On my travels in Tokyo, in Jaipur, in Los Angeles, and all over South Africa too, I’ve always noticed & photographed the patterns of brise soleil structures. The brise soleil is a perforated architectural screen that became a defining stylistic feature of Modernist architecture, and these inspired the BRISE SOLEIL textile collection in 2016. Now, …
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Limited edition throw with VISI magazine
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Light + Shade : An exhibition
On Wednesday 1 September, ceramicist Sarah Walters and I launch our Light + Shade exhibition at the Sarah Walters Gallery at 7 Wheelan Street, Newlands Village. We’ve been carrying Sarah’s beautiful mugs in our shop for a while now, but after a conversation we had about how hard it is to find beautiful lamp bases, …
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Eye Love…
I’ve been wearing eyeglasses since I was 8 years old. But imagine if I had never got spectacles. I couldn’t read, draw, watch movies, enjoy people-watching, notice shadows, birds, shapes, compositions… and a million other things too. Without glasses, my experience of the world would be vastly different. In a hugely unequal country like ours, there …
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Summer Seasonal at Heath Ceramics
It’s Summer in the Northern hemisphere now, and the Summer Seasonal range at Heath Ceramics has been launched, in a range of intense blues. We’ve been working with Heath Ceramics since 2008, and it’s always an honour and a treat to get the Heath seasonal palettes a couple of months ahead of each launch. Other …
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The gap between idea and execution
So, tra-la-la, it’s all “clever me” when the facade of Fortuna apartments on the Sea Point Promenade gives me an idea… but what happens next? How does a sketch on paper actually turn into a vase? One that stacks? The fact is, there’s a MASSIVE gap between an idea, and the idea becoming something for realz. And …
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The PROMENADE lifestyle collection
When you take 3 midcentury architectural facades on the Sea Point Promenade, add a pinch of admiration, 3 dollops of attention, a few choice collaborations, what do you end up with? The PROMENADE lifestyle collection. This collection pays homage to the large-scale public murals at Fortuna and Bonne Esperance apartments, and on the Beach Road …
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Collaboration: Wren x Skinny laMinx
In this design collaboration, carefree prints & colours from Skinny laMinx & the innovative stitched paper accessories from WREN meet to tell a bright & optimistic story evoking the mood of a breezy Summer stroll along the Sea Point Promenade in Cape Town. WREN specialises in the innovative use of stitched paper to create personal …
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Making Friday : On the Promenade
The Sea Point Promenade really is my favourite place to take a walk. There’s so much to see! Waves & surfers, paragliders & windblown trees, dads with prams & nurses with wheelchairs, doggos & joggers all making up a passing parade that’s one of the enduring pleasures of Cape Town life. It also has some …
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Modern Fabric
Look at what arrived in the post… with our Bowls print on the cover! I’m thrilled to bits that Skinny laMinx has been included as one of the 25 textile designers in this book by Abby Gilchrist and Amelia Poole, published by Princeton Architectural Press. What a thrill to share pages with heavyweights like @kaffefassettstudio, …
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