Gift Focus - Jul/Aug 2018 (Issue 108)

giftfocus 89 home & gift preview MARY ANN ROGERS GALLERY Stand: DP4-D46 marogers.com Everything is hotting up at Mary Ann Rogers Gallery as the company prepares for Home & Gift. Five new limited-edition prints in a choice of beautiful contemporary frames will be launched, to add to the existing range of prints, covering wildlife, landscapes and domestic poultry, all painted by award-winning wildlife artist, Mary Ann Rogers, from her remote Northumberland studio/gallery. Along with her prints, Mary Ann’s work has translated seamlessly onto wonderful homewares, scarves, gifts and stationery. Leaping foxes, voluptuous tulips, racing hares and proud cockerels all bursting with life and movement. New calendars, diaries and planners for 2019 that will bring order into hectic lives, as well as new bone china tableware including elegant teapots, jugs and mugs, all adorned with fabulous artwork will be on display. SHRIEKING VIOLET Stand: D79 flowerjewellery.com Shrieking Violet has some exciting new designs to launch at Home & Gift. These include a Dachshund necklace with forget-me-nots, the Sunflower Collection and greetings cards with a necklace. Shrieking Violet is also offering its sterling silver jewellery range with gold plating. The company started its journey in 1990s, trading at London’s Camden Market with its unique range of handmade sterling silver jewellery with real flowers. It slowly shifted focus to supplying the trade and now has over 400 active trade accounts, including jewellery and gift shops, museums, botanical gardens and department stores in the UK and beyond. Popular collections include rose, forget-me-not, poppy, daisy, purple haze, heather and mixed flowers. Styles include necklaces, earrings, bracelets, chokers, brooches and cufflinks. Shrieking Violet jewellery retails between £19.99 and £54.99. CARDMORE Stand: DP5, GS-58 cardmore.co.uk Cardmore & Pictura’s new Botanical range of greeting cards features 19 beautifully developed designs with lined envelopes to match. All cards are finished with glitter and foil, are embossed and wrapped and are sold in units of six per design. Also available is the popular Jane & Two Twenty Two range of greeting cards and gifts and the ever-popular Sienna’s Garden greeting card and gift range. Come to see the ranges at Harrogate Home & Gift stand. For a catalogue, please contact stuart.hancock@cardmore.co.uk. OPTICAID Stand: B30 opticaid.net Opticaid UK is launching its new AW18-ready reading glasses at Harrogate Home & Gift. Among the many new styles are the ladies’ styles Portofino Purple, Ashford Teal and Lymington Pink Stripe. All frames have deeper fashionable lenses and represent key colours of the season. Also trending is animal print, and Opticaid has three new animal prints with Veneto, which is a cat’s eye-shaped frame, Waterloo Red and Boracay Dusk in shades of blue. Also on display will be new patterns from its best-selling Aluminium wallet range. These hold up to 12 credit and debit cards and protects them from demagnetisation and RFID scanners, which fraudsters use to steal personal details. RRP £6.99. The team will also showcase stylish new night-sight overglasses, which are designed to be worn over prescription eyewear. These help remove headlight and streetlamp glare when driving in the darker winter months and are sure to be a bestseller. RRP £14.99.