While in Lisbon in June, I spent one hot, hot day doing something very, very cool: I spent the entire day underground, zooming around the metro system, looking for tiles by Maria Keil. I’ve written about this artist before on this blog, and this subterranean pilgrimage was something firmly on my Lisbon agenda, even though …
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Lisbon Subway tiles: 1 of 4
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Best Things: #IHaveThisThingWithTiles
This year has been all about tiles, hasn’t it – with my Lisbon trip in June, and now our tile/textile collaboration with Heath Ceramics too. But it’s not only me. Check out I Have This Thing With Tiles on Instagram, featuring an amazing array of floor-view selfies tagged #ihavethisthingwithtiles. Don’t you love it that the pics that include feet are called a …
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In the shop: DIMENSIONAL collection
We are absolutely thrilled about our DIMENSIONAL collaboration with our friends at Heath Ceramics. Read all about it here, and then take a look at all the things we’re making from the three prints in the DIMENSIONAL collection: we’ve got cushions, table runners, soft buckets, and much, much more! Like what you see? It’s all exclusive to Heath …
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Heath + Skinny laMinx collaboration
We’re super excited to announce the launch of the DIMENSIONAL textile range – a Heath Ceramics + Skinny laMinx collaboration. At the end of 2015, Heath released their book Tile Makes the Room, and with this in hand, as well as my Ace Camps trip to tile-covered Lisbon, I had a brainwave and approached owner Catherine Bailey with the …
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Just about all the tiles in Lisbon
I took so many photos of tiles in Lisbon. SO MANY! I’ve already showed you some of my blue tiles, and I have a whole heap of subway tiles still to edit, but this post is just a mashup of all kinds of tiles, some handpainted, some press moulded, some unusual, some ugly, but most just …
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Lisbon: Grilles and gates
When I travel, I like to set categories for photo-taking, so that my eye knows what to look for, and this was especially useful to do in Lisbon, where there is SO much to look at. So here are the photos I took for my “Grilles & Gates of Lisbon” category (with a few brise …
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Chapel x Skinny laMinx
I went to high school at a Methodist girls’ school, where we went to chapel every morning, where we prayed for peace, goodness and beauty in the world. Now it seems that local bagmaker Chapel has answered those prayers, creating a marriage made in heaven between Skinny laMinx prints and their ever-popular backpack called The Rider. Snag yourself one of these limited edition …
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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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#BRISESOLEILSA
Not too long ago, when I wrote a BEST THINGS post about all kind of breeze brick walls and screens, I started an instagram hashtag #brisesoleilSA, hoping to start a record of brise soleil walls and screens across South Africa. I’m thrilled to say that there’s been some participation! Take a look at these beauties: This …
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