Two trade shows coming up showcasing my latest Nick Munro products.
15th August – 19th August
New York Gift Show
Accent On Design
Booth 3631
3rd September – 7th September
Maison Et Objet Paris
Now! Design A Vivre
Hall 7, NI64-M164
Hope to see some of you followers there!
Just aired, ‘High Street Dreams’ with yours truly on BBC1 –
check it out on BBC iPlayer…
Everyone loves Bettys Tearooms right? None more so than me and I had a great day this month in the Bettys&Taylors ‘top secret’ tasting labs in lovely, leafy Harrogate, figuring out (with some proper expert help) which of their delicious and delightful tea and coffee blends suited my tea and coffee pots best. It was all sloshing and slurping and spitting but (I’m told) all in perfectly good taste and what fun?
My personal favourites turned out to be an exquisite, honey tinged Darjeeling tea which I could sip the whole day long, and a rich and smoky High Grown Colombian coffee which is perfect for my regular 11am cappuccino – if anyone out there has their own personal favourites then let me know…
Springtime in New York and here is the latest showroom presence at 41 Madison Avenue. For the second time in my life New York seems to be becoming my second home…I’m thinking life could be worse!?!
Somehow I managed to dodge the dustcloud on the way back to my first home, but only by the skin of my teeth i.e last seat on last plane out of JFK before the whole world came to a standstill?!?!
High Street Dreams! Coming to the telly soon is a new programme all about young entrepreneurs who want to get their creations into high street stores and…the BBC asked me to help them put it together (not to mention get in front of the camera myself).
It’s a long time since I showed at the New York Gift Fair but this month I was back in town, treading the boards (or rather the concrete!) at the Javits Centre, fending off the (typically freezing!!) February temperatures and looking up some old (and in some cases long lost) friends…oh, and we wrote some really cool orders too!
…and then on to China to oversee development of my new Perspex and steel collection! A big contrast from the madding crowds in Tokyo to the organised precision of the moulding factory, the whizzing of the machines in the tool shop and the smell of steel being cut and shaped – a labour of love for me and the shape of some truly cool things to come next year…
So…its November which must mean its Tokyo! How FAB and how inspiring!! The thing I love most is the attention to detail and the fact that everything is about QUALITY. I love the food, the people, the humour and the way it is all on the one hand so organised and other the other hand so chaotic. Also I love the fact that my ultimate design hero Christopher Dresser took his inspiration from Japanese design – I felt like I was treading ever so slightly in his footsteps…
October 13th and I’m in New York for a week to set up my first US showroom! The space a tad bigger than anticipated and the walls a bit bare, so nothing for it but to ‘go graffiti’! Fortunately the showroom managers seemed to approve (and the buyers and press loved it) so could be a new presentation theme – always fancied being a graffiti artist!
Next stop Tokyo / Hong Kong / China end November…
