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Victoria Redshaw, founder and lead futurist of trend forecasting agency Scarlet Opus, shares her standout products from the Exclusively Shows
Denby
Denby’s Studio Blue tableware comprises functional products designed with purpose that bring harmony, beauty and pleasure to everyday rituals. This links them with the CLARITY trend because the products we surround ourselves with,
and interact with, can help us find a greater sense of wellbeing during a time of constant change, stress, complexity and fast-paced living - bringing ‘balance’ to our busy lives. Essentially, these are products that encourage us to embrace mindfulness at home. Whether you call it ‘The Wellbeing Kitchen’ or ‘The Mindful Kitchen’, we are starting to see the slow transformation of kitchen design towards an environment that fosters social interaction: a relaxing, informal space that is uncluttered and incorporates hand-crafted products made from honest, natural materials in soothing colours that are a pleasure to use. Denby’s stoneware collection perfectly aligns with this direction. The calming blue tones
are inspired by the colours and textures of stones and minerals, with the intention of helping to create a tranquil kitchen space and relaxed dining experience. This informal dining range includes a set of nesting bowls in four soft shades of Blue-Flint,
Cobalt, Chalk and Pebble, with unique speckled glaze finishes that evoke stone surfaces. It’s all about bowls, as consumers seek out and enjoy a wide range of global cuisines. And this bowl-centric range certainly supports this trend.
Octopus Publishing Group
Octopus publishes gift and lifestyle titles, and we’ve chosen four that link with ECO 2.0 trend. It’s worth knowing that the number of vegans and vegetarians is rising fast as more people focus on
healthy diets and embrace global cuisines. According to market researcher Mintel, 35% of people in Britain say they are semi-vegetarian/flexitarian. Supermarkets have expanded their vegetarian and vegan offers, and Tesco says demand for vegetarian and vegan ready meals and snacks increased by 40% in 2017. Octopus Publishing Group has lots of great books that address this food revolution including ‘Cook
Share Eat Vegan’ by Aine Carlin - a book with 125 plant-based recipes, proving there’s a place for vegan food in everyone’s diet, no matter the occasion or season. ‘Farmacy Kitchen Cookbook’ by Camilla Fayed is also a plant-based recipe book, created by the
owner of the restaurant by the same name in Notting Hill. It’s full of energising, nourishing and tasty dishes inspired by Emily’s favourite places around the world. ‘The Seaweed Cookbook’ is a key title, as the nutritional virtues of sea greens become more widely
known and UK consumers look for guidance on how to include this ‘superfood of the sea’ in their meals and even their beauty regimes. Seaweed is much more nutrient-dense than any land vegetable. It’s an excellent source of vegetable
protein. Full of vitamins and minerals such as B12 and iron; it contains 10 times more calcium than milk, and more vitamin C than oranges. Finally, a beautiful book by Professor Yoshifumi Miyazaki: ‘Shrinrin-yoku: The Japanese Way of Forest Bathing for Health and Relaxation’. This is actually about the Japanese practice of walking slowly through woods and forests to connect with nature, by taking time to tune into ourselves and immerse ourselves in the great outdoors. Within its pages, science meets nature and mindfulness.
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