![]() ![]() I have to make something every day, even if it’s just a sandwich. Where does this urge to create come from? I had a desk in my flat where I would paint things and make things. And I was always making, always tinkering away. ![]() What were you doing before you opened the shop? This week, as she launches her new collection of brush pots, we talk to her about life behind-the-scenes at Pentreath & Hall. There’s the sense with Bridie that it’s the process of making rather than the finished product that makes her tick, imbuing her work with invention and originality. The workshop is a magic space brimming with Bridie’s ideas tacked up on a cork board wall, and beautiful objects at various stages of production: lacquer boxes, silk lampshades, oak leaf dishes, pottery bears, intaglio paperweights, and of course her signature brush pots. Run alongside best friend, Ben Pentreath, Pentreath & Hall is a treasure trove filled with antiques and artworks and increasingly with Bridie’s own products that are handmade in her workshop just around the corner. Rather like the cool girl a few years’ above at school, we’re always interested in what she’s up to and we’re devotees to her style, collecting her alphabet brush pots and visiting her Rugby Street shop simply to stare. ![]() In all that time she has never left our radar. ![]() Bridie Hall has been a shopkeeper for 13 years, which is two years longer than A Little Bird has been going. ![]()
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