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Wednesday 28 July 2010

Origami Flower

Here's a little creativity for your Wednesday afternoon!  Our wonderful little elf Beth has taken inspiration from our Origami Flowers set and created this sparkling tulip accessorised with a slip of new Utility Gift Wrap ribbon.

Tuesday 27 July 2010

Pilgrim Prizes

Here's our first Pilgrim winner from last weeks Celebrate Summer event held at our Liverpool One Gift Boutique. The lovely Tori from Mohawk Media was the first of our five winners to come instore and pick up her Pilgrim prize!

Congrats Tori, we hope to see you again soon.

Love The Utility Team

The Emperor's new light

And so the story begins… Long ago an Asian Emperor was given a beautiful nightingale as a gift. The bird was so beautiful and sang so beguilingly the Emperor decided to keep it forever by his side. The nightingale was placed in a beautiful majestic cage in the imperial chambers and became the delight of the Emperors days.

This ancient legend provides the design influence behind this hand woven range of Emperor Lights, designed by Neri & Hu.

The woven bamboo rattan provides the cage to an internal frosted glass diffuser, becoming your delight in any room. The lovingly hand crafted aspect to these lights, available in suspension, floor or table styles mean that these are special order items.

Emperor Suspension Light from £797.00 available in three sizes and black or red.

Friday 23 July 2010

Burt's Bees Celebration



















Here's our gorgeous Polly advising one of customers last weekend on our fantastic Burt's Bees products.

The natural skin care range brand is 25 this year! So to celebrate we held a Summer event in our Bold Street Gift store and invited you all to come along.

Lot's of our lovely customers tried out Daily Shimmer Lip Blam and left us big kisses to say thanks! We picked the best smooch as our winner of some Burt's bees goodies. Plus all our Burt's Bees Customers took home a little goodie bag packed full of mini Burt's products!

Wednesday 21 July 2010

Start your weekend early with Utility & Pilgrim at Liverpool One

Forget about the rain and come and join us at our new Utility Gift Boutique at Liverpool One tomorrow for a celebration of Summer with one of our favourite jewellery brands Pilgrim!
Our lovely Pilgrim rep will be on hand to guide you through the Summer collection, so you can look gorgeously summery even if the weather isn't.
Plus there's free entry into our Pilgrim raffle with every Pilgrim purchase and an exciting goodie bag with every purchase made over £25.00.
So start your weekend early, bring a friend and join us at Utility Liverpool One tomorrow Thursday 22nd July from 12-8pm.

For further details email me at: jo@utilitydesign.co.uk

Tuesday 20 July 2010

De La Espada Collection now available

This beautifully crafted Low Lounge Chair is hand made Portugal by Matthew Hilton for De La Espada.

With a deep seat and luxurious cushion, this piece is typical of the made to order collection by De La Espada. As well as championing the work of designers such as Matthew Hilton, as seen with this Low Lounge Chair, Ilse Crawford, Autoban and Leif De La Espada also manufacturers it's own collection.

Oak and walnut are used throughout the pieces in this collection, balancing beautiful craftsmanship with contemporary design.

Low Lounge Chair from £1895.00


Friday 16 July 2010

Celebrate Burt's Bees this weekend

Come on down to our Bold Street Gift Shop this weekend and celebrate Burt's Bees 25th Anniversary with us.

We're giving away a super exciting goodie bag with every Burt's Bees purchase plus try our new Daily Shimmer Lip Balm and leave us a smooch. The best kiss we receive will win a brilliant Burt's prize!

So pop by, visit the Utility team and take a look out our great Burt's Bees range. Plus, check out Lizz's fantastic window in celebration!

Wednesday 14 July 2010

PYO - Pick your own colourway!

You're going to love this new Utility Mobile Line range that lets you choose the accent colour!

Made from thin but ultra strong steel sheets, these contemporary media, TV and storage units are made to order and finished in a high gloss lacquer in a colourway that you can choose. And we're not just talking a basic palette, as there are over 200 different RAL shades to give your Mobile Line unit the perfect finish to fit into your interiors space!

