Garden Museum, Lambeth

Sunday, 7 December 2025

This festive season Beautiful & Useful is returning to the Garden Museum with an exciting collection of Britain’s best designer-makers selling bold, bohemian and thoroughly beautiful handmade ceramics, textiles, art prints, jewellery, and homewares.

Now in its eighth year, the carefully curated selection will include The Curious Maker’s mechanical toys and velvet toadstool decorations; Claverton Cloche’s elegant and practical garden frames; Variegate’s hand-crafted wooden tools and utensils; and The Ceramic Botanist’s vases, jugs and plaques imprinted with the shapes of real plants.

Other makers taking inspiration from plants and nature include The Natural Dye Company’s delicately hued homewares and accessories; Seaside Moocher’s pressed seaweed pieces showcasing the diversity of underappreciated aquatic botanicals; Georgia Doherty’s Plants for Shade - convincing and exquisitely crafted paper plants complete with reclaimed pots; and Frank & Lusia’s colourful mixed media botanic prints adorning tea towels, cards and ornaments.

This boutique Christmas shopping experience is set in the beautiful surroundings of the Garden Museum, a medieval church building with a Dan Pearson-designed courtyard garden and light-filled contemporary extension housing the award-winning Garden Café.

The day will also include two workshops: Straw decorations with Penny Maltby and Embossed tin decorations with Clare Youngs. Book fast - places are limited!

Tickets cost £5 and include entrance to the museum’s collections (normally £15).