Selfridges has partnered with London Craft Week on a RESELFRIDGES pop up, highlighting makers and innovators using creativity and craftsmanship to repurpose, reuse and repair unwanted items and waste materials.
The pop up will take place 13 – 19 May, hosted in the new permanent RESELFRIDGES destination in the Accessories Hall of the Oxford Street store, where customers will be able to choose from a curated edit of unique pieces and see demonstrations of specialist craft techniques and innovative new ways of making.
The shoppable edit spans fine jewellery and accessories to homeware and cutting-edge contemporary design, all created using unwanted garments or waste materials, and will sit alongside the edit of RESELFRIDGES secondhand accessories.
Highlights include: blankets by Celia Pym, an artist whose work explores damage and repair in textiles, produced in collaboration with Waste Yarn Project; fine jewellery pieces by Anabela Chan, created from lab-grown stones and waste aluminium cans; garments created by graduates of the Chanel and King’s Foundation Metiers d’Art Fellowship, who have applied their specialist training in embroidery and embellishment to create eight unique designs on upcycled Turnbull & Asser shirts; as well as a number of homeware and design pieces including new launches from Blast Studio, who put nature and technology in dialogue to transform cities’ waste into artefact and architecture.
The pop up runs 13 – 19 May in the Accessories Hall, Selfridges London.
Please find an edit of space imagery here and artworks here
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About London Craft Week
In 2024, London Craft Week will mark its tenth anniversary, which it plans to celebrate with its most ambitious programme yet.
Now in its tenth year, LCW welcomes more than 225,000 visitors annually, creating a significant platform to celebrate excellence in craftsmanship, design and creativity. The festival presents a vibrant programme that spotlights elite craftsmanship and locates it in iconic heritage and contemporary galleries and brands as well as independent makers. The event creates an opportunity for consumers to understand the full context in which beautiful and special objects are made, to meet the creators and see their remarkable skills and creativity up close.
Over the last decade there has been an undeniable boom in craftsmanship across art and design sectors. Our milestone festival takes the opportunity to celebrate the pioneers of this renaissance of craft while also looking to the future – championing the makers and innovators shaping the next ten years.
Click here to view the programme online
About the makers
Allday Goods
Allday Goods is a kitchen knife company taking plastic waste destined for landfill and repurposing it into a product that lasts for life. Allday’s mission is to raise awareness and rethink our relationship with waste.
Ciara Bowles
Ciara Bowles, a London native, crafts vibrant, detailed jewellery inspired by the collision of diverse cultures and medieval history in her home town. She blends colour and ancient techniques to create timeless pieces, emphasising ethical production and craftsmanship using reclaimed and recycled materials.
Celia Pym x Waste Yarn Project
WYP PYM, is a collaboration between Siri Johansen co-founder of Waste Yarn Project and textile artist Celia Pym. Friends since studying together, as WYP PYM they explore their core interests in designing and making with playfulness, being resourceful with materials and working with care. They make one of a kind knitted and embroidered blankets, hats and scarves.
Anabela Chan
Anabela Chan is the first fine jewellery brand in the world to champion laboratory-grown and created gemstones with high jewellery design, artisanal craftsmanship and a focus on ethical and sustainable innovations.
Tessa Silva
Tessa Silva is a British-Brazilian artist, with an interest in the impact of materials on society and what they can reveal anthropologically. Her focal body of work is a study into the use of milk proteins as a material for the handcrafted production of fine objects. Tessa’s research and exploration prompts the inspection of our material culture, using craft as a tool to explore the female mammals’ role in a patriarchal social and cultural structure.
Emily Frances Barrett
Emily Frances Barrett is a multidisciplinary artist and jeweller based in London. Working with found materials she creates sculpture, objects and wearable art by incorporating lost and discarded treasures, whose scars serve as windows into the past.
Blast Studio
Blast Studio is a London based design studio transforming discarded coffee cups into impactful sustainable furniture & interiors thanks to 3d printing technology. In 2022, they were finalists of the Loewe Craft Prize and exhibited their work at the Design Museum and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs of Paris.
The Kings Foundation
The King’s Foundation at Highgrove deliver a collection of training programmes in heritage and craft skills. These shirts, handmade in England, have been kindly donated by Turnbull and Asser and then embroidered by graduates of The King’s Foundation at Highgrove. Each shirt is customised to reflect the embroiderers design signature and technical skill in embroidery.
Lucie Gledhill
Lucie uses recycled metals for all her collections and practices a slow and sustainable approach to making. Lucie’s work is rooted in traditional hand skills celebrating material relationships within her practice as a chainmaker.
