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welovekaoru now available at stunning Notting Hill boutique, Wolf & Badger

Paris concept store ARTYDANDY will be holding an event on Nov 26th to celebrate the launch of their new collection of unique pieces including our gorgeous ABC range of mugs. If you’re in Paris, head over to St Germain and check it out!

ARTYDANDY, 1, rue de Furstemberg Paris 6

Tel 01 43 54 00 36

www.artydandy.com

Fashion designer Luella Bartley has chosen our special Love.Hate design for Liberty in her ultimate Liberty Christmas wish list:

All products are available to purchase online with free shipping to all UK addresses. (Secure payment via Paypal - you don’t need an account, you can pay by card)

However if you would like to see the items in person, they are available at the following stores:

(Please note that only Luna & Curious stock the complete range of products, other stores may only hold a selection.)

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LUNA & CURIOUS, 198 Brick Lane, London (Open Wed - Sun, 12-6pm)

LIBERTY, Great Marlborough Street, London

DESIGNERS GUILD, Kings Road, London

PAPERCHASE, Tottenham Court Road, London

TEA PALACE, Covent Garden, London

WOLF & BADGER, Ledbury Road, Notting Hill, London

MRS JONES, Holt, Norfolk

ARTYDANDY, Paris

Rock Paper Scissors, Franklin, USA

Our collective Brick Lane boutique, Luna & Curious hosted a decadent banquet display during the London Design Festival to showcase our Beastie Banquet range of tableware - a recent collaboration with our neighbour, ad agency Wieden + Kennedy.

This is the Love Hate design created for Liberty last month. Showcased at the ‘Britain Can (Still) Make It’ exhibition held on the 4th floor of Liberty store in London to celebrate London’s Design Festival.

The Love Hate range was inspired by the 1955 film The Night of the Hunter in which Robert Mitchum plays Rev Harry Powell who has the letters L-O-V-E and H-A-T-E tattooed across his knuckles.

The right side of the teapot and tea cup are decorated with symbols of love whilst the left side features motifs depicting hate or evil. The struggle between Good and Evil continues over a cup of afternoon tea…

Thank you to everyone who visited our stand at 100% Design. It was a smashing show - we even ran out of press packs by lunchtime, the opening day!

We look forward to seeing you again soon.

One day to go… 100% Design, Earls Court London starts tomorrow. Our stand is starting to look really fresh!

Don’t miss us - Stand J87 in 100% Futures.

Sneak preview of Beastie Banquet ware at Luna & Curious

Designers Polly George & welovekaoru of London’s Brick Lane boutique, Luna & Curious in partnership with fellow neighbour and advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy present a sneak preview of their new collaborative product: The Beastie Banquet

The opulent Renaissance banquet had a sense of occasion and ceremony. The setting of the table was a means of creative expression. Painters used it as subjects for their art. The way food was presented kept us in touch with where it came from.

This visceral range of tableware has been designed to re-engage diners with the food they eat, creating a rich social dining experience.

Definitely not suitable for vegetarians

View the preview collection at Luna & Curious, 198 Brick Lane, London E1 6SA. On show from 19^th – 27^th September 2009.

Liberty Exhibition for LDF

Exclusive new designs created by welovekaoru especially for this exhibition.

Britain Can [Still] Make It Exhibition at Liberty
19th - 27th September 2009

As part of the London Design Festival Liberty will host Britian Can [still] Make It, a unique exhibition made up entirely of UK designed and produced furniture, lighting, ceramics and textiles.

The week long exhibition will be curated by David Nicholls, Design Editor of the Telegraph Magazine in associate with Michelle Alger, Liberty’s home and furniture buyer. The event draws inspiration from a 1964 show, ‘Britian Can Make It’ hosted by the V&A after the War to demonstrate advances in the British design industry. Over forty years later Liberty is here to prove that Britain can STILL make it, with a celebration of both traditional and completely new British craftsmanship.

This exciting exhibition will present a mix of established and burgeoning designers from the world of furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles and metal - all of whom produce their work in the UK.