News

With the festival now within touching distance, we're very excited to announce our full programme of live music, talks, DJs, artist installations and more...

Seven Questions With

John Pawson’s architecture might be minimal but it is never cold. And when he recently decided he needed some blankets to take the chill off his family home in the Oxfordshire countryside, he thought about them not just in terms of warmth and material but with place and purpose in mind.

Audio

We return to the Listen Weekly series with edition #16 - aka the Blues. Having previously explored the colour orange through music, this time we're exploring the big BLUE...

Craft Collaboration

Last weekend we had the pleasure of collaborating with Harewood House to present Make It Harewood, our inaugural event together celebrating making and creativity over two days with a host of workshops, music and local food and drinks in their stunning grounds.

News

July has a veritable plethora of exciting exhibitions on show. With the opportunity to visit the moon (vicariously), see Keith Haring's activism in action and find new inspiration in the creativity of unknown artists this month's creative calendar has something for everyone.

Seven Questions With

With an exhibition celebrating their 20th anniversary and unique, often anarchic designs in the offing, Tatty Devine’s founders Rosie Wolfenden and Harriet Vine tell Hole & Corner how it all began.

News

An exhibition from Alan Clarke, Hole & Corner and Sfera.

Notes

When Ted Kessler launched a website about his – and everyone’s – dad, the stories kept coming...

Workshops and Events

We return to Port Eliot this July to present ‘Create Connect Craft’ in partnership with Princess Yachts – a whole area dedicated to workshops, creativity, learning and good times!

Audio

‘Tools! What are they good for?! Absolutely everything!’ Welcome to Listen Weekly #15…

My Hole & Corner

PATTERNITY is a conscious, creative organisation founded by global pattern pioneers, Anna Murray and Grace Winteringham in 2009. Underpinned by a core philosophy that ‘everything is connected.'

News

This June sees a varied and exciting range of exhibitions opening across the country. Here are six shows that encapsulate the variety of subjects, inspiration and artistry that continue to inspire us at Hole & Corner.

Audio

The rough and the smooth; the plain and the bold; the very special and the yesterday news; this week's music selection is an ode to 'paper'...

Long Reads

At Wildside, his Groundbreaking Devon garden, horticultural firebrand Keith Wiley manipulates what was once a flat field into undulating layers, creating extraordinary perspectives and new habitats for his plants

Long Reads

For Aboubakar Fofana, indigo dyeing is both art and technology: it is alchemy; a communion with God, or nature, or both. He doesn’t just make colour; he grows and nourishes the bacteria that creates it. Roll up for his magical mystery tour…

Seven Questions With

Sustainability, research and technology were pushed to their limits at this year’s COS installation at Milan Design Week...

Audio

Re-introducing the Listen Weekly playlist series for 2019. This week's tailor-made playlist from Hole & Corner HQ delves into the theme of stitching...

News

There’s so much to do and see during London Craft Week – a whole world of workshops, talks, physical experiences and glimpses into the possibilities of a more mindful, creative life. You will need to be strategic. Spend an evening perusing the programme and make sure you book as some of the places are limited.

My Hole & Corner

Castro Smith is an engraver who apprenticed at Rebus in Hatton Garden before travelling to Japan to hone his craft with metal-working master Kenji Io. He uses the ancient technique of seal engraving, incorporating European and Japanese processes to produce a cross-fertilisation of styles.

News

Inspired by their spring/summer collection (titled The Unknown Path) TOAST has gathered together some of its friends and collaborators to share their experience, knowledge and craft know-how.

News

In Praise of Indian Cinema’s Magical Theatre Houses...

News

Obsidian was the choice of material for Mexican architect and designer Frida Escobedo when commissioned by the 11th-generation tequila brand, Maestro DOBEL, to create a drinking vessel to showcase its range.

Long Reads

Sebastian Cox explains how he’s combining tradition with biotech futurism to create a homeware range out of mushrooms. ‘It’s very satisfying to email a customer and write, Thank you for your order, your product is now growing,’ he says…

Travel

For clothing designer Ashley Watson, a work trip to Skye with his vintage motorbike afforded an unexpected bonus – a visit to Carloway Mill on the Isle of Harris, home of one of the world’s most respected fabrics. It made me think, he says, how all too often I look for inspiration from far-flung places …

Long Reads

At Nymphenburg’s Munich headquarters, the fine line between art and craft is blended in a way that only the stillest of hands can achieve, armed with 300 years of acquired skill in porcelain manufacture – but always with the attitude of an open and enquiring mind. ‘You always have to learn,’ says master craftsman Anton Hörl…

Long Reads

Motivated by the need to keep traditional skills alive as new generations move on from their parents’ vocations, Christina Kim has built her own business into an internationally-respected brand – all thanks to a special talent: ‘I can see and mimic,’ she says…

Travel

With the Venice Biennale up and running once more (until 25 November 2019), we asked the people who know it best – the hoteliers, the art critics, the artists and most of all the curators – to open up their little black books for us…

Long Reads

Ben Short gave up an advertising job in London to become a charcoal burner and hedge-layer in Dorset. He isn’t a craftsman, he insists, more of a semi-skilled labourer devoted to The Old Way. ‘I didn’t know what I wanted to do,’ he says, ‘but I knew I wanted to be useful.’

Long Reads

A trained ballet dancer turned actor, advertising director and ceramicist, Stephanie Buttle has found a way to combine all of her previous vocations in the name of art. It’s all about brinkmanship, she says …

Long Reads

Felicity Irons is one of the last of the English rush weavers, keeping alive a craft that remains unchanged since Anglo Saxon times, using crops she harvests herself from a punt on the river Ouse. How did she learn this ancient art? ‘I taught myself from a book…’