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Winter Events
What's New What's Next 2023
Wednesday September 20th
This season, get lost in a dark romance with House of Hackney.
We invite you to enter the
GOTHIC GARDEN
Join us at New York Design Center’s What’s New What’s Next and uncover our new collection…
A Gothic Garden full of neoclassical romanticism, mysticism and medievalism; dark desires and forbidden pleasures; The Sublime and the Beautiful.
Plus offerings from The Market Garden, House of Hackney’s marketplace showcasing independent artists.
Refreshments will be provided.
September 20th
9am - 5pm
New York Design Center 200 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10016
Sample Sale
20th - 22th October
This October we’re having our biggest sample sale yet!
As well as our iconic wallpapers, fabrics and accessories you can expect homeware treasures, vintage & antique furniture, sofas, rugs and much more!
Come and snap up some House of Hackney at a great discount.
Friday 20th & Saturday 21st
10am -6pm
Sunday 22nd October
11am - 5pm
The Box, 4-6 Ram Place, London E9 6LT
No need to book, simply turn up. The £2 entry fee will be donated to Hackney Winter Night Shelter
Festive Floral Wreath Making Workshop
Thursday 30th November
6pm - 8:30pm
Enter the dreamy world of Saint Foral, as founder Hannah Antmann guides you through creating your own floral wreath in this festive workshop hosted by House of Hackney.
Refreshments will be provided.
Hannah Antmann is a floral designer, floral stylist & ornamenter under the moniker of Saint Floral. Since 2015 she has been making magic, telling love stories & curating romantic scenes, places and spaces with dreamy floral displays of atmospheric, classical and painterly bouquets, floral shrines, weddings and editorials.
With every single seasonally-fresh to faded and preserved bloom, bud, leaf and vine she weaves stories of romance, nostalgia, mood & melancholia, creating visually-beautiful, even haunting moments and memories.
£150
Book your ticket here
To celebrate our appointment of Mother Nature & Future Generations to our board of directors, we are hosting 2 exciting and inspirational events at our London flagship, St Michael’s.
Giving Nature a Voice
Business Leader’s Workshop
Wednesday 29th November
3pm - 5pm
Lawyers for Nature's Brontie Ansell, Faith in Nature's Simeon Rose and Anne Hopkins and Phoebe Tickell will be hosting a workshop for fellow businesses & entrepreneurs about giving Nature and Future Generations a place on a board of directors - ensuring businesses can give the voiceless a true voice in all decision making.
£15
Book your ticket here
Why The Nature Rights Movement Makes Us Hopeful
Panel Discussion
Wednesday 29th November
6pm -8pm
Join House of Hackney co-founder, Frieda Gormley, Lawyer's for Nature co-founder, Brontie Ansell, Daze Aghaji, Kalpana Arias, Phoebe Tickell and Nature on the Board pioneers Faith in Nature for this panel discussion, exploring the rights of Nature, the movement and joining the wave of change.
£10
Book your ticket here
Falling between All Hallow’s Eve and Christmas, the Festival of Witchmas is House of Hackney’s annual celebration of the magical and mystical, held at our home in London, the gothic St Michael’s Clergy House.
This year, we enter The Witch’s Garden, as we uncover the magic of plants.
Tarot Readings
2nd - 4th November
10:30am - 6pm
Ethical Tarot readings rooted in esoteric British tradition from Fede Bonadea Tarot.
Virtual readings are also available.
Book your ticket here.
Spell Writing Workshop
with the Seed Sistas
4th November
10.30am - 12.30pm
Here at Witchmas we have a few hints, ideas and tips to share with you about our own favourite plants in the witch’s garden.
What is a Spell? What is a Hex? Be guided in this fun and interactive session by the Nightshade SistAs – and they will be throwing plenty of shade - as they introduce to you their clear-thinking relation, the Creatrix Belladonna; a herb long feared and much revered. Come and meet belladonna up close and personal. Hear of her history in poisoning and how she can be weaved into work to cut ties and clear away bonds that weigh you down. Learn how she can sever ties to negative patterns of behaviour and bring you more clarity.
Belladonna is renowned for the jet-black, shiny berries, so enticing and super attractive, berries of temptation, devil’s cherries – perfect for creating your own magical natural inks and dyes.
£30
Book your ticket here.
Witch's Garden Workshop
with Seed Sistas
4th November
2pm - 4pm
Here at Witchmas we have a few hints, ideas and tips to share with you about our own favourite plants in the witch’s garden.
