New Summer Pastels

Last week we brought you all our beautiful new pieces in bright sunshine yellows! This week we’re continuing to showcase all the lovely new work that’s coming in but this time in lovely bright pastel colours.

This weeks stand out new pieces have to be the new digital prints from Susie Wright. A3 in size and available framed both online and from the gallery.

Susie was commissioned by Lululemon on George Street to install some large scale illustrations of her beautiful work. Usually sticking to a monochrome palate for her Edinburgh prints, We are loving the addition of Bright Pastel Colours.

Continuing the pastel theme, we’ve also just taken delivery of lots of new purses from Keecie. We’re all lusting after her Top Secret Clutch.

Each Keecie purse features cute hidden Screen Printed Animals or Mountains. It’s always a nice surprise to see what’s hidden in each one.

It’s the perfect time to update your homewares and getting your home spring/summer ready. What could be a cuter update than these new folk inspired cushions from Paparajote Factory. Handmade in Spain from lovely cool cotton and featuring the cutest ditsy florals and people.

It wouldn’t be summer in Scotland without the odd rain shower! If you’re heading down to watch the bike racing tomorrow in the Grassmarket; Rain showers are expected. We have some really cute umbrella’s from Atomic Soda to keep you dry at the races and throughout the typical rainy Scottish summers.      (these aren’t currently available online).

Hope to see you on Victoria Street cheering on the cyclist! Cowbells at the ready!

Eilidh Muldoon’s Victoria Street now back in stock!

New Summer Pastels

TONIGHT! NMSLates Celts

Don’t be a bore, be a boar!  Tonight at the National Museum of Scotland (NMS) you can create your own Mythical Celts Animal thanks to illustrator, Peter Carrington and the innovative team behind NMSLates Celts event. If you are heading to the Museum on Chamber Street, Edinburgh tonight, you are in for a dancer of a night, with live performances from Idlewilde, The Beltane Fire Society, indie folk duo Hannah Fisher & Sorren Maclean and Vic Galloway will be playing a Clets inspired DJ set.If you need a wee rest from dancing, or prefer to throw down some shapes fron behind an animal mask (and who wouldn’t ?) the come find us, The Red Door Gallery and Peter Carrington himself, just off the dance floor in the Hawthornden Court.  If your not fast, your spirit animal may leave without you…

TONIGHT! NMSLates Celts

Shiny, Happy And New

What a difference it makes when the Sun has got his hat on! It’s been a beautiful week so far here in Edinburgh and we’re all hoping it stays around for a while.

It makes for an even happier week when we have so many new bright shiny products to share with you all. It’s been an explosion of bright yellow across Homewares, Jewellery and Prints.

One of the most exciting ranges has been from the lovely Jo of Hello Sunshine. Jo has been working with us at the gallery for a number of years now and we always love to see where she’ll take her collection next. 
We love the addition of her Bunny, Canary Aviary and Cheese Plant Collections, along with new lapel pins and cufflinks in her super popular cat and cheese collection too.

We’re sure her new pieces will bring a little bit of sunshine to your lives when the inevitable grey clouds show their faces again.

We’ve also got some new faces to share. Paparajote Factory are makers of beautiful Homewares and Accessories. Their cute little cloud cushion has been a popular choice this week. The perfect range of homewares for all ages.

They’ve been joined by The Lovely Little Company. Makers of novelty lighting, cute milk & cookie lights. The popular favourites have been their lightboxes.

More exciting work arriving over the next few weeks. Keep up to date in our What’s New Section or check out our Pinterest Page to see our exciting selection of work.

It’s the museum late’s this Friday. We hope to see you all there for our fun workshop with Peter Carrington.

Get out there & enjoy the sunshine!

Shiny, Happy And New

Great Minds Ride A Bike

Looks like the sun might be on the horizon for next week. The perfect time to get out on two wheels. We’ve been a little bit inspired by the arrival of our new window display by bike mad Rebecca Kaye and her Middle of Nowhere label.

Grab one of her water bottles to make sure you stay hydrated on your ride and fill your home with positive cycle vibes making you want to get out on those two wheels.

If you’re finding that you might need a little bit of encouragement and some inspiration to get out there, we’re lucky to be welcoming the Pearl Izumi Tour Series back to the Edinburgh cobbles next week. Thursday the 19th May sees some of the top names in cycling, hit our cobbles. A new route is planned for this year but still round our favourite Old Town Area and coming up Victoria Street.

Here are some highlights from previous races to inspire you to come along.

https://youtu.be/e1PBRVyb_HM

So many of our artists are inspired by cycling and we have so much to choose from. Here are some of our favourites.

