T HE S HOP F LOOR P ROJECT Autumn & Winter 2024
A FEAST OF CROWNS Ditch those paper party hats and upgrade to our Pop Out Crowns. The new designs are inspired by the opulence and extravagance of the festive Tudor Table, complete with sugar swans, peacock feathers, pomegranates and scallop shells. All our paper goods are carbon neutral printed in England and, if looked after, designed to last many Christmases.
£42 for a set of four Pop Out Crowns
The Sugar Swan Crown (With cuts in the feathers to allow them to ‘open’)
The Peacock Feather Crown (A stylised peacock feather motif studded with turquoise stones)
A FEAST OF CROWNS
Inspired by the great festive Tudor featss that lasted the whole twleve days of Chrstmas A crown of scallop shells, pomegramtes, peacock feathers and swan All the items that guests could find on a tudor table. Upgrade your party hats to these rbust card crons which are carbon neutural rinted in England and esigned to last many seasosn if kept as carefully as the crown jewels!
The Shell Crown (With two scallop shells that slot in behind the front one creating a three-dimensional life-like shell effect.)
The Pomegranate Crown (Covered in jewel-like pomegranate seeds, with an extra central band creating a sceptre-like crown)
TIN DECORATIONS Eight new exciting designs have been added to our extremely popular and ever growing collection of Tin Decorations. Designed in-house, the decorations begin life as pencil drawings inspired by characters seen in early English churches, 17th century shell grottos and folk-art. We then develop these sketches into the final tin decorations with our team of skilled artisans in Mexico, where tin decorations have been made since the 16th century.
THOU SHALL HAVE A FISHY The new Sardine tin decoration is inspired by 17th century Dutch still life painting and tables laden with glistening gutted fish. Hung up like sardines in the smoke-house, these double sided ‘gutted sardines’ have a gold interior which shines out and casts a warm glow as they turn.
Sardine, £28 each
SILVER SARDINES Inspired by the great festive Tudor featss that lasted the whole twleve days of Chrstmas A crown of shells, pomegramtes,
KING CRAB The King Crab is a an incredible new design with the top of the shell lifting to reveal a gold interior. Hang on a tree, in a window or a mantelpiece, or even place then on the table. King Crab £45 each
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THE SPARKLING SEA Tin Decorations inspired by Shell Grottos for your tree or table
A crowned Sea Horse joins the collection, £24
Folded mussel shell (blue interior), £26
Folded Scallop Shell (gold interior), £42
I saw three ships come sailing by on Christmas day in the morning
NEW! A mediaeval inspired Neptune joins the Siren, shells and Sailing boat in the sea-themed tin decorations.
Neptune £38, Siren £32, Sailing Ship £24
THE FULL MENAGERIE in England and esigned to last many seasosn if kept as The Full Menagerie Explore the full collection of Tin Decorations
NEW! A trumpet playing, gold slippered Cherub has flown down from the rafters to delight us all, £22
A pair of facing Trumpet Angels £58 (for two),
Shooting Star £18 Golden Pear £18
Ruby Crown £22
NEW! A Crowned Dove £24, Dancing Bear £28 and Heart Face £24 all join the tin tapestry this year!
Pomegranate Monkey £26
Pink Angel £32, Crowned Cat £26, Stag £28 and Frog Prince £26
Sun Face £22, Owl £22, Squirrel £22, Hedgehog £18
Gold winged Angel £32 Golden Goose £ 22
ANGEL DELIGHT
A theme running through the Christmas collections this year is the Festive Table and this collection of Jelly Mould candle holders commissioned from Amelia Tuttiett are the perfect adornment. Inspired by tiered Regency deserts of moulded jellies, ices, sugar work and blancmange, these ceramic versions delight in the wobbliness and pastel colours of their edible counterparts.
Amelia Tuttiett is currently working her way through a table full of designs, all inspired by the illustrated Regency dessert cookbooks.
THE MINIATURIST The most charming set of pop out cardboard decorations featuring the work of paper-cut artist Sarah Battle. Printed on both sides, there couldn’t be anything more lovely than a tree covered in these decorations, or a garland made to hang across a window or mantelpiece.
Inspired by the antique cardboard Dresden ornaments which take their name from the Dresden-Leipzig area from which they were made, these little cardboard creations, made between 1880 and 1910 came in a seemingly endless variety of shapes: suns, moons, fish, every imaginable animal, miniature sail boats and ocean liners, an entire orchestra of musical instruments, sleighs, coaches pulled by horses with tiny coachmen.
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS
Various decorations are popped out of each set to create an eclectic collection including; a beehive, fish, pudding, fancy shoes, a Delft tile, caged bird, white cat, elephant on wheels and more. Printed with a carbon neutral promise in England these decorations, if well looked after, are designed to last for many Christmases.
