Talking Shop – Design, lifestyle and inspiration

We are counting down the hours and minutes until this new exhibition at the Barbican, Bauhaus: Art as Life, opens on Thursday; can’t wait! Not only are there more than 400 exhibits, loaned from collections around the world, there’s an exhaustive and…

We are spoilt for choice this coming weekend, with two enticing events on offer: the inaugural Cheltenham Design Festival – in the elegant spa town best known, until now, for thoroughbreds, blue stockings and fine Regency buildings – and the London Original…

Whatever your views on the monarchy/Diamond Jubilee or the wisdom of London hosting the Olympics, it’s hard not to feel excited about the wealth of events celebrating all things British that have been spawned by these two events. The latest of these is the V&A’s…

Having made it (as a group) all of the way around the corner to the Design Museum recently to view the candidates for the Designs of the Year 2012 awards – and subsequently debated the merits of the entries –…

Here are some exhibitions and events we’ve seen – and think you might like, too – and, with half-term in mind, a round up of fun and interesting activities for children. The Victoria and Albert Museum’s Golden Spider Silk display…

Following last week’s review of Maison & Objet by our colleague Sandrine Maury-Besson – who reported on the show’s more fantastical aspects – here’s Paul Middlemiss, Group Buying Director for The Conran Shop, who visited with the Buying Team and reports on some of…

To end the week*, an overview of last week’s Maison & Objet from our colleague Sandrine Maury-Besson, Head of Communications for The Conran Shop Paris: ‘It’s quite pleasant to start the year by discovering the new trends in design and decoration – and…

Don’t know about you, but we are finding the longest month rather more fun than usual. Is it because of the sunshine or the wealth of lovely things to see and do? We’ve had a ball over the past few days…

Congratulations to Khy who was the first to identify the Mysqueeze Lemon Squeezer yesterday and wins a £100 Conran gift card. Check our Facebook page each day for clues that will lead to three more products in our online Christmas by Design catalogue and three more £100…

A new exhibition at the Design Museum charts the extraordinary impact Terence Conran has had on life in Britain in the past 60 years, starting with the lean and hungry, post-war years: