November 27th, 2009
Brio comes to Castor & Pollux
A small, but perfectly formed delivery arrived yesterday from Brio toys. Characterised by quality and durability, often handed down from generation to generation, these traditional toys are designed to stimulate a child’s development and are also a joy to play with.
There is nothing like Swedish design to get us excited here!
- Brio classics small racing car, £10.00
- Brio large racing car, £78.00
- Brio Rock on, £80
- Brio ride on, £95.00
- Brio pull along duck, Sold
- Brio ant with egg, pull along toy, Sold
- Brio Sampo dachshund, £12.00
- Brio classic pull along dachshund, £12.00
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November 27th, 2009
Brio comes to Castor & Pollux
A small, but perfectly formed delivery arrived yesterday from Brio toys. Characterised by quality and durability, often handed down from generation to generation, these traditional toys are designed to stimulate a child’s development and are also a joy to play with.
There is nothing like Swedish design to get us excited here!
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November 12th, 2009
Wayne White monograph from Ammo Books
We have a wonderful new monograph of artist Wayne White in stock. ‘Maybe now I’ll get the respect I so richly deserve’, By Todd Oldham.
It comes in two versions – the basic book for £44.95 or the boxed version with a signed & numbered limited edition print (3 to choose from). There are only 250 copies of each. £200.
Wayne White
After studying at Middle Tennessee State University White went to New York City and worked as a cartoonist and illustrator for a number of publications including The East Village Eye, Raw, The New York Times, and The Village Voice.
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November 10th, 2009
Exhibition poster offer – five for 20 quid!
A special offer for all customers.
Buy five of our exhibition posters for the price of four! Posters are usually £5 each … this means five for twenty quid. Postage in the UK is £2.50.
Posters are 700mm high and vary in width between 350mm and 420mm.
This offer is available in the gallery and by mail order – call 01273 773776.
November 6th, 2009
Rob Ryan screenprints
Mike visited Rob Ryan in his East London studio this week, and brought back a nice collection of screenprints.
Also back in stock are Rob’s wonderful tiles … we sell them framed in ash, ready for hanging, £35.
September 20th, 2009
Now showing – paintings & monoprints by Mike Levy
Exhibition poster
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September 20th, 2009
Now showing – paintings & monoprints by Mike Levy
Exhibition poster
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August 21st, 2009
Jonathan Adler – New chic home accessories from New York
Newly arrived, and very fabulous, is our Winter season stock of Jonathan Adler ceramics. You may have seen favourites like the elegant grey hound, or shapely bird bowls at Castor and pollux before.
Joining them this year is a beautiful squirrel with an acorn ring box, and cute elephant candle holders plus many others.
Stocks are limited so please get in touch with us soon 01273 773776 if there is an animal or vase you would love to give a new home to.
- The penguin salt and pepper shakers next to the small bird bowl and some of Mike's prints
- The lovely squirrel ring box next to a Mike Levy monoprint
- The penguin and the giraffe
- Squirrel ring box, fired stoneware in matte white glaze, 2500 mm tall, £100
- Small horse tray, fired stoneware in matte white glaze, 340 x 195 mm, SOLD
- Snail box, fired stoneware in matte white glaze, 200 x 150 mm, SOLD
- Small bird bowl, fired stoneware in matte white glaze, 150 x 200 mm, £45
- Giraffe, fired stoneware in matte white glaze, 163 x 450 mm, £95.00
- Gazelle, fired stoneware in matte white glaze, 160 x 450 mm, £120
- Grey hound, fired stoneware in matte white glaze, 480 mm tall, £175
- Penguin, fired stoneware in matte white glaze, 175 x 225 mm, £95.00
- Salt and pepper penguins, fired stoneware, matte white and glossy black glazes in a beautiful box, 80 mm tall, £42.00
- Snail napkin ring, Owl napkin ring, fired stoneware with glossy white glaze, 56 mm tall, £15.00
- Lion, fired stoneware with a matte white glaze, 250 x 350 mm, £110
- Dachshund, High-fired stoneware with a matte white glaze, 300 x 75 x 130 mm, £85.00, only grey left
- Vidalia bud vase, fired stoneware in matte white glaze, 95 x 125 mm, £36.00
- Tall helix vase, fired stoneware in matte midnight glaze, 350 tall x 150 mm wide, £110
- Legume vase, fired stoneware in matte white glaze, 475 mm tall, £210
- Medium bird bowl, fired stoneware in matte white glaze, 175 x 260 mm, £60
- Giant bird bowl, fired stoneware in matte white glaze, 540 x 360 mm, £445
- Love Hand, matte white porcelain on lucite base, 250 mm tall, £220
- Muse blanc candle in a chic box, crisp floral candle in a translucent porcelain vessel that glows as the candle burns, 90 mm high, 13 oz candle, £65.00
- Hashish candle, a beautiful box containing a hash themed ceramic box with a scandalously scented with black currant, green apple, wormwood, patchouli and moss scented candle, 95 mm high, 10.6 oz. candle, 2 wicks, £65.00
- Rabbit napkin ring, stoneware with glossy white glaze, 65 mm, £15.00 each
- Fish napkin ring, stoneware with glossy white glaze, 65 mm, £15.00 each
- Whale salt and pepper shakers is a beautiful box, stoneware, matte white and blue glazes, 820 mm tall, £42.00
- Owl napkin ring, stoneware with glossy white glaze, 65 mm, £15.00 each
- Utopia darjeeling candle holder, brown stoneware with sheer white glaze, 100 mm tall, SOLD
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August 20th, 2009
New season Jonathan Adler pottery in stock
Just to let you all know that the new season menagerie has arrived.Look at these whale salt & pepper pots. £42 per set. Lovely!
