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Happy Vietnamese New Year and apologies to my Vietnamese friends for the lack of diacritical marks in the title of this post – my western keyboard isn’t up to the job. If this post seems a little early to those of you here in the UK with Monday the 23rd in mind, take into account [...]

We were delighted to be invited by the creative team at Ralph Lauren to provide bespoke lanterns for their New Bond St. flagship store. They had carefully worked out exacting dimensions for the lanterns to make maximum use of the tall window| display areas. Although the colours and shapes came from our stock range the [...]

We’ve just found a new delivery service for our Asian Lanterns : Interparcel. Our lanterns pack up pretty compactly but nowhere near small enough to squeeze into a postbox. So a trip to the post office has always been a necessity. A long wait in a slow moving queue and hefty price tag at the [...]

I was delighted to hear from GDC Events, not just because they placed an order for a quantity of Turquoise hanging lanterns but because their offices turned out to be somewhat surprisingly just behind a playground that I used to take my 4 year old son to play in – he’s now 5 and we’ve [...]

A selection of hanging lanterns in time for an event in Dublin at the weekend – that’s what Dierdre Hynes of Ruby and Bloom needed. Given that the request came in at close of play on Wednesday and they were wanted in Dublin by Friday, our initial response was that we couldn’t guarantee delivery. However [...]

Last Supper, the specialist event catering company, chose a selection of Indochine diamond lanterns for an event they organised last week. It’s the second time they have ordered lanterns from Indochine so we must be doing something right. And clearly, when it comes to event catering, they are doing something right; great food and drink [...]

Belisa Silva was this month’s winner of our facebook prizedraw and plumped for a large diamond shaped mandarin silk lantern. It’s now winging it’s way to New York courtesy of Parcel Force.

Hang Son Doong (meaning Mountain River Cave) is the worlds largest underground cavern. First discovered in 1991 by a local man, Ho-Khanh, it was more recently surveyed in 2009 by a British team of scientists from the Cave Research Association led by Howard and Deb Limbert. It was only then that its true scale became [...]

In celebration of 25 years of Cockpit Arts Liz Emtage is joining forces with Angie Boothroyd to create a one-off piece of porcelain lighting inspired by Angie’s jewellery. This special piece of lighting will be exhibited in Angie’s studio (E2G) during the Cockpit Arts 25th Anniversary Summer Open Studios. Details of the Open Studio event [...]