Our collection of bone china tableware, SETCAST, first shown at the end of last year at the Yard Gallery, is now ready for its commercial launch and we are bringing it to 100% Design. We have collaborated with one of China's most distinguished manufacturers of bone china, Asianera, based in northern China.

Together, we have developed a collection that makes the best use of bone china's excellent light-reflective properties and also moves away from traditional decorative tableware to focus on striking new typologies which make a bold statement.

Also check out our design for the stand of Elle Decoration magazine, location F90, and pick up a free copy of their October issue. We are featured twice.

In a city of forty storey condominium buildings and the fastest rising number of millionaires, we are designing a very discreet bungalow on a quiet residential street. The client's brief is to create a contemporary version of the colonial tropical house. Climate control is a key issue in the tropics.

For this house, we have designed a series of verandahs, overhangs and brises soleil, and focused on cross ventilation to try to reduce the reliance on airconditioning.

See the before and after shots.

Back in England, we are working on an extension to a sprawling manor house in Berkshire, on an estate originally mentioned in the Domesday book. The estate once belonged to the de la Beche family, at their peak of influence in the fourteenth century and now famous as the Aldworth Giants, the apparently life size seven foot effigies in the local church.

We are adding a 150 square metre extension clad in black tarred wood to reference local barns linked to the main house by a glass walkway.

A new architect arrival in our office from New Zealand, is ploughing through Peter Ackroyd's London: The Biography. Burbage House (our office building) she tells us, is named after James Burbage, the original theatre impresario from the sixteenth century,

buried in the church around the corner (when I grow rich, say the Bells of Shoreditch) and the man behind the Curtain (our road) Theatre, the main venue for Shakespeare's company for a couple of years.

Charity night out
Coexistence is holding their third charity auction, this time for Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres on November 13th at the Vitra showroom in order to raise as much as £100 000. Contact Ross Bull at Coexistence for more information and please place a hefty bid on the night for our special edition of Tube Vases.

Design Singapore Council
at 100% Design
Dr. Milton Tan, the head of DesignSingapore Council is hosting a small drinks event on our stand at 100% Design (thanks very much) and will introduce news on the second Singapore Design Festival coming up in November.

The Unbending Trees
Hungarian friend Kristof Hajos is playing with his top new band The Unbending Trees at The Betsy Trotwood, Hoxton for two nights from Wednesday 19th September. They have recently signed to Ben Watt's Strange Feeling records label, him from Everything But The Girl. It's only £5. Nice.

Upcoming dates

Blueprint Magazine Studio evening will be at our place on October 24th

We will be exhibiting at Sleep 07 at Billingsgate on 13 & 14 November