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Precinct 75 Design Pop Up: A retail experience like no other

Malls definitely have their benefits; in a couple of hours you can get your hands on everything you need (more like want), but it’s fair to say the experience can get a little… samey. So where to shop when you want to find something that little bit different? Sydneysiders, I may have the answer.

Based in Sydney’s St Peters, Precinct 75 is a vibrant creative precinct comprising of 12 character buildings dating back to the early 1900s. With old-school charm, Precinct 75 is home to 70 businesses — from furniture showrooms to a micro-brewery, urban winery and florist.

To celebrate this diverse hub and get you prepped early for Christmas, Precinct 75 will be hosting a Summer Design Pop Up over the weekend of November 11 and 12 from 10am-to-5pm. The premium shopping festival will host both current design tenants (including Uashmama, The Society Inc, Design Twins, Inartisan, Watertiger, Quercus & Co and so many more) plus a raft of guest homewares and fashion brands including Pony Rider, MJG by Mr Jason Grant, Bailey Nelson, Major Minor, Bondi Wash, Addition Studio and Byron Bay Hanging Chairs. Excited yet?!

“The Summer Design Pop Up will play host to an incredible selection of hand-picked independent designers,” explains the director of Precinct 75 Paul Apostoles. “This is part of a collective movement taking place in Australia right now, where likeminded brands want to band together to create an offering much bigger than any one name. It’s exciting and retail like we have not often experienced in this country.”

The festival-style event, which launched last year, will offer a range of delicious food options (Vietnamese street food by Rice Pantry, coffee by Sample Roasters, Oysters and wine by Urban Winery and sweet treats by Buttercream Bakery), entertainment for the minis and live music… not to mention book signings with stylist Mr Jason Grant and indoor plant advice from The Plant Society.

Make a day of it – bring the family and the pets… all are welcome at this free event!

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Designers Homewares

Utopia Goods’ magical Christmas pop-up shop

Selling their handcrafted textiles and accessories that are inspired by native flora and fauna (in a completely tasteful way!), Utopia Goods will be holding a Christmas pop-up shop in Sydney’s Surry Hills.

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Opening the doors to their studio for a magical, festive-themed two weeks of shopping, you will be able to get your hands on their locally designed home furnishings, tableware, limited-edition bedding and bags.

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Perfect for gifting, the 100% cotton and linen designs pay tribute to Australia’s unique environment, with the prints and patterns creating easy-layering and occasionally clashing.

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Complimentary gift-wrapping and icy refreshments will be flowing and every customer will go into the draw to win a door prize valued at $350!

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The Christmas pop-up runs Monday-to-Friday from 9 December to Christmas Eve at 67/61 Marlborough Street, Surry Hills.

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Homewares

One-of-a-kind, global homewares at Kaspia’s second pop-up

Following the success of her pop-up at The Yellow House in Potts Point, nomadic Sydney stylist, Kaspia Warner, is bringing her collection of tribal homewares and jewellery to the former Garden Life store in Surry Hills.

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Featuring products from her online store, Kaspia’s Caravan, the range includes hand-sourced wares from some of the world’s most remote outposts. The pop up will showcase beautiful Afghan blankets and rugs, handwoven baskets and rope beds from villages in the Safed Koh ranges, Turkoman tribal jewelery, intricately carved Swat Valley walnut furniture and Raj-era antique windows and door frames from the Hindu Kush.

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The collection will be complimented by a range of Garden Life products including plants, Moroccan ceramics from Tamagroute and Tiznit, vintage cous cous platters, antique Turkish planters, beldi glass hanging lamps, stools and more.

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Running until January 2016, the pop up opens everyday from 10am-to-5pm at 357 Cleveland St, Redfern.

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Homewares

Visit Ten Things’ pop-up shop in the lead up to Christmas

Bringing their online store to life, Ten Things will be holding a pop-up shop this festive season in Sydney’s BRANCH3D gallery and shop space.

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“It’s been two years since our first Sydney pop-up so we’re incredibly excited to be doing it all again,” explains owner Libby Carr. “The festivity and bustle of December makes it the perfect time of year and we love having the opportunity to meet customers and engage with our community.”

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With everyone’s favourite products for sale, there will be Japanese enamel teapots from Noda Horo, designer clocks from Japan, the playful textiles of Kauniste, Finland and the colourful prints of Charley Harper.

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Big supporters of handmade products and independent design, look out for scarves from Israeli textile designer Lee Coren and hand-carved wooden utensils from Warang Wayan, Bali.

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And for something new, Ten Things are excited to have selected some beautiful ceramics especially for the pop-up, including pieces from Sydney’s It’s a Public Holiday and Melbourne’s Dot & Co.

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The Ten Things pop-up will run from 2-to-20 December, Wednesday-to-Sunday, and will offer the perfect finding spot for that unique Christmas gift.

