Atelier100’s pilot programme – set up to foster London-based creative talent and hyperlocal manufacture – presents its first product collection: a brilliantly eclectic, sustainability-driven, multi-disciplinary selection of furniture, fashion, accessories and homewares conceived by 13 of the most exciting creative minds in the capital.
Available to buy at Atelier100’s retail space in Hammersmith and at atelier100.com, the collection includes bags made from found objects, car-exhaust chairs, potato-printed dinner plates, London-brick candleholders, and wax-dipped lighting – all limited-edition and all woven with materials and/or motifs that tie them to the city that created them.
Developed from a collaboration between Inka Group and H&M, the Atelier100 project is both an creative incubator and an experimental model for a new approach to production and consumption rooted in local supply, manufacturing and distribution.
Keeping design, material sourcing, production and retail in the same place reduces the carbon impact of the making process, helps build local supply chains, strengthens local production networks, and supports local economies. Making its debut in a global melting pot of ideas and creativity, London, Atelier100 exists as a proof of concept for this new, sustainable way of making and disseminating design.
Atelier100 Editions – the launch collection
Browse and buy from the launch collection of limited-edition products. Characterised by sustainable design thinking and material ingenuity, and united by the unique ways in which they embody London’s identity, they represent the best of the city’s emerging creative generation.
Thames Clay Vase by Alison Cooke
£125, 30 available
A vase made from London clay excavated from 26 metres below the River Thames, handcrafted in ceramicist and artist Alison Cooke’s West Hampstead studio.
Stainless Steel Tubular Chair by Andu Masebo
£700, 10 available
A curvaceous chair made from stainless steel tubes ordinarily used for car exhaust pipes, designed to celebrate traditionally concealed joinery and welding, cast and finished in Andu Masebo’s Hoxton studio.
Surplus Bag Collection by Clara Chu
L: £375, S: £225, 8 available
A collection of bags and accessories exclusively made from unexpected reclaimed and found objects, ranging from CD cases to toaster components, assembled by hand at Clara Chu’s White City studio.
