Keep Calm Gallery was established in January 2007 by Lucas Lepola and Hayley Thwaites. The site was born out of our passion for typography in poster design, British heritage and the medium of screen printing.
We collect… Nice old and new vases and jars for flowers, old picture frames that have seen better days, and interesting pieces of paper and envelopes which come in handy for inspiration.
We can’t live without… Our cats Alfie and Maisy, they’re BRILLIANT!
Our guilty pleasure is… Trashy TV and a good takeaway!
Our house is filled with… Boxes, postal tubes, prints, picture frames, tea towels, bags and more and more business related items every day! This is one of the major drawbacks to working from home, but it’s worth it.
We treasure my… Occasional lazy day and having the chance to take a break from the routine. We love to watch a movie or two, cook a new dish, see friends and family and spend some time wandering around East Dulwich.
Right now we can’t stop thinking about… Moving house. We’re looking for a bigger place at the moment. Every box that arrives here makes us want to move that bit more! Hopefully we’ll find the perfect place soon.
Currently we are reading… A Little History Of The World by E. H. Gombrich (Hayley) and Awkward Situations For Men by Danny Wallace (Lucas)
Our favourite item of clothing are… My vintage floral cashmere jumper (Hayley). My Flight of The Conchords European tour t-shirt, brings back memories of a few great nights
(Lucas).
At the top of our furniture wish list is… A super long office desk that would allow us to spread out and work a little more efficiently. A few old Eames office chairs would do nicely too!
The last thing that really inspired us was… It’s difficult to pin point exactly. We get all sorts of inspiration from being out and about in London. Anything from words and typefaces
to colours and patterns, something jumps out at us and snowballs into an idea.
Our comfort food is… Homemade shepherds pie and red velvet cupcakes!
On our desks are… Often a cat or two. Lots of papers, a giant pencil sharpener and giant Quink ceramic ink well pot. Unfortunately they’re small desks otherwise we would fill them with more interesting things!
This weekend we will… Be sunning myself in Portugal (Hayley). Catching up on work and hopefully seeing old friends (Lucas).
Tonight we must… Take cardboard to the recycling centre and grab some ingredients so we can cook a new dish. Also sit in the garden and watch the cats do back flips after bumble bees. Hopefully fit in a movie and some pudding too!
We love what we do because… We get the chance to work together doing something that makes us really happy. We love creating new products, and when people like them enough to make them part of their home that really means a lot to us. Similarly it’s also fantastic to be able to work with so many talented artists and designers and to be able to bring their work to a new audience. Before we launched our first site over three and a half years ago we never expected to be doing this today, but we can’t imagine doing anything else now.
My Inside Life… Darling Clementine Part 2
My Inside Life… Helen Beard
My Inside Life… Famille Summerbelle
