Coulson Macleod’s very first trade show is under our belt. Top Drawer 2011 at London’s Olympia.

The whole event went remark­ably smoothly and we thor­oughly enjoyed ourselves. We made friends with our neigh­bor­ing stands. And loved chat­ting to all the retail­ers who came onto our stand to come and see and order our typo­graphic art.

We’ll be blog­ging lots more about Top Drawer 2011, but for now here’s a few pho­tos of Sat­urday — the build-day — to get our stand C42 ready for the show open­ing the fol­low­ing day, Sunday 11^th September…

Stand C42. An empty white box.

Put­ting up prints.

Proudly dis­play­ing our Eco-Certified by Oliver Heath and Product GB stickers

Stand C42. Ready for the show.

Under Olympia’s grand arches.

The wall fea­tur­ing our solid oak prints.

The wall fea­tur­ing our mater­ial prints.

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Some­times our stock­ists can show off our typo­graphic art far bet­ter than we ever can.

fea­tur­ing Coulson Macleod’s ‘New York’ print

fea­tur­ing Coulson Macleod’s ‘Lon­don’ print

These gor­geous pho­tos were taken in Ber­thas Olde­barn, our stock­ist in Ber­gen, Norway.

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We have already announced this on our Face­book page, but if you missed our latest excit­ing news, we have a new stockist.

In Milan.

Let’s say benven­uto to Bar­bar­ella Concept Store.

We know the owner, the won­der­fully glam­or­ous Bar­bara Marchesi. She is a very good Coulson Macleod cus­tomer. In fact Bar­bara loved her typo­graphic pieces so much that she wrote us a won­der­ful testi­mo­nial.

Bar­bara said, “Your art works are so beau­ti­ful and ori­ginal. The vin­tage look with a con­tem­por­ary touch is amaz­ing. The fact they are all hand­made is really import­ant. My women’s col­lec­tion is entirely made in Italy and I love to share and sup­port this atti­tude. The ‘Love’ col­lec­tion is a very per­sonal and instinct­ive way to tell to someone how much you love them. Gorgeous!”

Bar­bara already runs one of THE hot­test fash­ion stores in Milan. And now she is open­ing up an interiors/concept store this month. And is stock­ing lots of Coulson Macleod artwork.

Bar­bara is one hot woman and owns one hot brand.

Italian Vogue wrote about Barbarella’s spring-summer 2011 col­lec­tion, which they termed fresh. Vogue loved the hints of glam­our, the prints and the col­ours and added that Barbarella’s sig­na­ture style is fem­in­ine and elegant.

Vogue said, “A brand that is appre­ci­ated not only in the fash­ion world: the Mil­anese entre­pren­eur will this year receive the Mil­ano Donna award, which is awar­ded annu­ally to women entre­pren­eurs from Milan. Barbara Marchesi, 33 years old, foun­ded her fash­ion house in 2008.”

Last year the award was given to Mar­gher­ita Mis­soni. Wow!

Thank you Trondheim. Yes, we have another Nor­we­gian stock­ist. Let me intro­duce you to…

the latest shop to stock Coulson Macleod typo­graphic art.

Trond­heim is right at the top of Nor­way. So we pretty much have the whole of Nor­way covered with our five stockists.

The shop is due to open on 15^th Octo­ber and we’ll tell you more about it then. But this is the out­side, pre-makeover…

Chez Nous will also be stock­ing the most delight­ful sta­tion­ery from fel­low Nor­we­gian com­pany Darling Clem­entine

And cush­ions and wall­pa­per from Dan­ish com­pany Ferm Liv­ing…

This is the second shop in Trond­heim for the own­ers of Chez Nous. Their first is Cor­ne­lias Hus. As ever, stocked with the most gor­geous products.

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Wel­come to Coulson Macleod’s latest stockist…

in Gjøvik, Nor­way.

This gor­geous concept store/café opened on Septem­ber 1^st.

Gjovik is a small enorm­ously pretty town with obvi­ously fab­ulous shop­ping. And is right on Lake Mjosa, the biggest lake in Norway.

Our hearts long for Norway.

Ja, vi elsker dette landet? It’s Nor­we­gian. It trans­lates as, Yes, we love this coun­try. This is the title of their national anthem. And this is how Coulson Macleod feels about Norway.

Why do we love Norway?

Actu­ally the ques­tion should be, why does Nor­way love Coulson Macleod?

We’ve just taken an order from our fourth stock­ist there. Coulson and I are think­ing a trip to Nor­way is in order. We can visit our gorgeous-looking stock­ists in Oslo, Ber­gen, Gjøvik, and Nit­te­dal (pictured)…

and this gor­geous look­ing country…

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Coulson Macleod is on a global hunt. We’re look­ing for shops that want to stock our art.

Do you know any cool shops? If so, Coulson Macleod would love to hear from you.

We get heaps of enquir­ies from around the world. In par­tic­u­lar from lovely people in Amer­ica and Aus­tralia who obvi­ously have huge amounts of good taste.

How nice it would be to say to our cus­tom­ers, “Don’t worry about the cost of ship­ping, you can simply pop along to your local interior/design shop and there you shall find a Coulson Macleod for you to buy and take home with you.”

As you know we already have shops selling Coulson Macleod art in the UK and Nor­way. Can you help us with our global shop hunt?

Very pleased to announce that Coulson Macleod is being sold in a new shop…

Ber­thas Olde­barn in Ber­gen, Norway.

Our friends at Story In Bray told us about the most amaz­ing antiques shop, Lantique, in Pet­worth, West Sussex. I want prac­tic­ally everything on their web­site and the shop looks beau­ti­fully laid out. I’m totally smitten.

Yes, we at Coulson Macleod are beam­ing from ear to ear today. Proudly announ­cing our very first stockist…

Story In Bray is a gor­geous shop in the Thames-side vil­lage of Bray (set in the Eng­lish county of Berkshire).

Selling Coulson Macleod typo­graphic art prints

Story In Bray, which used to be the vil­lage Post Office, stocks a unique col­lec­tion of beau­ti­ful home and per­sonal accessor­ies, sourced from all over the world. A per­fect place to shop if you’re look­ing for some­thing a little different.

Bray is now renowned world­wide due its res­taur­ants.  Heston Blu­menthal has two res­taur­ants: his three Mich­elin starred The Fat Duck (voted best res­taur­ant in the world) and the local pub The Hinds Head. Then there is The Water­side Inn, another three Mich­elin starred res­taur­ant run by Michel Roux’s son Alain.