Meet the Yarrow herb, an ingredient in the witch’s flying ointment…In this creative workshop we will be exploring this herb’s personality and character in depth using our senses to elicit the story held within the leaves and blooms of this commonly growing magical medicinal plant. Working with powerful energies we find personal transformation and delve into our very own ‘Achilles heel’. We shall discover tools to support our health and wellbeing and investigate the art of folklore creation. Discover modern folklore and meeting plant kin that will become friends for life.
£30
Book your ticket here.
Witchmas - The Return
of The Witch
Panel Discussion
4th November
6.30pm - 7.30pm (doors open at 6pm)
Grab a glass of wine and join enchanting host India Rakusen (from BBC’s Witch) and esteemed guests, folklorist, artist and environmental activist Daze Aghaji, author, witch and Obeah practitioner Emma Kathryn and world-famous witchy duo, The Seed Sistas, as we discuss ‘The Return of the Witch’. In this lively panel discussion, we will explore the power of plants, eco-activism, the new wave of witchcraft and how our connection to nature is more important than ever.
£10
Book your ticket here.
Mighty Mycelium
Panel Discussion
7th November
6.30pm - 7.30pm (doors open at 6pm)
We’ve always been fond of fungi at House of Hackney, and we believe in their potential to solve a lot of the world’s problems. Join Mike Green, founder of The London Fungus Network, Aurélie Fontan from innovative mycelium makers Osmose Studios, Professor of Psychology Dr David Luke and our own fun-guy, Javvy M Royle as they discuss the long history and exciting future of the materials, medicine and magic of the mushroom.
£10
(donated to charity)
Book your ticket here.
Ceramic Workshop
With Blue Firth
11th November
2pm - 4pm
Join Dohm Ceramics’ Blue Firth as she guides you through making your own clay sigil. Starting with mark making intuitively to music, you will then sculpt and craft your sigil using natural black clay. Blue will take your sigil and fire it, then post to you, so you can hang on the wall as a beautiful decoration, or place near your front door as a threshold protector.
£45
Book your ticket here
What's New What's Next 2023
Wednesday September 20th
This season, get lost in a dark romance with House of Hackney.
We invite you to enter the
GOTHIC GARDEN
Join us at New York Design Center’s What’s New What’s Next and uncover our new collection…
A Gothic Garden full of neoclassical romanticism, mysticism and medievalism; dark desires and forbidden pleasures; The Sublime and the Beautiful.
Plus offerings from The Market Garden, House of Hackney’s marketplace showcasing independent artists.
Refreshments will be provided.
September 20th
9am - 5pm
New York Design Center 200 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10016
Sample Sale
20th - 22th October
This October we’re having our biggest sample sale yet!
As well as our iconic wallpapers, fabrics and accessories you can expect homeware treasures, vintage & antique furniture, sofas, rugs and much more!
Come and snap up some House of Hackney at a great discount.
Friday 20th & Saturday 21st
10am -6pm
Sunday 22nd October
11am - 5pm
The Box, 4-6 Ram Place, London E9 6LT
No need to book, simply turn up. The £2 entry fee will be donated to Hackney Winter Night Shelter
Festive Floral Wreath Making Workshop
Thursday 30th November
6pm - 8:30pm
Enter the dreamy world of Saint Foral, as founder Hannah Antmann guides you through creating your own floral wreath in this festive workshop hosted by House of Hackney.
Refreshments will be provided.
Hannah Antmann is a floral designer, floral stylist & ornamenter under the moniker of Saint Floral. Since 2015 she has been making magic, telling love stories & curating romantic scenes, places and spaces with dreamy floral displays of atmospheric, classical and painterly bouquets, floral shrines, weddings and editorials.
With every single seasonally-fresh to faded and preserved bloom, bud, leaf and vine she weaves stories of romance, nostalgia, mood & melancholia, creating visually-beautiful, even haunting moments and memories.
£150
Book your ticket here
To celebrate our appointment of Mother Nature & Future Generations to our board of directors,
we are hosting 2 exciting and inspirational events at our London flagship, St Michael’s.
Giving Nature a Voice
Business Leader's Workshop
Wednesday 29th November
3pm - 5pm
Lawyers for Nature's Brontie Ansell, Faith in Nature's Simeon Rose and Anne Hopkins and Phoebe Tickell will be hosting a workshop for fellow businesses & entrepreneurs about giving Nature and future generations a place on a board of directors - ensuring businesses can give the voiceless a true voice in all decision making.
