Design Diary - Mum and co-founder of a luxury fashion brand, Macalya Chapman
Macayla Chapman is a busy mumma and the co-founder (with good bestie Natalie Knoll) of bird & knoll - a luxe brand of oversized soft-like-butter scarves inspired by their love of world travel,...
View ArticleGood morning bae, I found some Fancy Spaces for you
Teeny tiny apartment of the day!A huge glass vase with foraged foliage (say that 5 times fast), chairs that don't match, and white vintage lockers.If you've run out of couches to put your cushions on…....
View ArticleNew from NZ's Aroha and Friends.
It's Monday and it's raining here so I'd rather be snuggling on the couch with these pretty new things from NZ designers Aroha and Friends.
View ArticleLonely flagship store
I dunno about you, but I love me a flagship store - the opportunity to see a brand embodied in one space, a brand brought to life not only by seeing one entire collection of products in one place, but...
View ArticleDesign Diary - Georgia Jay!
After graduating from Otago University school of design, Georgia Jay set out to make a living doing what she loves, designing and crafting bespoke products and working with beautiful leather and...
View ArticleThe story behind NZ's newest organic tea brand - how a mother and her...
I love the Storm & India tea canisters. Finally, someone has designed tea that's going to look beautiful on your bench.Takeaway tea cups (designed by Ryan Marx) with a cameo of the two sistersHi!...
View ArticleWIN! 6-piece kitchen canister set from Me & My Trend
Hey design buddies! Have you check out Me & My Trend yet? It's a new online homeware store with a huge catalogue which you can explore by trend. Hence the name! So if you're a cushion addict,...
View ArticleLooking fine, Fancy Spaces...
Sunday paper feels.Studio Meez has the loveliest walls. And the sweetest dining space...Told ya.This bedroom is perfection. Love the inky blue pillowcases, grey-on-grey linen, gold bed legs, diagonal...
View ArticleWith The Wolves - handpainted constellation prints by NZ illustrator Dane
NZ designer Dane Laugesen has a new project, With The Wolves. He illustrates and then paints each one of his new watercolour Constellation art prints in.di.vid.ually. See the whole collection here.
View Articlenew NZ men's jewellery brand Walter Crow
The Orphan is inset with a black diamondWalter Crow is a new NZ jewellery brand, that tells the stories - collection by collection - of an fictional traveller's adventures around the world. They've...
View ArticleThe home of Wellington designers Marta Buda and Douglas Johns
Story & production by Sammy-Rose Scapens, and photography by Heather Liddell for HomestyleHomestyle magazine doing such a wicked job these days of hunting out inspiring New Zealand interiors and...
View ArticleNZ's Nodi Rugs Organic Lines collection - inspired by the play of the light...
The sophomore collection from NZ's NODI rugs was inspired by the shapes and streams of lines sunlight makes as it plays on surfaces. With that in mind, designer Olivia Smith and I headed out to the...
View ArticleFinally, someone's made a Farmers' Market bag that looks GOOD...
Photography by David StraightI say, if you're a good human and you shop at farmers' markets for local produce and you don't use gross plastic bags, then you've earned lots of life bonus points and you...
View ArticleMotion Sickness Studio's new space has me nauseas
Love that angled black wall and the partition created by old black door frames.Vintage chest with leather-upholstered seat, and a crazy-rad hanging kitchen shelves and hanging bench.P.S: Just spotted...
View ArticleSneaky Peeks at the interiors goodness that is Inside Out's summer issue...
Love those blonde floating shelves.Styling by Jason Grant, photography by Grace Cassio for Inside OutWell doesn't this just feel like a sparkling water with a squeeze of lime? So clean and enlivening...
View ArticleTim Webber, you little beauty...
NZ designer Tim Webber's got some new good goodies in his online shop. Santa, please please bring me a Press Tray? (Copper or black... or white... or yellow. Or (c), all of the above.) Also, how good...
View ArticleBangin' from George & Willy
You know that awesome pegboard shelving system that was all over Pinterest this year? Well finally, someone's actually making them! NZ designers George & Willy's Bang Bang Pegboard is available in...
View ArticleCraft-meets-design | cool things from NZ makers Sly and Co...
New Zealand makers Sly and Co are my kind of wonderful.
View ArticleWoah, it's been ages since we've nibbled on a..... Pick n Mix!
Sweets for mah sweet, sugah for mah hunny... (that's you)eeets so preeeeety! Handmade terracotta bowl from London-based Anna Baskakova (on Etsy).Just when you thought Debbie Carlos couldn't get any...
View ArticleWIN! Luxe candles from George and Edi
My house smells pretty amazing thanks to a deluxe George and Edi candle. I love the blackened metal vessel it comes in, and the fragrance that Sarah (George and Edi founder) designed - super moody,...
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