WIN a Beautiful Lalique Pink Paradise Candle

Designed Magazine has partnered with French heritage crystal masters Lalique to offer our followers the chance to win a beautiful Pink Paradise scented candle, worth £69. This Special Edition Les Compositions Parfumées 190g candle is in pink wax scented with top notes of juicy bergamot and bitter orange, with heart notes of cedarwood, heliotrope, jasmine and peppercorn and a sultry base of amber and sandalwood. The elegant smooth white lacquered glass vase will be a beautiful keepsake long after the 40-50 hour burn time.

Enter via our Instagram page – just click on the link below, follow @designedmagazine and @lalique and like the Instagram giveaway post (see T&Cs below*)

London Design Week – the Unmissable Spring Interiors Event

Over five days in March, from 10th-14th March, Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour will host the definitive interior design event of the season, with more than 600 international brands at over 130 showrooms, as well as pop-up House Guests launching new spring/summer launches and running over 100 events.

This celebration of the new season is always a source of inspiration for both trade and design enthusiasts, with new patterns, palettes and textures from the biggest names in the industry. Workshops will offer sessions and masterclasses in weaving, block printing, marquetry & veneer, tile painting and passementerie, and highlights of the talks include Norway’s New Wave, Celebrating Classical Craftsmanship and Rewriting the Rules.

The much-loved Conversations in Design talks offer in-depth interviews and panel discussions with guest speakers including Simon Rawlings, Guy Oliver, Carlos Garcia and Susie Atkinson, while Grow Your Business sessions provide professional insights into how to keep competitive and connected.

DCCH is currently running a registration competition with a prize of a one-night stay at the Cotswolds country estate, Thyme. For all details see:

www.dcch.co.uk/london-design-week/register/

London Design Week is at Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour, London SW10 0XE

Instagram @designcentreCH

www.dcch.co.uk/

L-R: Chaise Bergère, Agnès Debizet, represented by Galerie Melissa Paul; An expanded fragments: Blue oriental, Minyeol Cho, represented by Siat Gallery; Seom/ Island 4001, Park Sung-wook, represented by Lloyd Choi Gallery; Prism Side Table, Angus Ross, represented by Contemporary Applied Arts. Photograph: Jake Curtis, Styling: Alex Kristal

Craft to Collect at Somerset House

Collect is the leading international art fair for contemporary craft and design, set against the stunning backdrop of the neo-classical Somerset House on the banks of London’s Thames. This year’s show, running from the 26th of February to the 2nd of March, brings together 40 galleries from across the globe, exhibiting the works of over 400 living artists all dedicated to bringing exceptional international contemporary craft and design to a collectors’ market of private collectors, interior designers, architects, art advisors and arts institutions, such as the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Collect is presented annually by the UK’s Crafts Council and this 21st edition will showcase ceramics, glass, lacquer, furniture, art jewellery, metalwork, textile and fibre, wood and paper, and pieces crafted in more unusual mediums – resin, beeswax, denim and plastics – as well as reused and repurposed materials. All are for sale at prices from £500 to over £50,000, with some commissioned specifically for the fair.

Tickets are available at www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/collect-2025

28th February – 2nd March (previews 26th and 27th February)

Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA

Instagram: @craftscouncil

www.CraftsCouncil.org.uk

A Valentine’s Day Celebration for Diptyque

French beauty and lifestyle brand Diptyque has announced the Valentine’s Day opening of a new boutique in Canary Wharf, their first presence at the heart of London’s thriving business district. The boutique has been designed in the style of a Parisian apartment, echoing the founding spirit of the first Diptyque boutique at 34 boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris. The floor is in reclaimed wood, and the walls are clad in two types of tinted oak in a checkered design inspired by the geometrical patterns used in Berthod Lubetkin’s Modernist architecture. 

Diptyque’s classic black and white branding is offset with warm colours and materials with a central table lacquered in soft coral and a large scale frieze hand-painted by French artist Charlotte Bohn on the fragrance counter wall. The new boutique will offer an extensive range of Diptyque perfumes and home fragrance, bath and body products, as well as exclusive personalisation, engraving and a capsule decoration collection.

Address: Diptyque, RP260, Cabot Place, London E14 4QT

Instagram: @diptyque

www.diptyqueparis.com/en_uk

For Perfume Lovers

New York-born niche fragrance brand, source adage, has arrived in the UK just in time to warm up your Valentine’s Day with its evocative, gender-inclusive scents. Among the acclaimed collection is the seductive, aétai eau de parfum. With its spicy, floral notes layering soft woods and amber accords, aétai is an enveloping floral scent for all. The brand's co-founders/noses personally crafted the sophisticated fragrance around the concept of complementary contrasts. Its name, in fact, derives from an indigenous language of New England meaning, “on both sides”. Contrasts that strike the right balance between light and dark, earthy and strident, romantic and sensual accords, that evolve on the skin in a wonderfully swoon-worthy fashion.

Pursuing their love of Italy and their passion for fragrance making, source adage opened the stylish “adage studio olfattivo” in Tuscany, where it creates its scents and hand-crafts its home fragrance collection for the European/UK market. Learn more about the brand and discover all of the acclaimed niches fragrances at www.sourceadage.it.

10ml travel rollers (£48.95) and 50ml bottles (£213.95) available in the UK exclusively at:
www.saintecellier.com

A Treasure Box for the Generations

The Heirloom Box is an exquisite and special place for treasured keepsakes. A jewellery, sewing or keepsake box with seven compartments, a mirror and removable tray, this mini treasure chest provides a beautiful host for diverse personal collections. The exterior has been decorated in Kit Kemp’s famous Mythical Land mural, depicting oversized pears on trees growing in distant lands inhabited by mythical creatures. The hand painted details continue into the interior with floral motifs enhancing the removable tray. Individually hand painted with a subtle aged patina, each box is unique.

