home: nice price [ side table ]
Habitat are a forerunner in great design and affordable priced interior design and homeware.
Their regular sales are not to be missed and this week we found this lacquered wood and metal side table with a retro feel, nod towards colour blocking and great for an update to a lounge or used as bedside tables.
Habitat / Niven side table £22
home: favourite thing [ wonderful wood ]
If like us, you love a bit of wood in your home, whether it’s a chair, a piece of furniture, a picture frame or decorative object, then you must check out West Elm’s new Spring arrivals.
We want it all, from gorgeous mango wood pieces including their speckled vases and industrial multi hook to walnut veneered furniture like the Reede bedside table.
The rich colours of the wood will bring warmth to any room, and West Elm manage so well to add that little extra detail to every piece, to give you something really special.
[ Vases from £34, Hooks £39, Drawers £399 ]
home: featured [ junique ]
A fantastic idea. Affordable art from new talents. The ‘Junique‘ concept is innovative and allows what ever design you are attracted to, whether it be typographical, illustrative or pattern based, to be purchased on the medium to suit the brief – a new cushion, art work for the wall, printed onto bedding or even a shower curtain! Explore their website for the endless curated range of brilliant designers. Like the print ? Get the cushion to match! Like the quote on the poster, get it printed on a tea towel or even wall paper!
[ about ]
”Berlin, September 2013. Three young design enthusiasts decide to put an end to the lack of affordable art in Europe’s living rooms. To create a platform for talented emerging artists from all around the world. To inspire people, to bring more art into their lives. In January 2014, http://www.juniqe.com goes live.
JUNIQE is the online marketplace for art from all around the world. The antidote to bare walls. Injecting creativity into homes and wardrobes. Guided by the mantra Art. Everywhere. we bring to life the designs of international artists on prints, fashion, home textiles and other products. We hand-pick each design to bring you a carefully curated selection of artworks that speak your language.
Our magazine is overflowing with inspiration and ideas for interiors, art and fashion. We show you how to make the most of your JUNIQE products, plus share our tips and tricks for styling them.”
home: event [ Pick Me Up ]
Pick Me Up Graphic Arts Festival returns for it’s seventh year at Somerset House featuring up and coming illustrators, designers as well as more established names in graphic art.
Showcasing a range of disciplines including illustration, animation and 3D instalations the festival is part of Utopia 2016, focusing on the themes of community within graphic design. It’s well worth a visit.
[ 21st April – 2nd May ] Head to Somerset House website for tickets and opening times.
home: daily [ yellow ]
Breathe life and light into tired decor with this year’s on trend colour – yellow.
With so many hues to choose from, to use in decorating or home accessories, yellow is colour to bring a fresh invigorating look. It sits well against greys and compliments metallics including copper.
Have a peak at Habitat’s collation of the best of yellow currently in store.
Spring is coming.
home: found this [ wallpaper ]
If you thought of flamingo wallpaper, you wouldn’t be blamed for thinking about a fun design that would most likely sit well in children’s room but flamingoes have got all grown up and would suit a wall in any room, with this gorgeous (and on trend) flamingo wallpaper by Albany Maison available from Wallpaper Direct at the incredible price of only £17.99 per roll.
To compliment, other walls and woodwork in the room, could be painted in white or soft greys. Use minimal accessories in white, grey (concrete would look great) or black, plus stylist-favourite, copper, would sit very well against this back drop.
home: trend [ Light & Dark ]
This trend is all about heavy contrast and making a statement with colour.
Dark shades dominate the space, with accents of white and lighter shades used on furniture tops and within accessories.
For example in a living room a dark sofa should be dressed with light coloured cushions [ Try velvet and faux fur, they will help with the luxurious element of this trend ].
