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BUY DESIGNER MARKETPLACE
Port Street , Stirling
26th May 2007, 10am – 5pm, Free |
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| This delicious day of shopping brings you gorgeous works by the best designers in Stirling and Central Scotland. With products to suit all budgets, ranging from handmade jewellery, handbags and fashion accessories to wall prints, interior textiles, furniture and ceramics, you are sure to fall in love with at least one special something. Supporting your local design community never felt so good! |
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| Scroll down for more details on the designers who will be there. |
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 | Alicia MacInnes who trained in Barcelona, produces a collection of contemporary jewellery which is inspired by Spanish architecture and the Mediterranean culture. Fused glass jewellery, platters, tiles and panels delight the senses in vibrant colours. Her collection includes; bracelets, earrings, brooches and pendants. |
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| Incorporating semi-precious gemstones and freshwater pearls, with accents of gold, Angela Learoyd's silver jewellery has textures and patterns inspired by nature. Angela experiments with a variety of techniques, such as fold forming and roll printing to create one-off pieces and small themed collections. |  |
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 | Angus Ross offers a specialized service designing and making elegant contemporary furniture for the home, garden and public environment. Angus works with two highly skilled Scottish craftsmen at his historic studio/workshop in the centre of Aberfeldy, producing furniture made to order or in small limited editions. |
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| Pauline McCorry is a textile artist specialising in uniquely designed hand-made bags, cushions and wall hangings. Tactile, textured products are created from layering contrasting fabrics from printed cottons, tweeds and tartans to velvets, silks and vintage materials along with embellishment with beads, ribbons, sequins and feathers. |  |
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 | BoxArt is created from a range of collage, photography, hand drawn and computer illustration which is digitally printed and transferred to stretched canvas blocks. The work is an eclectic mix of 5o's and 70's style pattern and ornament with clean colourful illustration. The aim of BoxArt is to provide fun, affordable, original and easily accessible design pieces that will fit into the modern home.
Browse Box Art's collection online here |
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| Ceri White Studios produce a range of work including both ceramic giftware, tiles, bon-bon dishes, coasters and pot-stands for the home. Ceri has a range of designed collections. The Decorative collection includes stylised picture tiles depicting nostalgic domestic scenes, exotic towers and jellyfish. The Flora and Fauna collection uses flock wallpaper textures to produce contrasting silhouettes. In addition, Ceri offers a range of plain field tiles and abstract 'Paintbox' tiles which are brightly coloured with contrasting patterns of glaze and glass. |  |
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 | The inspiration for Closeknit springs from Jennifer Skedd's lifelong fascination with antique and vintage textiles. Jennifer's design ethos is driven by nostalgia for a time when textiles were precious and needle skills were essential. When even everyday household items would be intricately embroidered, neatly mended and patched or when irreparable, the fabric would be recycled and used to create another item. The most ancient of all textiles; felt, is combined with the essence of the fabrics Jennifer remember from childhood to create fashionable, fun accessories that are desired by all ages. |
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Donna Keay's work is inspired by historical jewellery, antique books and gold-tooled book-cover patterns, the theme of memory and archaeological finds.
Her 'print' collection combines hand-etched panels in simple shapes in oxidised or polished silver with gemstones, freshwater pearls and crystals.
Donna's 'line/outline' collection echoes the shapes of the 'print' collection and of historical jewellery in simple contemporary lines.
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 | The Eleanor Barron Collection specialises in the creation of handcrafted tiaras, jewellery and hair accessories for weddings and special occasions. The jewellery collection includes necklaces, earrings, bangles and unisex cufflinks. Using precious metals, freshwater pearls, crystals and feathers the collection of jewellery and hair ornaments are inspired by the changing seasons in nature and European architecture. |
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| Elin Isakkson Glass creates bespoke handcrafted sculptural and architectural glass for public and private clients along with an exclusive range of homewares. Elin's knowledge of Scandinavian and European glass-making techniques allows her to abstractly "recreate the beauty of the completely unspoiled pattern and forms of the natural world through molten glass infused with movement". |  |
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 | Through contemporary stitched jewellery, Emily Beckmann explores the process of making, and the practise of archiving. Using labour intensive techniques and non-precious materials, Emily seeks to elevate the status of found objects, in order to challenge conventional notions of preciousness. Emily will typically document the found objects that she uses, within the titles, or she will use selected pieces of broken crockery that she hand-stitches into lace. Each piece of jewellery is unique, and suggestive of multiple associations. |
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The concept behind Fabiia's Signature Collection is one of the Eastern theologies with a western influence. Each range is created an ideal that styles our way of living. The Collection is pulled together with the Fabiia's signature motif, allowing the ranges to be easily mixed, if desired. The ranges constitute The Nirvana, The Karma and The Utopia, featuring a range of coordinated cushions, throws and lampshades in 100% pure hand printed silks. The Palette used in this collection ranges from soft black, ash grey, soft saffron, pure silver, Ripe olive, and fresh nutmeg.
