The colours in this gorgeous kitchen (Styled by Saša Antic for Alcro) could not be a better match for our Borrowed Spoons tea towels, in shell and sage.
A learned something new last year, when we replaced a couple of windows in a small enclosed balcony with that pleated/lined/fluted glass I’ve always loved. It’s called ‘reeded’ glass, and I love looking through it at the tree outside, because of the way it breaks up shapes and colours. Photographer Samuel Zeller has been photographing the winter …
There is the most amazing bunch of people working at Skinny laMinx, making calculations, keeping records, cutting, stitching, ordering, stockchecking, quality checking, packing, customer relations, and then there’s a shop to run too. Everyone is working at full capacity every minute of every working day to make sure that the things we produce are of …
My bloke spoiled me rotten this Christmas by giving me this gorgeous amber pendant on a dip-dyed silver chain, from Cape Town jeweller Steffany Roup… and then I couldn’t stop myself, adding Steffany’s weighty Geode ring to my finger too. So it’s official now: I’m utterly ruined, and very shiny, to boot.
Eek! I just bought myself an early birthday present on Amazon, called A Dictionary of Color Combinations, by Sanzo Wada. Sanzo Wada was a Japanese artist, teacher, costume and kimono designer who wrote a 6-volume work on colour combinations in the 1930s, which helped to lay the foundations for contemporary colour research. You can see some …