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Gok fashion Fix

We are super excited to have our products used on the set of Gok’s fashion Fix new series. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/goks-fashion-fix/articles/web-credits

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Shan Valla- Cockpit Arts summer open studios 2010

Summer 2010 Open Studios

The next Open Studios is fast approaching 11 – 13th June…..please come along its free and so many delights for you to find! www.cockpitarts.com

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Shan Valla. Collect at the Saatchi Gallery glass garden

COLLECT 2010

Shan Annabelle Valla has been selected to show her glass garden at ‘Collect’, the international art fair for contemporary objects at London’s Saatchi Gallery. 14-17th May 2010 Rubus Inspired by unseen beauty, Shan’s glass installation reinvents the hidden world of the undergrowth in a cluster of twisted and distorted branches. Woody stems with prickles and [...]

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Shan Valla on Culture Label

You can now find my products on Culture Label ‘The new high street, as imagined by the world’s best museums, galleries and artists’ CultureLabel.com is a one-stop-culture-shop, bringing you an edit of products currently available from over 70 leading museum shops, galleries, artists and culture institutions from around the world…..and you can now find me [...]

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Shan Valla- Mary Portas

Mary Portas Queen of Shops

We were very excited to be filmed with Mary Portas Queen of Shops, for the new BBC programme that relaunches a Kingston based interiors shop. The production teams organised a designer market for Mary to bring the shop owners to, so that they could source new products for their interiors shop.

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Shan Valla Half objects. Cavalierofinn

CAVALERIO FINN open house weekend

Shan showed her work for the first time with CAVALERIO FINN, a very sucessful weekend in December! Cavaliero Finn is not a conventional gallery or shop – its home-cum-gallery offers customers the chance to shop somewhere they can enjoy being and the opportunity to perhaps find something they will treasure for a very long time. [...]

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Shan Valla. Mint Christmas stems

Mint Christmas

For Christmas Mint Shop had a special collection of bespoke Stems that can be used as Christmas decorations. www.mintshop.co.uk

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Shan valla waddeston earring

Waddeston Manor

  Shan was commissioned to design and produce some products for the National Trust Shop at Waddeston Manor   Button Earrings, hand cast porcelain button earrings with silver backs.   ‘Thorn Vase’, a set of 3 vases to be used to hold flowers in a simple glass….adding elegance to the everyday.  

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Shan Valla Goldtop Milk bottle. GP Studio installation

GP Studio, Arch Window installation

The Interior Design studio Arch Window, which has a changing monthly installation, has 50 of Shan’s Milk bottles sprawling across the floor. Located in Southwark, please take a look if your in the area, the installation will be up for one month. www.gpstudio.uk.com

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Mint Escapes. The London Design Festival

Mint will showcase its intriguing and thought provoking Mint Escapes. The exhibition will present the escapists of contemporary design as our modern day storytellers who use the medium of design and craft as the interpretive voice of imagination. This project is in collaboration with Max fraser author of the Annual London Design Guide 2009, which [...]

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Shan Valla at Liberty. Britain Can [still] Make

As part of the London Design Festival, Liberty will be hosting Britain Can [still] Make It, a unique exhibition made up entirely of UK designed and produced furniture, lighting, ceramics and textiles. The exhibition, curated by David Nicholls, Design Editor of the Telegraph Magazine in association with Michelle Alger, Liberty’s home and furniture buyer, takes [...]

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