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About enterprise
Grand Illusions, Company
Grand Illusions was created by Nick Ronald and David Roberts in December 1987, initially with just one small store in St Margaret's, Twickenham. The mission was to promote gifts, cards and accessories of good design and taste at an affordable price - still very much the core business ethic to this day.
Shortly afterwards, they discovered and developed a paint range that was to transform their lives. In those days, painted furniture was something of a rarity, and a twenty two drawer chest painted in one of the new paints caught the eye of 'Homes & Gardens' magazine - the small feature resulted in over a thousand telephone calls and the seeds of the highly acclaimed furniture collection were sewn.
This also led to the publication of three Grand Illusions books on decorating techniques and design inspiration, published in five countries by Ebury Press and accompanied by guest appearances on BBC2's Home Front and various local BBC radio stations.
They published their first mail-order catalogue in 1990 which was immediately voted as one of the top 200 catalogues in a new worldwide review and several issues later, they were awarded the contract to operate 'Country Living by Post' on behalf of the magazine, in addition to their own unique programme.
Today the company's activities are concentrated almost entirely on wholesale – most of the products are designed in-house by the duo and mostly predominantly made within in the EEC. These are supplied to some 500 outlets across the UK and Ireland and as far away as Australia/NZ. In 2011 they launched their first small textile collection and this will be expanded over the seasons ahead.
The company are also the exclusive UK & Ireland Trade Agency for the highly successful Danish company House Doctor and distributor for Mr Plant of Sweden and Tierlantijn of Holland.
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This wire basket with a heart, looks tremendous on a fireplace or down the centre of a table - perfect for nighlights or small votive candles.
Group: Candlesticks
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Designed very much with Easter or Mother's Day in mind - this little basket is perfect for eggs or sweeties but is equally impressive hanging in the trees, with nightlights flickering.
22 x 9cm
Group: Candlesticks
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Grand Illusions was created by Nick Ronald and David Roberts in December 1987, initially with just one small store in St Margaret's, Twickenham. The mission was to promote gifts, cards and accessories of good design and taste at an affordable price - still very much the core business ethic to this...
Group: Toilet soap
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Shortly afterwards, they discovered and developed a paint range that was to transform their lives. In those days, painted furniture was something of a rarity, and a twenty two drawer chest painted in one of the new paints caught the eye of 'Homes & Gardens' magazine - the small feature resulted...
Group: Toilet soap
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Hugely popular even before it was released for sale, this little votive holder is elegant and magical when lit - comes complete with sparkling bubble votive. Now available with bubble votives in four colours - looks fantastic set amongst Christmas foiage.
Group: Candlesticks
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You have to take the view that you can never have enough Hurricane Lamps in your life - and so we have two more options for you. The first is the fantastic Wire & Glass Hurri which looks very coastal in Antique Zinc, and the other is a very simple Glass Hurri - and at an exceptional price....
Group: Candlesticks
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Four of our most successful scented candles have been put into these handy little tins to make them perfect as Travel Candles. Burning Time is approximately fifty hours.
Group: Household candles
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Now some of our fantastic scented candles are available in these little votive candles in the pretty wrappers - they were inspired by old tea packets. All the virtues of the larger candle but only available in four fragrances - avaerage burning time around twenty hours.
Group: Household candles
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Our beautiful aromatic candles have the power to transport you to another time and place - take for example our best selling fragrance, Campagne, it is truly reminiscent of a Potager after the rain. Made in the UK from 100 Plant Wax and fragranced by natural or essential oils. They are presented in...
Group: Household candles
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We had been looking for a source supplying authentic Marseille Soap for some time and stumbled across these soaps in a tiny shop in Valldemossa and with their help traced them back to a small family run business now located on the French/Spanish border, where the soaps have been made milled by...
Group: Toilet soap