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The Temporium: there are just two more days to visit our Christmas shop The Temporium, where you can snap up gifts by over 20 designers and brands including this toy cable car from Theo.
The vintage style wind-up cable car is made in the Czech Republic from printed sheet metal and comes with five metres of string to zip along.
It has a mechanical spring engine and a start/stop switch.
Theo also presents textiles from Donna Wilson, plant pots by Nick Fraser (see our earlier story), Clocks by David Weatherhead and more.
Here are some more details from Theo:
Hello, I’m Theo. Nice to meet you!
Although it looks like I’m the new kid on the block, I mean in certain ways I am, I’ve been doing this for quite a while now.
I am a bit like the little brother/alter ego of Thorsten van Elten (in fact Theo is Thorsten’s middle name).
Since Thorsten closed his actual brick and mortar shop back in 2008, his online shop stayed on. Unfortunately it got a little bit neglected as Thorsten was very busy working on his production & distribution side with his products being sold in many fantastic shops all around the world.
Theo has most definitely got his own identity and ideas! Some you can see already, some are still to come.
Dezeen presents The Temporium
65 Monmouth Street
Seven Dials, Covent Garden
London WC2H 9DG
Telephone:
020 7503 7319
Dates:
1-24 December 2011
Opening times:
Monday – Saturday: 11:00 – 19:00
Late-night shopping Thursday until 20:00
Sunday: 12:00 – 17:00
More info: www.thetemporium.com
The Temporium: you can get 15% off Cristian Zuzunaga‘s new series of digitally printed scarves at our Christmas shop The Temporium, open until Christmas Eve in London.
His Alchemy collection features pixellated patterns as though zooming right in on a digital map of the city.
They’re made of wool and modal in Italy.
Here are some more details from Zuzunaga:
Alchemy is an ancient tradition whose philosophy underpins much of our work here at Zuzunaga. While in popular culture it is best know for turning metal into gold or creating an ‘elixir of life’, for us, alchemy is inherently about transformation.
Our Alchemy collection is about this process of transformation and follows its methodology. Each design starts from a photograph we have taken of the urban environment. We use this analog image and transform it into a digital one. This enables us to manipulate it and create designs that are then applied to products using different materials and printing techniques.
Alchemy transforms the real into the digital and back again. It transforms the elements and the landscape around us and creates products that enable us to appropriate our environment. It transforms our perceptions of reality and makes the invisible tangible.
Dezeen presents The Temporium
65 Monmouth Street
Seven Dials, Covent Garden
London WC2H 9DG
Telephone:
020 7503 7319
Dates:
1-24 December 2011
Opening times:
Monday – Saturday: 11:00 – 19:00
Late-night shopping Thursday until 20:00
Sunday: 12:00 – 17:00
More info: www.thetemporium.com
The Temporium: illustrator Vic Lee‘s intricate prints documenting London streets are on show at our Christmas shop The Temporium, open until 24 December at 65 Monmouth Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9DG.
Depicting Portobello Road, Columbia Road, Upper Street and a mixture of London stories, the designs are hand-printed in an open edition on 100% cotton paper.
Each one is signed, numbered and embossed with the artist’s mark.
Other prints at The Temporium include Woop Studios – see our earlier Advent Calendar story here.
Dezeen presents The Temporium
65 Monmouth Street
Seven Dials, Covent Garden
London WC2H 9DG
Telephone:
020 7503 7319
Dates:
1-24 December 2011
Opening times:
Monday – Saturday: 11:00 – 19:00
Late-night shopping Thursday until 20:00
Sunday: 12:00 – 17:00
More info: www.thetemporium.com
The Temporium: products at our Christmas shop The Temporium are displayed on Henny van Nistelrooy‘s Revolver shelving system.
The folded metal shelves simply hook onto the wooden supports and can be flipped over to provide deep, flat platforms or shallow, slanted shelves as required.
The shelves are available to order at The Temporium, which is open until Christmas Eve – see more stories about products for sale here.
