New launches and diary dates: what House & Garden’s editors are excited about this month
Madcap Cottage, the American brand known for its riotously colourful and playful designs, is holding a Christmas pop-up at Nina Campbell’s showroom on Pimlico Road, SW1, until December 24. Based in North Carolina, the design studio founded by Jason Oliver Nixon and John Loecke has as its mantra ‘Banish the Beige’. The duo takes an eclectic approach to design, reflecting influences as diverse as Palm Beach hotels, English country houses and East Asian architecture. For Madcap Cottage’s first showcase this side of the Atlantic, the main spaces in Nina’s shop will be filled with hundreds of unusual pieces – such as this ‘Strawberry Hill Hand-Painted Oval Tole’ tray, £205 (below), and the wicker ‘Cottage Grove Hand-Painted Pagoda’ lantern, £1,093 (bottom) – alongside fabric, wallpaper and wrapping paper. ‘We want to take you on a journey round the world,’ explains Jason. ‘Everything we do is happy – there’s nothing at all fussy or stuffy about us.’
