R E N N I E S

   S E A S I D E  M O D E R N

   47 THE OLD HIGH STREET

   FOLKESTONE KENT CT20 1RN

  +44 (0) 7986 834084 at all times
N.B. our old landline is now defunct

  info@rennart.co.uk

our mosaic QR code on side of shop
which apparently works from a distance!
but this one should work all the time.

S H O P

our natural world

original vintage posters and graphics
+ exciting collections

other pictures and prints

WW1 and WW2 Remembrance

our queen's last jubilee september 2022

badges - enamel and '60's button

scarves, Hermes, textiles, vintage clothes

ravilious, bawden and friends

Space travel etc.

bracelets and brooches, jewellery

books old & new

South East souvenirs

furniture (and some table lamps)

ceramics & glass

metalware & wood

seaside jokes and vintage toys

Turning Japanese?

photography

Folk Art(including Romney Marsh farmtools)

festival of britain 1951

some desktop clocks and the odd watch

cats dogs and other animals - to be continued

limited edition Captain Webb silkscreenprint designed by Karen screenprinted in Folkestone sold out!
new design on right limited no.50 NOW AVAILABLE @ £25

ALSO 2018
Hattie Jacques - local hero £20

ALSO
lt. ed. FOLKESTONE enamelled pin badge
LOCKDOWN SOUVENIR
£5

ALSO

limited edition print on butchers paper, depicting Louis Bleriot's famous plane ( as displayed in Selfridges in 1909!)
edition of 25 by Karen Rennie @ £20 each

©KR limited ed. £25 each
2nd ed./sold out
3rd ed. 2023- INSPIRED BY YAYOI KUSAMA. sold out
4th ed.summer 2023 - LBGTQ/ sold out
NEW EDITION 5th/6th ECO sold out
and
very limited OLYMPIC OEUF est arriveeeeeeee
EDITION red/green colourway sold out
EDITION pink/green NEW 2025
NEW FOR 2025 SWIMMING WELCOME
NEW CHOCOLATE EGG easter 2025

original screenprints by Edward Pond for Network SE - WALMER, DOVER & LEEDS CASTLES
£65 each

Each month we hope to change the image on the
title page www.rennart.co.uk

Please send us any images you would like us to consider for this online gallery! - COME ON DON'T BE SHY

lifestyle

about us - a good place to begin

about our shop

allotment - whenever possible

vintage car and van too

Channel swimming

culture and society

FOLKESTONE TRIENNIAL & regeneration

- K's 2008 contribution

- Karen's 2011 contribution

- K's 2014 contribution

- K's 2017 contribution

- K'S 2021 - mmxxl

- 2025 - COMING JULY!



2023
ROUNDABOUTS - FOLKESTONE TO MARGATE

K's Design work in progress

mural / graffiti art in folkestone

1920's dungeness photo album

paul's writing for various publications

paul's blog about
1. posters
2. life - new pamphleteer
3. railways

FROM SEPTEMBER 2020
4. Paul's covid podcasts - aka P Pods

P&K's blog
the great experiment - art & life in folkestone

Paul's article on collecting scarves,
written for ACC in 1994.

Paul's article on public information posters in a pandemic
written for Apollo magazine 2020

press

OUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBOURS IN THE STREET

EVENTS

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2025 is the year.....
Folkestone Triennial
info - here


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SKATEBOARDS
IN FOLKESTONE
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(every saturday afternoon in the shop
Paul is keen to have a chess game with
anyone who drops by?
please 'check' for openings ; ) click here

STOP PRESS:
CHESS MEETS AT cafe at 98 Sandgate Road
every Sunday morning 10am.
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Live webcam of Folkestone Harbour Arm
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FOLKESTONE FRINGE
things happening!....

+ FOLKESTONE LIFE

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The South-East trail starts here:

we welcome
Turner Contemporary in Margate

& Hastings Contemporary(Jerwood)in Hastings

& de la Warr pavilion in Bexhill

& Towner Gallery in Eastbourne

& Pallant House Gallery in Chichester

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MODERN BRITISH POSTERS
exhibition
available for hire!

click here for slideshow...

and

Paul's book
MODERN BRITISH POSTERS

only a few available

and GPO poster book £11.50

and Festival of Britain book £14.95

and Safety First book for RoSPA £15

Paul's monograph
on Tom Eckersley
£25

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archive slideshow of 2008 exhibition of our poster collection at
Central St Martins