Deer du Bois: Rododendron - a white gem of an art/design shop in Budapest!

Already the last day of my wonderful winter-trip to Budapest and still no shopping done...not until friends showed me the way to this lovely little shop Rododendron!

The graphically cutout paper Christmas tree in the window made me smile even before entering the shop. When you open the door and go into the shop, that is nicely tucked away from the busy city, it feels like a quiet oasis, or in wintertime like a snowed-in forest (I'm deer, you know). But then, when your eyes focus back again you start to see the colorfulness all around you.

Rododendron is a art/design/photo/jewelery/shop/gallery. They sell and exhibit design and work of almost 30 young Hungarian designers along a vast collection of Lomo-photography and accessories.

You'll find here original and handcrafted and plexi jewelery, children's books, graphic prints and nicely colored notebooks, strangely designed teapots and lamps, cotton bags, a cute selection of women clothes and even charming velvet puppets by artists like Tibor Karpati, Enart Vince, Laszlo Nagy, Anna Nemesi, Ayala Bar...and many more.

Some of them even exhibit in the back of the shop!

I was really fond of the big marker-made drawings by Vince Enart/Vince Boldog, as you can see the one with the yellow fox on the picture below.

And as I was looking around my eye fell also on two little drawings of Hungarian born graphic designer Panni Bodoni (portfolio) who now works and lives in Denmark. ~~(Unfortunately I forgot her name, but I'm sure the very nice shop-owner Judit Elek will help me remember her name!)~~ (Thanks Judit)

These are the 2 drawings... maybe one is a bit gloomy, but the warmth of the other one makes up for that! I'm glad to add them to my graphic forest collection!