Saunders’ bronze cast pea necklace (£90) - reminds us that peas are, in fact, good for you. Coin purses by Dutch accessories label frrry, compartmentalises an A4 piece of letter into a marvel of organisation.

Drop by and check them out!

www.ninasaunders.eu
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We are very excited to announce the creative accord struck between Tracey Neuls and the furniture company Moroso for Clerkenwell Design Week 2010.

Take two of Tracey’s distinct designs, render them in sumptuous fabrics designed by Patricia Urquiola and Tord Boontje, and you get two very special pairs. The shapes of Neuls’ lasts encompass the architectural aspects of Urquiola’s work, with a dash of Boontje’s imaginative escapes.

The shoes will be on display at the beautiful Farmiloe building in Clerkenwell and at the Moroso showroom on Rosebury Avenue as part of Clerkenwell Design Week from May 25 to 27. You can procure your own pair at the end of the month here at 29 Marylebone Lane.

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We're loving this charming collection of collections - one a day for every day this year. Some are collections the author, Lisa Congdon, owns. Others are ones she imagines; drawn or painted for her audience.

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27 February 2010 - 23 May 2010

These beautiful zebra finches are so uninhibited- and they seem pretty happy, not to mention very busy! Making nests, eating seeds and playing music. One little birdie was jamming away at a solo guitar riff for ages. Watching them fly around and play the guitars together while tapping the cymbals with their beaks is quite an out of the ordinary spectacle, mesmerising.... and an incredibly captivating musical performance!

Image courtesy of xippas

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Just back from Lanzarote where we were captivated by the César Manrique Foundation. The artist's former home is built around five volcanic bubbles and looks out over a dramatic lava field.

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Last week to see, exhibition ends 2 May 2010

This is the first major solo show of artist, musician and writer Billy Childish. He is somewhat of a cult figure, who has gained an international following and this exhibition encompasses his extraordinary career and persona. If you make the visit, be sure to spend time watching the documentaries that are played in the room upstairs, they give a great context to his recent paintings that are also on display. It's a good chance to not only to read his poetry but to see the collection of books he has personally published and designed himself.

Photo from Wolf Howard, 'Billy Childish', Pinhole photographs.

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