DEsign anthology - Collect 2024 PreviewWith

With work from more than 400 makers on display, Collect (1 – 3 March 2024) is the Crafts Council’s flagship show – and a honeypot for collectors eager to discover the next big thing or add that perfect new piece. This year, it celebrates 20 years of raising the profile of exceptional contemporary craft, creating a snapshot of the market and capturing the zeitgeist, from the use of reused, repurposed, and recycled materials to the rising interest in textile-based art.

Charles Burnand Gallery

Counting many interior designers and architects among his clients, Simon Stewart of Charles Burnand Gallery has an acute sense of how design, art, sculpture and craft can all interact, constantly blurring the boundaries. See Jean-Gabriel Neukomm’s seemingly weightless chandelier made from paper-thin slices of mica; and meditate on Chinese maker Yanxiong Lin’s furniture made from washi paper, steel, lacquer and timber – “a window on to the past” as he described it, infused with memories of his childhood, raised by his grandmother in a small village, and the subsequent loss of that stability. The colourful, wonky limestone furniture of Steve Clarke (who works under the name denHolm) will expand your mind about the limits of contemporary stonemasonry.