Through Darkness Into Light Skinny laMinx is one of Heath Ceramics‘ partners in craft (lucky us!) which means we always see their seasonal palette quite a long time before products are launched. I’m usually thrilled by their amazing colour combinations, but when I saw the Winter seasonal palette earlier this year, my reaction was. “PURPLE??” …
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I hate purple… or do I?
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A colourful home : My Home is my Horst
Who likes colourful home decor? We do! And it’s always so exciting to see how stylish people with a real knack for colorful home decor incorporate Skinny laMinx fabrics, cushions and pillows in their homes, especially when they have a super-strong look of their own. German interiors stylist and author Julia Ballmaier has totally wowed …
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Colour Yum: A peaceful palette
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: 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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A Colour Dictionary
Eek! I just bought myself an early birthday present on Amazon, called A Dictionary of Color Combinations, by Sanzo Wada. Sanzo Wada was a Japanese artist, teacher, costume and kimono designer who wrote a 6-volume work on colour combinations in the 1930s, which helped to lay the foundations for contemporary colour research. You can see some …
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Wardrobe Snacks
Stylist Michelle Maguire and photographer Kelsey McClellan got together to create a photographic series called Wardrobe Snacks, inspired by quiet moments of casual (and colour-coded) culinary enjoyment. McClellan says that “Wardrobe Snacks was inspired by diners lacking the luxury of being seated at a table. They’re informal — perhaps even a bit awkward — spaces as …
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Colour in Swaziland
The thing that’s so good about travel is changing up the things we see every day. Arriving in green, lush Swaziland (or, as it was re-named just after our visit, eSwatini) with its rolling hills, songbirds and afternoon thunderstorms was a refresher for my city-weary eyes. Here are some of the shapes and colours that …
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Colour Yum: Soft & sweet Jaipur
Soft, sweet colours, delicate shapes and textures – these are the things I noticed in Jaipur in 2014 , which was my first trip with Ace Camps, and these first impressions were reinforced on my recent trip.
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Colour: Inspiration for Roof Garden
When we launched Roof Garden in June, we wanted to give our guests something special that would show them the new print and also give them some insight into what inspired the design and the colours. That’s how we came up with this rather fabulous ‘Pantone’ book, which shows swatches of the fabric as well …
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