The box is made from wood, and measures 28.5x18cmx13.5cms and costs £795 from www.shop.kitkemp.com

Teas with Eastern Promise

Fine teas brand Newby has teamed up with award-winning designer Matthew Williamson to launch a colourful new collection of exclusive loose teas based around travels to the East. The Matthew Williamson packaging is bedecked with exotic designs in vibrant hues with visions of flora and fauna in a desert setting. In a soft pink, Midnight Rose holds a fragrant white tea with a floral hint; adorned with a leopard in the tin design, Desert Chai blends spicy chai with vanilla and almond; and the collection’s Earl Grey Oasis is an apricot-tinged take on the popular citrus-scented classic.

Each of these loose teas comes in an eye-catching domed caddy with a rose gold finial. Individual caddies are priced at £35 and individual caddies with gift boxes are priced at £40 each. The trio gift box includes all three caddies and is priced at £110. 

The Newby by Matthew Williamson Eastern Escapes Collection is available from: www.newbyteas.com and www.selfridges.com

Spice Mills with a Twist

Not all salt and pepper mills are created equal. Car manufacturer Peugeot invented the tabletop pepper mill 150 years ago, and the Peugeot factory in France, now produces two million spice mills every year. The Boreal salt and pepper mills are crafted from beech sourced from French sustainably managed forests. With a sleek contemporary profile, these mills come in a range of colours: the pepper mills in celestial blue, rock grey, fern green and hazel, and the salt mills in paler pastel complementary sage green, pebble grey and feather white – all with a natural wooden head. At the heart of the pepper mill lies Peugeot's lifetime guaranteed steel mechanism, while the salt mill features a simple adjustment system to control the size of the ground salt crystals.

The new Duo Boreal is a gift set of Grey Rock pepper and Petal Rose salt 21cm mills, in a box and supplied with salt and pepper sachets and a silicon funnel. Available from:

https://uk.peugeot-saveurs.com/en/all-peugeot-mills

In the Pink

Craig & Rose is one of the UK's oldest paint manufacturers. Established in 1829 by two young Scottish entrepreneurs, James Craig and Hugh Rose, the company became renowned for manufacturing superior quality paints, especially known for the process of triple grinding base raw materials instead of the contemporary standard of twice. Over the years, Craig & Rose won prestigious contracts, including painting the most famous of ongoing projects – the Forth Bridge! – and manufacturing paint for St Paul’s Cathedral.

Dedicated to sustainability and clean air, Craig & Rose paints contain less than trace levels of VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds), and they have a series of climate commitments for carbon neutral shipping and carbon removal.

The Craig & Rose range offers 110 rich colours, along with their unique Artisan Special Effects collection for bespoke finishes including copper patina and marble dust. The colours encompass bold, energetic hues, warm, cosy tones and calming neutrals and their new SS25 colour palette features a soft sage, chalky blue and the perfect pink.

https://craigandrose.com/

Buzzing with the Flirty Shirley Mocktail

The Betty Buzz range of soft drinks is made with fresh ingredients, and is free from artificial preservatives, sweeteners, colours and flavours.  The range makes for the perfect choice for Valentine’s – or Galentine’s! – Day for anyone looking for a tastebud teasing non-alcoholic drink alternative.

To make the Flirty Shirley, add ice to a highball glass and add a splash of Grenadine. Pour half a can of Betty Buzz Sparkling Lemon Lime over the top and stir together gently. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.

Betty Buzz costs from £7.50 RRP for six 330ml cans. Available from M&S and from: Majestic and Amazon

A World-First PX Sherry Cask Coffee Liqueur

Following on from their original coffee liqueur and ready-to-drink espresso martini cans, Café Solo has launched a world-first Pedro Ximénez Sherry (PX) Cask Finished Coffee Liqueur. Café Solo PX is a cask-finished coffee liqueur made with premium ground SOLO Cold Brew Coffee, which boasts a full-bodied flavour profile, rich acidity, and a refreshingly clean finish. For the new liqueur, Café Solo is matured for a year in PX Sherry casks, giving a residual sweetness and rich, dried-fruit notes. 

Made from the sun-dried Pedro Ximénez grapes in Jerez Spain, PX Sherry is intensely sweet and rich. PX casks are often repurposed to age or "finish" whiskies and other spirits, imparting their residual sweetness and rich, dried-fruit notes. These casks are prized for the intense flavours they produce, transforming the profiles of other liquids. The drink is indulgent and dessert-like, with the PX Sherry Cask adding layers of depth, and complexity, with notes of rich toffee, fig, walnut and lemon.

Café Solo PX is available via Amazon and cafesolo.co.uk at an RRP of £32

Strawberry Fields

Aromatic and refreshing, Mermaid Pink Gin infuses the flavour of fresh Isle of Wight strawberries grown in the rich and fertile microclimate of the Arreton Valley with the smooth taste of the award-winning Mermaid Gin. Mermaid Pink Gin uses wonky strawberries that would otherwise have gone to waste, is less sweet than most pink gins, with no added sugar and is a perfect balance of subtle yet vibrant.

For a Make Me Blush cocktail, shake 25mls of Mermaid Pink with 25mls of elderflower liquor, 5mls of Creme De Cassis and 2 dashes of sarsaparilla bitters with ice, and fine strain into a flute. Top with Champagne or your favourite sparkling wine and garnish with dried flowers.

Mermaid Pink Gin ABV 42%, RRP from £38 for 70cls., available from John Lewis, Tesco, Harvey Nichols, M&S, Fenwick and Waitrose and online from: 

isleofwightdistillery.com