£15
Book your ticket here
Why the Nature Rights Movement Makes Us Hopeful
Panel Discussion
Wednesday 29th November
6pm - 8pm
Join House of Hackney co-founder, Frieda Gormley, Lawyer's for Nature co-founder, Brontie Ansell, Daze Aghaji, Kalpana Arias, Phoebe Tickell and Nature on the Board pioneers Faith in Nature for this panel discussion, exploring the rights of Nature, the movement and joining the wave of change.
£10
Book your ticket here
Falling between All Hallow’s Eve and Christmas, the Festival of Witchmas is House of Hackney’s annual celebration
of the magical and mystical, held at our home in London, the gothic St Michael’s Clergy House.
This year, we enter The Witch’s Garden, as we uncover the magic of plants.
Tarot Readings
2nd - 4th November
10:30am - 6pm
Ethical Tarot readings rooted in esoteric British tradition from Fede Bonadea Tarot.
Virtual readings are also available.
Book your ticket here.
Spell Writing Workshop
With the Seed Sistas
4th November
10.30am - 12.30pm
Here at Witchmas we have a few hints, ideas and tips to share with you about our own favourite plants in the witch’s garden.
What is a Spell? What is a Hex? Be guided in this fun and interactive session by the Nightshade SistAs – and they will be throwing plenty of shade - as they introduce to you their clear-thinking relation, the Creatrix Belladonna; a herb long feared and much revered. Come and meet belladonna up close and personal. Hear of her history in poisoning and how she can be weaved into work to cut ties and clear away bonds that weigh you down. Learn how she can sever ties to negative patterns of behaviour and bring you more clarity.
Belladonna is renowned for the jet-black, shiny berries, so enticing and super attractive, berries of temptation, devil’s cherries – perfect for creating your own magical natural inks and dyes.
£30
Book your ticket here.
Witch's Garden Workshop
With the Seed Sistas
4th November
2pm - 4pm
Here at Witchmas we have a few hints, ideas and tips to share with you about our own favourite plants in the witch’s garden.
Meet the Yarrow herb, an ingredient in the witch’s flying ointment…In this creative workshop we will be exploring this herb’s personality and character in depth using our senses to elicit the story held within the leaves and blooms of this commonly growing magical medicinal plant. Working with powerful energies we find personal transformation and delve into our very own ‘Achilles heel’. We shall discover tools to support our health and wellbeing and investigate the art of folklore creation. Discover modern folklore and meeting plant kin that will become friends for life.
£30
Book your ticket here.
Witchmas - Return of The Witch
Panel Discussion
4th November
6.30pm - 7.30pm
(doors open at 6pm)
Grab a glass of wine and join enchanting host India Rakusen (from BBC’s Witch) and esteemed guests, folklorist, artist and environmental activist Daze Aghaji, author, witch and Obeah practitioner Emma Kathryn and world-famous witchy duo, The Seed Sistas, as we discuss ‘The Return of the Witch’. In this lively panel discussion, we will explore the power of plants, eco-activism, the new wave of witchcraft and how our connection to nature is more important than ever.
£10
Book your ticket here.
Mighty Mycelium
Panel Discussion
7th November
6.30pm - 7.30pm
(doors open at 6pm)
We’ve always been fond of fungi at House of Hackney, and we believe in their potential to solve a lot of the world’s problems. Join Mike Green, founder of The London Fungus Network, Aurélie Fontan from innovative mycelium makers Osmose Studios, Professor of Psychology Dr David Luke and our own fun-guy, Javvy M Royle as they discuss the long history and exciting future of the materials, medicine and magic of the mushroom.
£10
(donated to charity)
Book your ticket here.
Ceramic Workshop
With Blue Firth
11th November
2pm - 4pm
Join Dohm Ceramics’ Blue Firth as she guides you through making your own clay sigil. Starting with mark making intuitively to music, you will then sculpt and craft your sigil using natural black clay. Blue will take your sigil and fire it, then post to you, so you can hang on the wall as a beautiful decoration, or place near your front door as a threshold protector.
£45
Book your ticket here
THE PROGRAMME
Welcome to The Garden of Tomorrow
An introduction to The Garden of Tomorrow from House of Hackney co-founder Frieda Gormley. Frieda will be sharing her personal journey in business, the ambition of the programme and her hopes for the future.
