What is Trend Talk: The Present Sense? Well it’s an industry gathering where key presenters reveal the latest design and decor trends, by sharing visuals, provocative ideas and thoughts on the lifestyle shifts that will touch us in 2012 and [...]
Continue readingPart of my job (the best bit actually) includes sourcing house stories and themed images for the various features that I’m busy working on. I have a deep love of Scandinavian design and as such, when I am on the [...]
Continue readingLast nights opening of our new exhibition Soft (Im) Possibilities was a colourful feast of autumn shades and decor eye candy. The exhibition runs until 8 June 2012 (opening times 9am – 5pm).
Continue readingI have a borderline compulsive obsession with birds. More specifically, decorating with them. And despite the withering sighs from on-trend decoristas and too-cool-for-school bloggers who proclaim that birds in interiors are ‘so last, last year’, I simply don’t give a [...]
Continue readingAustralian born photographer Paul Barbera is a story teller with a camera. I came across his work on one of my favourite blogs Desire To Inspire. Going through his impressive portfolio there’s so much eye candy it’s difficult to choose [...]
Continue readingAccording to the weatherman it’s going to be 35 degrees in Cape Town today. Even as I type this I have a smile on my face. Of course I know it’s autumn and that the warm bliss will soon be [...]
Continue readingI’m rather enamoured with this heavenly family home, seen on the Marie Claire Maison website this week. Looking through the images, I was (as usual) reminded of the gracious, selfless and generous personality of white – always content to let [...]
Continue readingAfter seeing Morne Visagie’s handstitched lithograph travel journals at the What if the World and then as a top 10 Most Beautiful Object In South Africa at this year’s Design Indaba, I am totally inspired by the colour strip saga. It [...]
Continue readingToday is Day 3 and final day of Design Indaba 2012 conference. According to the theme this year ‘this is not a conference’ and I ‘am not a delegate’. What I get from that is: don’t put yourself in a [...]
Continue readingIt’s here! The launch of The Woodstock Foundry takes place tomorrow evening. My business partner, Mariah Breitenberg and I started this project together last year and have had so much fun getting involved in such interesting projects The Woodstock Foundry [...]
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