Browse Fabiia's collection online here |  |
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 | Global Guru designs unique graphic prints that are digitally printed onto specially created fashion and interior accessories, such as scarves for both men and women, women's capes and cushions. Print designs from their collection includes Japanese inspired prints entitled "Miso Muse", "Cherry b + me", "Butterfly" and "Tokyo", "Kyoto" and "Geisha Eyes" to name but a few.
Browse Global Guru's collection online here |
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| Hoop Hoop produce felt accessories with a funky retro signature style. Accessories include shopper style totes and handbags, such as "Gustav's Garden" and "Bootsy", neck purses and wallets, brooches, decorations and framed felt pictures. |  |
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 | INTO produces a collection of individually knitted lifestyle accessories, engineered to a unique aesthetic, infusing lucid patterns with elaborate decorative elements. The designs begin with graphic, pictorial jacquards or simplistic geometrics constructed from 100% lambswool yarn. These surface patterns, enhanced with vibrant colour palettes, are boiled to provide a stable structure suitable for handbags and hotties. The addition of organic embellishments grown from manipulative felting techniques help create eccentric egg cosies, woolly jewellery and irregular scarves. By exploring scale, traditional components become exaggerated. Scarves are skinny with large bobbles and beaded necklaces develop overstated proportions. Every piece is hand made ensuring that the finish is of the highest quality. The result is a unique and light-hearted creation exploring unusual knitted applications which help define the INTO signature style.
Browse INTO's collection online here |
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Working with mainly recycled and found objects, Jaine Marriott makes decorative and functional mosaics for both the house and garden. Materials such as broken ceramics, slate roof tiles, beads and buttons are transformed into new products. Stained glass and mirror give pieces translucent and reflective qualities.
Part of the Carnelian Contemporary Crafts Collective
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 | Jane MacAllistair designs unusual, thoughtful jewellery with surprising materials and concepts. The pieces are rare, unexpected finds, finely made and imagined into pretty and wearable products. Jane's diverse collection includes the ranges: Casino, Decadent Nostalgia, Known & Unknown Faces, British Countryside. |
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A unique and quirky range of ceramics treats brought to you by ceramist Cosima Sempill. "Most Kitty & Dude pieces have a 'tongue in cheek' appeal; I enjoy combining and contrasting ideas and focusing on designs that delight both aesthetic and intellectual senses. This outlook stems a personal interpretation of childhood pursuits teamed with a potent nod towards 1950's Pop Art and culture; I am keen to communicate with my consumer on several levels so they can get a kick out of the design. The majority of the collection is slip cast as I like the slick and certain approach that it gives to a design- it allows the piece to express itself and often leaves room for a clever quip." From ceramic Cup Cakes and Flying Pigs to Rubber Ducks and Russian Dolls, this entertaining range from Kitty & Dude is sure to delight.
Browse Kitty & Dudet's collection online here |  |
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 | Louise Carstairs produces silver jewellery, often with accents of gold in small limited edition ranges. Each piece is handmade and carefully finished. Her collections include neckpieces, rings, brooches, earrings, bangles and bracelets. Inspiration is found in the precious metals themselves and through experimenting with silversmithing techniques especially reticulation, oxidizing and roll printing. Louise also uses semi precious gemstones in her work and sometimes a piece is designed around a particular gemstone. |
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| Imprinted, silhouetted, embossed; Louloubelle is a contemporary collection of interior art for domestic and commercial interiors, portraying the popular theme of floral and fauna through a variety of original, inspirational techniques. The diverse colour-ways available represent the atmospheric moods of each season; from calming neutrals to summery brights, they depict a sense of natural simplicity. Hand rendered-images are combined with creative printmaking, fabric surface manipulation, printing, photography and computer aided design techniques. Striking cushion covers are made from hand painted or screen-printed fabric, created by the unique method of layering silk screens with flowers and ferns before exposure. The wide range of wall art available includes embossed and spray-painted pieces. Prints and boxed canvases are produced from photogram images that play with negative and positive. |  |
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 | Lynn Wilson's 'Awa wi the fairies' collection is a series of knitted textiles sculpted by single bed machine knitting structures in geelong lambswool and cashmere which are then felted and dyed as individual pieces, including bags, scarves, hats, cushions and throws. The collection label derives from the strong link with fairy folklore and The Trossachs.
