Enjoy a virtual visit to Country Living’s London Spring Fair

If you missed a great day out at the Country Living Spring Fair, enjoy a virtual visit now

If you missed the Country Living Magazine Spring Fair (March 11-15) you can still get a flavour of this magnificent event with an online virtual visit.

Click here to see the show guide, with information on exhibitors and links to their websites

Enjoy a look at just some of the wonderful range of items that were for sale at 2009’s Country Living Magazine Spring Fair. By Jennie Buist Brown. 

Kate Hackett Ceramics
Working from her home studio in West Sussex, Kate hand-throws and paints her distinctive range of pottery - the lively, colourful designs are inspired by her garden and rural life as well as patchwork quilts and samplers.

Vintage Inspiration
Based in Devon, three sisters, Louise, Amelia and Amanda, source a variety of handcrafted vintage-style items. Each piece is made in England, from jewellery and needlework accessories to homeware, including bags and cushions from reclaimed fabrics.

Gabriella Shaw Ceramics
In response to demand from friends and family for the work she was producing at her kitchen table, Gabriella set up her company 15 years ago. She and her small team create beautiful, hand-painted pieces, including individual commemorative platters and everyday dinner services.

Jane Hopkinson
A handbag designer and maker, Jane creates an inspiring range
of high-quality, practical bags combining simple lines, shapes
and sculptural forms. They are all individually crafted from leather in her workshop and come in a choice of styles to suit any occasion, as well as a wide selection of colours.

Kind Hearts Clothing
Charlotte Calkin launched her Wiltshire-based business producing beautiful, classic clothes for adults and children six years ago. The current collection includes a myriad styles of lacy tops, skirts, cardigans and chunky handknits. "As we make all the items ourselves," she says, "we can also produce designs in different fabrics and make alterations".

The Balvenie

Distillers of handcrafted single malt Scotch whisky, The Balvenie, is sponsoring an artisan crafts area at the Spring Fair. The stand will offer whisky sampling, and former entrants to Country Living Magazine's The Balvenie Artisan Awards will demonstrate their skills and display their work. This year's Artisan Awards launches in CL April 2009 or pick
up a leaflet at the show. The Balvenie Artisan Crafts feature
area will be located at the rear of the main hall.  

Nessie Maclay cards
From an early age, Nessie made cards for friends and family, so it seemed only natural to establish her online business Nessie Maclay Cards in 2002. Since its launch, her business has gone from strength to strength. She sells cards to retailers and individuals, from designs for christenings to party invitations, as well as producing collections in aid of charity. She also offers a bespoke stationery service and is happy to work to customers' own designs.

Bay Designs
Influenced by the simplicity of French and Scandinavian style, Hertfordshire-based Michele Bayford makes a collection of accessories by hand, including lampshades, candelabras, noteboards and cards, using vintage fabrics and accessories such as buttons. The lampshades are painted in Farrow & Ball colours or wrapped in fine taffeta or grosgrain ribbon. She also offers a tailor-made service.  

Chandlers
A mail-order company specialising in traditional homeware, Chandlers produces a collection of everyday, useful items. The range includes crockery such as classic blue and white Cornishware and a wide variety of pastel-coloured enamel pans, baking dishes and ladles, as well as ribbons, handcream, lavender pillows, linens, garden tools and luxury items including cashmere gloves.

Hastha Kala
Based in Cornwall, this company gains much of its inspiration from the sea. Interesting pebbles, striking sea glass and even pottery fragments feature in the designers' line of unique bracelets, necklaces, rings and earrings.

Gemma Wightman ceramics
The process of hand-throwing her designs heavily influences potter Gemma's subtle-coloured porcelain pieces, which range from teapots and oil drizzlers to bowls and circular trays. "The deep, thrown lines of the ceramics echo the motion of the wheel," she says, "while the silky shimmer of the satin glaze is reminiscent of wet porcelain."  

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