Big Love
2nd February 2012
Thought this Big Love Bowl by Alessi was a beautiful shape, plus ice cream always tastes better shared.
CommentTurquoise Silk Necklace
27th January 2012
This turquoise silk necklace by Claire Sagnier is pretty awesome. Buy it over on the MOMA Store.
Wooden Finger Puppets
12th January 2012
Never in my life have I seen wooden fingers puppets! I thought these ones from Muji were lovely.
Alexander Girard
9th January 2012
A couple of months ago I signed up to Fab.com. They feature and sell all kinds of awesome things. They do daily updates of products from prints and furniture to clothing, jewellery and homeware. I love this Alexander Girard print on wood. Love. Love.
Request membership here.
Country Road
5th January 2012
I love Australian label Country Road. I used to have one of their bags when I was 7!
The best thing is that they’re still around, they still make beautiful products and they also have stores in Cape Town.
This Slub Weave Tote would be perfect for a beachy weekend getaway.
blackbox
4th January 2012
A few years ago we spent a month in Oaxaca over New Year and it was one of my favourite places in Mexico by a mile. With a beautiful zocalo, gorgeous old buildings, quirky shops, fun bars and great restaurants, there was also a really cool art and graffiti scene with awesome stencils and images pasted all over the city walls.
This morning an article in Dwell caught my eye and I found myself reading a great story about a studio-cum-shop in Oaxaca called blackbox.
blackbox finds and collaborates with local artisans who use ancient techniques to churn out the same woven rugs, wooden carvings and pottery pieces again and again for uninspired tourists. By helping them bring their designs up to date and to use design as “a tool for social improvement”, new products (that wouldn’t look out of place in the MOMA store) are created using craftsmanship that’s been around for centuries.
I love the idea of developing these crafts – it helps ensure these techniques are not lost forever while producing some awesome new designs along the way.
Industrial designer Gustavo Fricke who opened blackbox says the shop’s overarching goal is: “To build trust and working relationships with these communities and give them a new channel for their work. I want the younger generation to feel proud of their skills, to realize: “Shit, man, this is cool and I made it. I learned this from my grandpa, and now this is giving me my bread.” “
Very cool.
(via Dwell)
Tattly™ 2
3rd January 2012
After buying Alex some Tattly™ tattoos for Christmas I got all excited about wedding tattoos for Si and I! Check out Tattly’s Deming lettraset tattoo I’ve just bought.
Oh yeah!
BLANK {space}
22nd December 2011
The other day I discovered BLANK {space} – an sweet little store-cum-gallery that is literally on my doorstep. It’s tiny and hidden away behind big black grills, but inside it’s light and pretty and full of gorgeous letterpress stationary *sigh*, unique prints and limited edition works of art.
Another awesome Cape Town find. Yay!
Tattly™
16th December 2011
Tattly™ is the super cool ‘Designy Temporary Tattoo’ shop started up by the always inspiring SwissMiss.
I’ve just bought these 3 beauties for my awesome little cousin Alex. He’s 5 and lives in Australia. I can imagine him rocking it out on his first day of school with a robot tattoo and a late watch. Cool!
Bocci 28 Series
6th December 2011
Wow. These lights by Bocci blew me away.
A contemporary design and manufacturing house based in Vancouver, they operate as a co-operative community between designers, architects, craftspeople, technicians, agents, governance bodies, testing facilities, raw materials suppliers and shops with the aim of supplying beautiful but practical quality products.
28 Series pendants are designed to cluster in hexagonal shapes, which in turn nestle into one another to create beautiful patterns that would suit almost any interior (and I like how they remind me of Christmas).
(via DesignMilk)
love made me do it / LO Studio Give-away
29th November 2011
What’s exciting about this post (aside from the fact that you could possibly win a LO Studio voucher worth R350!) is that the super cute girl up there is Maike. One half of welovepictures – our amazing wedding photographers! I absolutely cannot wait for her and her husband Travis to shoot our wedding!
But enough of that for now – this is about love made me do it, Maike’s awesome blog of all things creative and sweet. Today she’s giving away R350 to one lucky person to spend at LO. Think cute summer dresses, colourful tops and beautifully cut pants. Check out the details here.
(How lovely is the LO logo by the way?)
Afro Hair
18th November 2011
I picked up this paper bag yesterday from African Image – a cool Cape Town shop selling all kinds of weird and wonderful kitsch African things!
How awesome are these hairstyles?
