Prét â Acheter

Well, the NEW Lush Designs shop at 8 College approach in Greenwich is up and running.

To tell you the truth we're absolutely ZORSTED. Not so much so that we can't sell you a satanic tea-towel.

This Hell's Kitchen tea towel would make an excellent halloween gift for a maiden aunt.

Old shop - new shop

Here's our olde shoppe.

Mighty purty, huh?

And here's our NEW shop. Find us at 8 College approach, Greenwich as of next week.
These walls are painted a colour called "pigeon"; which is entirely appropriate given the prevalence locally of this avian vermin.

Needs a bit of work.

CUSHION PREVIEW

Is your bum tired of the same old cushion?
Is your settee too cornery?
Have you got a stain on your armchair?

Solve these and almost all other problems with a cat cushion.

Its generously proportioned and in a tasteful shade of blue-grey
Available from www.lushlampshades.co.uk from October 17th

Gay Paris - Maison & Objet

Was ever there anything so glamorous and elegant as Paris?

Why, here is one of us (Marie) at Maison et Objet,

Quel sophistication.

See the tasteful 'objets' she found within this fabulous emporium of commerce.

But once again, that pushy madam Helen Minns managed to out-do us. It was she who got in with the in-crowd and secured a private audience with this exciting snowman - we couldn't get a look-in.

Chic, non?

Four of your five-a-day, vegetable napkins

Man, Its been LOOOONG since we blogged.

Thats the trouble with being busy and important.

Never mind - here's a lovely new Lush Designs product that would be a suitable accompaniment for any 'Master-Chef-The-Professionals' type meal, (they were cooking duck and cherries and REALLY nice-looking spuds tonight on BBC2)

Lovely cotton napkins!

Hey, these would even posh up Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie and processed peas.

Think what a lovely self-gifted Christmas present they would make. Available from www.lushlampshades.com later this month.

Dungong

This noble creature features in The Intrepid Dumpling's Dugong Story in the Just When Stories.

See its sensitive countenance. Its alabaster smoothness. Its poignant flippers.

I'll admit its a fanciful interpretation in response to the story which features a Troll Queen amongst other characters.

What a terrible shame they're an endangered species.

Lush Designs at Top Drawer

Observe this skilled product-tweaking.




A couple of times a year Lush Designs takes a stand at a Trade show. This is where we show our new designs to trade buyers and meet the people who buy for hundreds of retail outlets from grand palaces of designs such as the exquisite department store Liberty , to wonderful little jewel-like shops like Frank in Whitstable



Here stands Helen Minns who is a close personal friend of ours and whose studio is within waving/whistling/chortling distance of ours. We contrived to have our stands side by side at Top Drawer - but CURSES! That Pesky Helen Minns created a stand of elegance and subtlety and her delicious etchings and lineny lovliness made us BOIL with JEALOUSY!!!!

There was only one thing for it ...



sabotage!
Unfortunately I was caught on camera.
Helen was found herself compelled to react with a tit-for-tat stanley knife revenge incident attempt.