{"id":5548,"date":"2011-12-07T16:06:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T16:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=5548"},"modified":"2011-12-07T16:07:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T16:07:30","slug":"pullens-yards-winter-open-studios-elephant-and-castle-london-se17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/pullens-yards-winter-open-studios-elephant-and-castle-london-se17\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullens Yards Winter Open Studios, Elephant &#038; Castle, London SE17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-00.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pullens Yards &#8211; taking in Clements Yard (above), Iliffe Yard and Peacock Yard &#8211; held their Winter Open Studios last weekend, with clothing, jewellery, ceramics, fine art, furniture, books and photography on offer.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Located near Elephant and Castle, \u00a0Pullens Yards were created in the 1850s as &#8216;live to work&#8217; spaces, with the workshops still home to a\u00a0diverse range of established arts and craft businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Around the three yards, you can find potters, painters, furniture designers, architects, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/electric-elephant-cafe-gallery-betwixt-kennington-and-elephant-and-castle-london\/\">a lovely cafe<\/a> and even a lute maker.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-01.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yard Sale Project in Clements Yard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-02.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t work out how to open this curious cabinet. The cabinetmaker had stuck a great big arrow pointing to the base of the thing but the expected button or catch was nowhere to be seen. So I opened it from the top and he told me off.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-03.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Inside a first floor studio.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-04.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-05.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-06.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gordon W Robertson&#8217;s finely crafted etched metalwork.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-07.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-08.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-09.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Peacock yard\u00a0entrance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-10.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-11.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Barber and Sandi Harris, lutemakers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-12.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-13.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-14.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-16.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-17.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lovely old Rover.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-18.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-19.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Taking it easy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-20.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-21.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They had owls out on display. <strong>OWLS!<\/strong> I love them!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-22.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-23.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-24.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stone carvers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-25.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Artist space.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-26.jpg\" alt=\"Pullens Open Studios, Iliffe Yard and Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle, London SE17, December 2011\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, Pullens Yards has Open Days in June and December every year. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pullensyards.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">their website<\/a> for details and updates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More info:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iliffeyard.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">IliffeYard.co.uk<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clementsyard.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">ClementsYard.co.uk<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Pullens-Yards\/86285147223\">Facebook Pullens Yards<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pullens_buildings\" target=\"_blank\"> About Pullens buildings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pullens Yards &#8211; taking in Clements Yard (above), Iliffe Yard and Peacock Yard &#8211; held their Winter Open Studios last weekend, with clothing, jewellery, ceramics, fine art, furniture, books and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193],"tags":[34,424,10],"class_list":["post-5548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-art","tag-kennington","tag-london"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pullens-open-studios-dec-2011-00.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1ru","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5548"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5558,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions\/5558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}