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Rhea Thierstein
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Art Director, Set Designer and Prop Stylist
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British Arrows Craft Awards 2011 Finalist

Look what came through the post today! My certificate from the British Arrows Craft Awards for being a finalist for Best Production Design for the McDonalds TV commercial I did last year! I think I n...

6 days ago

Bombay Sapphire Cocktail Creation!!

Ive been very lucky for Bombay Sapphire to choose me as one of their five British Creatives to create an amazing infused gin and tonic for the Diamond Jubilee. The wonderful Sam Carter helped me crea...

18 may 12 1 person likes this

Some pictures of A Culinary Odyssey with Bompas & Parr

Photos by Ann Charlott Ommedal .

23 mar 12

Guest Editor for Mother London’s – SFTW

I was asked by Mother to write a few pieces for their Something for the Weekend issue last weekend. I covered the culinary odyssey from the future, for the future, a cape made from spiders silk and s...

23 mar 12 1 person likes this

A Culinary Odyssey

Last night was the launch of the new Kitchenaid 6.9L Artisan Stand Mixer. The evening was hosted by Bompas & Parr and Idesigned the event.. It was beautiful. Here is a snippet of the planet bar k...

22 mar 12

My Egg is in it’s position!

Here is my finished egg and at its new home at the boutique Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel in fashionable Belgravia! . My egg takes inspiration from the destruction of the environment. The little Blue Tit, C...

23 feb 12

LOVE Insects

I couldnt quite believe my luck when Tim Walker asked me to do an insect shoot with him for LOVE magazine - I LOVE insects! . The shoot was inspired by Arthur Rackham and my wasps were a great starti...

03 feb 12 1 person likes this

The Making of my Egg

I was asked by The Big Egg Hunt to create an egg for their charity egg hunt. Very Egg-citing! I designed my egg to look like an old globe with a little blue tit sat on the top using the same techniqu...

03 feb 12

Creation of Browns Christmas Windows

I remembered I had some icy pictures of when we made the Browns Christmas windows which seemed fitting with how cold it is today! . We used a type of wax which, which when cooled, looks like ice. . L...

03 feb 12

U.S. Vogue

I was asked by Tim Walker to make props and wrap a kitchen and a dining room to illustrate a couple of articles in American Vogue. The first shoot was about flawless porcelain skin. I made porcelain ...

17 jan 12 1 person likes this

Egg is coming along.

A bit covered in paint after painting the nest for my egg for The Big Egg Hunt starting in February. Here is the video of the launch of the Egg Hunt. .

12 jan 12

Happy New Year!

So 2011 was a pretty crazy year. My feet havent touched the ground! . I cant quite believe its been nearly a year since my wasp window for Bright Young Things at Selfridges. Theyre launching their ne...

06 jan 12

Browns Christmas Windows

Here are a few snapshots of my ice installation for Browns Focus windows. Theyre in for three weeks on South Molton Street. Go and have a look. It looks like real ice! .

24 nov 11

Behind the scenes video for Mechanical Dolls

Click here to see the video by Guy Stephens.   .  

01 nov 11 2 people like this

Nominated for a British Arrow Craft Award!

I had a very exciting email this evening from the lovely Stuart Bentham from Rattling Stick, letting me know that John Ebden and myself have been nominated for a British Arrow Craft Award! . The nomi...

27 oct 11

Mechanical Dolls

Here it is... The making of Mechanical Dolls for Italian Vogue (out now). This one was quite complicated as everything had to be perfect. We had to make casts of Kirsi and Audreys faces. The only tim...

15 oct 11

The Birds

I found a polaroid today from the shoot I did with Tim Walker and Scarlett Johansson in New York this time last year. Here I am testing out my crow coat which I made for Scarlett, who was Tippi Hedre...

05 oct 11

Samuel Pepys Sneak Peek for Limited Edition London at Trafalgar

One of the first jobs back was a last minute job with Cake Group to design a peep show for London and Partners. Here you can see the coverage about it in The Evening Standard. The unique Pepys Show i...

05 oct 11 1 person likes this

Back to Business

After a bit of time off and a sneaky holiday (far far away), I’m back with lots of fun projects on the horizon and ready for the new season to start. Here are some pictures I took today trying ...

09 sep 11

Pocket Garden

During the McDonald’s ad, I managed to squeeze another job in for a company called Pocket Garden who make vegetable blendies. They wanted me to create a magical world of vegetables, so here is ...

18 jul 11

McDonald’s TV Advert

So after many weeks of hard work, designing and making things, the McDonald’s A-Z advert, which I Art Directed, is finally out. It was a lot of hard work and really took the stuffing out of me,...

26 jun 11 1 person likes this

Design Sponge – What’s in my toolbox!

Ginny Branch from Design Sponge asked me a few questions and had a nosey through my toolbox and my studio. Here are some pictures and the link to the article.

28 may 11

Bombay Sapphire

Here is the latest Bombay Sapphire campaign which I designed the set for and translated the amazing illustration, by Yehrin Tong, in to a 3D piece. It was incredibly technical. Each panel went down i...

21 apr 11

Fred Butler

Thanks Fred for blogging about me! Fred Butler wrote a lovely bit about me and put up some pictures up of behind the scenes of the Blow Up story I did for W, photographed by Tim Walker and also put s...

18 apr 11

Flower People

I love these so much. This is one of my favourite projects so far. This was for Tim Walker for Italian Vogue.

06 apr 11

Ice Boat

We stuck hundreds of fake icicles and other forms of fake ice on to the ice boat and I had the pleasure of setting off a snow candle which filled the room with giant snowflakes. It was so amazing! Th...

06 apr 11

Camping Dinner at Claridges

4 1/2 hours to set the whole thing up! This was the dinner for Tim Walker’s film premier for ‘The Lost Explorer’ at Claridges hosted by Mulberry.

05 apr 11

Shed Explosion

Before. During. After. (and also after carrying the shed 5 storeys up, in pieces, and putting it back together again on the top of a roof in Kentish Town!). This was for Rouleur Magazine photographed...

05 apr 11

Blow up for W Magazine

Putting up some of the 9 giant paintings for the W magazine shoot photographed by Tim Walker (out now). It took ages! But it was worth it.

18 mar 11

Behind the scenes of British Vogue – Tim Walker – Stripes shoot

Here is the set I did for Tim Walker for the April issue of British Vogue – out now. It was inspired by Le Corbusier. The set looks relatively simple, but there was a lot of time and patience s...

13 mar 11

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