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Incy Interiors and Tutu Du Monde’s magical pop-up + win a tutu

Appealing to homewares and fashion enthusiasts alike, this Christmas season the magic of Incy Interiors and Tutu Du Monde will come together for a one-of-a-kind pop-up shop.

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Launching this Saturday at Incy Interiors’ Chatswood Chase store, both mothers and daughters will be wowed by Tutu Du Monde’s The Wonder Hour collection, whilst sipping on French Moet champagne and enjoying the sweet delights of LADURÉE macaroons (respectively!) in a visually spectacular setting. What’s more, face-painters will add a little more glitter to those gorgeous faces.

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Styled by Leonie Barker, the Incy Interiors shop will come to life with fairy lights, garlands, lavender and all things festive. A beautiful accompaniment to The Wonder Hour collection, which features garments available from sizes infant to tween, and a dazzling selection of accessories. Silvery beads will be splashed across ruffled bodices, crystals will peep from fabrics and jewel-bright hues and ethereal pastels will adorn the collection.

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Open until Christmas Eve, the launch party runs from 12-to-3pm. But better yet (and what can be better than free champagne and macarons?!), we are giving away a Very Merry Tutu Dress (above) and a Crowning Glory Feather Headband, so your little girl can feel like a princess just in time for the festive season. For you chance to win, all you have to do is fill out the form below by 5pm Sydney time on Monday 23 November 2015.

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Très chic French homewares pop-up in Surry Hills this weekend

When Aaron Cameron followed his heart to Paris after meeting his French husband in Sydney, he never imagined he’d also fall in love with the city. But he did, quickly! So combining his love of design with his new love of Paris, he formed Studio Ombre, a homewares and interior design studio (with offices in Paris and Sydney) focusing on great design and exceptional quality.

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With an ultra-modern collection of bright cushions and chic art prints (normally available strictly online), this weekend — for one week only — Studio Ombre will be hosting a pop-up shop in Sydney.

Transforming Blank Space Gallery in Surry Hills into a magasin éphémère (that’s French for pop-up shop) Studio Ombre’s new range will bring their Parisian design aesthetic to the inner city with their 100% French-made homewares.

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With four graphic cushion designs, each comes in two sizes and four colourways, and is made from 100% polished cotton percale woven in France. Constructed by well paid, experienced artisans who work in excellent conditions, the highest standards are maintained at each stage of the manufacturing process, ensuring true French quality.

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Also on offer are three art print designs, in one size and two-to-four colourways. Printed on 100% cotton 308gms archival rag paper in Paris using UV resident inks, each comes with a stamped certificate of authenticity.

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Studio Ombre’s first ever pop-up shop at Blank Space Gallery runs from (this Saturday) 14-to-20 November. Join them for a glass of champagne and a macaron on launch day from 4-to-6pm, or visit throughout the week from 10am-to-6pm.

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The Sydney pop-up stocking gorgeous, ethically handmade wares

I wouldn’t blame you if you associated fairtrade with chocolate and toys made out of Coke cans. Admittedly, there was a time when I thought the exact same. Sure I knew the products were doing fabulous things for people in developing countries, but stylish and on-trend? Well, that was a different story.

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Yet as I’ve been introduced to more and more brands, particularly homewares, I’ve come to realise that good design and social justice can work hand in hand. Beautiful designer brands like One Another, SHELF/LIFE, The Dharma Door and Once Was Lost all offer wares that are gorgeous, ethically handmade and support communities of artisans living in some of the most challenging regions of the world. Seems like a win win win to me!

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All their homewares are available online, but this month they’re making it even easier to shop ethically, opening a pop-up store, Designed For Good, in Sydney’s Darlinghurst. “For a while I had been dreaming about having a store that was focused purely on stocking ethical products,” explains Rick Carter from One Another. “Nothing would be mass-produced and as a consumer you would know that every purchase you made was going to impact someone on the other side of the world. This dream has now come into reality and it’s all about good design, designed for good!”

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With the pop-up offering a collection of goods from the four like-minded brands, it also has a range of amazing in store workshops hosted by Lisa Tilse, Samorn Sanixay, Julia Denes and Mrs Munro. “We thought it would be inspiring for people to come and create their own beautiful bowl or scarf while being surrounded by products that have all been handmade by talented artisans from every corner of the world,” says Rick.

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Running until 22 November, Rick and his fellow shop-owners have the one simple aim, to get consumers to start asking questions. “There are some really sad and horrifying stories surrounding the exploitation of cheap labour and the violation of human rights. So we want people to start questioning where and how things are made. With our wares we want to share the story behind each product; where it was made, who made it, the materials chosen and the process of production.”