We Are Nature
In conversation with cosmologist, futurist, planetary healer, author, member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle and one of the most senior international business women in the UK, Dr Jude Currivan. Having travelled to over 80 countries, Jude has worked with wisdom keepers from many traditions and is a life-long researcher into the nature of reality.-
Nature's Rights; Putting Nature on the Board
The attribution of a voice and legal rights to Nature has the potential to solve so much in the world. Join the co-creators of Faith in Nature and pioneers of putting Nature on the board, Simeon Rose & Anne Hopkins and Lawyers for Nature co-founder and creative Earth law expert Brontie Ansell, in a fireside discussion about their work and journey towards putting Nature first.
Giving Nature A Voice
Lawyers for Nature’s Brontie will be hosting a short workshop post discussion about giving Nature and future generations a place on a board of directors - ensuring businesses can give the voiceless a true voice in all decision making.
Discover more
THE PROGRAMME
Founder Panel Discussion
Join us at House of Hackney’s The Garden of Tomorrow Festival on 15th June for the Founder Panel Discussion, hosted by Aja Barber.
Be inspired by the stories of the trailblazing leaders at the forefront of regenerative business, including…Patagonia’s Beth Thoren, Tom Kay, founder of Finisterre; Geetie Singh-Watson MBE, regenerative hospitality pioneer & ethical entrepreneur, Guy Singh-Watson, founder of employee-owned Riverford; Kresse Wesling CBE, co-founder of Elvis & Kresse, winner of the 2020 LVMH Prize, fashion designer Priya Ahluwalia and House of Hackney’s Frieda Gormley & Javvy M Royle. Followed by an opportunity to meet the panel, and an Aja Barber book signing.
Discover more
House of Hackney Pottery Workshop with Freya Bramble-Carter
Saturday July 8th
To celebrate the launch of House of Hackney’s The Market Garden, ceramic artist Freya Bramble-Carter (from channel 4’s The Great Pottery Throw Down), is hosting a pottery workshop at St Michael’s. With Freya’s expert guidance, sculpt your own vase inspired by her Nature inspired collection. Using Sculpd air dry clay, you will then use House of Hackney paint to bring your piece to life!
Lunch will be provided, so all you need to bring is your imagination and maybe a large bag and padding to take your creation home.
Book your ticket here
House of Hackney Pottery Workshop with Freya Bramble-Carter
Saturday July 8th
To celebrate the launch of House of Hackney’s The Market Garden, ceramic artist Freya Bramble-Carter (from channel 4’s The Great Pottery Throw Down), is hosting a pottery workshop at St Michael’s. With Freya’s expert guidance, sculpt your own vase inspired by her Nature inspired collection. Using Sculpd air dry clay, you will then use House of Hackney paint to bring your piece to life!
Lunch will be provided, so all you need to bring is your imagination and maybe a large bag and padding to take your creation home.
Book your ticket here
THE PROGRAMME
Welcome to The Garden of Tomorrow
An introduction to The Garden of Tomorrow from House of Hackney co-founder Frieda Gormley. Frieda will be sharing her personal journey in business, the ambition of the programme and her hopes for the future.
We Are Nature
In conversation with cosmologist, futurist, planetary healer, author, member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle and one of the most senior international business women in the UK, Dr Jude Currivan. Having travelled to over 80 countries, Jude has worked with wisdom keepers from many traditions and is a life-long researcher into the nature of reality.-
Nature's Rights; Putting Nature on the Board
The attribution of a voice and legal rights to Nature has the potential to solve so much in the world. Join the co-creators of Faith in Nature and pioneers of putting Nature on the board, Simeon Rose & Anne Hopkins and Lawyers for Nature co-founder and creative Earth law expert Brontie Ansell, in a fireside discussion about their work and journey towards putting Nature first.
Giving Nature A Voice
Lawyers for Nature’s Brontie will be hosting a short workshop post discussion about giving Nature and future generations a place on a board of directors - ensuring businesses can give the voiceless a true voice in all decision making.
Discover more
THE PROGRAMME
Founder Panel Discussion
Join us at House of Hackney’s The Garden of Tomorrow Festival on 15th June for the Founder Panel Discussion, hosted by Aja Barber.
