Colour Wrap Up: The colour purple
In the past month all I’ve been seeing is Purple. In every shade you can imagine, it’s been in my eye. It was also Plascon’s colour of the month for April. As it is Colour Wrap Up Day I’ve put [...]
Continue readingRainy Days and Mondays
Okay, Mondays definitely get me down, but never rainy days. Of course I say that from the perspective of someone who is privileged enough to have a dry coat on my back and roof over my head, and has never [...]
Continue readingThe island life
If the May catalogue from Anthropologie doesn’t inspire a looting of your piggy bank to sponsor a tropical island getaway, then nothing will. “It’s all blue skies, toes in the sand and shadows cast by palms.” As we creep into [...]
Continue readingThe people’s art
Identity known or unknown I’m a Banksy fan. I love how he says what most of us are thinking through visual art. After all a picture says a thousand words, and I do get quite the thrill when he “sticks [...]
Continue readingEye Candy Monday: Decorex CPT
Decorex CPT 2012 has come and gone. FWDC worked the Plascon stand and it would only be fair of me to share some pics from our fabulous stand. The Plascon 2012 Colour Forecast was on display in four different room [...]
Continue readingColour Wrap Up: Freedom to be
Don’t tell anyone, but I’m a sucker for a happy ending. I love seeing how what at first glance seems ordinary, boring and practical can be turned into something extraordinary. Take Dutch collective We Make Carpets who turn everyday items [...]
Continue readingProfile: Photographer Patric Johansson
Part 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 readingthe language of flowers
The Victorians didn’t let the lack of email or instant messaging get in the way of self-expression. Rather, they developed an utterly romantic means of communication called floriography. This language of flowers was a Victorian-era coded messaging system in which [...]
Continue readingCurious Ceramics
Curious Ceramics live up to their name. Each piece crafted by Anya is a curious statement and example of clay gone crazy. Clay gone right in my mind, as I have used many of Anya’s pieces in the latest exhibition pod at [...]
Continue readingEye Candy Monday: Country Bumpkin
Spending a weekend out in the country is always good for the soul and when you get back to the city from your break away it’s always with a longing for wanting more. With all it’s rich hues and natural [...]
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