Photography by Lena Barridge

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Visit the Hardtofind Pop Up for all your gift-giving needs

I checked out the Hardtofind Pop Up store in Sydney’s The Rocks last week and it is full to brimming with all kinds of great gift ideas for everyone on your list! Go and check it out while it’s still there (until 14 December) plus, if you Instagram while you’re in there you’ll go in the draw to win EVERYTHING in the shop!

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It’s at 5 Hickson Road, The Rocks, Sydney (opposite Holiday Inn). Thursdays 10am–8pm, Fridays 10am–8pm, Saturdays 10am–5pm, Sundays 10am–4pm.

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Hardtofind.com.au is an award-winning website featuring more than 30,000 beautifully designed, unique items, carefully curated by Sydney-based creatives, Eri Stewart and Trudi Jenkins. Since the website’s official launch in 2008, hardtofind has grown steadily to become one of Australia’s favourite online shopping destinations. Whilst the website may have started as a hobby for the former publishing duo, today there is serious business going on. The company currently employs 25 full-time staff and is scaling rapidly with 180,000 active, repeat-purchase customers, 30,000 products from more than 800 Australian and international sellers, 180,000+ Facebook fans, 5.5 million visitors and 28 million page views in the past 12 months alone.

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Country Road offer free flowers for Mother’s Day shoppers

With Mother’s Day this Sunday, Country Road is here to help last-minute gift buyers with their pop up florist, The Flower Carts.

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At Melbourne’s South Yarra and Chadstone stores and Sydney’s Chatswood Chase store, cleverly designed plywood carts will be filled with beautifully wrapped fresh white tulips and packaged bulbs to plant at home. The Flower Carts will be in stores today (Friday 9) and tomorrow (Saturday 10 April), with bunches costing $16 or free with any purchase over $100 from the Women’s category.

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Get down to James Gordon’s popup for paper art gifts which will make you very popular

I thoroughly recommend you get down to THE Sydney Christmas popup tomorrow and for the rest of the week.

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It’s my Instagram friend James Gordon’s MIXED BUSINESS and I can promise you you’ll find treasures there like nowhere else. Divine and clever paper sculptures which will take your breath away, illustrations, watercolours, jewellery. If there’s a theme, it’s that everything is beautiful! The things this man creates from paper blow my mind!

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Design a sustainable pop-up shop & win $3,000

The Big Shift Design Competition is an exciting new concept developed to encourage creativity and innovation in the design of functional interiors using sustainable materials and products. And you could win $3,000 cash!

In 2013 the competition will focus on sustainability in retail design and the emergence of the ‘Pop Up’ shop phenomenon. Using Xanita X-Board materials (lightweight boards made from upcycled, post-consumer cellulose fibre waste) professional designers are asked to apply their creativity to two categories:

  • The Lend Lease Pop Up Kiosk – using X-Board to create a design for multiple types of services and merchandise within a 4m long x 3m wide footprint. The design must be easily dismantled and reassembled, be easily adaptable and display brand effectively.

1st Prize $2000 – 2nd Prize $1000

  • Pop Up Shop – using X-Board to create a design for multiple types of services and merchandise within a 8m wide x 10m long footprint. The design must be easily dismantled and reassembled, be easily adaptable and display brand effectively.

1st Prize $3000 – 2nd Prize $1000

The 1st and 2nd prize-winning entries will be built by Oxford Communications Group Pty Ltd and displayed during designEx in Melbourne in May. There will also be an opportunity for winners to pitch their designs to Lend Lease for possible use in their 16 retail centres around Australia.

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Enter online at www.thebigshiftdesigncomp.com. The competition closes on Tuesday 30 April 2013, with winners announced at an exclusive presentation on Thursday 30 May 2013 at designEx in Melbourne.

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High Tea with Mrs Woo & Heaven in Earth collaborate on Paddington pop-up

Heaven in Earth will be displaying their wares at High Tea with Mrs Woo

Beautiful homewares and fashion join forces this month in a collaboration at High Tea with Mrs Woo.

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Heaven in Earth will be displaying their wares at High Tea with Mrs Woo

Jocelyn van Hoven of Heaven in Earth, whose products will be showcased at the artisan ‘pop-in’ says: “For us, this is truly exciting. The three sisters from High Tea are such a delight to work with and have a true belief in their clothing range and the artisans they support. With a similar ethos, our garden and homewares work in so well and we can give each other a extra dimension and support each other.”

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Latest pop up: AMASIA and Fjura

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There are some fab pop up shops, well, popping up all over the place at the moment, many of them just for Christmas. Head on down to Darlinghurst to check out the collaboration between online lifestyle store AMASIA and florist Fjura.

AMASIA has a collection of unique, quality goods from Asia, all selected on the basis of a commitment to good design. It stocks small homewares, travel accessories, iPad/iPod accessories, clothing and stationery, and each product has a unique story. The objects come from all over Asia, but mainly Japan. 

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