Wolf & Badger Wonder : Selfridges Summer Residency 12th – 31st August 2010

"The Selfridges Wonder Room is our destination for the world's most wondrous products”
Linda Hewson, Selfridges' head of creative on VOGUE.COM.

We are delighted to announce a Wolf & Badger Summer Residency in the Concept Area of the Selfridges Wonder Room, August 12th-31st.

We will be featuring pieces from the collections of some of our new designers in store for Autumn 2010.

Contemporary art will be displayed and curated by Nathalie Levi and Samir Ceric of Salon Contemporary, in association with Wolf & Badger, and performance artists will be enhancing what will be a fantastic experience for us.

Join us for the launch event at Moose Bar London on August 12th from 8pm with some electro beats from the legendary DJ Cologne & Slaughterbrains, and performance art from the Levantes Dance Theatre. RSVP on Facebook now.

Not sure how we will be able to manage being around such beautiful pieces not to mention all the delights of the candy room! Hope to see you there, pop in to the Wonder Room in Selfridges and from Thursday August 12th.

Violet Darkling is inspired by the “darkness and all things nocturnal”

Troy Abbot’s ‘BirdCage’

Jasmin Rowlandson explores the rare, the everyday, the endangered and the ordinary and makes it into the spectacular.

Gisele Ganne’s electroformed ‘Divorce Ring’

Featured Designers in The Wolf & Badger Selfridges Residency:

Jewellery - Ambre France, Anna Maria S, Atelier Beger, Florence B,

Gisele Ganne, Mallarino, Miquella, Tomasz Donocik, Violet Darkling,

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Accessories - Samuel Gassmann, Helen Ruth, Gal Stern, Wendy Stevens

Objects - Alex Bernard, BiS, Evthokia, Jasmin Rowlandson, Stuart

Richards, Troy Abbott

Art - Bouke de Vries, Sarah Gwyer, StranMcFarlane

Launch Party, August 12th 8pm – 3am at Moose Bar, 31 Duke Street, London W1U

Sounds of the undergrowth: Wolf is catching up with the ponies this week

We seemed to have caused some confusion with the title of the last blog, but let me assure you, we had a plan. We did not just randomly changed "making the heartbeat fast" into "short". Our obsession with ice cream is so strong that it even intruded our playlist.

What is better than eating ice cream?
Wolf thinks: Eating ice cream and dancing around to New Young Pony Club:

Walpole Brands of Tomorrow 2010!

Last night we had the pleasure to attend the celebration of Walpole's "Brands of Tomorrow" for 2010. We were announced "Brands of Tomorrow" alongside Basso & Brooke, Charlotte Olympia Shoes, Mawi Jewellery, Rococo Chocolates, Josephine Home and Abahna. It is a great honour to us, especially because the scheme includes a bespoke mentoring and coaching program designed to support up-and-coming British luxury brands in becoming world-class leaders in their respective field.

Considering that one of the key-elements of our concept is the mentoring of the many talented designers that work together with us, we regard it as an amazing opportunity and generous offer to be mentored for the next year not only by Walpole chairman John Ayton, but as well by author and doyenne of luxury journalism Lucia van der Post.

The event took place at Browns Hotel in London.

A nice setting for such a luxurious occasion...

Each candidate had an opportunity to present his products to the members of Walpole, the mentors, journalists and of course the other new members.

Abahna

Basso & Brooke

Charlotte Olympia

Josephine Home

Mawi Jewellery

Rococo Chocolates

We chose to bring glass decanters by BiS Productions, pink heels by Sonya Parenti, bite plates by Evthokia, carréducker shoes, cufflinks and pin by Samuel Gassmann, a cuff by Mallarino, a necklace by Bex Rox and a ceramic sculpture by Jasmin Rowlandson, all of which we decorated on a beautiful Helen Ruth scarf:




Furthermore we showcased teacups by welovekaoru.




We enjoyed the evening (and as our Twitter followers know the preparations for the evening, too) ....





...and are looking forward to the upcoming year with Walpole