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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Making Friday : On the Promenade
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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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Start by cutting paper.
After recently posting about the papercut of a KolKol bush that I made in the Norval Sculpture garden (read about it here), it occurred to me that not everyone knows that a lot of Skinny laMinx designs started with cut paper. Some of them – like the Pincushion Protea that I cut in my studio …
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History lesson: Flower Fields
I was sorting through my studio the other day, and came across my original papercut Flower Fields design, which I based on a flower in a vintage Dutch cushion that still lives on our sofa at home. Flower Fields has been such a hit over time, produced in so many colours and so many products …
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Best Things: Stripes
Do you know about the Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon? It’s that thing where you notice something once – a new word, an idea, a colour – and then it seems you just can’t avoid it. It’s everywhere. But is it really everywhere, or have you just become attuned to it? I’ve been feeling that way about stripes. …
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My Home is my Horst
It’s always so exciting to see what stylish people do with Skinny laMinx in their homes, especially when they have a super-strong look of their own. German interiors stylist and author Julia Ballmaier has totally wowed us with the way she’s integrated some of our most colourful pillows into her spectacular home, where she lives …
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Tips from the Pillow Lab : How to style a sofa symphony
The top 5 tips from the Skinny laMinx Pillow Lab to help you mix pattern and palette with aplomb!
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The Pillow Lab
The Pillow Lab is the Skinny laMinx research facility, where we do groundbreaking research into the issue of mixing and matching pillows to perfection. Read on for more about our Lab work:
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Winking is the new smiling
I’m winking because you can’t see me smiling under my mask (and they say that #winkingisthenewsmiling in these crazy times). The reason I’m smiling is that I’m thrilled to have been asked, along with 3 other SA designers, to design a set of four masks for African Smiles Masks, to be sold on Takealot.com to …
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