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Don’t miss Ian Penney’s wonderful paper cuts that will be featuring in our Christmas Show this year on 5 and 6 December. Click here to see more works.

Phil Shaw’s wonderful works can now be found at Lutyens & Rubinstein Book Shop, 21 Kensington Park Road, London.

Lutyens & Rubinstein is the perfect book shop. Run by literary agents Sarah Lutyens and Felicity Rubinstein, the shop opened two weeks ago in Notting Hill and contains a cleverly edited but expansive range of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, graphic novels, children’s classics and coffee-table tomes. The shop was designed with the curious in mind – tea and coffee served in bespoke china encourages idling, as does the discovery of tiny figurines hidden in the shelves. We loved the exclusive range of eau de toilettes by NY company CB Perfume. In The Library smelt exactly of its description – “leather bindings, worn cloth and a hint of wood polish”.

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Last night Charlotte Street went on Safari at the opening of David Farrer’s new solo show : Africa Revisited. The amazing papiermache menagerie left everyone who saw it absolutely stunned.

Crafted with the up most detail and care Africa Revisited is a show that must be seen by everyone.

Artist David Farrer and 28 Charlotte Street Manager Amy Frost.

David Farrer, Elephant, Apple and Ladybird, 2009 Dimensions Variable

AFRICA REVISITED: Private View 19 November at Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery at Charlotte Street, 6.30 – 8.30 pm.

Made primarily from old magazines (and as a feature they remain obviously so) they are an alternative – lacking the implications of the ‘real thing’ and incorporating modern ideals of recycling and conservation, with a touch of humour thrown in too! Individual pieces contain ‘recycled extras’ for added realism. I am friends with my village farrier who supplies me with horse hair and the occasional equine tooth.

- David Farrer