found matchbox

Winter 2011

2012-01-23T21:56:00.003Z

Burrr, are you cold? No neither are we, the mildest Christmas for years?! This will make you feel like putting that under used scarf on.

Louisa, you are lucky...

Matchbox BBQ

2012-01-23T21:47:00.004Z

Wow it must be the weather, this one is mega delayed!

The annual Pacifico BBQ - time for a box!

Please cook the sausage thoroughly!

Bah..................Humbug

2010-12-10T17:03:00.003Z

Found matchbox where have you been all my damn life. So long since we did last meet. Get over it...

Check this Dickensian feast out. And because the people wanted 'more' 'more?!', yes 'more' this found matchbox is the easiest to find yet - because if you cross our palms with silver you can have it...

Head down to the quite lovely Unlimited Editions Christmas Pop Up shop in Brighton and make your Christmas as good as ol' London ahem, Brighton, (input location) has ever seen.

http://www.unlimitededitions.co.uk/

Emergency Biscuit

2009-10-20T09:56:00.003Z

Never get caught short with your brew again!

London Design Fest 09

2009-10-20T09:52:00.002Z

Bricks on Brick Lane.

Birthday book

2009-10-20T09:50:00.001Z

Birthday related literature

Fly box

2009-10-20T09:47:00.003Z

Flying is great - We're not talking planes either. Don your wings and get dreaming

lolly box

2008-08-06T13:01:00.002Z

a summer treat - grab them before they melt

Pap box

2008-08-06T12:56:00.005Z

a gift for anna
the camera loves you
(camera kindly modelled by pacifico)

Cloud box

2008-07-16T17:46:00.005Z

Yes this is where they come from...a small factory by the Serpentine in Hyde Park

Fag box

2008-07-16T17:44:00.005Z

...yes they do
no offence intended...if you're offended perhaps vent your anger/woe at a nearby pigeon - they never have a great deal to do except fly at peoples faces - which really is offensive

Maths box

2008-07-16T17:42:00.001Z

Sums on the go... because full size calculators are so unwieldy

Bird box

2008-07-16T17:41:00.003Z

Matchbox birds need homes too...

new home

2008-07-16T17:40:00.001Z

Simple... a new home from a box

bridge over...

2008-02-19T08:48:00.002Z

crack, bridge. bridge, crack.

bedbox

2008-02-19T08:46:00.005Z

a new bed from ikea....

the readymade

2008-02-19T08:44:00.002Z

a ready made matchbox?

all thanks to the godfather of modern art

hit box

2008-01-07T18:12:00.002Z

our most controversial yet...

matchbox accordion

2008-01-07T18:07:00.001Z

when in paris...

need we say more... adopted by the cafe Lez Ziem, montmartre.,

christmas 07

2008-01-04T18:38:00.001Z

christmas 2007 - hoorah or alternatively...

sweet engagement

2008-01-04T18:36:00.001Z

for a sis and her gent

dec 2007

flock it!

2008-01-04T18:34:00.002Z

Out and about and need to do some decorating?

a street corner, a post box?

fear no longer, now everywhere can look like a stately home

left in merry shoreham by sea - sussex nov 2007

what's that coming over the hill...

2008-01-04T18:32:00.001Z

yes a monster...

and he doesn't cut his finger nails...run to your mother

left on the streets of soho, nov 2007

apathy, indifference, who gives a f*ck

2007-11-05T18:48:00.001Z

The modern friends to all...

you could burn them if you could be arsed

Left about a set of stairs off the mall

match radio

2007-10-29T18:31:00.004Z

I heard you on the wireless back in 62...or was it 52

radio is alive and well although needs some tuning

terry wogan anyone?

love it don't burn it

left on the merry southbank by an over sized spider

for the flock

2007-10-15T17:19:00.001Z

Sheep...who doesn't love them. They have wool, mum knits the wool, we have jumpers - hooray, hoorah!

Sheep on the loose in Hyde Park, never fear they're not insane killer sheep as featured in non noteworthy film of recent release.

boxes filled to the brim with wool for the ultimate sheep clothing range or a loose woven cover for your thumbs - winter is afoot

Window box - London Design Festival 07

2007-10-09T12:22:00.002Z

The biggest foundmatchbox to date...

we pulled out at least two stops, potentially into zone 2.

matchboxes, typography and image. These are a few of our favourite things.

left and found....Bricklane, London.

Installed with the unwavering talent and assistance of Paul Smith designer.

Building box

2007-10-09T12:19:00.002Z

Modern regeneration...how we love it...

Let's build up together, one day we shall touch the stars. Perhaps.

Another box for a day of birth...left on a desk to be found.

Soap box

2007-10-09T12:05:00.001Z

Not a matchbox, yes marvel a fully blown working washing machine.

Service wash anyone? We don't do duvets!

A non descript brand of the white washing powder inside of course.

Two made, pink and blue.

Pink left somewhere near Portland St. Station...

...the other with an american.

Our forest

2007-10-09T12:01:00.001Z

Matches burn so do trees.

The beach

2007-10-09T12:00:00.002Z

The beach

2007-10-09T11:58:00.001Z

Memories of a youth

boxes given not found.

Beauty dies young

2007-10-09T11:57:00.001Z

Beauty dies young

2007-10-09T11:55:00.000Z

The inevitability of life...

found in Farringdon, left in Farringdon.

