New Collection Debut at Pulse...

We're back from our annual Pulse London trade show, where we launched our brand new collection of Wallpaper, Yardage and Scatter Cushions...

We presented each colour way as a mini collection (though, you know us and what we like, they also look incredible all MIXED together!) to show each line clearly! We were very proud of our display as we brought it all in just two suitcases all the way from Belfast... Flat pack or what?!

We wanted to say a huge thank you to all the press, buyers and fellow designers who popped by our stand and were so complimentary. A lot of people recognised our Wallpaper from the lovely post Holly at decor8 blog wrote last week, or even made a special trip to seek us out after seeing the new designs explode all over Pinterest! HUGE thanks to Holly, and to everyone who has been so incredibly supportive and positive about the collection. 

We were also really delighted to be given a top ten favourite 'confessions of a design geek loves' tag - COADG was the official blogger for Pulse, and also interviewed us last week, too! Check it out right here...

We are beyond delighted, and humbled.

One of the highlights of Pulse was a lovely designer from Sanderson stopping by to say hello! (Via Holly!) She sees some of the most fabulous wallpapers around and I was so touched when she told me ours were really original, with nothing else quite like them out there on the market... Amazing! I'm so sorry I can't recall the lovely lady's name, but if you're reading this - thank you!! :)

Shows are always fun, especially the social aspect. So great to catch up with our lovely fellow designer friends... great chat and gorgeous collections from Kiss Her by Bianca Hall, Dear Prudence, Mary Kilvert, Helen Lang Wet Paint, Tori Murphy, Jessica Hogarth, Jessica Hayes-Gill and Janey Whitehorn... also so nice to see Zeena Shah, Ham, and Peris and Corr visiting! I'm sure I've forgotten some people!

Big love,

A&R

Homes & Interiors SECC show & Julia Smith Ceramics...

We were glad to be in Glasgow while the Homes & Interiors show is on at the SECC. It started today, and we went along to look at all the lovely things on display!

Heading there, we knew we were going to see Julia Smith Ceramics, whose work we LOVE! We were lucky enough to visit her studio last year (and it's shamefully taken us this long to share the shots! But here they are... it was very inspiring.) but we have been loving the loot we bought for over a year now (a clock, cups, the cat plate above and some bowls) and it was great to see her stand today and see the progression of her work, and all the lovely new pieces she is producing from her new studio near Inverness. You can purchase her lovely pieces online, or visit her at stand between now and Sunday the 30th October and pick up something lovely there!

We also had a great chat with the lovely Niki Jones while wandering round. It was great to see her beautiful homeware in person and the stand was looking beautiful, styled to perfection with the entire range! It was VERY hard to resist taking one of everything ;)

Hope many of you will be able to make it along, or you can browse the full list of exhibitors online here and drool over their website at your leisure!

We will be back shortly with some studio visits, yummy dinners and shop tours we did while on our little Scottish trip! See you then.

A@a*r

Trade Shows, Awards and Best of British...oh my!

Hi everyone - it's been too long, but we're back with some super news, and a whole host of happenings to share!

Where to start??

Well, first of all -you all knew we were preparing for our first Trade Show at Pulse London... well, it went really brilliantly, we had such a good time and were so pleased with our stand! To top everything off, and to our extreme shock, we won an award!

'Best New Launchpad Exhibitors at Pulse 2011' to be exact, and judged by the lovely Michelle Alger (of Britains Next Big Thing, fame), Buying Manager for Home at Liberty... as you can see by the huge smiles on our faces, we were not expecting it at all! Thankfully, I had been be-decked with paper eye-lashes from Paperself for the occassion...not that I knew there was GOING to be an occasion... handy, that! ;)

Ahead of going to Pulse, we had received some wonderful news after attending Liberty's Best of British Open Call back in April...when we had hotfooted it down to London for a few days to pitch our products to the buying team at the world famous store (and my personal Mecca!) - and a whole 3 minutes later - we just had to wait and see...

Delightfully, we were successful, and received an order for Cushions. It is certainly a career highlight for us, especially for me, as it has always been a dream of mine to have my designs sold in Liberty - so we are over to moon to be adding them as an official stockist. You can see some images of the Liberty Open Call on their facebook page... you might even spot me, looking utterly hideous in a photo, with our cushions in front, looking MUCH lovelier, thankfully... ;)

SO - we came home from Pulse to start work on our Liberty order, which was no small undertaking, but thankfully, after sewing our socks off (Ryan even roped me in!) they were all ready to head off in to the wide world at the end of last week...

That, really, is what we have been up to... so you'll hopefully forgive our silence! We have lots more to share shortly, including some new stockists added to our list so we will be profiling them... and other bits and bobs, too.

We will be back with those very soon. Happy Monday all, we've missed this space!

xo Abigail@ abigail*ryan