Thank you to everyone who took part and congratulations to our North Star Competition 2020 winners! Following our online North Star Competition we are pleased to announce that this year’s...
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Curator John Andrew reflects on how he became a collector. It all started with half-a-crown – and an Irish one at that! It is now the largest collection of post-Word...
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The Milestone Group is at the forefront of the food & drink scene in Sheffield, with their flagship gastropub in historic Kelham Island, two fabulous craft beer & pizza restaurants,...
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“Other people like looking in clothes shops, I like looking in ironmongers’!” - Jean Scott-Moncrieff Contemporary jeweller and designer Jean Scott-Moncrieff warns me that she can be an unusual holiday...
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In their secluded workshop, hidden in the beautiful mountains of the Belgian Ardennes, father and son team Rob and Jaap Thalen, otherwise known as Thalen & Thalen, specialise in making...
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Brocco Kitchen is an all-day neighbourhood restaurant in the heart of social Sheffield. With a mantra of eating well, this urban kitchen opened as part of Brocco on the Park...
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In his 1830 sonnet dedicated to Chatsworth, the poet Wordsworth observed what he called the ‘strange contrast’ of the stately house with its surroundings in the ‘wild Peak’. He was...
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Alexandra Raphael’s recent “Lace” plique-á-jour bowl, bought by the V&A Museum at Collect 2019, is the perfect example of her jaw-dropping dedication to technical excellence. The conversation oscillates between the...
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“Now I either engrave or carve nearly everything I make, to the point that I sometimes make a piece just to have something on which to do some engraving.” -...
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Argex understands that part of today’s fascination with craft skills is born out of the transformation of raw materials into beautiful finished objects. Behind every wooden chair and every ceramic...
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