Beautiful & Useful at the Garden Museum

This festive season Beautiful & Useful is returning to the Garden Museum with an exciting collection of Britain’s best designer-makers selling bold, bohemian and beautiful handmade ceramics, textiles, art prints, jewellery, and homewares.

Now in its eighth year, the carefully curated selection will include The Curious Maker’s mechanical toys and velvet toadstool decorations; Claverton Cloche’s elegant and practical garden frames; Variegate’s hand-crafted wooden tools and utensils; and The Ceramic Botanist’s vases, jugs and plaques imprinted with the shapes of real plants.

Other makers taking inspiration from plants and nature include The Natural Dye Company’s delicately hued homewares and accessories; Seaside Moocher’s pressed seaweed pieces showcasing the diversity of underappreciated aquatic botanicals; Georgia Doherty’s Plants for Shade – convincing and exquisitely crafted paper plants complete with reclaimed pots; and Frank & Lusia’s colourful mixed media botanic prints adorning tea towels, cards and ornaments.

Set in the beautiful surroundings of the Garden Museum, a medieval church building with a Dan Pearson-designed courtyard garden and light-filled contemporary extension housing the award-winning Garden Café, this is one of the most atmospheric Christmas shopping experiences around.

Tickets cost £5.00 and include entrance to the museum’s collections (normally £15.00).