In the village of Aberfoyle there is a place called fairy hill in which it is said the spirit of the Reverend Robert Kirk is trapped in a tree that sits by itself. He was spirited away by the fairies in the 17th century because he wrote and published a book which revealed all of their secrets. Around the tree are remnants of fabric of which people have left. The concept is that the fairies will spin garments from the threads and in exchange grant the wishes that have been written on the rags left for them.
The Awa wi the fairies collection is inspired by this particular place and story and the textures, colour and structures are inspired by the different changing colour and light of this magical place.
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| Marion Barclay's collections of contemporary anodised aluminium fashion jewellery are produced using innovative printing and colouring techniques. The unique ranges comprise of rich, vibrantly coloured pieces combined with lustrous hand-strung pearls and semi-precious stones. Layering, use of bold colours, intricate patterns and textures all combine to produce a variety of exciting and wearable pieces. Through layering the lightweight qualities of the metal can be exploited, allowing the pieces to vary greatly in scale. Exotic colours, intricate patterns and textures all combine to create fun and interesting collections featuring stud, drop and chandelier earrings, decadent pearl necklaces, cuffs, rings and brooches. |  |
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 | Siobhan Healy makes unique glass jewellery with intricate silver and gold details. These pieces are produced using handmade glass of the highest quality. She is interested in using details of plant anatomy in her work, which assume an abstract quality. She finds that the fragility of handmade glass and the subtle range of hues, lend themselves to creating flower petals and leaves. She has researched plants with medicinal properties and the folklore associated with herbal remedies. The intention is that the work will connect with people on a deeper level, to evoke distant memories and to conjure up reassuring feelings invoked by nature. |
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| Pumpkin Sputnik make beautiful hand-made paperback notebooks, journals and sketchbooks which have textured card covers, are filled with good quality cartridge paper and are bound and sewn together in the traditional way of binding with paper string. The covers are printed with designs which come from designer, Emma Wilson's photographs of trees and plants, which are manipulated in imaging software into elegant, sophisticated images. Emma is influenced by the contrasts and shapes found in nature, such as seed-heads in autumn, big graphic flowers in summer or tree blossoms in the spring. |  |
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 | Scotland & Dalgety produce quality wood furniture that retains the natural beauty and integrity of the wood, whilst also keeping function in mind. Traditional hand tooling methods are combined with modern machining methods in order to provide an excellent standard of workmanship. Our main aim is to keep designs simple and tactile with attention to detail the highest priority. Scotland & Dalgety produce a wide range of modern and traditional furniture and cabinetry, from a small piece of work to interiors, or restoration and construction of buildings. Working closely with their clients, every piece of furniture is individually designed and created to sit harmoniously within its environment. |
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Showpony produces printed textile products for the home and accessories market. Taking a unique approach to pattern and placement Showpony creates an unexpected narrative, to delight and intrigue. The 'hidden pattern' collection employs this trademark style for cushions, bags and accessories. This collection is screen printed by hand onto organic, fair-trade cotton demonstrating Showpony's commitment to using natural and sustainable materials wherever possible. Other collections include Hot Dogs; wheat bag warmers and the Vintage Shopper range of screen printed organic shopping bags.
Browse Showpony's collection online here |  |
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 | Ali Beck and Sarah Thomson have joined forces to be Thomson + Beck, producing handmade jewellery using only natural materials including sterling silver, semi-precious stones, glass and leather. Their collection includes rings, earrings and necklaces and pendants.
Part of the Carnelian Contemporary Crafts Collective
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| Yvonne Gilhooly sees her work as a journey from simplicity to complexity through the manipulation of form. Using traditional precious materials and handskills in a process of construction and repetition she creates contemporary studio jewellery with a sculptural presence in which elements fuse and develop beyond their original components into dynamic patterns. |  |
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