Style At Home

1 min. di lettura

A more-chic version of a tea trolley, the bar cart is the perfect place to show off glassware, a beautiful cocktail shaker or vintage-inspired tea set. Add a posy and light up with a lamp. Make it modern chintz – add drama with dark or heritage-insp

The English Home

1 min. di lettura

The delicate hue of blush pink has a light and airy feel. In a sleek contemporary setting, play up its cooler notes with silvers, greys and blues; incorporate tonal ombre-effect blush fabrics and sparkling glass for a modern aesthetic. Within a tradi

Scrapbooking Memories

2 min. di lettura

Materials: Paper – Jillibean Soup; Cardstock; Embellishments – Jillibean Soup labels, corrugated shapes, journal tags and photo frames, Studio Calico wood veneers, My Mind’s Eye enamel dots, SODAlicious flair, button, machine-stitching, thread, water

Country Homes & Interiors

2 min. di lettura

Do you have a background in design? Yes, I trained at Parsons School of Design in Paris, where my speciality was photography. I then started my career working in graphic design and art direction, producing some of the largest lighting catalogues in t

Country Homes & Interiors

1 min. di lettura

Lighting fave Pooky has teamed up with paint genius Little Greene to launch a carefully curated range of 20 gorgeous colours to customise on any of the brand’s 13 wooden bases. Ruth Mottershead, creative director at Little Greene says: ‘This collabor

Period Living

2 min. di lettura

You don’t need flamboyant pattern and colour to turn heads in a dining room. Instead channel the Danish concept of hygge and create a mood of cosiness and wellness using neutral pieces and plenty of candlelight. Set the tone for a laid-back gathering

ASPIRE DESIGN AND HOME

2 min. di lettura

A Duncan Phyfe sofa is right at home in the sitting room of a Federal-style house in Boston or Philadelphia. Blazing white upholstery shines in a sun-bleached living room in Malibu. Almost every corner of the country has its regional style. But a roo

The Knot The Carolinas Weddings Magazine

2 min. di lettura

Narcisse Greenway Cicak, floral designer and owner of Narcisse Greenway Design To keep her designs sustainable, Narcisse skips disposable containers, buys local and composts clippings. Narcisse Greenway.com @narcisse greenwaydesign Walk us through yo

Blue Mountains Life

3 min. di lettura

Lithgow local artist, Le Grizz (Gerard Brown) has always had a passion for art. Growing up in a very artistic family, he was always surrounded by paintings, sketches and plenty of artistic guidance. Both of his sisters were passionate about the art a

Mollie Makes

1 min. di lettura

Can’t decide which pattern to choose? We suggest all of them. Sometimes a space lends itself to calming neutrals, but sometimes it wants you to layer those prints like your life depends on it. Antipodream are all about that colour clash, so hit them

Fine Art Connoisseur

6 min. di lettura

When Patti Mollica (b. 1955) graduated from art school in 1977, she was “unfocused. I didn’t know where things would lead or how to get more rooted in the art world.” OK, no real surprise there. At some point, most artists have probably said the same

MILIEU

3 min. di lettura

As a young woman living in India, British artist Marthe Armitage was fascinated by the craftsmen she saw in local bazaar stalls, printing bedspreads with carved wooden blocks. When her architect husband’s work designing a hospital in Ludhiana was com

Artichoke

3 min. di lettura

Forming an enduring and successful creative partnership is not easy, but when it works, it truly works. In the combination of perspectives a brilliance is found with the culminating work perceived as one. Layering that creative relationship with one

5280 Home

3 min. di lettura

ON A BUSY STRETCH OF WEST 32nd Avenue, just beyond Highland Square, sits a sprawling modern house and matching workshop connected by a charming courtyard. With their industrial-rustic mix of standing-seam metal roofs and board-and-batten wood siding,

Home Design

1 min. di lettura

As the design festivals have come and gone around the world this year, one common debate between interior designs, bloggers and design enthusiasts has been about the use of colour in furniture and interiors in 2019. While some suggest that pastels ar

