Claire Potter Design + CompARTment Pop Up Shop in UK

Instead of going on holiday this year, eco design practice Claire Potter Design has decamped from its usual base to create a temporary pop-up studio in the Open Market in central Brighton, UK. They’ll be offering free interior and landscape design advice to all visitors this week, so stop by if you’re in the area and need some tips on what to do with your decor or garden! The shop was constructed entirely from locally-sourced recycled and reclaimed materials — it features vintage gym equipment used as a seating bench and table, old enamel factory lights, and plywood boards rescued from a building site skip. Other reclaimed features include a 1950’s architect’s drawing table and a transparency viewing light board, both of which add to eclectic, industrial style of the space.

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biz ladies: setting up your office space

I’ve spent many a sleepless night drumming up solutions to my clients’ home office design conundrums. In fact, daydreaming about office arrangements was the final clue four years ago that it was time for me to leave behind my non-profit career to launch Cloud 9 , my organizing and redesign business. As the program manager of two youth art non-profits, it’s never a good sign when you’re more excited to think about how your office could be reconfigured than say, about how to get underserved kids engaged with arts programming.  This is all to say that I’m an office-passionate gal who’s thought a lot about them.

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