When I travel, I like to set categories for photo-taking, so that my eye knows what to look for, and this was especially useful to do in Lisbon, where there is SO much to look at. So here are the photos I took for my “Grilles & Gates of Lisbon” category (with a few brise …
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Lisbon: Grilles and gates
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Pop up in Amsterdam
We’ve got a pop up shop in Amsterdam! Visit the rather spectacular Gustafson in Westergasfabriek, and you’ll find us there for the next three weeks. Everyone in Amsterdam has been so friendly and generous to me. I love this place! The management of Gustafson let us have the run of the place, and also offered us much …
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Best Things: Alexander Girard
I’m off to see the Alexander Girard retrospective at the Vitra Museum in Basel today. Pinch me, please! The first time I came across the work of Alexander Girard was in a vintage shop in New York City, where I opened a vintage Herman Miller fabric book and felt my heart drop out of my chest. …
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Printing in Holland
In case anyone thinks I’m on holiday in Europe, it is totally not true. The Big Fat Skinny Europe Tour is turning out to be incredibly hard work! But hard work in interesting, beautiful places is worth it all, no doubt. That’s why I live in Cape Town, right? One of the things I’ve been doing …
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I got the blues in Lisbon
I’ve been in Lisbon for a week, first for a few days on my own, blissfully wandering the city, and then I’ve been teaching a 3 day course in pattern generation to a bunch of students on an Ace Camp. I simply can’t believe how many pictures I’ve taken while in this city of patterns, …
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Best Things: Samuel Zeller
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 …
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Thrift store sighting
I must admit that for some time, I’ve been anticipating the experience of seeing my work in a thrift store/jumble sale, and wondering how to prepare myself for this. But this weekend it actually happened: I got an email from Steve Basile, who had spotted one of my Mountain Garden screenprints that I made in an edition of 20 …
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Skinny goes to Europe
Did I mention what’s happening next? Skinny goes to Europe for a big fat 22 days! Here’s what’s on the cards: 18-29 June I’ve got 11 whole days in Lisbon, where I’ll be in a patterned-out haze with the Ace Camps group, learning and teaching all about azulejos, and taking frequent breaks to pop yet another pasteis …
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Friends & Neighbours: BOFRED
Although Bofred was only started in 2014, their beautiful furniture, lights and other designs have been spotted all over local interiors mags. I liked what they’re doing so much that I approached them to include one of their furniture pieces in the BRISE SOLEIL Lookbook. Owners Carla Erasmus and Christa Botha had two of their …
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