This is a great picture from Gabriele in Germany showing us her latest collection from our shop in London. Gabriele has used the golden abochhini silk embroidered shawl (featured in our last post) and scattered our vintage Gujarati cushions around her sofa in the living room. Each season Gabriele likes to change the look of her rooms, and this look beautifully reflects the changing colours of the leaves outside.
We love the new cover story for the latest (August 2010) edition of the World of Interiors. In this room (top left) the featured globe trotting collectors have put together a chest from Pakistan with modern tribal pots from Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco.
We have put together our own look, (top right) with a vintage Indian dowry chest, silk embroidered fabri from Pakistan, vintage tribal scatter cushions and a Moroccan style lantern. To complete the setting we have added exotic Moroccan Spice scented candles.
Dowry Chest – approximately 106 x 66 x 46 cm (price on application)
Golden silk embroidered shawl (abochhini) Sindh Pakistan £195
Tribal Scatter Cushions (Gujarat, India) Prices from £29
Lantern £125
Scented Pillar Candles ( Moroccan Spice) from £4.95
We have received our new collection of hairwraps in the shop, just in time for the summer holidays. Buy them now in our Camden Shop, or from our online shop for just £4 each
There are a section of five new stripey colours as seen below; stripey red, lilac, blue, green, and dark purple. We still also have stock of plain colours in turquoise and sunny yellow.
Today we have received the first batch of a completely new product range for Araucaria – 100% Organic Wax Candles scented with delicious essential oils! Completely free from petroleum based paraffin wax, animal or beeswax, clean burning, additive free and not tested on animals.
It’s going to be difficult to choose between Lavender & Sandalwood, Strawberry & Rose, Jasmine & Orange…
LockStock was great fun yesterday – click on the picture to see more shots of the night.
The first of this years free entry Camden Lock festivals kicks off tomorrow 24th June with acoustic music starting from 2pm in the afternoon. As the evening arrives it all gets revved up for five stages of great new sounds and talent with the addition of comedy and artwork. Our shop and the market will be open as usual, so drop in to see us between acts!
The Stages are as follows:
Camden Lock’s West Yard Stage
Bringing together a selection of amazing acoustic acts throughout the day from 2pm-8pm Performances from Jake Morley, The Blind Hearts, Annie Eve, Georgia Strand to name a few…
Dingwalls Main Stage
Headliners utterly intriguing Gloria Cycles – gloriously quirky songs oozing with wit and charm, meaningful lyrics and blissful melodies, which twist and turn throughout, accompanied by blustery guitars and upbeat basslines.
The Berettas – The young ladies are back once again and we welcome them to bring the magic to the show…
Sean Redmond with his Band – Promoting the debut album ‘It Was Obviously Wrong From The Start’, Sean sings huge anthemic pop songs with his band including strings and brass. The single ‘Shooting Stars’ features on the worldwide apple ipad campaign. Not to be missed.
Dublin band Reader’s Wives are Ireland’s fastest rising independent four piece with brash, festival friendly rock n’ roll tune, smart lyrics & a searing live show “like a loved up Joe Strummer fronting the Smiths” – Daily Mirror UK. The band have spent quite a bit of time back & forth between Ireland & the UK over the past year. This is not a set you want to miss.
The Guilty Ones – A special performance to open the stage, certainly a great act and one to watch for 2010
Market Bar Alternative Stage
Alt rock dance future blues from I AM AUSTIN – Mitch sings and drums while Adam plays the bass using between 15 to 20 pedals creating a weird kind of electro wizardry.
Local London lads The Craven Braves are in support bringing with them a bag of bouncy tunes.
Other performances come from The Pauper Kings, Benjamin Hayes, The Jespa Band, Catfish and the Bottlemen… Oh and MR ED WILDER of CLUB NME will be spinning some tunes…
Canalside Comedy Stage
A wonderfully eclectic mix of raw talent and established acts with special guest RUDI LICKWOOD, other performances include Rich Wilson, Jessica Fostekew, Prince Abi and many more…
Lockside Lounge
Live performances from Hobo Chic, Defunk’t plus others… BBQ and D.J.’s until the early hours.
We are back from India, after a long hot month toiling in the sun working on new collections! At one point we had to escape to Simla, famous hill station, capital city of Himachal Pradesh and summer capital of the British Raj in India.
Many new products are on their way – a beautiful collection of silver jewellery is already on display, and yesterday new colour range of hairwraps arrived in the shop in Camden Lock.
This morning a little bit of Bollywood spilt out of our shop and into Camden Lock Place, where a film crew had set up and were shooting a new Bollywood block-buster. It was, as is often the case, a little difficult to follow the plot, but the action involved a dancer twirling around a drummer whilst manoeuvring themselves through Camden Lock Market….
Meanwhile we are off to India ourseves this evening for a month long trip. Business as usual though in the shop at 4 Camden Lock Place.
This afternoon Call Me Animal (formally Freedom High) kicked off this year’s Camden Crawl playing an impromptu gig outside of our shop window in Camden Lock. Now one of the largest multi – venue music festival of its kind in Europe, there will be over 200 cutting edge live acts, plus super special guests turning Camden Town into the single greatest music event in the world this weekend.
Awww……the police came along and shut them down after only four songs 
The next time to catch them locally though is on 11th May when Call Me Animal are playing at the Proud Gallery, Stables Market.
