> Tate Modern - Tacita Dean FILM

You MUST take your children over Half Term and go to Tate Modern and see Tacita Dean's FILM, the latest commission in the Unilever Series. It is amazing! Stunning! Breathtaking!

Set at the end of a dramatically darkened Turbine Hall, FILM, a silent 11-minute 35mm film projected onto a 13 metres tall white monolith is a myriad of spectacular images looking like a giant stained-glass window or a moving wallpaper. It is in constant motion, moving from monochrome to hand tinted to vivid saturated high colour with the iconic image of the wall of the Turbine Hall showing through most of it.

And the children LOVED it!!! They could walk right up to it, be dwarfed by it, become part of it, engage with it... and that's what was so enigmatic and alluring for them. They could run up to it and behind it and and around it and try to catch the gigantic bubbles or egg or the flowing water...

The images; an escalator steps descending the screen, a Victorian fountain spouting water, the sea with waves rolling in, pigeons, roof girders, walkways and skylights, and moving imagery, and still imagery, and spot colour. The list is almost endless, but it is captivating and enduring. We sat and watched it over and over and over. And our daughter run up to it and danced in front of it and made new friends there...

And then we had coffee and cakes!  A PERFECT day out!

Tacita Dean FILM. Turbine Hall, Tate Modern  (020 7887 8888, tate.org.uk) until 11 March.

> Kids.Modern show

We are very excited to be exhibiting again at the next Kids.Modern show at Dulwich College in London in April 2010.  Now in its third year, Kids.Modern is an exciting, innovative show and celebrates the best in childrens design by bringing together the slickest furniture, fashion and collectables from 50 designers from the UK, Europe and Scandinavia.  You may remember our stand from 2008 pictured, above.

Run by Lucy Ryder Richardson and Petra Curtis, the duo behind Midcentury Modern and The Midcentury Shows, the show is open for one day only on Sunday 18th April 2010.

> Onepiece Chair - 100% Design winners

Blueprint magazine and Claystation have announced the results of the Onepiece chair design competition from 100% Design London.  The Blueprint/Claystation stand brought the design process to life as visitors sat on specially commissioned chairs to create their entries - we were delighted to have been asked to create a design (you can see our "Tree of Life" chair, above) alongside the likes of Margo Selby, Jonathan Ball, Steve Wilson and Martin Wollerstam amongst others. The Onepiece chair was designed by Ben Hughes, founder of Claystation and course director of the MA in industrial design at Central St. Martins. The chair is designed to be made from a single piece of material without the use of any adhesive or fixative, and made from an innovative material Swedish material called Re-board, which is as light as cardboard but as strong as MDF.

The winners were Shauna Murphy for her 'in-situ' chair and the under 16 category was won by 10 year old Miles Dodd.  Congratulations to you both.

> One-Piece-Chair at 100% Design London

Here's a quick snap of our "Tree of Life" design on Ben Hughes' "One-Piece-Chair" as seen on the Blueprint stand at 100% Design last week.  Another image can be seen on 'Despoke' 100% Design London's new blog and on Flickr.  Visitors to the show were able to design their own graphics and see their work made into mini paper models.  At the end of the show, judges including Ben and Matthew Hilton will select the best design and the lucky winner will receive a full size chair.

The show was great (as expected) and we met some really lovely exhibitors (whom we shall talk about in more detail later this week).

Off to Decorex now!!!

> 100% Design London

We are off to 100% Design today and can't wait to see what's new in the wonderful world of design.

We're looking forward to seeing our designs printed onto the new "One-Piece-Chair" by Ben Hughes, on show for the first time (in conjunction with Blueprint magazine and Claystation).  The chair will be featured in the October issue of Blueprint.

We'll let you know what we thought of the show and tell you about the best bits!

> Grand Designs Live

We're looking forward to the forthcoming Grand Designs Live at the NEC (9-11 October).  We are hoping to find some exciting soft furnishings to complete a big project we are finishing with Colliss & Quinton.

While we were looking through the latest GDL brochure recently, we were excited to see it included an image of our stand, featuring our "Tree of Life" wallcovering taken at the London ExCeL show in June 2007 - it brought back some great memories!

> One-Piece Chair for 100% Design London - update

Following on from our previous mention about the "One-Piece-Chair", Blueprint magazine (in conjunction with Claystation) contacted us to say that one, if not both of our designs are being manufactured and will be on show at 100% Design London (24-27 September).  Needless to say we are absolutely delighted and can't wait to see the chair(s) in the flesh.

Thank you Claudia for giving us the great news.