If it’s a kitchen then use the units and worktops to block the colour, creating a very clean minimal look. [ see pic above ]
The main colour pallete is Aubergine, Burgandy, Blue, Grey and Green. Head over to the Dulux website to get the best choice of these rich tones. [ Deep Aubergine, Monarch, Buckingham Green, Oxford Blue and Gallant Grey ]
This trend will create a calming space, with the dark colours on the walls [ pick one or two ]. Add black accessories and dark wood furniture in parts of the room to emphasise the shades, and lift other areas with white and copper tones. [ candlesticks, vases, lamps and picture frames work great ]
Guide:
1. Wood/laquer console-West Elm [ £336]
2. Concrete vase-Rose & Grey [ from£14 ]
3. Table lamp-Rockett St George [ £65 ]
4. Chair-Made.com [ £499 ]
5. Side board-Dwell [ £399 ]
6. Copper light-John Lewis [ £160 ]
7. Candlestick-Ikea [ £9.50 ]
home: made [ book organisation by colour ]
Whether people roll their eyes or ridicule the effort, they can’t deny that organising (visual merchandising ) your book shelves by colour (or colour blocking) looks good.
It’s about realising that books are as an important feature as any other piece of homeware. As they often take up such a significant space on a wall in the home, why not make them visually pleasing. They will add to the styling of a room and can aid bringing a colour theme to a room.
Apart from looking well styled, it’s actually often a very useful way to find books, as many the human brain can work well with remembering colours (associated with a book cover and spine) as opposed to names or authors to find the sought after book.
The simplest way to create this look is to start with bare shelves and work out your plan of colour order. Colours should blend into each other i.e. Black into grey into white into yellow into orange into red into pink into purple into blue into green, with tones of each colour helping to blend the look. It can help to create piles of matching coloured books first to give yourself an idea of the amount of each colour and how much room they’ll need. It will envolve a little bit of trial and error but there are many images on google for inspiration as well as design blogs giving ideas.
home: nice price [ cushion covers ]
When it comes to well priced, on trend homeware you don’t need to look much further than H&M.
New for Spring is an array of colourful pcushion covers, including Geo prints, Stripes and Tropical designs. [ All at £3.99 ]
With these prices it makes it so easy to update your sofa or armchair on a regular basis. Mix prints and colours for a bright fresh look for the coming season.
Available now at hm.com
home: daily [ the Eames exhibition ]
Not long left to catch this incredibly collated exhibition celebrating the ‘World of Charles and Ray Eames’
Open til Valentines Day, at The Barbican, London, the exhibition is a delight of visual and written knowledge for any design, furniture and graphic design fans. Travel through the decades and learn what inspired the creative couple, learn their history, beginnings and the sweetness of how they got together.
The Eameses are amongst the most celebrate designers of the twentieth century and so many of their creations influence designs of today. So many of their iconic designs have been reproduced and copied in modern homeware and furniture today, and are also still produced with the original designs.
The Eames Office, at the centre of their product and graphics ideas world, was the hub where the magic happened. The couple and the office team produced incredible work for 45 years. It was a ‘laboratory’, a place for collaborating, researching and developing ‘products, furniture, graphics, architectural and exhibition projects, as well as new models for education.’
Their work covered print media, film, photography and more. Design work covered projects for furniture, homes, and they embraced both mass production and common materials as well as embracing the potential of technology.
As you head through the space, appreciate their extensive talent and abilities, you can slip into the couple’s world and minds, and understand that life was work, and work was life.
Running til February 14th it’s definitely worth the £14.50 entrance fee. The shop is a post-exhibition tempting delight, with a variety of homewares, stationery, prints and cards.
While you’re at the Barbican take advantage of being able to view the inside and out of this architectural brutalist dream.
Visit on a Sunday (check website for openings) and explore the incredible Barbican conservatory. A little lush heaven of plants and wonder, slap bang in the middle of London – a surprising delightful gem not to be missed.
The World of Charles and Ray Eames runs at The Barbican til Sunday 14th February 2016 / Sat – Wed 10am – 6pm / Thurs – Fri 10am – 9pm / £14.50 (concessions available)
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