I never think of grey as a pastel shade, but when I saw the interior of Casaplata restaurant and cocktail bar in Sevilla, my views on greys, and on pastels in general, did a big back flip. These dusty, silvery tones are so subtle and gentle, without a hint of sweetness. The soft tones are …
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What goes with grey?
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History lesson: Pincushion Protea
Just look at all the things our Pincushion design has appeared on over the years!
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How to arrange cushions and pillows
People always ask how best to arrange cushions and pillows on a sofa. And, of course, it’s not a simple answer. It was when we set up the Pillow Lab and started doing our experiments with mixing & matching pattern and palette that I truly began appreciating the COUNTLESS ways that a bunch of throw …
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Making Friday: Batik in Swaziland
My role on April’s trip to Swaziland with Ace Camps was to teach the group of travellers about pattern, and to give them an intro to the principles behind designing for batik. They came up with some really, really nice designs (see below), which set us all up nicely for the three subsequent days we …
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Interaction of Colour: New Complete Edition
I got an Amazon email the other day letting me now that Josef Albers Interaction of Colour has been released in a new, complete edition. Two volumes, hardbound, published by Yale University Press. Deliciousness! First issued in 1963 as a limited-edition set of 150 silkscreened colour plates, Interaction of Colour has been one of the …
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Making Friday: Decorating with Scissors
Ever done any decorating with scissors? It doesn’t involve moving furniture, painting walls or heavy lifting of any kind at all. All it needs is a magazine image that you like, some coloured paper, glue and scissors, and there you have it! It’s all just about looking in a noticing kind of way at what …
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In Barcelona
My heart actually jumped when I saw this pic on the AD Spain instagram feed (my most revered magazine of them all), because that gorgeous Knoll chair is covered in our Aperture print! All this marvelousness is via the showroom of El Recibidor, in Barcelona. Si, si, si!
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Adding Mumbai
When we launched the Roof Garden design in three colourways last year, we named them after imaginary rooftop gardens across the world, in Cairo, Rio and Miami. Well, we decided to spice things up a bit, so we’ve added another colourway, this time named for an imaginary roof garden in… Mumbai! Find three sizes of …
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Noticing arches
One of the best ways for me to notice what I’ve been noticing is the Collections feature on Instagram. Once I start getting a sense that something has been catching my eye, I make a folder and start adding things, and then (of course) I start seeing more and more of that thing. It’s a …
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