Click here to see our stock range.
Whales salt & pepper set
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August 11th, 2009
We are ‘cult shop’ in Financial Times magazine
Thanks to the Financial Times and Dominic Lutyens for this excellent feature in their August ‘How to spend it’ magazine.
Selling art, cool graphic design, homeware and jewellery, Castor and Pollux in Brighton is a one-stop shop for design aficionados. Yet its unassuming façade overlooking the beach at King’s Road Arches (between West and Brighton piers) gives no indication of the shop’s impressively varied stock or of its real size.
Inside, it funnels out, Tardis-like, into an enormous space mainly containing three long arches. In one is an art gallery that mounts monthly exhibitions and offers a framing service, another is filled with books on architecture, art, design, gardening and cookery, and in the third are more pictures, glass, jewellery, ceramics and stationery. A further, smaller niche stocks hip toys for the precociously design-savvy child.
How would its owner, Mike Levy, describe it? “An emporium, though that sounds highfaluting,” he replies. And why the cheek-by-jowl mix of art, jewellery, homeware and books? “Because that’s how people mix things up at home,” he explains. But thanks to the stock’s clean-cut aesthetic, it doesn’t remotely resemble an amateurish craft shop.
Formerly a graphic designer and potter, Levy opened the shop six years ago. Back then, he says, this part of Brighton had recently been converted from a disreputable, drug-dealer-infested area into a salubrious row of shops and bars. Now Castor and Pollux attracts “families and Brighton’s huge population of graphic designers”.
Graphic design has influenced Levy’s taste in art: “I like bold, figurative work.” Graphic and punchy, this includes the paper cutouts of designer du jour Rob Ryan (from £2,500, with framed prints £750) and the 1950s-inspired linocuts by Angie Lewin (£185 for an unframed print). Frames are neutral: “Our customers don’t go for twiddly gold ones.” More accessible, price-wise, are postcards by Ryan, Lewin and artist David Shrigley.
Homeware encompasses the retro cat figurines (£78) of cult New York ceramicist Jonathan Adler, whose work appears on the sets of TV shows Will & Grace and Ugly Betty, and Michael Anchin’s multicoloured handmade glass bowls (around £200). On the jewellery front, Australian brand Riley Burnett’s bracelets with stones in boiled-sweet shades (from £76; charm bracelet £195, below) are displayed near the shop’s books
(around 500 titles, ranging from tomes on the artist Nikki de Saint Phalle to architect Le Corbusier).
One could easily feel overwhelmed here by the sheer quantity of hip, sophisticated stock – this shop is practically a mini design museum – yet a friendly atmosphere makes it feel relaxed. “We’re not about a hard sell. People come in and chat for hours,” says Levy. Castor and Pollux, then, is as much a laid-back hangout as a shop for the serious design buff.
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August 7th, 2009
New arrivals – Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake prints
We love nothing more than Quentin Blake’s illustrations and Roald Dahl’s words. Check out the new ones, which arrived today!
- Just Missed the Bird, Just Missed the Bird, image size 230 x 180 mm, mounted 410 x 365 mm, £75.00
- Children Are Not So Serious, Matilda, image size 230 x 180 mm, mounted 410 x 365 mm, SOLD OUT
- What was that? Cried Mrs Twit, The Twits, image size 230 x 180 mm, mounted 410 x 365 mm, £75.00
- Mr Wonka Suddenly Exploded, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, image size 230 x 180 mm, mounted 410 x 365 mm, £75.00
- Hearing Only Thumping Loud Noises, The BFG, image size 230 x 180 mm, mounted 410 x 365 mm, £75.00
- How do You do?, Giraffe, Pelly & Me, image size 230 x 180 mm, mounted 410 x 365 mm, £75.00
- What Fine Children I Have, Fantastic Mr Fox, image size 230 x 180 mm, mounted 410 x 365 mm, SOLD OUT
- Runny Powdery or Gooey, George's Marvellous Medicine, image size 230 x 180 mm, mounted 410 x 365 mm, £75.00
Please ring us on 01273 773776 if you would like to buy one of these prints, or pop into the gallery.
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July 23rd, 2009
Alexander Girard PLYprints now available
Alexander Girard (1907 – 1993) created iconic mid-century modern designs for such companies as Herman Miller and Braniff International Airways. His work married the timeless lines of the modern with the playfulness and bold color of Latin American folk art.
For the first time since 1972 these graphics are now available as wall art.
Each graphic panel features an iconic Alexander Girard image hand screen-printed on an American made sustainably-harvested maple plywood panel. PLYprints include all mounting hardware and have a spacer on the back that allows the panel to float off the wall.
The vibrant artworks mix bold colors with the deep textures of the real wood veneers. The wood panels are formaldehyde-free to create a safe and green wood based product for your home.
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