By Kelly Fannon | 29 November 2012
Having recently celebrated 30 years of creating cool, contemporary fabrics, Ian Mankin relies on basic and simple fabrics, tickings, stripes, checks, natural linens, sheer cottons. These unfussy and pared-back [...]
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By Kelly Fannon | 8 November 2012
Two of my favorite items and they go so well together, coffee and chocolate. Particularly at mid morning, an espresso and a piece of black chocolate. They are also a [...]
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By Kelly Fannon | 25 October 2012
This weekend the clocks go back and we will see the night come early. We will turn on the lights at 5pm, in a couple of weeks we will turn [...]
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By Kelly Fannon | 18 October 2012
Last evening was a pleasant gathering of the Design Blog Collective. Talking with Joanna and Daniel about styling, curtains, sets, bedding and photography we noted that beds and bedding in [...]
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By Carole King | 19 September 2012
This week, in amongst all of the emails we received for London Design Festival and Christmas gift guides was a very sweet email from Terry of Cutting Edge Frames. Terry [...]
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By Kelly Fannon | 13 September 2012
Indigo a deeply moving colour. It comes from the plant Indigofera tinctoria, a dye is made by soaking the leaves so they ferment. It is a centuries old technique [...]
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By Kelly Fannon | 6 September 2012
Toast’s new collection for autumn and winter of lovely things for the home will warm our hearts and hearths. There is a collection of dishes, cups and jugs that look [...]
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By Kelly Fannon | 9 August 2012
Blue the colour next to green and violet. It has low reading of wavelengths on the spectrum so it makes it a less stimulating colour, unlike red or orange which [...]
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By Kelly Fannon | 26 July 2012
“The summer wind came blowing in,” that is a song, Sintra sang it. I was thinking of it this week as we have had incredible weather. The windows are open, [...]
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