Fri-Yay Pick n Mix
Aperitif, madam?Leather and brass trays by Skultuna making my breasts tingle. Markrun's Lonely Mountain cushions are pretty cute alright.Party time, excellent. PickME stools! Would make awesome kids'...
View ArticleA few NZ Design quickies...
New Zealand surf brand RPM have designed their first board, and it's one hell of a good-looker.Hello to you, Auckland ceramicist Yon Kavvas. I especially dig your speckled grey (sand) and gold lustre...
View ArticleC U R R E N T L Y - What Claudia ZinZan from Father Rabbit has been into...
Let's find out what Claudia Zinzan - interior designer and owner of the superbly curated and styled Father Rabbit homeware stores - has been up to/into lately!I've decided to just live with our current...
View ArticleNZ's Houston Design Co - ceramics that will make you eat nicer meals.
These perfectly imperfect Houston Design Co. beauties are all made by Auckland-based mumma and maker, Holly Houston (Holly is also the co-founder, with her mum, of theLittle and Fridaycafes - and all...
View ArticleHomestyle magazine Under The Covers - plus WIN a 2-Year Subscription!
Homestyle magazine's latest issue has - as per - a bunch of beautiful home tours and interior inspo, but what I really love about this Under The Covers special is the bedroom styling feature, with lots...
View ArticleFancy SPACES
Happy Sunday!Cinder block side table for the win...New Zealand's Thread Design know a good bedroom when they style one.It's not a Fancy spaces without some amazing apartment in Stockholm, right?Love...
View ArticleOdette's Eatery gimme that good good
Photography by Simon Wilson for HOME magazinePhotographs by Anna Kidman This is Odette's Eatery, in Auckland's rejuv'd CityWorks Depot (a cluster of late 1960's industrial sheds that used to house city...
View ArticleBeen a long time, I shouldn't a left you, without a Five Faves to step to -...
•Marbled tumbler - and a range of other marbled vessels - by Milly Dent (Australian ceramicist), exclusively from MEKKA - a new NZ homeware store with a focus on prods for cooking and dining and having...
View ArticleTables are where memories are made - write-on Memories Cloth by NZ designer...
Today, from the cool little ideas file - The Memories' Cloth, created by New Zealand designer (and senior lecturer at AUT) Francesca Zampollo. The cloth comes packaged with coloured fabric markers so...
View ArticleFlying Colours - Sneak Peek at the latest issue of Inside Out
Inside Out's April issue landed in my mailbox this morning (thanks postie ) and the theme, Flying Colours, is all about playing with palettes. Ideas for trying out different colours, tours of bold,...
View ArticlePick n Mix - Good for Good Friday
Easter Feaster...Photograph by Tom Ross for BroadsheetAh, yeah... so, this is next level, guys. The Kettle Black cafe (yes - it's a cafe) in Melbourne. Housed partly inside that AMAZING old 1880's...
View ArticleTHIS Auckland Apartment:
Hello to you, massive steel-framed windows and parquet flooringPhotography by Jackie Meiring for Urbis magazineLove a good bit of small space planning and a mezzanine bed. This beauty of an apartment...
View ArticleWe're looking for emerging photographers in Auckland, Welly and Christchurch:
Keen to photograph New Zealand's newest and best design and interior spaces, and get your work and name out there? We're looking for emerging photographers to help us with projects in Auckland |...
View ArticleLoving Penney + Bennett textiles -
Image from our friends at LETLIV (stockists of Penney + Bennett) who make you want to spend all the moneyThe cushions from NZ's new Penney + Bennett are even better in person. They're so much bigger...
View ArticleYou know what time it is... Pick n Mix
Happy Friday!Australia's Fictional Objects were one of the first to do awesome bed linen. These are some of my faves from their newest collection (Most of which are reversible. Reversible is...
View ArticleFancy SPACES for your Sunday...
My kind of office space. Original hardwood floors always. If you're cold, put on socks.I'm so into the idea of a black kitchen... but do you realise how dirty it would always look? Black car owners...
View ArticleNZ Design Quickies
In and out with some good new New Zealand design...Emerging NZ men's jewellery brand Walter Crow have collab'd with NZ leather designers Good Winter on a limited edition passport wallet, key holder (I...
View ArticleThe Sherwood - boutique bohemian hotel in Queenstown
Staying away from home shouldn't have to mean bedding that's so synthetic it practically squeaks, milk that comes in tiny impossible-to-open packets and rubber 'eggs' at a cattle-call breakfast buffet....
View ArticleA little Rainy Weekend Pick n Mix for you...
Hey! I really like you! Yes to a complete skincare range with modern minimalist packaging (so into the black, too). I'm going to justify spending my money on lots of theseeke like this: First, I'm...
View Article4pm Coffee Wake-Me-Up from Marx Design and Coffee Supreme
Just dropping in at mid-arvo-slump o'clock to bring you some visual Columbian. Marx Design have launched a new website, which - amongst other solid work - includes this presentation of their so fresh...
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