Too Cool for School: i29 Interior Architects, Netherlands
Award winning office interior design by i29, the Netherlands
Jaspar Jansen and Jeroen Dellensen founded their Duivendrecht based interior architectural agency, i29 just over a decade ago. Between the duo they have built up a solid portfolio of consistently minimalist interiors for offices, schools and a few lucky homeowners. Their practical approach favours multi-functional materials which benefit from their graphic eye and minimalist aesthetic, in turn creating clean and clearly defined spaces with a strong identity throughout their projects. With a host of acclaimed awards under their belt this little agency is making waves.
Winner of The Great Indoors Award in 2011, i29 used traditional felt to solve three main challenges; sound absorption, durability, and flexibility to disguise the uneven surfaces common in many historic buildings. Covering the ceiling, partitions, furniture, and even lamps with marl grey felt, they not only solved all their obstacles in one fell swoop, but achieved a cohesive, bold aesthetic for this creative company. Another historic building, this time overlooking one of Amsterdam’s most famous canals, is seat to an investment group. Collaborating with Eckhardt & Leeuwenstein, i29 realise their conceptual idea, of putting their clients ‘in the spotlight’, with great finesse. By painting the inside of giant pendant lamps gold, it’s as if these ‘spotlights’ cast their beams across the black stained ash wall unit spanning the length of the room. This light and shadow play is emphasised further with the two-tone grey oval pattern on the carpet. These interiors most certainly set the stage for money and power.
‘Power Office’ (can I move in once I take over the world? ed.)
Another award winning collaboration with Snelder Architects i29 utilises their own custom made modular tables create flexible working stations at the Panta Rhei vocational school in Amstelveen. Fond of the written word, I especially love i29′s implementation of poetry which they commissioned from Erikjan Harmens, who worked together with students to form themes for the poetry based on insecurity and friendship. These open ended poems are adhered to walls, floors, and furniture within the space and are arranged in such a way as to form interesting graphic patterns at a distance. These graphic clusters of words and the angular shapes of the tables synchronise with i29′s choice of Konstantin Grcic’s Chair One, geometric and industrial.
i29 worked in collaboration with Snelder Architects to realise this über contemporary environment for the lucky students at Panta Rhei in Amstelveen.
i29 brings its flair for cohesive, contemporary interiors to residential homes with a series of innovative designs. In Home 6, i29 creates free standing units which perform multiple functions such as the kitchen and wardrobe which are back to back in a single unit. From the living room, a sliver of the lush vertical garden is visible beyond, where the bedroom and bathroom is located at the rear of the singular space. The Japanese homeowner’s desire to maintain a connection with nature is accommodated with the bathroom’s feature glass wall with a view of the vertical garden and a streamlined industrial staircase leading to a roof top terrace above.
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Eames: The Architect and the Painter Documentary
Synonymous with mid-century furniture, Charles and Ray Eames made a profound impact on the industrial design scene in the US which has influenced and inspired designers of future generations. This documentary exudes the joyful optimism of post war America when the husband and wife team launched their molded plywood chair after many years of experimenting with the notion of creating an economic, ergonomic chair which could be easily mass produced for the average American. The Eameses went on to create truly innovative designs – not only furniture pieces, but toys, puzzles, films, exhibitions, and architecture. Their fascinating story is told through a wealth of archival material and other designers who worked in the Eames office during the golden years, providing illuminating insight into the workings behind the scenes and of the creative relationship between Charles and Ray, a partnership filled with mutual admiration, respect, and an irrepressible playfulness.
Top two photos – Ray and Charles Eames at home in Pacific Palisades c.1970, bottom photo - replica of the Eames 1949 Case Study house No 8 for California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way, exhibition at the LACMA
An iconic image of Charles & Ray Eames illustrating their spirit of fun
Top image – Ray and Charles Eames examining the sling locations to be covered by fabric lapping in a prototype of the Aluminum Group Lounge Chair, 1957
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Monumenta 2012: Daniel Buren’s Excentrique(s)
Photos: Top, Francois Mori, and Didier Plowy
Originally built in 1900 for the world fair, celebrating achievements in technology, architecture, the arts and culture, the Grand Palais is currently host to the fifth annual Monumenta contemporary art exhibition. Renowned French conceptual artist Daniel Buren, now 74 years old, has created a giant kaleidoscopic installation, Excentrique(s), which fills the majestic 13,500m² glass vaulted nave. Buren explains that rather than compete with the beauty of the building’s glass canopy, he chose to exploit it’s expanse of light and space. Two years in the making, in close collaboration with French architect, Partrick Bouchain, Buren created a series of 377 large coloured disks supported by pillars under which people could interact with the work which casts magical coloured patterns akin to a cathedral’s stained glass windows. Buren’s systematic and pragmatic approach to the design process led to the use of transparent plastic film stretched over custom made circular steel frames and supported by black and white steel poles. The four colours, dictated by availability in the chosen material, were systematically ordered by number and alphabet. This system becomes a subtle soundtrack to the work with 37 different voices reciting numbers, letters and the names of the colours in 37 different languages. At centre of the nave, directly under the central dome, lies several circular mirrored disks which are designed to be walked on, providing another aspect to engage the viewer. By day, the quality and intensity of the coloured patterns cast is determined by the natural light filtering through the glass ceiling from the Parisian skies above, and by night a completely different experience is created with roving spotlights.
