We are delighted to have in stock the Festival range of ceramics by Mini Moderns. Already proving popular as a wallpaper design, ‘Festival’ by Mini Moderns is a personal celebration of one of the biggest influences on their design work, the 1951 Festival of Britain, which celebrates its 60th Anniversary in 2011.

The tableware is being launched to coincide with this important cultural landmark. The design features highlights of the 1951 exhibition. Geometric shapes interplay with abstract representations of the iconic Skylon, the Dome of Discovery and the Royal Festival Hall. Its linear forms reflect the modernist architectural vision of structures specially commissioned for the festival including Mini Moderns favorites – the Transport Pavilion and The Lion and the Unicorn Pavilion.

Mini Moderns Creative Directors, Keith Stephenson and Mark Hampshire explain how the collaboration came about. “We teamed up with Cubic’s Nicky Sloan, founder of Magpie, to produce the Festival tableware collection because she, like us, is a fan of the Festival of Britain and a collector of designs from the mid-20th century.” They go on to explain, “Mini Moderns and Magpie is a match made in heaven. Nicky already loved the design, and her expertise in producing tableware helped push us creatively, so that we have abstracted the design to produce really dynamic individual pieces. The result is a collection in which no two pieces are alike – mix and match in the truest sense.”

These ceramics were recently named by Elle Decoration Magazine as Buy of the Month