Be inspired by the stories of the trailblazing leaders at the forefront of regenerative business, including…Patagonia’s Beth Thoren, Tom Kay, founder of Finisterre; Geetie Singh-Watson MBE, regenerative hospitality pioneer & ethical entrepreneur, Guy Singh-Watson, founder of employee-owned Riverford; Kresse Wesling CBE, co-founder of Elvis & Kresse, winner of the 2020 LVMH Prize, fashion designer Priya Ahluwalia and House of Hackney’s Frieda Gormley & Javvy M Royle. Followed by an opportunity to meet the panel, and an Aja Barber book signing.
Discover more
House of Hackney x Leo Flowers Everlasting Paper Flowers Workshop
Part of London Craft Week
Tuesday May 9th
House of Hackney and Leo Flowers will be hosting a paper flower making workshop celebrating House of Hackney's new season collection; Super Bloom. Over the 2-hour session held at House of Hackney's magical East London showroom, participants will join Leo Flower's founder, Jesssie Beaumont and learn preliminary techniques of botanical paper craft and take home a small posy of delicate everlasting snowdrops.
Each ticket costs £25, which will be donated to a local community garden charity.
Book your ticket here
House of Hackney x Alice Gabb Flag making Workshop
Part of London Craft Week
Saturday May 13th
House of Hackney and Alice Gabb come together to celebrate House of Hackney’s latest collection, Superbloom, and flower power for a new generation. In this workshop, Alice discusses the history of banners and helps you to create a statement banner of your own using House of Hackney new-season fabrics. The finished banner size is approximately 30 cm. Limited to 10 guests per class. Light lunch and refreshments provided.
Each ticket is £50.
Book your ticket here
House of Hackney x Alice Gabb Flag making Workshop
Part of London Craft Week
Saturday May 13th
House of Hackney and Alice Gabb come together to celebrate House of Hackney’s latest collection, Superbloom, and flower power for a new generation. In this workshop, Alice discusses the history of banners and helps you to create a statement banner of your own using House of Hackney new-season fabrics. The finished banner size is approximately 30 cm. Limited to 10 guests per class. Light lunch and refreshments provided.
Each ticket is £50.
Book your ticket here
The Cushion Tailor
Studio Sparks Pop-Up Cushion Studio - Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th December
Create a little comfort and joy this Yule with our in-house cushion tailor, Studio Sparks.
Choose from patchwork deadstock House of Hackney fabrics and create your own unique cushion. Rosie Sparks will then magic your cushion to life, ready to be delivered in time for Christmas. Cushions are £195.
No need to book, simply drop by St Michael’s.
Pop-Up Record Shop
The Music Room at St Michael's, Thursday 8th to mid-January
In our House, we believe every home should be filled with music; so we’ve filled ours. Come and browse DJ Graham Erickson’s collection of carefully curated vintage vinyl, from classics to rare records, popping up in House of Hackney’s gothic flagship.
Saturday 5th November
Altar building with Blue Firth
Every space big or small needs an altar- a small sanctuary to hold sacred objects, heirlooms, candles and natural treasures. In this two-hour workshop with intuitive ceramicist, designer and witch, Blue, we will look at making as a magical act as you each weave, coil and plait variegated stoneware clays into an altar dish spellbound with your own intentions. Each altar will then be taken and fired and then sent back to you within a lunar cycle.
Weaving local elements of craft, history and folklore, Blue uses clay as a medium for her magic. In this workshop, you will use clay to create an individual spell and learn how to introduce the elements and ritual into your practice through physical form.
Saturday 5th November
Decorating with Spirit
Panel Discussion
Learn how to consciously curate your interiors and bring magic into your home in our panel discussion led by director of the Museum of the Home, Sonia Solicari, with Chinasa Chukwu, Simon Costin and Blue Firth.
Book for 4:30 PM here
Simon Costin
From the catwalk to the cauldron, Simon Costin is the director of the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic as well as the Museum of Folklore. Along with his lifelong passion for Lore and the supernatural, Costin has worked as a world renowned set designer, collaborating with, among others, Alexander McQueen, Charles Jeffery, Tim Walker and YSL. Costin has both exhibited and curated shows at leading cultural centres such as the ICA, London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Sonia Solicari
Director of the Museum of the Home, Sonia Solicari has published and lectured widely on historic art and design, and histories of home. She is co-director of the Centre for Studies of Home, a partnership with Queen Mary, University of London and an international hub for research on the home, past, present and future.
Chinasa Chukwu
Chinasa Chukwu is a British-Nigerian designer and cultural entrepreneur. Exploring African/Afro-diasporic artistic expressions, she is inspired by traditional craftsmanship skills and cultural histories which she translates into modern design objects and contemporary narratives.
