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Sitting Pretty - delighted that Vista by Glasgow designer Rekha Maker is summering at @TheBotanics Edinburgh. First seen at Mount Stuart on Bute, as one of our bench commissions, Vista is made of marblised Jesmonite & is a beauty - place take a seat!
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With #AshRise now in full swing, we're delighted to share our Open Call to makers, craftspeople, designers, artists & architects to propose a design for an exceptional object made from Scottish ash.
Full info, please share: scottishfurnituremakers.org.…
#AshDieback #PlantHealthWeek
Brilliant visit to Botanic Garden @dundeeuni to talk drinking fountains with @KevinFrediani & Simon Harlow of Mirrl, maker of fountains. Next year we'll install Mirrl's Dixon fountain in the Gardens, its colourway inspired by rhubarb! #scottishwater #lessplastic #dundee
Brilliant @Demetrius_Art talking Scottish New Town Art & Sculpture for @C20Society. Interesting to hear how the towns of Irvine, Glenrothes, Cumbernauld, East Kilbride & Livingston invited artists to make site-specific work in the 60 & 70s. Here's Harding with Henge Glenrothes.
Brilliant to read this . . go see the show @VADundee if you can . . also featuring our Dixon drinking fountain, designed & fabricated by Mirrl of Glasgow . . inspired by the need reduce single-use plastic bottles. theguardian.com/artanddesign…
Thrilled that the K-Briq, a brick developed & made in Scotland is the public vote winner of @dezeen sustainable design of the year. DES showed the brilliant K-Briq earlier this year in our Design for Our Times @VADundee dezeen.com/awards/2022/publi…
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Our vacuum press has been bringing to life one of the successful designs in a competition run by @designscot. Designed by Chris Dobson, @3_D_Reid, it is using homegrown Scottish Douglas Fir to make a unique bench from #CLT. bit.ly/3A73YiF
Great coverage of our park benches @MS_VisualArts - you can take a seat until 15 October at Mount Stuart on the Isle of #bute !
|@Sunday_Post this week, my column focuses on Sitting Pretty, brainchild of @designscot's Susanna Beaumont. This inspired idea sees designers transform humble park benches into art forms at Bute's @mountstuart. My P.S. is a gristly affair @NtlMuseumsScot sundaypost.com/fp/sitting-pr…
Edinburgh’s Category A listed Scottish Widows HQ by Basil Spence – under threat c20society.org.uk/news/devel…
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Tomorrow is set up day for the @BuiltFife @fifecollege end of year exhibition. It’s been two years since we tackled this but it’s exciting, exhausting but worth every minute of effort when we see the pride in the faces of the students loved ones. We would love to see you there!
JOIN US this Weds 15th online for MAKING LOCAL with
@thisismakeworks Scotland & Glasgow design practice Future Practice to talk creative collaborations, making & manufacturing & their exhibition design for Design for Our Times @VADunde - 6.30pm & free. Lively chat for all!
A brilliant evening of celebration & conversation!
@VADundee @designscot what a brilliant sustainable products event on Thursday afternoon. Real insight chatting with the designers, all @DundeeDA @kirstymacari enjoyed it greatly! Thanks for the opportunity
Join us tomorrow Thurs from 3 - 5pm @VADundee & meet the designers showing their work in our exhibition celebrating contemporary design ingenuity & innovation, Design for Our Times. Free - all welcome!
Brilliant . . Lesley Lokko curator of Venice Biennale Architecture 2023 announces her programme. Founder of African Futures Institute, Lesley was born in Dundee & divides her time between Scotland, Ghana & now Venice! labiennale.org/en/news/bienn…
Date for the diary - Thurs 26 May 6.30 online! Lively chat with @thisismakeworks & Glasgow design practice, Future Practical about their @VADundee plinth commission for Design for Our Times & how it inspired collaboration with manufacturers in Arbroath & Glasgow.
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Beautiful, reflective piece by @SuzanneEwing_ for @designscot on the fabulous, recently opened Burrell Collection refurbishment by @JohnMcAslan architects, design team and contractor @kiergroup for @GlasgowMuseums designexhibitionscotland.co.…
