I am not a natural athlete (at all!), but in a good week, I’ve been managing to get out early three mornings a week for an hour’s walk, up a hill to a flight of stairs, where I run up and down the 75 stairs 10 times over. What’s behind my impressive discipline? Patterns, of …
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Stone Circles & Gooseberry Gym
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A Cabin by Heath
We love this. The owners of our long-time San Francisco stockists, Heath Ceramics, have recently made their beautiful holiday cabin in Tahoe’s Alpine Valley available for all to enjoy, and it is filled with beauty from Heath itself, as well as from the brands they stock in their store. “A Cabin by Heath began in 2012 …
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Experiments in shipping
You’ve heard us banging on about how quick and affordable it is to FedEx our goods from Cape Town to the rest of the world, and here’s proof! We contacted New York City food writer Marie Viljoen of 66 Square Feet fame and asked her if she’d be our guinea pig, as we knew her …
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Happy November
Visit the Happy Thanks section of our website, where we’ve marked our bestselling kitchen and diningware with a happy sunshine, enabling you to get 15% off when you use the discount code HAPPY.
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The original Skinny laMinx
I’m so sad to have to tell you that the original Skinny laMinx – our little Siamese cat Monkey – died a week ago, just 6 days after she turned 18. Although Paul and I are so sad, and we miss our furry little friend more than we can say, every time we talk about her, …
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PICHULIK x Skinny laMinx
We’re excited to announce a textile collaboration with fashion and jewellery brand Pichulik, and are looking forward to sharing the abundance with you! Come and celebrate the launch of PLENTY, the Pichulik Spring Summer 2020 collection, at the Skinny laMinx shop on Saturday 26 October from 12-2pm. There will be aperitifs, garments and jewellery from …
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PLENTY behind the scenes
Last week, we posted about the behind-the-scenes collaboration conversation between Kat Pichulik and us as we figured out how to come up with a fabric design for the Pichulik SS20 range. We’re almost ready for the big reveal on 26 October, but here’s what the studio working board is looking like right now! See the …
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Plant more trees
These days, I’m much more aware that flying somewhere is adding to the climate problem, but things are currently set up so that flying is often hard to avoid. So although not flying at all is the best policy, for now, it’s going to have to be a mitigated choice, where the carbon miles generated …
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Making Friday: From the studio walls
As you know, my Making Friday studio practice is all about making, making, making, with no real plan or expectation or need in mind. I find it so important to simply generate work that’s liberated from all the necessary work restrictions of cost and production possibility etc that product development requires. Here’s some of the …
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