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Clean Up Plastic Camo Chair Revealed at Solid Floor East - Shoreditch Design Triangle 2020

"Work with wool" box cushion filled with recycled wool and tufted with buttons

18th Sept 2018 Demonstration Day of upholstery and design to Students of local schools.

May 2016 Nominated for the Art and Crafts Design Awards

14th Dec 2015 “The Survivor Sofa” documentary by Paul Wyatt, aired on Community Channel.

17th June 2015 Elephant Family, Rickshaw design by Philip Colbert. Travels to my Elephant events in London and in the jungles of Madhya Pradesh, India, raised £1.3million for Asia’s endangered elephants and local communities

20-22nd May 2014, CDW Denton Corker Marshall Architects and Sto werkstatt

21th of Sept 2011 Pecha Kucha Textura at Material Lab, Mayfair, London W1W 8BB

20th of May - 20th Sept 2010 , Secondnature

28-29th Nov & 5-6th Dec 2009, Open Studios Hidden Art, East London Design Studios

26th June – Sept 2009 Bird in The Hand_display by Laura Hamilton at UU

19th - 23rd of Sept 2008 “Spirit of Design”, London Design Festival, Emerald Faerie and Ann Bibby at UU

19th -20th Sept 2009, Space+Time, Open House London, Hoxton Hall, London N1 6SH

The backstory of the Clean Up Camo Chair. Shoreditch Design Triangle podcast series on the 14th of September at 3 pm

"Back To School" 9 days of exhibition, live upholstery and workshop LDF18

1st March 2018, 10 years Anniversary Celebration and Rawstudio_display

21st March 2016 Tear Down Workshop for Barclays Group, Great Recovery, RSA

25th Sept15, "Material Engagement and The Art of Reupholstery" Ella Doran, The RSA, Fab Lab

7th March 2015 Art Tour, East Living London Village, Get Living London & Hidden Art

20-23rd Sept 2012, Tent London, London Design Festival, the Old Truman Brewery, London

18th Sept 2013, MiniModerns Remix, EDLS, London Design Festival 2013

21st of September 2011 “A Chair Affair”, London Design Festival 2011, Natazzi, London

10th Feb - 15th May 2010 “Hide & Seek” display By Elli Popp

6th & 7th March 2010 “Eco Design Fair _ Pop up shop at the Barbican Centre, London EC2Y 8DS

30th Sept -1st Oct, Installation at Shunt Lounge, London Bridge, London. AudioArchitecture

13-14th Dec 2008 Eco Design Fair, Truman Brewery, 152 Brick Lane, E1 London

21st of Sept, 2019 Work with wool" upholstery demonstration workshop in collaboration with Ella Doran Studio @ Folk Clothing London

16th Sept 2018 Make Your Own Cushion_ workshop, The Old Bank Vault, LDF18

26th May, 2016 “The Future of [re]Making for a circular economy" The Museum of Making, CDW

27th - 28th Feb 2016 , Just Got Made Weekender, Somerset House, London

25th May 2015 “From Landfill to Festival” RSA CDW 15, Britton Street, London

15th Jan 2015 “Tear Down Workshop” The Great Recovery, RSA, Fab-Lab London.

Sept-2011 Love London_ the Launch, Barbara Chandler, Top Drawer, Olympia Exhibition Hall

10th Oct 2010 - 31st of Jan 2011. Collective: Ata Designs, Bird in the Hand, Elli Popp, Madeleine Boulesteix, Second Nature, Audio Architecture

16th Nov 2009_31st Jan 2010, “ The Light Lounge” display by Madeleine Boulesteix

4-5th Dec 2009, Eco Design_Christmas Fair, Islington Tow Hall, Upper St, London N1 2UD

14th Sept _10th Nov 2009, "City Works" by
Ata Designs at UU

20th of April_June 2009 “Urban Bird_ display” by Suzie Brown at UU

15th March 2008 UU shop opens at 21 De Beauvoir Rd, London N1 5SF, showing the work of artist s and designers besides their collection of up-cycled furniture

22nd Sept 2007 Urban Upholstery launches their 1st website