Remember my Terrazzo trend roundup a few months back? Well, local outfit Bofred is bang on it with the release of their gorgeous new Giant Moa lamp with its speckled Caesarstone base. Nice one!
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Object of desire: Moa Light
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Pattern on pattern
If you took part in our hugely fun #SkinnyPhotoStudio this weekend, you’ll realise I’m a fool for pattern on pattern, so here’s even more to rattle your eyeballs: It all started in Mauritius, in 2009, when my bloke disappeared whenever he stood still in our little cottage in Flic en Flac. Since then, it’s definitely become a thing. For instance: Inspired? …
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Best Things: Holidays at home
We spent our holiday very much at home, which was a really good thing to do after a rather disrupted home in 2015. Shortly after having bought the apartment next door early in the year, we found our neighbours were going to have a baby in November, so we rather hastily started our long dreamed-of …
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2015 Year in review
December is such a busy time, but today’s the last day of the year, so it’s time to step back and to take a whizz back through the blog archives, to see what the heck we got up to during 2015. Here goes: In May we launched the Diggi Dot fabric collection, as well as the …
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Best Things: Block printing, 1955
“Although it’s said a woman’s place is in the home, the influence she has on its appearance is often overlooked”. Ah… um? Please ignore the asinine narration and just enjoy watching beautiful block printed textiles being made in Hampstead in 1955 in this video, found online by one of my clever Ace Camp students.
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Best Things: Ray Komai
Instagram and Pinterest are wonderful sources of treasures, best enjoyed when I go beyond a simple ‘like’ or ‘pin it’, and take the time to explore a little. This morning, thanks to @modernform on Instagram, I spotted this intriguing image of a design by Ray Komai – a name I’d never heard before. Some Googling told me that …
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Throw a Confetti Sushi Party!
Has it ever been done before? Well, if you ask me, it’s high time Confetti Sushi Parties became all the rage, and you should be first off the mark. Here’s how: Ingredients: One Brancusi Stripe table runner in inkspot A dozen Simple Stripe table napkins in mint Confetti Chopsticks Sushi Cute sunglasses Skinny laMinx gift tags on …
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Block Shop Pillows
I’m simply crazy about the gorgeous block printed scarves that sisters Hopie and Lily Stockman have been producing under their label Block Shop Textiles, so I’m over the moon to see that they’re now producing block printed pillows too! The only sadness is that Block Shop doesn’t ship internationally (so many American shops don’t ship internationally. …
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Best Things: Rope walls
Sometime, things you see on the blogs just stick with you for ever, and this 2011 post from The Brick House is one of those. The rope wall in the blog post is superbly simple, so so effective as a non-solid room divider. I’m going to make sure that one day I have reason to follow the DIY …
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