Event

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EVENT DETAILS
Exhibition
12 May 2025 - 15 May 2025, 09:30 - 18:00
16 May 2025, 09:30 - 17:00
17 May 2025, 10:00 - 16:00
Demonstration
14 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
VENUE INFORMATION
Soane Britain
50–52 Pimlico Road
SW1W 8LP
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Soane Britain launches a limited-edition collection of wall lights in collaboration with the London-based Japanese artist Kuniko Maeda. The lights are loosely inspired by Karl Blossfeldt’s precise botanical photographs, working with paper from one of the last handmade paper makers in Britain, The Paper Foundation, based in the Lake District.
The delicate shades of the ‘Mallow’ and ‘Dragon Head’ wall lights incorporate the traditional Japanese technique of kakishibu, painted with the dye from unripe persimmons. This mellow, amber-coloured pigment is carefully applied by hand to add rigidity to the paper’s natural fibres and will age and fade beautifully over time, enhancing the inherent beauty of the paper.
Soane is proud to champion British crafts, celebrating the enthusiasm and pride in workmanship shared by all its makers. Transparent making processes are central to Soane’s ethos, demanding first-hand knowledge of every craftsperson with whom it collaborates, to ensure that traditional, often endangered craft skills — like the critically endangered craft of making paper by hand — survive into the next generation.
Visit Soane’s Pimlico Road showroom to trace Kuniko’s sculptural paper wall lights back to their origins, from the making of the material from which they are made by The Paper Foundation to the painstaking techniques used by Kuniko to create their unfurling forms.
Date: 20th Jan- 23rd March 2025Venue: Selfridges, London
Meet Kuniko @ One-day residency Date: 23rd Jan & 2nd March 2025Venue: Selfridges Lower Ground Floor
House of Bandits has officially taken over Selfridges and Kuniko's artwork and jewellery collections are now available at the prestigious department store until 23r March 2025.


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Madrid Design Festival
Collaboration with Mazda
Date: 8th Feb- 3rd March 2024
Venue: Palacio de Santa Barbara, Madrid, Spain
Collaboration withMazda Automóviles España, S.A.
Moderne Art Fair
Galerie A Tempera
Date: 19th - 22th October 2023
Venue: Avenue des Champs-ÉlyséeParis, France
Gellery: Galerie A Tempera
Stand 240
As a 20th century modern, contemporary art and design fair, Moderne Art Fair is THE Parisian highlight of the French and international artistic scene.
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Révélations
International Biennial of Crafts and Creation
Date: 7th - 11th June 2023Venue: Grand Palais Éphémère Paris, France Held every two years, Révélations is the not-to-be-missed event that celebrates French and international creation. Conceived and created by Ateliers d'Art de France, a professional organisation representing the 281 French fine crafts, the biennial is the major economic event of the sector. The stage for countless meetings, Révélations brings together the creation market’s professionals and fine crafts aficionados around unprecedented works and exceptional expertise.
Date: 9th - 12th May
Location: Ferigoni UK 67 Clerkenwell Rd, London
EC1R 5BL
No reservation required

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Photographed by Sibell Barrowclough