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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Decorating with Scissors again
I’ve been redecorating strangers’ houses with nothing but a pair of scissors!
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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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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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NEW: Apple Green Alexander Sack
Ooh, heavens! Did you see? Not only have we updated our Flower Fields design in a spanky Apple Green colour, we’ve gone a step further and turned it into a particularly delicious Alexander Sack with Shell Pink straps. Like it? Want one? Find it for sale in our shop, and online too. Find it right …
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One-finger decorating
We’ve made a new online section called Pillow Sets with multiple pre-selected groups of patterns & colours that we know work well together. Take a look!
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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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News from New York
Donna and I have had a great time in New York, launching the Colour Pop accessories at NY NOW. and showing America what we’ve got! Didn’t our stand turn out well? We were lucky enought to be nearby some other SA stands, like Wren Design, Zizemele, Rarity and Mungo, which was really terrific. What an …
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Accessories get Colour Popped!
Ever since we added solid colours to our pillow selection with our Colour Pop Pillows, we’ve gone nuts for the way our palette makes our patterns pop. It’s incredible how adding dashes of these pure colours make you see our patterns even better. We’re so in love with it, we’ve extended the Colour Pop treatment to …
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