The lovely people at The Mushroom Works in Newcastle have teamed up with Hunkydory Home to host a stunning and exciting POP UP Design Shop featuring lots of hunkydory products as well as work of other designers. Have you ever wanted somewhere in Newcastle to buy that perfect unique and original gift? Well now you have found it!

The event runs from Saturday 23rd October – Saturday 13th November 2010 (Wed-Sat 12-5pm).

You can come and say hello to us at the preview on Friday 22nd October 6-8pm.

Click here for directions to the Mushroom Works.

This event is part of the Design Event North East festival which takes place from 22-31 October 2010 throughout the North East region. There will be a range of exhibitions and events covering all aspects of design from product design to graphics, fashion and architecture.

We hope to see you there.

New this week, products from the classic ‘whiteware with a twist’ Word range from Keith Brymer Jones.

This fabulous set of egg cups features the question “What Came First The Chicken Or The Egg” across the four egg cups. Each porcelain piece has a word stamped on it glazed with a different colour; the stamped words recalling old typeset fonts of newspapers and books. At just £15.00 and presented in a gift box, this would make the perfect gift or treat for the breakfast table.



From the same range is the simple, contemporary “tea” teapot – its beautiful shape contrasted with the high white porcelain body give it a country feel but with urban elegance.



And, because every good teapot needs an equally fantastic tea cosy, we’ve got 2 to choose from: “brew” and “cuppa” and they’re only £8.00 each.

These gorgeous eco-friendly products are now in stock at Hunkydory Home. Fantastic reusable fabric wrapping which can then be used as a scarf, bag, cushion cover (or as wrapping again) and quirky greetings cards with paper insert which can be replaced to be used again and again and again…

The reusable wrap (retails for £3.99) is based on the traditional Japanese method of wrapping gifts in beautiful fabric known as furoshiki, which can then be reused – as a bag, or scarf, or cushion cover or tea towel. Made of 100% cotton and designed by hot young British talent at 70cm square it’s a decent size to wrap a variety of gifts.
It’s easy to wrap presents too – there’s no need for scissors or sticky tape – just one bow. That’s it. Stunning simplicity.
We currently have three lovely designs of the fabric wrap: Russian Dolls, Hummingbirds and Safari all cost £3.99.

The reusable greetings cards are pretty impressive too. They have a rather nifty paper insert which the recipient simply replaces to send the card on to someone else. That’s it. All handmade in the UK on 100% recycled, PH neutral paper and packed in a biodegradable cellophane bag, with a 100% recycled paper insert, reusable rubber band and recycled envelope.
There’s a quirky range of famous moustaches and spectacles to choose from and they retail for £2.25 with free postage.

All designed and produced by Evergreen in the UK, as they say – you don’t have to grow dodgy facial hair to be a bit green!