On your marks, get set, bodge! The Great Heal’s Bodging Race is under way and to finish our series we’re talking shop with designer’s Carl Clerkin and Sarah Kay. — Carl Clerkin Renowned for his off-the-wall interpretations of everyday objects, Carl Clerkin is a furniture and homewares designer based in London. Honing this craft from […]
Happening At Heal’s
Meet the Bodgers: William Warren & Gitta Gschwendtner
With the Great Heal’s Bodging Race about to kick off, we caught up with competitors Gitta Gschwendtner and William Warren to talk us through how they got involved with the project. — Gitta Gschwendtner Taking a “tailor made” approach to design, each of Gitta’s pieces is carefully researched with every solution an individual response to a projects […]
The Great Heal’s Bodging Race is back!
Now in its second year, to celebrate the launch of the Great Heal’s Bodging Race all this week we’re catching up with the competitors. Today it’s the turn of the bodging project founder Chris Eckersley, a multi-disciplined artist and designer whose ethos of ‘quiet design’ places emphasis on ‘good proportions’ to create furniture with longevity. To talk […]
Cheers to that! Relive our St Patrick’s Day party
What with it being St Patrick’s Day and all, we thought it was only appropriate to hold a little get together to celebrate the launch of Design Ireland as part of Heal’s Modern Craft Market. Bringing together the great and the good of design, it was an evening of DJs, demonstrations and drinks courtesy of […]
Visiting the “Design Island” with Alanna Gallagher
To celebrate St Patrick’s, plus the launch of Design Ireland at Heal’s, Alanna Gallagher of the Irish Time takes us through the country’s top creative and culinary delights. — Dublin: Design Hub Selected as World Design Hub 2015, Dublin has evolved into a creative hotbed in spite of tricky economic conditions. Founded to showcase the […]
Calling all creatives: win £20,000 courtesy of Cointreau
Whether you’re an artist, musician or culinary creative, make that dream project a reality with this £20,000 bursary from Cointreau. The Cointreau Creative Crew will see one entrepreneur awarded a £20,000 bursary to support their creative project, with our very-own Heal’s Buyer Pia Benham helping judge each of the entries. So, if you’re looking to get that next big design […]
Design Ireland launches at Heal’s
We’re flying the flag for Irish Design this month by teaming up with the Design & Crafts Council Ireland to curate a season of exclusive events. Part of Heal’s Modern Craft Market, this is the first group exhibition of Irish craft at the store since the world famous Kilkenny Design Workshops exhibited in 1967 and 1972. With thousands […]
How bazaar! See our display of vintage Middle Eastern rugs
Discover a design bazaar at Heal’s Tottenham Court Road store, with our beautiful new display of vintage Middle Eastern rugs. The renowned weavers of the Qashqai and Luri tribes in Western and South Western Iran have been making rugs for thousands of years. Inspired by the rural landscapes, plants and wildlife, designs are never committed to paper […]
The countdown’s begun: Heal’s Modern Craft Market 2016
Save the date, the Heal’s Modern Craft Market returns bigger and better than ever with an extended run from 7th March to 23rd April 2016. Celebrating the best in contemporary crafts, this season we’re providing a platform for the artisans of the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland, an extension to the Great Heal’s Bodging Race, […]
Win a night’s stay at Mondrian London at Sea Containers!
To celebrate the new exhibition Lee Miller: A Woman’s War, the Imperial War Museum have teamed up with the Mondian Hotel, London to offer an exclusive competition. Designed by Tom Dixon, the ultra-modern Mondrian is situated in the heart of London’s South Bank just a stone’s throw away from the Tate Modern and Royal Festival […]
Curator Hilary Roberts takes us behind Lee Miller’s lens
Model and muse Lee Miller is arguably one of the 20th century’s most influential photographers. Whether photographing Paris’s bohemian arts scene, shooting the latest fashions for Vogue, or documenting the horrors of war, her lens captured the surreal nature found within both everyday life and the most extraordinary of situations. Bringing together a number of […]
Sneak peek behind the scenes of our latest shoot
As our new collections for SS16 hit Heal’s stores, this week we took the opportunity to sit in on the latest designer dining shoot. While good design speaks for itself, where would we be without the interior experts who help style and shoot our collections? The unsung heroes of Heal’s, they are the ones who really help bring our beautiful designs […]