Here are some more details from van Nistelrooy:
‘Revolver’ is a display and storage system based on a simple reversible shelf design.
Due to its subtle elegance and great flexibility to display both objects and garments, this shelving system is ideal for either public or domestic environments.
‘Revolver’ is brings together the beautiful combination of wood and the industrial manufactured metal shelves.
The cantilever system works by simply hooking one shelf above the other into the wooden frame, resulting in a display that can be changed by the turn of a hand.
Douglas fir, sheet metal (powder coated)
Shelf size: 55x32cm
Posts: 200cm
Dezeen presents The Temporium
65 Monmouth Street
Seven Dials, Covent Garden
London WC2H 9DG
Telephone:
020 7503 7319
Dates:
1-24 December 2011
Opening times:
Monday – Saturday: 11:00 – 19:00
Late-night shopping Thursday until 20:00
Sunday: 12:00 – 17:00
More info: www.thetemporium.com
Dezeen Screen: this movie features Chris and Polly of Wrap, an illustration magazine that’s designed to be reused as giftwrap, talking about their latest issue on the theme of Dark Days, Bright Nights. Wrap is currently on sale at our Christmas shop The Temporium. Watch the movie »
The Temporium: this series of knotted collar pieces made of rope by London-based designer Helena Westerlind is today’s entry to our Advent calendar.
Knotted is a new brand launched by recent graduate Westerlind at our Christmas shop The Temporium.
Each item is individually hand-knotted in cotton rope.
They’re available in black and white.
See more stories about fashion on Dezeen here and more stories about The Temporium here.
Here’s some more information about Helen:
Helena Westerlind graduated from the Architectural Association this year.
The rope formations of her collection are inspired by the material qualities of rope and traditional techniques such as knitting and crochet.
These can be formed into a structured surface through knotting.
Knotting organises the continuous nature of the material through repeated movements and creates a level of complexity.
All the pieces have been individually hand-knotted by the designer in such a way that the resulting structures also enhance the nature of the rope.
The Temporium: this beaded and embellished jewellery collection from London-based designer Fiona Paxton is the festive treat hidden behind day 18 of our Advent calendar.
Her work includes hand-beaded chain mail necklaces, beaten brass rings and leather cuffs.
See more stories about fashion on Dezeen here and more stories about The Temporium here.
Here’s some more information about Fiona:
Fiona Paxton has within a year of setting up her own line of accessories created a distinctive and global profile her peers can only dream of. The trained textiles designer launched her eponymous label in 2008, creating striking hand-beaded necklaces and bracelets in geometric patterns.
As a globetrotter Fiona has fused her love for Indian artisanship with the iconography of the British punk era she grew up in, conceptual Japanese fashion of the 80s and the German Bauhaus movement.
The London-based designer has found the right mix of eye-catching newness whilst retaining the individuality of each hand- crafted piece, creating a winning alternative to the ubiquitous British high-street.
Having graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1992 with a distinction in Textiles Design, Fiona became a driving force behind the fashion scenes. Having worked in New York, London and Bangkok, she consulted for various fashion companies such as Armani, Chloe, Moschino and Michiko Koshino.
As the Creative Director for Brewster Textile Design Studio she was not only in charge of the art direction for colour palettes, embroidery concepts and garment shapes, Fiona also applied her eye to trend forecasting. From vintage to popular culture, the arts to the weekend habits of the final consumer, Fiona’s job was to be ahead of the fashion designer in order to present the right textile designs at the start of a new season.
Her fail-safe intuition for both beautiful patterns and the customers’ wishes has resulted in a collection of vibrant beaded necklaces that elegantly snake around the neck and bracelets to make every hand gesture a joy.
With prestigious stockists around the world such as Lane Crawford, Le Bon Marché, Henri Bendel and Saks, her customers are coming back for more soon after having been showered in compliments for their first purchase. Fiona’s pieces have also been featured far and wide in the press, including The New York Times, VOGUE, Harpers Bazaar, ELLE, The Daily Telegraph, Grazia, Marie Claire, JC Report and many more.
