NEW Selvedge - Localisation !

The next issue of selvedge is about to hit the shelves of Material.
This issues is crammed with Localisation, Laundry, Living & Linen.
With articles about pegs, how to go about a career in textiles & beautiful images from Christine Mayer's collection that brings fashion, charity & recycling all together !
Not to be missed this month - come grab your copy !



RRP £9.95

SOOP NOW AVAILABLE AT MATERIAL

Fresh from the Soop kitchen, these wonderful rings by top chef Wai-Lian Scannell arrived on our doorstep this morning.

Guaranteed to delight, you can choose from three different flavour ranges: The City Farm; The Enchanted Forest or The Wild Bunch and mix and match them at your own will. These rings look great on their own but, at a mere £7 each, why not group several together to create your own farm on your finger.

THE GENTLEWOMAN HAS ARRIVED

The Gentlewoman
Spring and Summer 2011
Issue nº 3

The Gentlewoman is a new biannual style magazine for a new decade. Featuring inspirational, international women, it pairs ambitious journalism with a sartorial and intelligent perspective on fashion that is focused on personal style – the way women actually look, think and dress.

Content:
An extravaganza of female politics, power and good looks, the third installment of The Gentlewoman features in-depth interviews with the opinionated, passionate women who are taking the international stage: singer Adele Adkins, writer Fatima Bhutto, activist Mabel van Oranje, cosmetic dermatologist Dr Frances Prenna Jones, Colette’s creative director Sarah and artist Germaine Kruip. The issue is accentuated by upbeat fashion series by renowned photographers such as Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Alasdair McLellan, Willy Vanderperre, Liz Collins, Daniel Riera, Robi Rodriguez and Benjamin Alexander Huseby.

The fabulous women’s magazine, on newsstands from 4 March, 2011 in the UK
and worldwide thereafter.

On the cover,
Adele Adkins wears a black and white print cloque dress by Céline, with ring by Dalila Barkache.
Photography by Alasdair McLellan, styling by Jonathan Kaye, hair and make-up by Michael Ashton.

The Gentlewoman is £5
You can buy it in store or online

BE PREPARED FOR NICK MORLEY'S WORLD OF WONDERS

An artist and illustrator working in London, Nick Morley’s idiosyncratic and wryly humurous take on the human condition manifests itself through drawings, prints, books and interactive works. He thinks of his job as an artist as looking at the world with fresh eyes, slowing down time to notice things that might be missed in the scrum of modern living and looking to the past as well as the future for inspiration.

This April, Nick will be exhibiting at Material in a show titled Nick Morley's World of Wonders, an exhibition inspired by the world of discovery, exploration and the spirit of the pioneer.

To compliment the exhibition, Nick will also be running a linocut workshop where participants will produce a series of linocuts to illustrate a story, poem or other narrative. You can find out more by dropping us an email at info@materialmaterial.com



Also, feast your eyes on this month's Icon Magazine with cover illustration by Nick Morley of MAD's Absolute Towers which are topping out in Canada. It explores the idea of originality in architecture and design by focusing on the work of two young practices.

Nick Morley’s World of Wonder
Exhibition from 16th April - 13th May 2011, Material, Ludlow SY8 2PG
Private view 15th April 2011, 6 till 8pm

www.nickmorley.co.uk

A HEART WARMING STORY ABOUT A MAN AND HIS BICYCLE

A new arrival at our store this week is this delightful new title by Jean Jacques Sempé Raoul Taburin Keeps A Secret.

Like a man that likes all things naval, but can't swim, Raoul Taburin loves bicycles and knows everything under the sun about them except for knowing how to ride one and this is something he is more than a little ashamed of. With a plot that is slightly reminiscent of Sylvian Chomet's Belle Ville Rendez-Voush, Raoul Taburin Keeps a Secret is a funny and charming story about friendship, honesty and competitive bicycle racing, where seizing the moment and being true to yourself turn out to be just as important as winning a stage of the Tour de France.

With his cartoons and illustrations often featured on the cover of The New Yorkers, Jean Jacques Sempé is world renowned and particularly famous for the classic children’s-book character, Nicholas, and author of a collection of some thirty albums of his cartoons and graphic novels.

Hardback
96 pp
68 colour illustrations, 10 black and white illustrations
Published by Phaidon Press

GET A LOAD OF THIS CRAP

Arriving next week to material is the jam packed CRAP HOUND magazine.
This publication is FULL of imagery, every pages covered with high contrast art collected from vintage advertising, catalogues, obscure publication & found ephemera.
Each issue focuses on a series of objects/topics, the most recent looks at imagery relating to churche & state.
Page after page of glorious religious and patriotic images !

BE PREPARED FOR THE BIG DAY WITH THESE...

For those who have had enough or certainly will have done when the time comes, graphic design Lydia Leith has created these rather appropriate Royal Wedding Sick Bags. Hand screen printed, the bags feature an illustration of Wills and Kate (sporting the rags they wore on the engagement, of course) proudly standing above a caption of recommended use "Keep this handy on April 29th".

Arriving at Material next week, the first print run of these "Throne Up" bags sold out some time ago, so there's no doubt these ones will waltz out of the door...

Reserve yours now to be sure to have one in time for the big day.

Royal Wedding Souvenir Sick Bags
Available in Royal Blue or Pillar Box Red
£3 each
Available in store or online from 3rd March