Pop Out Decorations in collaboration with paper cut artist Sarah Battle Each set comes with 24 decorations to pop out and hang
HANG ON THE TREE
PAPER C
THE FESTIVE TABLE
CHAINS
Each one of the Paper Chain kits makes 10 metres of chain.
Choose from designs such as the Biscuit Makers, Cathedral Ceiling and Old Flags. £14 per pack
UNDER THE TREE Objects to gift & treasure
By the celebrated South African female co-operative Monkeybiz, this spectacular seated Cheetah sculpture is entirely made from beads - one for the art collector, £875
Tailor’s Trade Plate by Carlo Briscoe, £255
Prince of Wales Plate by Michaela Gall £355
Left: hand painted Tapestry Tiles by Charlotte Salt £85 each Above: Quilt of Cleaning cushion by Sarah Battle £85
Clockwise from above: Snowdrops , limited edition print by Denise Allan £75; Oval Face Plate by Charlotte Salt £280; Tulip Harvest Bowl £495; Cyanotype Quilt by Emma Carlow; Harvest Jug by Christina Serra Delmar £595; Wolf Woman Puppet Kit £38
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November! A spectacular new cushion range in collaboration with paper cut artist Sarah Battle. The latest addition is the large Firework Flotilla cushion (above), £125
We’ve worked with our textile printing workshop in Staffordshire to translate Sarah Battle’s paper-cuts into a beautiful and joyous collection of cushions. Printed onto an organic cotton, with a tight weave to give it a lovely silk-like feel, the cushions are backed and piped with a deep inky black, that is taken from Sarah’s backgrounds.
£85 each
AUTUMN & WINTER COLLECTIONS
ANIMAL CODE A bestiary is a compendium of beasts originating in the 6th century, and were made popular in the Middle Ages through illustrated volumes that described various animals and elements of the natural world, often accompanied by moral lessons. Artist and historical sleuth Emma Carlow has been researching an unusual example in the Bodleian Library Oxford, dating from the 13th century by troubadour, poet and surgeon Richard de Fournival. Fournival’s Bestiary of Love is not a traditional bestiary. Instead of using animal characteristics to illustrate a moral or allegorical teaching, he uses the animals to plead his case to an unnamed lady who he claims to love, but who does not love him in return. Inspired by the mysterious and symbolic use of animals and plant motifs to express thoughts and emotions, Emma Carlow has created two collections; a series of textile cyanotype prints which form pictorial stories and a collection of ceramic candle holders inspired by the illustrations in the Bestiary of Love.
Emma Carlow has created a collection of handmade ceramic candle holders inspired by the 13 th century illuminated manuscript The Bestiary of Love by Richard de Fournival. Horses, hounds, hares, squirrels, lions and cockerels all feature.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Paper-cut artist Amanda White is celebrated for her collages of historical houses often belonging to writers or artists. Originally trained as a theatre designer, Amanda’s work continues to feel like a set design, drawing the viewer into the scene and exploring layer upon layer of minute detail. The new collection will feature the homes of Leonora Carrington, Virginia Woolf’s childhood home Talland House in Cornwall, Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage and more.
December | PAINTING PIETRA
A new collection of painted panels by Denise Allan will focus on the 17th century examples of pietra dura which can be found set within furniture, doors and fireplaces. Often described as ‘painting in stone’, the technique involves inlaying pieces of polished precious and semi-precious stones, and sometimes even shells, into a background of dark marble to create realistic textures and objects. Denise’s collection reaches further back before the technique was created to the work of the Renaissance painter and designer Jacopo Ligozzi (1547-1626) who influenced Florentine pietre dura workshops as the fashion for images with birds and flowers grew extensively in the first half of the 17th century. These panels by Denise Allan take the medium full circle from stone inlay back to paint. In her signature trompe l’oeil style she manages to beautifully create the same luminosity of the stone in paint.
January | WINTER ISLAND This January we take you on a tour around the snow-covered, misty island of Nantucket with resident artist Elizabeth Sutherland. With over one-hundred small watercolour paintings, the artist documents life on this coastal isle made famous by Moby Dick. Elizabeth’s work is so atmospheric that the sound of a foghorn and a single bird’s cry can almost be heard as we look at the paintings of old cottages, birds, seaweed, shells and all manner of island life during the winter months.
February - FOLK TALES Edith Morris is an exciting artist based in the south west of England. Her work spans several different mediums including set and costume design (creating work for the V&A Museum and the Royal Court Theatre), experimental film, animation and ceramics. The unifying factor across all these mediums is her love of folklore and traditional crafts.
For this exclusive collection for The Shop Floor Project, Edith is creating a collection of tiles and plaques inspired by folklore costumes and customs. Glazed in white they will reference the ancient craft of pargetting; a decorative plaster technique applied to exterior buildings, particularly common in Norfolk and Suffolk and often depicting folk scenes.
www.theshopfloorproject.com
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