Scura Selects: November 2025

Tender Steps, The First Collection by Lottie Mac
Online at lottiemac.com

London-based artist, curator and friend of Flawk Lottie Mac unveils Tender Steps, The First Collection, an ambitious debut of 15 handmade works that move fluidly between art, design and domestic life. Merging tufted British wool and steel, each piece explores the interplay between softness and structure, translating the organic contours of the Irish landscape into tactile expressions of memory and belonging.

Lottie previously collaborated with us on Detritus, our recent collection shown at Collectible in New York, hand-tufting a sculptural rug that captured her distinctive sensitivity to material and form. Her new collection builds on that sensibility, offering a quietly powerful language of the handmade, one where heritage, texture, and time converge.

Jiaonest
230 Kingsland Road, London E2 8AX

When we first featured Jiaonest in Hidden Feasts, it was still a pop-up. In that form it was a home-cooked experiment in how food, memory, and storytelling might come together around a shared table. Founded by Hua Yang, the project explored Sichuan cuisine through the lens of Daoist philosophy and traditional Chinese medicine, tracing how ingredients can carry both healing and history.

Now, Jiaonest has found a permanent home: a 24-seat basement restaurant on Kingsland Road, built and designed by Hua and her friends, down to the ceramics, lighting, and the handmade chairs that each conceal a small drawer of spices to discover. At its centre sits a cabinet inspired by her family’s herbal pharmacy in Chongqing, it’s presence serving as a proud reminder of her roots. The space is as intimate and idiosyncratic as Hua’s cooking, where classics like Gōngbǎo Fried Chicken and Blossom & Booze Ice Cream bring nostalgia and invention together in perfect balance. A homegrown evolution of the pop-up spirit, and one of the most heartfelt openings this year.

Furniture Archive Sale at Toogood
1 November. House of Toogood, 150 Royal College St, London NW1 0TA

For the first time, Toogood opens its archive for a sale at its studio in Camden. Expect a mix of showroom samples, one-off pieces, ceramics, and limited editions, all up to 70% off. We’ll be keeping an eye out for classics like the Roly-Poly chairs, Spade chairs, and pieces from the Cobble range, though the real joy lies in the unexpected.

Runda & Alta by Flawk, Launching This Month
Keep an eye out for two new projects from Flawk this month, and two different expressions of what home can be…

In Gospel Oak, Runda is Flawk’s most joyful build to date: a fully timber-frame new home defined by curvy lines, circular windows and a playful blend of woods. Think of it as a designer’s playground where our in-house team’s creativity and the work of our collaborators (including Freddy Tuppen, Isabel Farchy and STORE projects) has merged in playful and imaginative ways, all to create an uplifting and jolly home. 

Across town in Holland Park, Alta is set within a heritage townhouse, exploring the intersection of old and new through lacquered cabinetry, dark wood panelling, terracotta tiles and wrought iron detailing. Calm, composed and finely crafted, it’s what we like to call an adult home.

Two houses, two ways of living. Which one are you?

Electric Kiln, Curated by Rajan Bijlani and Michael Jefferson
Until 16th November. Appointment only – make one here. 

Having hosted our own supper clubs, exhibitions, and workshops in lived-in spaces, we have a soft spot for projects that reimagine the domestic as a site for art and dialogue. Electric Kiln does exactly that. Curated by Rajan Bijlani and Michael Jefferson, the exhibition unfolds across Bijlani’s home in Primrose Hill (the former studio of British studio potter Emmanuel Cooper) bringing together works by Frank Auerbach, Cooper, Lucie Rie, Pierre Jeanneret, and Le Corbusier.

Taking the electric kiln as a metaphor for change, the exhibition explores London’s capacity for transformation to show how artists and designers have absorbed and re-shaped the city’s energy through paint, clay, and form. Spread over three floors, Auerbach’s impasto landscapes and heads find resonance with Cooper and Rie’s volcanic glazes and sgraffito bowls, all set against a backdrop of furniture from Chandigarh. The result is an intimate, alchemical encounter between art, design, and place, and a reminder that the domestic sphere can be one of the most powerful stages for creative exchange.