Seen here, the RW107-2 Trolley design comes with a built in shelf and hinged door to neatly store all your favourite DVDs or media equipment.

Utility Mobile Line Trolley RW107-2
£615.00

Tuesday 13 July 2010

Utility hearts Burt's Bees

I've been bust preparing the fantastic Burt's Bees goodie bags ready for this weekend when we'll be celebrating Burt's 25th Anniversary!

Visit our Utility gift store at 86 Bold Street and try our new Daily Shimmer Lip Balms and give us a kiss- the best smooch will win an exciting Burt's Bees prize.

Plus we're offering FREE Goodie bags with every Burt's purchase!

How Burt's Bees started....It all began with the humble honey bee...Exploring the wonderfully natural properties of beeswax, combined with sourced natural ingredients the first Burt's Bees lip blam was created.

Since then Burt's Bees produce a wonderful range of natural skincare products that harness the best that nature has to offer to create fabulous nourishing products that are ever so kind to your skin - which is why, here at Utility we heart Burt's!

For further info on this event drop us an email at: info@utilitydesign.co.uk

Monday 12 July 2010

Gift Wrap at Liverpool One

Here's another little snap inside our beautiful new Utility Gift Boutique. Our gorgeous gift wrap is the perfect way to add a little luxury to a special gift!

Our Timex giveaway winners!















To celebrate the opening of our Liverpool One Utility Gift Boutique this weekend, we gave away a Timex Core Retro watch every hour!

Here's a few snaps of the excited winners who found themselves at the till went the alarm clock went off!

Congratulations everyone!

Thursday 8 July 2010

We're open for business

Hooray! Our new Utility Gift Boutique at Liverpool One is open. We can't wait to welcome you to the fourth Utility shop. You'll find an exciting, handpicked range of contemporary jewellery, watches, lifestyle accessories, cards and gifts so come on down and take a look.

Plus, visit us over the weekend and you could win a Gold Timex Core Retro. We're giving one away each hour to celebrate our fantastic new store!

Tuesday 6 July 2010

We love Liverpool

Our new Gift Boutique is nearly up and running, just two more days and we should be able to do the big Utility reveal. Although there will be not binbag taped across the entrance a la Changing Rooms we have to say, just brand new shiny doors welcoming you into the Utility Gift Boutique at Liverpool One!

People Republic of Liverpool Mug £11.00

Monday 5 July 2010

Looking Good

Wow, our range of Pilgrim Jewellery is looking good!

If you love Pilgrim as much as we do here at Utility, then watch this space for further details of our special instore event to celebrate Summer with Pilgrim.

Taking place in our new Liverpool One Utility Gift Boutique later in July, you'll have the chance to win one of 5 Pilgrim prizes in our Utility raffle plus we'll be showcasing the new Summer collections instore.

The guys are down at Liverpool One putting the final touches to our new Utility store. Come along next weekend and check it out!!

Friday 2 July 2010

Summer Sale Star Buy!

Our Summer sale star buy has to be this Kartell Louis Ghost Chair!

The Louis Ghost Chair, an iconic design by Philippe Starck for Kartell has become something of a must-have.

This Louis Ghost chair in clear was £179.00 and is now a fantastic £129.99!

Plus there's FREE UK Mainland delivery with this item. Now you can't get better than that!

Enjoy your weekend.

Brand New Gift Wrap!

















To celebrate the opening of our fourth Utility shop, in Liverpool One, next week we have given our Utility gift wrap a makeover!

Gift wrapping is available in all our Utility stores using the signature Utility purple wrap and luxury silver ribbon.

There are two options: standard gift wrapping £2.00 or with a matt silver gift tag £2.50.

Gift Wrapping is an excellent easy choice whether you are making a purchase online or in store at one of our gift boutiques - no more wrestling with stubborn sellotape as one of our team members will do this for you. It really is as simply as choose, buy and give!

Utility, Liverpool One














The new signage has gone up on our new Liverpool One Gift Boutique! This signals that we are almost there -fantastic.

We can't wait to share another Utility shop with you.

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