One of my favourite shots from our Living with Skinny laMinx Lookbook is this bedroom shot, where we made up a headboard in the Breeze print, and teamed that concrete colourway with a squishy pile of pillows in restful greys and sages. It’s the perfect palette for unwinding and recharging, don’t you think? Cushions from L-R: Breeze, …
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Colour Yum: A peaceful palette
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How Pattern Works
I spent the first month of lockdown designing, filming and editing the How Pattern Works online workshop, which launches today. I developed the course out of my teaching experience with Ace Camps in Portugal, where I was using the amazing tile heritage of Lisbon as my teaching tool. While teaching, I noticed how the energy …
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Making Friday: My Apartment Safari
“What if our real problem was not so much that we are not allowed to go anywhere – but that we don’t how to make the most of what is already to hand?” -Alain de Botton
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Colour Yum: Persimmon and Sand
I know, I know, they say it’s all about blue this year, but we’ve started the year hot to trot with our new favourite colour combo, Sand and Persimmon. While they may not make good ingredients for a smoothie, they do make for a yummy colour palette, in both fashion and interiors. Clockwise above : Burda magazine ++ Paloma Wool ++ Nanamica ++ Verloop x Peanuts …
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Experiments in shipping
You’ve heard us banging on about how quick and affordable it is to FedEx our goods from Cape Town to the rest of the world, and here’s proof! We contacted New York City food writer Marie Viljoen of 66 Square Feet fame and asked her if she’d be our guinea pig, as we knew her …
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Happy November
Visit the Happy Thanks section of our website, where we’ve marked our bestselling kitchen and diningware with a happy sunshine, enabling you to get 15% off when you use the discount code HAPPY.
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How to style your Scarf: Headwrap Tutorial
Our stockroom manager Nobuzwe is one stylish lady and can rock a headwrap in all kinds of ways. Here she shares one of her favourits styles with us in a nifty headwrap tutorial, using our Matchsticks blockprint scarf. Find our Matchsticks & Sun & Moon Scarves online & in the Skinny laMinx store at 201 …
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Pets on Pillows
We asked a bunch of snooze experts about their favourite Skinny laMinx pillow, and the score was unanimous: Everydoggy (and kitty) gave it a solid ZZZ! These are just the ordinary ol’ pillows though. Imagine how many ZZZ’s we’d get if we made a proper Skinny dog bed. Oh, wait. We did! What’s the score on this …
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Colour Yum: Sand and Persimmon
One of the things we love about all the colour and beautiful things in our shop and fabric studio is the way that new colour ideas suddenly arrive before your eyes, often in surprising combinations. For instance, ever since we’ve had the grassy tones and textures of baskets & mats from Design Afrika in our …
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