home: favourite thing [ chair ]

Shhhh, don’t tell everyone but we found these gorgeous retro style chairs that are very similar to the fabulous Mexican Acapulco chair but a fraction of the price.

Available at a few high street stores including Homebase, these Charles Bentley retro lounge chairs are only £59.99.

Currently available at Homebase in pink or aqua but also can be found in black and white at other stores including BuyDirect4U and Amazon.

home: featured [ O’Dell’s ]

Another realitively new homeware shop popping up on the streets of East London is O’Dell’s – a fine mix of homeware, grooming, and lifestyle goods aimed at men, although there are plenty of pieces that will appeal to all.
Established by Tom O’Dell, he has created – in his own words – ‘a carefully curated selection of products from skilled makers and brands, that sit within a relaxed and friendly shop in the heart of Shoreditch’.
He keeps the products as exclusive as possible to O’Dell’s with a real focus on UK made goods.
The store itself has a very clean and minimal feel about it, with only the addition of a few filled plant pots placed around the stock, allowing the products to stand out and be the main focus.
There are so many lovely pieces on offer, with our favourites being the hand crafted ceramics and rugs.

O’Dell’s should be on everyone’s list of ‘must see’ homeware shops in London.

Odellsstore.com
24 Calvert Avenue
London
E2

home: event [ sale ]

One of the best sales in the homeware and accessories market is from Anthropologie. And it’s on now!

Anthropologie is an Alladins Cave of homeware delights. It cleverly collates a beautiful range of textures, patterns and bohemian and vintage trends with a broad price range. This ensures theirs something for everyone to bring beautiful design into their homes.

The sale is therefore a gold mine of bargains with huge discounts across all departments including kitchenalia, ceramics, lighting, soft furnishings, furniture, ornaments and books. With often over half price being offered on some lines we recommend exploring the sale in store or online from the comfort of your home.

It’s the perfect sale for buying small details to enhance your home and interiors; new handles for cupboards and doors, vases and glassware to create an impact on a shelf, cutlery to bring a new look to the dinner table or great interiors books both to look good on the coffee table and to inspire with great design ideas. Then you can also make big changes; invest in a rug, heavily discounted, to change the whole feel of a room or choose from incredible range of sale curtains to frame your windows or use this time to put your money into a new piece of furniture at a great price.

home: found this [ books ]

We love a slow mooch around a museum shop, but usually only when we have been to a particular exhibition.
This shouldn’t be the case and we should treat them as actual shops, considering the majority of our museums and galleries are free. Also take advantage of the online museum shops, especially if your looking for books.
A good design book can not only give informative text and pictures, but they usually always look nice – something you want to have out on display.
We had a look at the Design Museum website and found a great selection of books for interiors lovers. Use the menu to navigate the particular topic like Product Design or Architecture and find some inspiring coffee table books to dip into at any time.
Another great museum shop for books is the Barbican with fascinating reads including titles exploring concrete architecture and suburbia life.

So next time you are looking for a gift or an inspiring read for yourself, head to a museum shop, you won’t be disappointed.

home: trend [ urban wild ]

Seek time away from the busy hectic technical world we daily live in, by creating a natural sanctuary in your own home with the Urban Wild trend.

This trend heals and soothes. Interiors that embrace this trend are as close to getting outdoors and enjoying the wild as you can get living in the big city.

Combine natural colours and textures. In furniture, floors and walls use woods, aged stone, polished stone, wicker and metal to give a natural but industrial edge. For soft furnishings seek out leather, knit, cashmere, linen and even velvet. Combine soft and hard materials like goat hide for seating with metal structures for the bases, and layer up furs and fluffiness in rugs against polished grey slate flooring.

For walls choose soft natural chalky tones to keep the look soft and blended. Craig & Rose give a great insight to using chalky paints and Annie Sloan has a great range of colours.

