Fashion: Designs on Christmas...

... Modern Ground, the one-stop shop for gifts.

IF YOU have trouble finding fashionable presents, and don't want to trek around to find something unusual, the Modern Ground Christmas Gallery may provide a solution.

Running right up until Christmas Eve, the exhibition includes work from leading contemporary designers, as well as new talents. These objects of desire range from handbags and jewellery, to ceramics and furniture. Highlights of the exhibition include the work of Italian lighting designer, Jacopo Foggini, whose beautiful resin lights are collected by shops and museums all over the world, but who is little known in this country.

Recent Cordwainers graduate, Emily Trotter, is showing her feather bags, that look like oversized powder puffs. Katie Clark makes jewellery from various materials, including elastic and feathers, and uses precious metal settings. She graduated from Middlesex two years ago, and sells work around the country in various shops and galleries.

The ceramic work of Dawn Hargreaves is being shown in London for the first time, and her spiky organic shapes are beautifully glazed with metallic and metal oxide finishes.

Rachel Barraclough, the brains behind Modern Ground, organised the exhibition as a one-stop antidote to unimaginative Christmas shopping: "I felt that lots of designers were making great things, and that people would buy them if they knew that they existed. Modern Ground exhibitions are places where people can come to source contemporary objects, that they wouldn't normally see."

Modern Ground Christmas Gallery, 92 Lotts Road, London SW10, until 24 December. For enquiries, 0171-510 1021