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She sells seashells: Salvesen Graham x Jennifer Manners
Scallop Cerise, Salvesen Graham x Jennifer Manners How did the Scallop rug collaboration with Salvesen Graham come about? We were asked to work on a rug for Salvesen Graham's showroom. We looked at options together and Nicole (Salvesen) and Mary (Graham) asked if we...
She sells seashells: Salvesen Graham x Jennifer Manners
Scallop Cerise, Salvesen Graham x Jennifer Manners How did the Scallop rug collaboration with Salvesen Graham come about? We were asked to work on a rug for Salvesen Graham's showroom. We looked at options together and Nicole (Salvesen) and Mary (Graham) asked if we...
Lodgepole Cathedral hand hooked tapestry by Red Spruce
Tall stands of the twin-needle Lodgepole Pine grow in dense forests throughout the western United States and Canada. Varieties are found on coastal shores, plains and mountains. The slender trunk of the high altitude pine tends to be sparsely limbed for much of its...
Celebrate Mickey Rourke’s 60th Birthday with Bute Fabrics!
Sunday sees the sixtieth birthday of Hollywood legend Mickey Rourke, the star of your scribe's favourite movie - The Wrestler (2008). Rourke was robbed of the Best Actor award at the Oscars, and it's a mystery why the movie wasn't nominated for Best Picture, Best...
Founded in 1978, Decorex International 2012 opens soon!
Decorex International is the daddy of all design shows and it opens in London a week on Sunday. Huzzah! Founded as a "small, exclusive and very targeted exhibition of high end interior design merchandise", the to-the-trade show (with one afternoon open to the ticketed...
Neue Galerie’s superlative Wiener Werkstätte inspired bed rest
"Give me a beach, something to eat, and a couple of broads, and I can get along without material things." The Santa Monica bus driver who expressed his basic but base view of the sublime to city sage Reyner Banham (who included it in his 1971 book Los Angeles the...
Fiddlehead Ferns and magical copses inspire Melissa Wyndham for Robert Stephenson
Beyond the boundary of the Blackdown in West Sussex lie gentle copses amid tall oaks, and meadows with views to the South Downs. A finger tip forage at the right time of year reveals finely feathered ferns. Furled fern heads hug tight like curled sleeping dormice,...
Exclusive Preview: Classic Rug Collection’s new 20th Century Collection
The Northern hemisphere's Dog Days of Summer officially ends this week. Scorching hot days and low rainfall were believed by the ancient Romans to be the domain of the dog star Sirius. But aside from scattered hot, dry days, England has been cloaked in rain for...
Macro Minerology views at Jan Kath Contemporary Rug Art
The Jan Kath Contemporary Rug Art two part post began yesterday and concludes today as your scribe peers down her petrographic microscope to examine rugs in the Jan Kath "Sliced" collection. Why a microscope? Your scribe is a geology and minerology fan, and the rugs...
Fugitive beauty and magical intrigue of Jan Kath Contemporary Rug Art
Today's blog post is a taster. Embarrassment of riches may mean an overabundance of a good thing, but when your scribe is presented with the exquisite contemporary rug collections of German company Jan Kath, the more accurate description is a cornucopia - a horn of...
Alto Steps by artist designer Liza Phillips
Lucy Honeychurch wanted a Florence hotel room with a view of the Arno River, and your scribe wants a home with stairs. Nothing fancy. A cabin will do (no yurts please). Or better still, a wee house designed by Terunobu Fujimori. And when your scribe has her stairs,...