 

Great Minds Ride A Bike

May the fourth be with you!

Every May 4th we go a little Star Wars-tastic here in The Red Door, and this year has been no different!  We have a lot of great new Star Wars inspired goodies in for Adults and Kids of all ages!These “Wee Man” BB8 baby grows are all over the baby cat walk this season, with the 3 to 6 months olds prooving to be the most devout, demanding and cutest of all the Stars are Braw fans!In toddler fashionista circles, the girls are showing the boys how it’s done, rocking the 18 to 24 Month “Wee Man” R2d2 baby grow with social convention shattering style.For the bigger kids (sizes up to age 8) we have both BB8 and R2D2 wee man designs in T-shirt form.For those of you who prefer your illustrations on your wall (or are perhaps a little too adult for kids ware) we have this super cute BB8 print to celebrate your May 4th.

It is important on this day to remember the life lessons of Star Wars, and this new print series certainly does that!May the fourth be with you all!

 

 

May the fourth be with you!

It"s Stationery Week - Pens at the ready!

It’s National Stationery Week, so any excuse to buy ourselves new notebooks, writing sets, pens and pencils are good in our book. You’ve got to love a brand new pen and a crisp new notebook.

With so many different styles of Papergoods to choose from in the gallery, you really are spoilt for choice.

We’ve just taken delivery of lots of new notebooks and paper goods  from Kirsty Baynham. A busy bee, Kirsty is always adding to her extensive collection of animal and geometric inspired range.

Eilidh Muldoon is the latest artist to bring out a beautiful colouring book for us big kids. based around all the beautiful places in Scotland, get your sharpie at the ready.

Needs somewhere to keep your Sharpie’s safe? We have these cool Screen Printed Pencil Cases from Chase and Wonder.

If you’ve been in the area, you might have seen the talented Rebecca Kaye creating our new window display. We can’t wait for you to see the finished result. We have a whole new range of work by Rebecca that will be online this week.

We love her letterpressed postcards. The perfect addition to your stationery collection.

We hope you’ve had a great week surrounded by stationery. If this little blog has given you a hankering for a new note book, come see us or check out our collection here! 

It"s Stationery Week - Pens at the ready!

Spring has Sprung!

It feels like Spring may have finally sprung! What a lovely week we’ve been treated to here in Edinburgh. We know it won’t last for long so lets grab the sunshine whilst we can. Claire Fleck’s Summer Print collection is giving us that summer feeling. Her beautiful collection is the perfect update for your home to get it summer ready!

We love her Summer Swimmers. These super stylish ladies are sure to make you long for summer days by the pool, especially when they’re accompanied by these handsome Tattooed Fellas.

When they’re not lazing by the pool they’re off out in their party finery. Party Girls.

 

With a background in costume design, having studied at Edinburgh College Art, You can definitely feel there  is a story to go with each of Claire’s character, but it is a story to be performed on a stage or in your imagination rather than a book! We’d love to see a play featuring these stylish ladies.

Claire also recently had a small exhibition of her work in local coffee experts Obadiah pop up in the Grassmarket. When we’re after an afternoon coffee hit, this in one of our favourite stops in the area, they do a mean Flat White. 

When not illustrating and designing costumes, Claire can also be found photographing some of the prettiest brides. With an eye for beauty and detail, Claire captures the unexpected and we can see why so many brides look to her for their wedding photography.

If you’re not quite ready for summer yet, you can also pick up some of Claire’s more wintery prints in our SALE.

Mr Bailey would love a new home in your collection. Was £25 now £20.

Enjoy the sunshine whilst it lasts! Is it too early to dig out the BBQ?

Spring has Sprung!

Record Store Day

Today is Record Store Day. A celebration of all the great record stores around the UK. In celebration of this great day of music, artists release exclusive music not usually available, so if you’re confused as to the queues of people outside your local record store, this is why.

Not only can you buy exclusive records, many stores will have bands playing throughout the day in celebration so be sure to check out what’s going on in your area and you might get a nice surprise.

You can’t beat the sound and feel of a new record and we’re please to hear that vinyl record sales are on the rise, with just over 2million sold in 2o15.

We love Barry Bulsara’s High Fidelity Print. It’s a homage to the great movie about an American Record Store and originally a book by Nick Hornby.

https://youtu.be/0eBh6xipKYk

Saturday In the Record Store. One of our favourite scenes.

Hope the vinyl’s spinning where you are this weekend!

Record Store Day