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Lush designs design company which concentrates on print design primarily for their own range of homewares Based in Deptford, South East London it is the creation of Marie Rodgers and Maria Livings. Marie Rodgers and maria Livings were at Art School together (Maidstone College of Art) where they studied Fine Art, painting and printmaking.

Marie Rodgers grew up in Derry Northern Ireland and is a childhood friend of Roma Downey. Maria Livings is the daughter of Playwright Henry Livings and grew up in Saddleworth in the Pennines on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border.

The pair formed a working partnership in 1982 when they left college and moved to South East London. At first working in community Arts Projects in and around Deptford, poster design and printing and arts projects with Heart and Soul and The Albany. They also worked collaboratively on performance/dance projects with Lea Anderson's dance company The Cholmondelys and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Reeves and Ken Campbell, also with their own performance art group Jugnost.

They started designing and making large-scale costume jewellery, first as Rodgers and Livings, Artists to the Stars, and then as Lushlobes, working with artist Stewart Helm. They created bespoke pieces for Dame Edna Everedge and Su Pollard and customers included Siouxi Sioux and Kate Bush.

In the 1990's their business evolved into Lush Designs when they decided to concentrate on homewares, creating a range of lampshades, textiles and tableware bearing their own drawn images.

In 2008 they opened their first shop in Greenwich, South East London, followed by a second in 2013 in East Dulwich.