Earlier this year, light finally dawned when I read this post of Lena Corwin’s. At last, I could decipher this squiggle on our vintage bathtowels. It’s a signature, reading Vera, belonging to the 20th Century designer Vera Neumann . Some of her scarf designs have been reissued at Auto, and I’ve heard that she designed …
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Bathroom and Vera
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Black Birds in the mirror
Big thanks to South of the Sahara for providing me with this photo. It’s from a story in a recent issue of Elle Decoration SA, showing a lovely apartment in Killarney. Look! There’s one of my Black Bird screenprints in the mirror! I’ve been told that the owners of this place actually have a whole …
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Blind Alphabet
This is D-Daedalean by Willem Boshoff. It’s part of Boshoff’s epic work Blind Alphabet. 30 new sculptures for the letters D and E will be shown (to some more than others) in a show opening tonight at Michael Stevenson Contemporary in Cape Town.Read more about the show in the Elle Decoration SA blog and in …
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Framed!
There’ll be none of this drying the dishes nonsense for Zee Homebug. Look, she’s put her Eep! teatowels in frames! Ah, good to see my work finally getting the respect it deserves ;).
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Psst…
Ahem. I have an announcement: I have become a blogging professional. Not here at Skinny laMinx (this is all strictly voluntary), but for Elle Decoration SA, where I’m their resident blogger! Soon I’ll have the Elle Deco team up to speed, and they’ll be joining me in showing great finds, loads of South African design, …
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Absoluut winners!
It was the rugby World Cup that made me do it! On Saturday night, even before the match began, the streets were filled with cheering and shouting and hooting and blaring vuvuzelas, and the resulting rush of blood to my head caused me to buy these two cushion covers from Absoluut.And winning the rugby was …
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Cutting phrases
I keep returning to gaze at Rob Ryan’s epic cutouts since Lena reminded me of his work in her post on Tuesday. I also enjoyed finding his blog and reading about all the great projects he works on. He has an Etsy shop too! Anyway yesterday, while doing a cutout for a magazine illustration (an …
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O.live and Moyo
Nope, the title of this post is not a description of the contents of my lunchbox, these are the names of local shops that have recently started stocking Skinny laMinx teatowels. First up, the fabulously glam O.live, which has just opened a new store down at the newly revitalised bottom end of Kloof Street. O.live …
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On and on about a jug…
Shoshana Snow is this weeks’ Etsy featured seller. I like these things she makes from porcelain. The jug reminds me of my two beloved black and white Arabia jugs. Regular readers will recall the tragic day when one of these broke, and truely devoted readers will remember that I’ve snivelled about it again in another …
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