- Surviving The War Years – The Middle Years Of The UK’s Longest Established China And Glass Business With Lladro By Their Side
The Lladro collection is certainly a modern example of how a small range of pieces can grow into something that everybody wants a part of With it’s humble beginnings starting in 1953, it has rapidly grown into the phenomenon it is today, with it's sales helping businesses to grow in over 120 countries worldwide - Post War Growth – From China Tea Services To Lladro, The Blossoming Of The UK’s Oldest China And Glass Retail Business
Church’s China, now equally well known by its online identity, The UK Gift Company, began life in Devizes in Wiltshire in 1858 During most of the twentieth century, it occupied various premises on Northampton’s Market Square - From Refined China ‘fancies’ To Lilliput Lane – The Evolution Of A Family Business
The Lilliput Lane collection may be small in the stature of its pieces, but positively massive in the force of the impact it has had on collectibles companies around the world One of these is Church’s China, the UK’s oldest surviving China and Glass Retail business, was founded in Devizes in Wiltshire in 1858 - From China Tea Services To Willow Tree
Although The UK Gift Company can now rightly boast of its position as the UK’s No1 website for gifts and collectables, theirs is no fly-by-night story - Church’s China – The Modern Era Aided And Abetted By Willow Tree
The collection of Willow Tree has made a massive impact on collectible retailers ever since it's beginnings in 2000 One such company, Church’s China, has found Willow Tree to be their best selling brand, and helping them to build upon the successes found in their past - Lladro Figurines – A Truly Great Porcelain Collectable
Right from 1951, the Lladro brothers have been making some of the most magnificent porcelain figurines that Europe and the world have ever seen It was in the small self contained town of Almácera, next to the historic city of Valencia situated on the East Coast of Spain where the brothers started to create their art - The Lladro Legend
From lowly origins, Lladro figurines are quickly becoming a world renowned name, but also a new interest for the moneyed, now situated in more than 120 countries worldwide
Lladro figurines have become known around the world and immensely popular - Willow Tree Figurines – A Gift Giving Phenomenon
At Church’s China, we’ve spent the best part of one hundred and fifty years selling gifts and collectables But which is which and why - The Birth Of The Willow Tree Collection
I recall only too well my first introduction to the Willow Tree collection I was visiting Enesco, our top supplier for gifts and collectables - The Willow Tree Collection – Emotion In Figurative Form
The Willow Tree Figurine Collectable Range was launched in January 2000 Initially the collection comprised just one figurine, fifteen angels, and the Christmas Nativity collection - The Lilliput Lane And David Winter Cottages – The Early Years
Lilliput Lane Cottages have been long regarded as one of our favourite collectables, along with Willow Tree, Border Fine Arts and Lladro figurines Lilliput Lane was founded in the early 1980’s as a competitor to David Winter Cottages - The Lilliput Lane Collectors Club
When Lilliput Lane was launched in the early eighties, the collectible market was in its infancy For many years, there had been china figurines from Royal Doulton, Coalport and Lladro, but these were, until then, purchased as a kind of occasional ornament - The History Of Lladró
The famed and highly acclaimed company that we know today as Lladró was created at around 1953 as a tiny family business in Almàssera, a small agricultural village next to the grand city of Valencia The city lies on Spain's eastern Mediterranean coast, a city famed for its art with such works as the Plaza de la Virgen - Lladro Privilege – Your Questions Answered
Privilege Gold is part of a completely new phase aimed at rewarding the true collector of Lladro Porcelain It now offers members an exclusive annual collection of sculptures plus many more advantages: a world of special privileges for true lovers and admires of Lladro figurines - Lladro Process Of Creation
Design and creation
Each individual Lladró art piece is the end result of hours upon hours of artistic craftsmanship Lladró sculptors use their own individual afflatus, but they also create, when the piece requires it, a laborious routine of investigation and documentation - The Qualities Of Lladro
Lladro high porcelain is the concept that sums up the maximum expression of Lladro work A collection consisting exclusively of pieces exemplifying, with the maximum level of excellence, the value of expansiveness, beauty and technical perfection the Lladro family has always instilled into its creations - New Releases From Lilliput Lane For 2008
This year sees the introduction of some stunning new cottages from the sculptors of Lilliput Lane Cottages
Particularly noteworthy is the first ever Lilliput Lane sculpture from the Isle of Man - The Lilliput Lane Annual Fair Visits Shugborough
2008 sees the Lilliput Lane Annual Fair make a return visit to Shugborough Hall, which Club members may recall was the home to the second Lilliput Lane Fair back in September 1990
The ancestral home of the Earls of Lichfield, the Shugborough Estate sits outside Milford, just a couple of miles east of teh county town of Stafford and set on the banks of the River Sow - A World Of Smiles From Lladro Porcelain
If there is a time when the language of emotions is at its height, that time must surely be childhood Words, expressions, caresses - High Porcelain By Lladro Porcelain
The arrival of The Queen Of The Nile marks the opening of a new category, High Porcelain, in which from now on, you will find sculptures that are the highest expression of Lladro’s creativity
At our High Porcelain workshop, Lladro’s artists create sculptures that stand as the highest example of the traditional values of expressiveness – beauty and technical perfection with which the Lladro family has always strived to endow its creations - The Origin Of The Teddy Bear
Teddy Bears have been among the world’s favourite child’s toy for over a hundred years, and, as the years pass, they don’t just get shoved to the back of the toy cupboard Adults of all ages and both genders are often happy to admit that their favourite moth-eaten old teddy still holds of pride of place on the bedroom mantlepiece
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