Join us at our 13,000 square foot Grain workshop in Leyton to see British furniture manufacturing in action. Our entire collection is designed and made in our workshop. Come and see our contemporary dining tables, desks, stools and shelves – available in a large range of colours and sizes. Meet the designers and makers in our friendly team and find out more about what they do.

Discover the work of innovative charity Furnishing Futures, which partners with the interiors industry to create trauma-informed healing homes for families given empty social housing after escaping domestic abuse. Enjoy a tour of our warehouse and studio, meet our team and learn about sustainability in interiors and the impact of trauma-informed design for recovery.

Ceramics centre for the Lee Valley, covering the entire top floor of an old hardware factory. Three rooms, providing just over 8000 sq ft of floor space; the main room is capped by its original saw-tooth glass roof feature.

Unknown, 1946

Step inside the Climpson & Son's Coffee Roastery and see the inner workings of where your favourite coffee gets sourced and roasted.

Every hour on the hour Neckstamper will give a brewery tour explaining our brewing process and equipment we use. The brewery taproom will also be open for the public to enjoy our beer or purchase cans to take away.

Join us for a special open day at Kribi Coffee UK! Owners Anne and Luca will guide you on a tour through the air roastery and share the rich story of Cameroonian coffee and their family’s connection to the farmers and the land. There will be live demonstrations of the coffee air roaster and some sample coffee to try!

Join us for an alcohol-free beer tasting and brewery tour! Our shutter will be open all afternoon for you to pop in and join us for a beer. Our brewer James will lead a brewery-tour session at 2pm giving the low-down on the magic behind alcohol-free brewing, followed by a guided tasting with a selection of four great Nirvana beers.

Square Root Soda will be running live production shifts to demonstrate how our drinks get made. You will be shown around our production space, where fruit will be being juiced and our other ingredients processed into our soda mix. Then you will be taken around our state-of-the-art packaging line. You will leave with an understanding of what the inner workings of a factory look like.

Robyn Simms, 2018

A five-building cycle tour looking at housing, leisure, mixed-use and later living architecture in Waltham Forest designed by Pollard Thomas Edwards (PTE). It starts at Lea Bridge Road Station and ends at Waltham Forest Town Hall and will be led by Justin Laskin, partner, who designed several of the schemes and Rory Olcayto, PTE’s writer and critic and the former chief executive of Open House.

Join us and learn more about the ancient art of patination. Celebrate 35 years of Capisco by delving into our sample archive and a gallery of our projects. Our master patination technicians will also be on hand to demonstrate some classic techniques.

Enter the world of the curious with a special meet the maker open day at the UK's first ever Absinthe Distillery. Learn about the origins and rituals of this once illicit liquor from distiller and co-founder Rhys Everett.