vintage-retro-antique-furniture: Norman Ackroyd's Open Studio

about elemental

Established 12 years ago in Spitalfields East London elemental is an interiors and design store with a reputation as source of the unusual and unique.
www.elemental.uk.com

We search for vintage and antique pieces. We sympathetically restore them, or sometimes reinterpret them. We recycle, upcycle, reuse and reconstruct. We collaborate with other craftspeople and designers who share our approach. We showcase and sell the work of other designers and artists in our East London showroom.

December 01, 2009

Norman Ackroyd's Open Studio

We were invited by our friend Norman Ackroyd RA to share a mince pie at his open studio event last weekend.

His print studio is spread over the two lower floors of a ramshackle converted Victorian factory building in Southwark. It is a great space. Aside from the display of his delicate and refined etchings and paintings we were particularly impressed with his cast-iron printing presses on the ground floor. Well-oiled and still working.

Norman's studio is full of rare objects. Our eyes caught a few of them and they are for us a real source of inspiration...Here they are scattered on improvised shelves inbetween bits and bobs. Can you spot them?