COLETTE & KESSELSKRAMER LONDON

Laikingland's collaboration with colette moves from Paris to London as they show a set of "colette Blue" Applause Machines at KesselsKramer's outlet in Hoxton Square.

Throughout the summer KesselsKramer London and the legendary Parisian store colette will undertake an exclusive shop swap. colette will holiday on Hoxton Square, bringing with them hand picked products and artwork of some very special French friends.

In return KesselsKramer will take over colette with unique art work specially created for the collaboration by Erik Kessels, along with a range of our best titles and products.

Colette's Window

colette, always the same never the same, enjoy, each week, their front windows !

The Applause Machines and Fingers are now on show in the front window of the Colette store in Paris.

Colette is a concept store and the preeminent Parisian fashion and style boutique in the heart of the fashion and luxury district in Paris.

More information here.

A Storm is Brewing

John (Lumbus) and the team at Laikingland are working away on hand crafting these pieces to the highest possible standards and we are pleased to say that they are on schedule for release in July. Due to the amount of work involved we are keeping the editions to only 12 pieces in each design and they are available directly from the Laikingland online shop.

Title: Storm in a Tea Cup.
Designer: John Lumbus.
Manufacturer: Laikingland, Royal Delft and The New English.
Materials: Ceramic, plastic and brass.
Dimensions: 15 cm / 6"
Power: Hand operated.
Edition: Limited to 12 in each design.
Colours: Royal Delft Blue and White. The New English White and Gold.
Availability: Pre-order now for delivery in July 2010.
£550.00 (ex Tax £468.09)

Shanghai Expo 2010

We are currently exhibiting some of beautiful kinetic objects in collaboration with our great friends, CultureLabel.com, in the Shanghai Expo 2010.

If you close one eye fully and squint with your other, you can just about make out Nik Ramage's Fingers drumming away on the distant shelves.

Nice things have been said about the exhibition and I guess Thomas Heatherwick knows what he's taking about.

Memories of Milan

Here we have Nick and I celebrating "wear a blue/grey shirt night" with Marcus and Simon of Freshwest.

Maarten Baas came along to see our new collection of kinetic objects and we managed to make him smile.

He describes Laikingland as highly inventive in this article.

Here's Nick getting ready for one of his many interviews, practising his ers and ums!

The results of the interview are here.

Laikingland @ Colette, Paris

Fingers by Nik Ramage is impatiently tapping his errr... fingers, as he awaits his Paris debut at the world famous lifestyle store, Colette.

Luckily, a group of his good friends the Applause Machines by Martin Smith, are also there to keep him company.

They'll be applauding his eternal finger tapping performance and wowing their new Parisian fans in the Colette shop window from 14 - 19 June. For more details click here.