Cass Art

About Cass Art

Mark Cass’s original art store opened in 1984 at 13 Charing Cross Road. This site has been an art store for over 115 years next to the National Gallery. The next store opened in 2001 on Kensington High Street. The Soho store then followed in 2003, Charing Cross in 2004, the Islington Flagship in 2006 which boasts 7,500 square feet of retail space across three floors, Hampstead in 2010 and Kingston in 2012.

Most recently they have opened outside of London in Glasgow, Bristol and Liverpool. Cass Art not only partners with some of the leading art brands across the UK, including The National Gallery, The Royal Academy of Arts, National Galleries Scotland and Sky Arts, it also works with local galleries and art institutions. Cass Art is committed to encouraging everyone to realise their creative talents by providing the world’s top quality materials at the guaranteed best prices.

Cass Art offers a unique place to work, where its mission underpins its company ethos. They embrace creativity, diversity and individualism, and put their customers as well as the success and development of our team at the forefront of everything they do.

Number of stores

9

Founded

1984

Parent Company

Art-Line Limited

Fun Facts

• Cass Art has a long-standing relationship with Pentagram, one of the world’s leading and award-winning design agencies. Over the years they have developed the graphic language of Cass Art, re-designed the store architecture to create light-filled, contemporary art spaces, and designed several of Cass Art’s own brand products.
• Mark Cass’s original art store opened in 1984 at 13 Charing Cross Road, next to the National Gallery.