Andrea Aste (centre) with Zdeněk Kudr and Petr Skoček of Bohem Brewery. Behind them you can see part of Andrea's Myddleton Road muralThe hot news from today's Myddleton Road Market (apart, that is, from the £925 raised at the market for the North London Samaritans' Shaftesbury Hall project) is the launch this week of Andrea Aste's Space Laboratory - a "cyber store where imagination curates space".
"Big Spender" - one of Andrea Aste's print designsAndrea is an Italian-born mural artist whose work adorns both a 5-star restaurant in Milan and the rather more down-to-earth, but nearer to home, Bohem Brewery Tap Room in Myddleton Road. That's not to say that the murals in the Tap Room are down-to-earth - they're perfect examples of Andrea's quirky approach, transforming an otherwise unexceptional room into a unique social space (Bohem's beer also assists in this process).
The "Space Laboratory" is Andrea's new online shop, selling prints and posters (A1 down to A3), greetings cards and an extraordinary pack of Tarot cards, "designed to look like it was created during the era of the master alchemists". There are also mugs produced by another Myddleton Road artist, Lucy Whitehead.
Special Big Launch offer
Through skilful use of the dark arts of Tarot and alchemy coupled with knowledge of European languages, Palmers Green Community has deciphered the secret code that will take 20 per cent off Space Laboratory prices.
Use the code VENTI#20 (for a limited time only, and not including Andrea Aste Originals or Signed and Limited Editions).