Garden Museum, Lambeth

Sunday, 1 December 2024

This festive season Beautiful & Useful is returning to the Garden Museum with a curated collection of Britain’s best designer-makers selling bold, bohemian and thoroughly beautiful handmade ceramics, textiles, art prints, jewellery, and homewares.

Now in its seventh year, the carefully curated selection will include The Curious Maker’s mechanical toys and velvet toadstool decorations; Jack Wheeler Woodcraft’s hand carved, Japanese-inspired bowls, trays and spoons; Richard Pomeroy’s porcelain mugs in all the colours of the rainbow; and Jill Pargeter’s Arts & Crafts-inspired linen figures, keepsakes and lampshades which combine her love of history, nature and poetic verse.

Makers taking inspiration from plants and nature include Jane Bevan’s objects, vessels and collage from found natural materials; Rachel Dein's exquisite botanical bas-reliefs, Fleur de Cire’s wax-dipped paper flowers - a unique art handed down from the origins of Constance Spry’s studio in London; and Maude Made’s illustrated tea towels celebrating varieties of wildflowers, tulips, fruit and vegetables. 

This boutique Christmas shopping experience is set in the beautiful surroundings of the Garden Museum, a medieval church building with a Dan Pearson-designed courtyard garden and light-filled contemporary extension housing the award-winning Garden Café.

The day will also include two workshops: Bauble-making with the Folded Side Project and Embossed tin decorations with Clare Youngs. Book fast - places are limited!

Tickets cost £5 and include entrance to the museum’s collections (normally £15).