Urbis

3 min. di lettura

TRACEY HALLIDAY AND BRENDON Cleaver completed different Bachelor of Design degrees at Wellington’s Massey University. While she was studying interiors, he was over in the graphic design department. The two met during printmaking, an elective paper th

Essential Kitchen Bathroom Bedroom

1 min. di lettura

Pippa Connelly seems to have the work-life balance just right. Living in an idyllic corner of Hampshire, the cottage she shares with her husband James and their two children, Bell and Will, is a relaxed family home and the base for Pippa’s soft furni

Style At Home

1 min. di lettura

Ensure even paint coverage with matt white emulsion, which fades from pink to white. Dulux Magic White matt emulsion, £30 for 5ltr, Wilko A simple yet effective way to apply detailed designs to furniture paint projects. Meadow Flowers stencil, £17.9

Woman & Home South Africa

1 min. di lettura

Style shouldn’t stop at the bathroom door. Bring the latest decor trends into this space with Hansgrohe’s popular Talis E range of mixers. They’re now available in five different FinishPlus finishes – the Polished Gold Optic is utterly extravagant.

Ideal Home

1 min. di lettura

THE ORIGINAL This scheme feels just as fresh by today’s standards as it was then. The signature, mid-century furniture feature of tapered legs, slim profiles and clean lines influenced by Scandinavian style are teamed with primary colour pops with mo

Visi

1 min. di lettura

Before you opened the gallery, you were known for a cutlery range. Tell us more. Artvark Cutlery, which was our business when my husband CP and I still lived in Johannesburg, was inspired by an implement from West Africa used to measure gold. The in

Style At Home

1 min. di lettura

Deep charcoal and soft grey paint along with wallpapers featuring pared-back or simple, geometric patterns cover most of the walls – allowing the graphic and colourful prints from fabrics, cushions and kitchenware to provide a welcome and cheery upli

Simply Knitting

1 min. di lettura

Inspired by the traditional Norwegian Acanthus ornamentation used in Norwegian folk art on wood carvings, rose painting and from 1000-year-old stave churches, this Arne & Carlos New Nordic 2020 collection from Rowan is a historical tribute in knittin

Writing Magazine

1 min. di lettura

Full Bleed is a journal of art and design published by the Maryland Institute College of Art, USA. Content ‘inspires, critiques, and informs the work of contemporary artists and designers’. It is an annual journal hoping ‘to chronicle the diverse way

Mollie Makes

1 min. di lettura

Forget the stark Scandi style from days of old – this new aesthetic layers natural textures and soft, cosy materials to create a tactile, inviting space filled with calming hues. 01 Hôtel Magique proves a simple line drawing can go a long way with

Popshot Magazine

2 min. di lettura

When I stepped outside on Wednesday morning, I found the world had turned black and white. Well, that isn’t entirely true. It wasn’t all black and white. There was a sepia tint to the sky. It stretched overhead like a sheet of ancient parchment foxed

Visi

2 min. di lettura

WHAT INSPIRES YOU ABOUT THE FEMALE FORM AND HOW DO YOU TRANSLATE THIS INTO YOUR WORK? The female form is represented excessively in art but often, especially in a more historical context, this is through the perspective of the heterosexual man ... m

Period Living

3 min. di lettura

Rebecca Craig, head of design at Sanderson, talks about its new collection in collaboration with the National Trust How did the collaboration come about? With Sanderson celebrating its 160th anniversary this year, and the National Trust its 125th, it

South African Home Owner

2 min. di lettura

Born and bred in Rustenburg, North West, Bonolo Chepape’s love for design started at an early age when she would doodle and draw a lot, and art and design became her best friend. She studied a BA degree in graphic design and later gained experience b

Inside Out

1 min. di lettura

Take a late stroll into summer. Think beach towels, umbrellas, shell-encrusted mirrors, cotton throw rugs, printed lampshades, tropical-scented candles and floaty linen clothing. If you could live in a shop, you’d pick this one. The owner has an eye