I love this quote from Dan Saks of Saks Corner, who we collaborated with when putting together the BRISE SOLEIL Lookbook. Our businesses have been growing side-by-side over the past few years, and I’ve always loved Dan’s sweetly quizzical air that also comes across in the things he makes and sells at Saks Corner. I dropped in at …
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Friends & Neighbours: Saks Corner
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Friends & Neighbours: The New Modernist
For our 2016 Lookbook, I had a brainwave to collaborate with local furniture designers and manufacturers, presenting one of their signature pieces in our new BRISE SOLEIL collection. I approached Emma de Crespigny of The New Modernist, who has recently opened the doors to a beautiful new shop in the BoKaap. After looking at a number of …
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Friends & Neighbours: LIM
I moved to Cape Town in 1996, and the LIM store on Kloof Street has always been a fixture in my neighbourhood. It took me a few years before I felt sophisticated enough to go inside, but these days I’m SO sophisticated, I’m in there all the time 😉 When putting together our 2016 LookBook for …
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#BRISESOLEILSA
Not too long ago, when I wrote a BEST THINGS post about all kind of breeze brick walls and screens, I started an instagram hashtag #brisesoleilSA, hoping to start a record of brise soleil walls and screens across South Africa. I’m thrilled to say that there’s been some participation! Take a look at these beauties: This …
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Andrew & Barbara’s Brooklyn home
I love hearing from people who have Skinny laMinx in their home, and it’s always inspiring to see my fabrics put to use in ‘real life’, so I was thrilled when Barbara sent us some pics of Skinny laMinx in her home in Brooklyn, NYC. I loved them so much, I asked for more… and I …
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Friends & Neighbours: Sindiso Khumalo
I first met Durban-born, London-based fashion designer Sindiso Khumalo in 2015, when she was (rather impressively) one of the speakers at the Design Indaba Conference. She was such a friendly, energetic person, I immediately wanted to be her friend, so we’ve been staying in touch on Instagram while she’s been back in London, but she’s often in Cape …
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Best Things: @breezeblockhead
Call them ‘air bricks’, ‘ventilation blocks’, ‘breeze bricks’, ‘breeze blocks’, whatever you like, I just love it that Aussie architect Sam Marshall (aka @breezeblockhead) has taken it upon himself to survey and record pics on his Instagram feed of these sun-and-wind-blocking architectural features (also known as brise soleil* screens), beloved of Mid-century enthusiasts and tropical climes. This is …
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Jungly home
It’s always fabulous to see how people have used my prints, and this jungly interior in a Cape Town holiday home, put together by decorator Lisa Walters is particularly exciting! Get the jungly look with our Fronds and ZigZag prints, available as readymade cushions, or as fabric by the metre.
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Out & About: Matjiesfontein
Last weekend was simply the best holiday for a while, and largely because it came as such a surprise! I was very excited about our friend Marian’s birthday party , to be held at the Lord Milner Hotel in Matjiesfontein. The tiny little historical town is in the Karoo, about 2.5 hours up the N1 from Cape …
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