Normann Copenhagen

On a recent visit to Newcastle, I visited the Baltic Mill museum set in a lovely location right on the River Tyne. Unfortunately there weren't actually many exhibitions on as they were working on exhibition changeover, however, we did have a great time looking at what was available in the gallery shop!

Art galleries and museums always, I find, have interesting and fun things for sale in their gift shops, and the Baltic was no exception. I even saw a collection of the Penguin Book deckchairs that we have in the grass studio in the school of design! However what caught my eye were the products by a company called Normann Copenhagen. The company produces modern, innovative homeware by a series of different designers, and you can view their products here. These products were not all available in the museum, but out of those that were, my favourites were the strainer, the cognac glass and the washing up bowl. Shown below is the strainer; I love this product as conventional strainers are usually quite big and are difficult to store without decent amounts of cupboard space, but this can just be folded down flat and takes up so much less space! It would be great to have something like this in my uni house!