Creative Tops Ltd, in partnership with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is delighted to announce the launch of a beautiful co-ordinated collection of fine bone china mugs, fine china tableware and oven to tableware, depicting historical botanical and architectural prints taken from the Kew archives.

The new licensing agreement allows Creative Tops to be given unprecedented access to the historic artwork held in the Kew Library. The Library contains more than 750,000 volumes, with illustrated collection holding over 200,000 items of botanical art. This collection has been created from one of the world’s foremost archives of rare and historically significant work.

The design team spent a considerable time in the archives, together with the curators, leafing through a wide variety of images from some of the most influential botanical and architectural collections. 

The floral mug collection features simply breath-taking illustrative floral drawings from one of the world’s most respected botanical artists, Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840).  We have chosen the most popular and well loved species of flower so that people can gradually build up a comprehensive collection.  Each fine bone china mug is available in a beautifully printed gift box with swing tag.

In the tradition of “grow your own” food, our Benary range would brighten up any kitchen.  The rich, colourful illustrative artwork has an almost luminous quality about it, yet the designs look contemporary. The collection includes the following pieces; plates, fine china mugs, pasta bowls and oven to tableware.  The images are from the “Album Benary” created by a highly accomplished botanical artist Ernst Benary (1819-1893).  He created 28 colour plate illustrations of vegetable varieties which were named in German, English, French and Russian. 

We have also created a range of products featuring some of Kew’s most stunning buildings including the iconic Kew pagoda, designed by the renowned architect, William Chambers.  Inspiration for the collection has come from a book of drawings published in 1763 entitled “Plans, elevations, sections and perspective view of the gardens and buildings at Kew in Surrey”.

Kew’s approval to use its historical imagery was not an easy process.  “We only partner with the very best companies in their field and Creative Tops stood out from the competition”, says Quincy Leon, Head of Licensing at Kew.  Leon adds, “The quality of decal was extremely important to us and Creative Tops were able to produce high quality decals across an extensive co-ordinated range”.

Clare Farthing, Marketing Manager says, “We are extremely proud to be able to support Kew in its role as a world leader in plant science and conservation”.  We are also excited to be able to offer our customers a truly inspirational range of products that we hope will become sought after collectors’ items in years to come”. 

Come and see the full Creative Tops collection at Exclusively Housewares, Stand 306.

For more information please email sales@creative-tops.com