Inter­est­ing art­icle in the busi­ness sec­tion of the Sunday Tele­graph. Headline…

‘Made In UK’ at John Lewis

John Lewis is to launch a ‘buy Brit­ish’ cam­paign in its stores and mark all products sourced in the UK with a Union Jack. They are doing it because they believe busi­nesses should be sup­port­ing UK manufacturing.

And so do we at Coulson Macleod. Obvi­ously the design of both the art­work and the frames are done by us at Coulson Macleod. So the entire piece is unique to us. That is very import­ant. All of our typo­graphic prints are made in the UK. In fact we source not just UK-based busi­nesses, but busi­nesses as local to us as possible.

At the moment we use six busi­nesses in a twenty mile radius to us and two more that are a little fur­ther afield. Most of these are small artisan firms, spe­cial­ising in their craft whether it be high-end bespoke car­pentry or reclaimed wood or Fine Art Guild fram­ing. Most are in our own county of Northamptonshire.

We could buy in bulk from China. Which would bring the cost down. But we value crafts­man­ship. And we value the idea of sup­port­ing our region.

In our own small way we are mak­ing a dif­fer­ence. And that feels good.

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Coulson Macleod has been invited to sell via the very hip and trendy mydeco boutique. How lucky are we?

The main site of mydeco is a home décor portal, cre­ated by Brent Hober­man and Martha Lane Fox, of last​minute​.com.  mydeco “brings together the country’s widest range of home fur­nish­ing products from over 700 retail­ers into one place. From high street stores like Heal’s and John Lewis to niche retailers.”

Within the site is mydeco boutique, which “aims to show­case a lim­ited num­ber of lead­ing inde­pend­ent design­ers that mydeco feels rep­res­ent the UK’s innov­at­ive design talent.”

Coulson Macleod will be sold along­side such huge names as Atelier Abi­gail Ahern, Kelly Hop­pen and Celia Birtwell. Swoon!

‘It’s the indi­vidu­al­ity and char­ac­ter you get that make designer pieces spe­cial,’ says says interi­ors expert Rachel Moses from Design Nation. “Most of the beau­ti­ful items you spot in mydeco boutique are hand­made in Bri­tain. They are all bang on trend, ori­ginal in design (no cheap imit­a­tions here), pro­duced in small batches, and well respec­ted in their indus­tries.” Yep! that’s us.

Keen to find some­thing unique that you won’t see on the high street? Then mydeco boutique is for you. An “exclus­ive treas­ure trove of avant-garde, inde­pend­ent design­ers at your fingertips.”