No, that is not a misprint. My favourite mug at work does say “Slingsby laMinx”, and here’s the reason why. A squillion years ago, pre-Skinny laMinx, I worked with a powerhouse duo called Barbara Coombe and Maggie Slingsby. That’s us in the pic below, working on the series of 28 school reading books that we …
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Slingsby laMinx?
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A message for our US customers
Previously, most of our shipments to the USA were exempt from import duties under the De Minimis rule, which has fallen away as of 29 August. This means that anything arriving in the USA from South Africa will now attract Customs charges. To accommodate these additional costs, we have adjusted our US$ prices, and this will enable …
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Let The Sun In
After visiting the incredible Alexander Girard retrospective on the Vitra campus in 2016, I returned with the exhibition catalogue – Alexander Girard – A Designer’s Universe, and thought I had the ultimate Girard book. But after a recommendation from my friend and fellow Girard fan Sara Smedley, I recently splashed out on the monograph Alexander …
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How to Wear a Twilly Scarf
We love having Twilly Scarves as part of the Skinny laMinx range of accessories, because a Twilly really is an enormously versatile accessory. It’s almost like a piece of jewellery! And there are soooo many ways to use this little fabric scarf. The history of Twilly Skinny laMinx certainly didn’t invent the Twilly Scarf. It …
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Pops of pure Skinny laMinx colour!
It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all the pattern choices at Skinny laMinx. Enter the magic of our colour blocked Colour Pop Pillows – fifteen glorious pops of pure Skinny laMinx colour, piped in a coordinating tone, made up in Square, Oblong & Round shapes. Colour Pop Pillows are intended as the dots, dashes and commas …
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Flourish Wallpaper at Robin Sprong
We are over the moon about the most beautiful FLOURISH wallpaper we’ve made with Robin Sprong Wallpapers. Robin Sprong Wallpapers is a Cape Town business, creating and installing bespoke wall coverings, with agencies and associates across South Africa and around the world to help bring your walls to life. Visit the Robin Sprong Wallpapers website to order your transformation!
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It’s time for FLOURISH
FLOURISH is here to celebrate our tangled, buzzing, burgeoning natural world, fizzing with life, variety and vigour. This design is a call to put aside futuristic dreams of Mars and AI, and to fall back in love with the beauty, wonder and delight that our planet offers us in abundance. The word Flourish describes a …
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Oddjects is back!
💥FLASH QUIZ! 💥 Question 1: One of the shapes below is called BOUBA and the other is called KIKI. they’re both nonsense words, but can you guess which name belongs to which shape? If you’re like most people – across cultures, languages and ages – you’ll likely have called the soft, friendly shape BOUBA, and …
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Wunders X Skinny laMinx
This year, for Cape Town Furniture week we teamed up with our friends at Wunders who invited us to refresh some of their classic furniture with our prints. Wunders is a family business that has been making furniture in Cape Town for over 40 years. Under the guidance of the third generation of the Wunders …
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