I’ll be in Paris in early September to put up a Skinny laMinx stand at Maison et Objet. I’m a little daunted, but super excited, and I like to think that Ilse Crawford might also be feeling a touch of nerves about Maison, where she’s to be feted as Designer of the Year. Our shared feelings about Maison (well, my speculation …
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Best Things: Ilse Crawford at Maison
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Colour Yum: Mint & Melon
Sometimes I’m totally floored by an astonishing colour combination, and in fact, I’m on my knees right now as I type, thanks to the delicious Stockholm apartment of interior designer Daniel Hecksher, spotted on SightUnseen. Just look at how that lush melon colour of the dining area beckons through from the cool mint kitchen… … and then it’s brought …
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Best Things: Octopian
Super obscure and hyper intriguing, the Octopian is a limited edition special project magazine created and designed by J3 Productions. To date, two issues of the Octopian have been published, and the analogue versions have both been very generously sent my way by editor in chief, Jonathan Lo (who you may already know from here) “The Octopian …
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Best Things: A day at Vitra
While I was in Amsterdam recently, I took a rather indulgent day off, flying to Basel for the day in order to get to the Vitra Design Museum where a massive retrospective of Alexander Girard’s work is currently underway. The Vitra campus is basically one big photo opportunity, as it’s dotted with buildings by Tadao Ando …
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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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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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Best Things: Adler & Ackermans
On the way back from LA last year, I bought a book with the rather unwieldly title of Hand-in-Hand: Ceramics, Mosaics, Tapestries, and Woodcarvings by the California Mid-Century Designers Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman, in the hopes that I might hang onto some of that California Modern vibe. I hadn’t heard of Jerome and Evelyn Ackerman before, but …
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Colour: Inspiration for Brise Soleil
Post-launch, it’s always great to look back at what inspired a collection, and of course you know that the patterns designed for the BRISE SOLEIL collection were inspired by breezebrick midcentury screens, but I thought you might like to see my inspiration behind this colour palette, which you’ll see used throughout our 2016 Lookbook. The strange, but insanely …
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FABRICS 2016: Brise Soleil
I’m thrilled to bits to reveal our brand new fabric collection, named BRISE SOLEIL. Brise Soleil is a French term (so it’s pronounced breez so-lay) that refers to an architectural screen – usually made of pierced brick or concrete block – which provides shade from the sun. Literally, brise soleil means ‘break the sun’, but along with their shade-making …
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