2007-05-29T13:05:00.002Z

2007-05-29T13:03:00.004Z

birthday lou

2007-05-29T13:03:00.003Z

don't eat it whatever you do - the icing is two parts corn flour one part egg and two spoons white spirit

really should come with an extinguisher

don't f ck it up

2007-05-29T13:01:00.001Z

the quote unquote of the 21st century - without doubt.

you have one match - don't f ck it up

ENO box

2007-05-29T12:59:00.001Z

bare with us now...the wonderful english national opera are also covert street tag experts. yes they're everywhere - we've just happened to put a couple on matchboxes (just matches inside this time)

ENO obviously deny all association - look out for them on a street near you

2007-05-29T12:57:00.001Z

2007-05-29T12:55:00.004Z

gorm box

2007-05-29T12:55:00.003Z

southbank. hayward. excitement.

everyone loves gormley - 'he did that big angel thing up north didn't he. I like that, it's good'

wine box

2007-05-29T12:53:00.001Z

back from rehab and with the added glamour of the hive. believed to be home to a family of great tits. bill oddie is probing.

2007-05-29T12:52:00.001Z

penny box

2007-05-29T12:51:00.001Z

all that spare change rattling around your pocket - put it in a box and pass it on

Spam Up

2007-04-20T09:51:00.003Z

The mother of all sandwich fillings meets the mother of all burning appliances.

This one is a one off and it's already found a suitably spiffing home on the top shelf of a swanky London kitchen lardour.

All be prasied...corn beefers need not apply

I made this

2007-04-20T09:42:00.002Z

We make the frame, you make the glorious creation.

The I made this box come in a limited edition of just five. So find yours quick before miss emin does.

for the leaves

2007-04-20T09:39:00.002Z

A box made of those beautiful fallen after summer leaves/we can't spell the 'a' season.

We love leaves and trees, we should all hug them more. Hyde park on sunday mornings there's a tree hug half hour every first friday.

Join in.

I ain't got the time

2007-04-20T09:35:00.001Z

When left

When found.

Need we say more. Interactive with your found matchbox.

We made five of these. This is the very first one, and our favourite. We've named him Steve.

matchbox :8 - a trip to the city

2006-11-18T19:12:00.001Z

wow a whole non specific city in a matchbox! good work

left:

when/ 16th November 2006

where/ bar room bar, soho

who/ a fine young lady snapped it up as soon as it hit the bar, wonder who that was?

matchbox number 8 - one mug

2006-11-18T19:04:00.001Z

more matchbox tea - how exciting and this one folds out into a tea pot! even more exciting, but not more than tea of course!

left:

this was a dandy matchbox birthday gift, good times

#7 the idiot box

2006-11-11T14:20:00.001Z

is television great? i don't know, we quite like newsnight review. is matchbox television great? hell yes! compact, portable, no need for batteries, travelling on the tube has never been less boring. the matchbox genetically modified ferret workforce are currently developing the remote control / priced as extra

left:

when/ sometime today 11th october 06

where/ haven't decided yet

who/ this matchbox is just a twinkle in their itchy eye still

#6 fluff box

2006-11-11T14:15:00.001Z

snuff boxes are just lame, viva fluff boxes! gentleman match bought a new tshirt, from bonny h&m / we have a buget to work with / in the fluff box is a cute bit of white fluff from that very tshirt, fluff so underated and makes such handy bedding for your rabbit/guinea pig that you accidently shrunk.

left:

when/ 10th october 06

where/ george&dragon, shoreditch

who/ we broke the rules and gave it to some fine looking folk who undoubtly have an affinity with matchboxes and/or fluff

#5 looking at me?

2006-11-11T14:10:00.001Z

arrows arrows everywhere. arrows are great enough but those made out of cardboard are even better. this foundmatchbox is the most magnificant and extravert yet; it can not be contained by the box. inside that bonny matchbox there's / you guessed it/ an arrow.

left:

when/9th november 06

where/ on the southbank opposite the bfi

who/ gosh someone who likes arrows you'd hope

Saftey Matches

2006-10-31T22:07:00.001Z

See below

matchbox # 4 safety

2006-10-29T11:02:00.001Z

hoorah for safety matches, if we didn't have them the world would possibly burn down and that would be lame because there is not an extinguisher big enough to combat it.

left:

when/ 28th october 06

where/ on a bike seat on bonny brick lane

who/ possibly the owner of the bike, possibly the elusive matchbox thief

matchbox # 3 - luck

2006-10-29T10:54:00.001Z

having a bad day? never fear, we've palmed off a piece of our luck in the form of a shiney, well almost shiney penny. all that find a penny pick it up business!

left:

when/ 28th october 06

where/ on a wooden palette in spitalfields market

who found it/ who knows, but jeezes they're lucky

Ticket - matchbox#two

2006-10-28T20:45:00.001Z

rail tickets are great. one persons journey. the obscene price they paid for it, all praise the privatised rail system. some folk even have young persons cards, these are for people who are young.

left:

when/ 23rd october 2006 some time in the afternoon

where/ on the window ledge outside fopp in soho, opposite the spamalot theatre, shruberies welcome.

who found it/ a man in a hat possibly clogs

Tea - matchbox#1

2006-10-28T20:20:00.001Z

Heck what more does one person need? a matchbox that makes tea. genius.

left:
when/ 18th october 2006, around lunch time

where/ one of the many many pret a mangers on high holborn. even we occassionally need to eat rather than just drink tea.

who/ the lucky git who found matchbox numbero uno would like to remain anonomous for tea addiction reasons.