People & Culture

Scotland’s greatest asset? Our people. We love nothing more than sitting down for a chat with the country’s most interesting and influential makers to find out about their journey and what makes them tick. These are the talented folk whose work is woven into the very fabric of modern Scotland – who show we’re so much more than tartan and shortbread.

Behind Closed Doors: At the Sign of the Pelican

One man’s lifelong love of Scottish furniture and antiques is bearing fruit in Cupar

I love this: Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Daily Record building by Nick Ross

ÅBEN’s designer-in-residence 2019 has a spot soft for one lesser-known piece of Glaswegian architecture

An interview with Joa Studholme, colour curator at Farrow & Ball

The colour curator at Farrow & Ball has spent 23 years developing (and naming) new colours and spreading the word on how to use them

This Life: Frippy Jameson, sculptor

A move to the Borders countryside sparked a new chapter for the sculptor, allowing her to focus on her first love – horses

Meet the maker: Claudia Rankin, ceramicist

Claudia Rankin's show, Beastly, is at The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh from 2 to 26 October

An interview with Jonathan Adler

The designer of covetable furniture and quirky homewares quit his day job in 1993 and has since turned his business into a global brand

Meet the maker: Saga-Mariah Sandberg, illustrator

Artist Saga-Mariah Sandberg is inspired by nature, observing plants, insects and the forest

Behind Closed Doors: Craven Dunnill Jackfield

Britain’s last encaustic tile-maker has been around for 150 years and is increasingly sought-after for its time-honoured skills

An interview with Kit Kemp, interior designer and author

Kit Kemp is renowned not only for her unique interiors but also as an author, a respected champion of British art, craft and sculpture, and as a designer of textiles, fragrance and homewares

This Life: Sarah Grieve Mills, Crail Pottery

Her parents set up Crail Pottery from a caravan in their East Neuk garden in 1965. Now, this talented potter has continued the colourful, creative passion of her family’s business
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