1 HETTIE Rattan table £125 / La Redoute

2 RATTAN side table £215 / Rose And Grey

3 WOODEN filing cabinet £395 / Rose And Grey

4 BRASS + MARBLE drinks trolley £325 / Rose And Grey (sign up for the newsletter and get 10% off now!)

5 LINEA throw Was £80 Now £32 / House Of Fraser

6 GOAT HIDE + TEAK armchair £395 / Rockett St George

7 Find similar to these gorgeous terrariums at The Urban Botanist and Geo Fleur – and Geo Fleur also stock an array of plants and fauna which would enhance this trend perfectly!

home: made [ leather strap shelves ]

A popular trend for the home at the moment is leather strap shelving. We all have ornaments, pictures and vases that we like to display, so why not make your shelf as eye catching as what’s on them.
This very simple idea is basically made up of three elements – a wooden board, leather straps and metal tacks. Use a board from an old shelf or maybe you have an off cut from some old diy project. The leather straps you can get hold of from eBay or just use a couple of belts.
We have found a selection of tutorials to follow, showing slightly different takes on the same idea.

Heywandererblog.com
Camillestyles.com
Burkatron.com

Hannahs House

If you don’t fancy the DIY thing then we have found a great online shop selling handcrafted versions.
Hannahs House specialises in leather wares, selling quality made gorgeous shelves. Head to Hannahs Etsy shop to find out more, or follow her on Instagram for up to date product launches of this brand new talent to the makers market.

home: nice price [ ceramics ]

We love the John Lewis Canteen Splash range. This cup and serve bowl are now reduced so perfect bargain ceramics to add something new to your kitchen cupboards.

The paint splash look is stylish, on trend and perfect addition to summer dining.

Cup / Was £6 Now £3

Serve Bowl / Was £12 Now £6

home: favourite things [ chair ]

home: favourite thing [ chair ]

We have a bit of an obsession with chairs, and always looking out for new designs or classic reproductions. We think the Hee Chair from HAY is one of those chairs that just oozes style packaged within a very simple but clever design. Perfect for indoor and outdoor use.

‘The philosophy behind the Hee Chair was to take an archetypal chair and perfect it down to the last detail while cutting the expression to the minimum. The goal was to create a contemporary chair that would fit into a wide range of contexts. The attempt was successful, and the Hee series is a pragmatic and easily decoded chair series. Like a line drawing, it wraps metre after metre of metal wire into neat, straight lines in three versions: bar stool, lounge chair and dining chair.

The metal wire is electro-galvanized before it is lacquered, which makes it rust-resistant and perfect for outdoor use. The chairs can be linked together in rows for conference use, and the new colour scheme keeps the Hee chairs updated.’
reallywellmade.co.uk

We spotted these chairs at reallywellmade.co.uk [ £476 for set of 4 ] and futureandfound.com [ £119 each ]

home: featured [ Luke Arthur Wells ]

Size isn’t everything. The compact curated collection of wares in the Luke Arthur Wells online shop is all you need for a little inspiration for your home and treats to buy, to introduce the latest trends into your home.

Interior stylist and designer, Luke, offers this capsule collection of homeware from an online store with regular product updates and trend aware new items.

The store stocks great simple style. Choose from the selection of small homewares ticking the boxes of concrete, geometric, metallic, smoked glass and monochrome trends, to name a few.

www.lukearthurwells.com/shop/

home: event [ calligraphy ]

The typography trend has been growing over the last couple of years – letters of the alphabet used on ceramics, quotes and slogans used on soft furnishings and art, the ideas are endless. A once popular skill making a comeback is calligraphy: the art of of producing decorative handwriting with a pen or brush. If you have ever thought you wanted to give it a go then why not sign up for a class at Liberty department store in London.
During their Brush Lettering class you will be introduced to contemporary brush lettering, and then guided through the techniques of brush strokes and creating shapes and letters. By the end of the workshop you’ll be well on your way to developing your own brush lettering style.

£60 [ class cost includes a kit of calligraphy materials to use in class and to take home with you ]

Sat 25th June – 12pm – 2:30pm
Sat 25th June – 3:30pm – 6pm

Visit the website liberty.co.uk for booking and contact details.

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