New for AW11 Fiona has embarked on designing a men’s jewelry collection, which incorporates her signature hand beaded designs, with chains and hand casted metal shapes for a more edgy look.
The Temporium: these prints featuring festive collective nouns by Woop Studios are on sale at our pop-up shop The Temporium, open in London until 24 December.
Depicting motifs including herds of reindeer, drifts of snow or an aurora of polar bears, each print is numbered, signed, embossed and printed on pure cotton, acid free paper.
Here are some more details from Woop Studios:
Make Christmas truly special with woop studios’ magical collections
Unique Christmas gift ideas aplenty from graphic arts collective WOOP Studios: perfect for adults and children alike, animal and bird enthusiasts and lovers of the English language.
For Christmas 2011, Woop has created a charming series of limited edition prints based on festive collective nouns.
From ‘A Herd of Reindeer’ to ‘A Drift of Snow’ and ‘A Constellation of stars’ encompassing the full set of Zodiac signs. The prints are sure to make the holiday season – and beyond – sparkle.
Due to popular demand, Woop has also recently issued 2 posters – an A-Z of collective term and an A-Z of collective nouns found in the animal kingdom. A lovely educational and decorative gift to brighten up a children’s room or nursery – or any room in the house for all to enjoy.
WOOP Studios is a collective of four friends united by a love of graphic design, words, and images. Miraphora Mina, Eduardo Lima, Harriet Logan, and Mark Faulkner founded Woop Studios in 2010 to bring a unique and exciting angle to the fascinating world of collective nouns.
Their first initiative was to launch an online gallery of limited edition prints. A Zeal of Zebras is the latest step in their journey.
Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima have spent the last decade working together as graphic designers on the Harry Potter film franchise.
Harriet Logan is an award-winning photographer with extensive editorial and advertising experience. Mark Faulkner is the founder and head of innovation at Data Explorers and it is his obsession with collective nouns that inspired this project.
Dezeen presents The Temporium
65 Monmouth Street
Seven Dials, Covent Garden
London WC2H 9DG
Telephone:
020 7503 7319
Dates:
1-24 December 2011
Opening times:
Monday – Saturday: 11:00 – 19:00
Late-night shopping Thursday until 20:00
Sunday: 12:00 – 17:00
More info: www.thetemporium.com
The Temporium: spend 2012 joining the dots around some of London’s famous landmarks with this calendar by designer Dan Usiskin, on sale now at our Christmas pop-up store The Temporium. We’re also giving them away free with the first five purchases today so hurry down!
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The Dot to Date Calendar contains an image for every month of the year, plus a few extras just for fun.
You can reveal the patterns by joining the dots one day at a time using colouring pens, a needle and thread or a pair of scissors.
See more stories about calendars on Dezeen here and more stories about The Temporium here.
Here’s some more information from Usiskin:
Calendars are often pretty mundane things so we’ve combined it with one of our favourite childhood activities, dot to dot.
Dot each day to the next however you like, with whatever you like, a pen; pencil; needle and thread.
Each completed card reveals a London landmark. Every pack contains twelve Dot to Date cards (one for each month) and a couple of extras thrown in for good measure.
It’s a fun calendar that plays with the rituals and patterns we have in our adult life by contrasting them with the childhood activity of dot-to-dot. The format provides a framework to be used and customised, coloured and scribbled on.
As time goes on it becomes a more emotive, personal and unique object, taking on the personality of the user, becoming more valuable in the process.
It’s British made, 100% recyclable product that was dreamt up and produced from an attic in north London and it’s a perfect giftware item for boys, girls, men, women and doodlers of all ages.
Dezeen presents The Temporium
65 Monmouth Street
Seven Dials, Covent Garden
London WC2H 9DG
Telephone:
020 7503 7319
Dates:
1-24 December 2011
Opening times:
Monday – Saturday: 11:00 – 19:00
Late-night shopping Thursday until 20:00
Sunday: 12:00 – 17:00
More info: www.thetemporium.com
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