Fancy SPACES
Can I come over and have a bath? Yeah, I know you don't know me. We don't need to be BFFs, I just want to use your bath.(PS: I hope that fire actually goes.. that would be one DELUXE bathing...
View ArticleWin! ACME Cup & Saucer Set
Giveaway time! You can win a set of these cool flat white cups from Let Liv. 4 cups and 4 saucers, to be precise.Y choose which colour you'd like... or choose a few different colours.They're designed...
View ArticleTim Webber Side Table
New Zealand designer Tim Webber's Y Stools just got a new cousin, the Y Side Table.
View ArticleBrass & Class from Douglas and Bec
It's always an exciting day when those classy broads, my unashamed New Zealand design faves Douglas and Bec have a new product. Brass hooks - four hooks, done four ways.
View ArticleYou should totally go to this design festival...
The Wintec SPARK festival runs from August 12-16, and it presents 4 days of inspiring speakers, workshops run by creative and design leaders, exhibitions and side events.I'm spreading the word about...
View ArticleGrad Design Talent
Like you needed another reason to go to BLOC. But as of tomorrow night (Thursday 18th), the destination design store will be playing host to an exhibition of products from AUT design students. Material...
View ArticlePick n Mix! International design treats for your gob
Get these treats in your gob.Danny Demers and Diane Garcia (husband and wife) run a creative atelier called Garçon Garçonne. Danny is an art director, Diane a baker. Together, they bring good design...
View ArticleIt's Sunday, that means it's time for (singing): Faaaaancy S P A C E S!
Chairs n lights n chairs n lights!The bedroom and craft studio of a fave blogger. (PS: love the vintage round cushion!)Noo Yawk.This is how you do it.In this one, the whole is greater than the sum of...
View Article5 minutes with Gidon Bing
Photograph by Nic Staveley for URBIS magazine's Gidon Bing story.Perhaps best known for his large plywood artworks, Gidon Bing also uses those sculpting hands of his to craft beautiful ceramics. Using...
View ArticleLeather lovelies from My Deer Fox
Woah. Just W O A H. These new leather beauties from NZ designer My Deer Fox are woahwoahwoah. And I see you, straps. I see you there with your solid brass hardware.But wait, there's more...Love this...
View ArticleChucks suck. These kicks definitely do not.
These all-class kicks are the result of a collaboration between New Zealand footwear brand Tobe and a young Wellington design collective, Simpleton.With Simpler Times laid down as the collabo theme,...
View ArticleThe Flock Design Store Flies Again...
In the late 1800s in colonial Christchurch, one of the most important contributors to the local economy were the booming tanning industry. The largest and most successful of these became known as The...
View ArticleFancy S P A C E S
C is for Cool. (And also, Cookies.)Home sweet-little-home. See it all here.YOU ARE NOT GOING TO MAKE ME LIKE INDOOR FOLIAGE!! (Maybe just a liddle bit)Alana's imaginary sitting room.Fave bits: the trio...
View ArticlePick n Mix!
Chow down!Love me some leathery Falcon Wright.I like where this is headed, Sleepy Jones. A brand dedicated to lazing about in your (cool) undies.I'd probably never even use this bronze cable holder but...
View ArticleYS spells YES
A big ae bro to the Silo pendant (with Profile stool)Introvert light turning me on and onThe boys (they're men) at YS Collective just sent me these images of their babe'n product range. With this as...
View ArticleShow & Tell - an interview with Imogen Tunnicliffe, homewares & textiles...
Super lovely Imogen Tunnicliffe is the Senior Designer for NZ homeware and accessories brand Citta, responsible not only for product and pattern design but for the overall art direction of Citta's...
View ArticleShow & Tell - Melbourne Photographer Jonathan Ong
Jonathan Ong is a self-confessed introvert and hater of small talk. Dude, I'm right there with you. But his stand-back-and-watch ways are precisely those that make him such a gifted observer of life,...
View ArticleOur House - Kate Alexander, interior stylist
Kate Alexander of Places & Graces shares five of her favourite spaces at home - and more than a few good ideas! This is my favourite spot in the house. My favourite art piece - an original spray...
View ArticleSpool & Flippant lights from NZ designer Duncan Rooney...
The white Spool light would look super nice over my dining tableNZ designer Duncan Rooney has just launched a new collection - the Flippant table lamp (which works as an up light or a down light),...
View ArticleI Love I Love Ugly editorials.
I Love Ugly has fast become not only New Zealand's tastemaker in dude-style, but an international sartorial heavyweight, with design values that extend beyond the clothing to flossin' every. little....
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