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Home-grown talent: Karen Morgan
We’ve always enjoyed sourcing unusual and unique pieces from all over the world – ones with an interesting story to tell, that will give their owners great pleasure for year after year. Now, with one...
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Home-grown talent: Louisa Taylor
Meet Louisa Taylor, the second of ten craftsmen and women from whom we’ve commissioned exclusive pieces for our Handcrafted in Britain selling exhibition and whose work is currently showcased at our...
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Home-grown talent:Laikingland
Founded by childhood best friends, Martin Smith and Nick Regan, Laikingland is the third company to be showcased in our Handcrafted in Britain selling exhibition – and a guaranteed antidote to grim...
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Home-grown talent: Barry Stedman
The latest work to be featured in our Handcrafted in Britain selling exhibition is by Barry Stedman, whose love of colour led him to a career change from shopkeeper to ceramicist. While running a...
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Home-grown talent: Joanna Gilmour
The fifth artist to be showcased in our Handcrafted in Britain selling exhibition is basket maker Joanna Gilmour whose dramatic career change was inspired by an exhibition about Native American basket...
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Handcrafted in Britain: Kaori Tatebayashi
Unlike the previous craftsmen and women showcased in our Handcrafted in Brtiain selling exhibition, we can’t claim ceramicist Kaori Tatebayashi as a ‘home-grown talent’. She has, however, made Britain...
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Home-grown talent:James & Tilla Waters
This month our Handcrafted in Britain selling exhibition shines its spotlight on ceramicists James and Tilla Waters, who live and work in Carmarthenshire, South West Wales. Their personal and...
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Home-grown talent: Stewart Hearn
These vibrantly coloured, limpid pools of glass are the work of Stewart Hearn, the subject of this month’s Handcrafted in Britain selling exhibition at our Chelsea store. Born and educated in the...
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Home-grown talent: Pauline Monkcom
Pauline Monkcom’s fascinating map plates are the focus of this month’s Handcrafted in Britain selling exhibition at our Chelsea store. London-born Pauline, now based in mid-Wales, has been a...
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The cambridge satchel company – a lesson in entrepreneurial spirit
January is traditionally a time when hordes of us turn our attentions to fulfilling those niggling life inadequacies that hide away somewhere in your subconscious until the New Year. For some, the...
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Crafty British Sale Buys
It is no secret that The Conran Shop covets finely tuned craftsmanship and well considered design. With the sale now on we have chosen the top sale buys from some of our favourite British designers...
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Exclusive designer Q&A: Josie Walter
British ceramicist Josie Walter talks pottery, design inspiration and tricks of the trade What kick-started your passion for pottery? In the early 1970s I had a job teaching in a secondary school where...
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Cake designer Peggy Porschen joins The Conran Kitchen
Photography: Georgia Glynn Smith In the cake world there are few names bigger than Peggy Porschen. As the queen of cakes and cookie decorating, she gets respectfully mobbed at cake shows by baking...
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Family matters: The Conran Shop furniture collections
Ever wondered how The Conran Shop name their furniture collections? It may come as a surprise to some that just as much care and attention to detail goes into naming furniture as the highly skilled...
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