Photos: Top & Middle, Benoit Tessier and Francois Mori
Photos: Top, Francois Mori and Benoit Tessier
This stunning interactive experience Buren offers with his bold new in situ exhibition shares many similar aspects with Olafur Eliasson’s epic Weather Project installation at the Tate Modern which will stay forever etched in my memory. Not to be missed if you’re in the vicinity of the Grand Palais. Open til midnight each day, the exhibition lasts until 21 June.
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Surreal Ink Photographs: Luka Klikovac
Ink photographs from Luka Klikovac’s current exhibition, AlterActio
Serbian photographer Luka Klikovac mesmerises with his sinuous abstract photographs. Using nothing more than a glass of water, ink, clever lighting, and a high shutter speed, Klikovac captures the random explosions of intense colour and form which translate into a vast array of dynamic images. Ranging from single organisms resembling sea creatures and alien life forms in his first series of ink “experiments”, Demersal, his current series, AlterActio, further explores complex landscapes previously touched on, which conjure up intergalactic wonders and the dark recesses of the Netherworld. The beauty of these abstract images lies in the viewers’ own imagination, as Klikovac likens them to the Rorschach test. Taking us on an epic journey, Klikovac’s majestic images propel us from watery depths to climatic heights and beyond.
More images from Klikovac’s current exhibition, AlterActio
At just 23 in his fifth and final year of study at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Klikovac is definitely one hot talent I’ll be keeping tabs on. While thoroughly enjoying the challenges of commercial and reportage photography, at which he is equally gifted, Klikovac confides he’s never enjoyed his chosen medium as much as when he was working on his latest experimental series, AlterActio. Finding inspiration in unassuming everyday objects and phenomena, Klikovac prefers to derive inspiration from “non-visual art because it leaves more space for originality.” Wise advice for any creative hoping to achieve something unique, in an internet age over saturated with instant access to outside stimuli. Klikovac plans to depart from his ink experiments with a return to the studio for his next art series which I’m anticipating with bated breath.
Demersal, Luka Klikovac’s first fine art series experimenting with underwater ink photography
AlterActio is currently showing at the Belgrade City Library gallery. Klikovac’s fine art prints are available at Behance. Contact Luka on Facebook or email him here.
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Interview: NZ Stylist, Anna Church
My favourite work from Anna’s first art series, For NZ Sake, ‘Tiki Lynn’
There are some stylists who have a distinct style that’s uniquely their own, a look all of their own that one can spot a mile away. Stylists like New Zealand’s own Katie Lockhart (interviewed here) and Australia’s Sibella Court, whose immediately recognisable aesthetic, one artfully pared back and refreshingly simple, the other, dense layers rich with historical and collectable elements, creating character and depth. This ability to leave the mark of your own personality on your work as a stylist, is a quality I admire and strive for in my own work. So too is the ability to adapt to each individual client, gliding effortlessly from one persona to another, in order to tell different stories in a visual capacity, depending on the needs and demands of each client. This skill is evident in the varied work of New Zealand stylist, Anna Church, whose broad portfolio includes art direction for New Zealand household design houses Trelise Cooper Interiors and Citta Design, and editorial shoots for a host of New Zealand magazines including Your Home & Garden and NZ House & Garden.
What sets Anna apart from many, however, is her innate talent for ”art of aesthetic arrangement”, as she aptly refers to her profession, which elevates styling to the next level: art. In Anna’s first art series, For NZ Sake, the highly collectable Kiwi Crown Lynn crockery is artfully arranged to form the native Maori symbol, the Tiki, representing our two merging cultures. With Anna’s newest series At Your Service, English tea sets and aged fabrics are arranged to create ‘service medals’; both a witty play on words and tribute to a bygone era in our society of high teas and returned servicemen. A huge thank you to Anna for sharing her thoughts and insights with such candour and generosity!
Anna’s “art of aesthetic arrangement” is at its peak with her latest art series, At Your Service
Tell us a bit about your background. How did your journey lead you to become an interior designer and stylist? After returning from London (where I’d lived and worked with horses for a couple of years) I went back to study at the National College of Design & Technology in Christchurch. With a diploma in Graphic Design and Multimedia in hand, I then moved up to Auckland and found myself working for a well known home textiles brand, Linens & More, for many years. My role was to develop the creative direction for the company. I did everything, from packaging design to advertising campaigns, from styling to developing a theme for their seasonal catalogues and showroom. That was where I discovered my passion for styling. I loved that it took me away from creating on a computer screen to a more tactile, hands on approach. It also fueled my fetish for endless titivating and arranging, as well as my love of sourcing novel, interesting and beautiful things! I had stumbled upon my perfect role.
Styled by Anna Church for NZ Home & Garden
Your collaboration with photographer Kevin Emirali to source homes and produce production imagery for interior magazines is a fantastically proactive way to secure work. Can you tell us a little more about how this process works? Do you provide magazines with the whole package by writing the copy for these editorials as well? Which magazines have taken on your work using this method? Yes, Kevin and I really enjoy connecting with lovely people and spending a day in their beautiful homes photographing and titivating them to be camera-ready. It’s like playing for the day really and the homeowners seem to love it when I find and move their bits and pieces around (some of which may not have obviously been out on display or used or positioned in that way before) because it often gives some of their things a new lease on life.
Citta Design‘s,New York Stories (top, l-r) and last summer’s Cuba range styled by Anna Church
Your series of still life art works, For NZ Sake, and your latest, At Your Service, are very clever concepts. Can you tell us a little about how the creative process unfolds when creating a concept for artworks like these? Gosh, how are these artworks dreamed up? Well this may sound flaky, but these ideas just pop into my head really and I run with them! But, sometimes it’s just half or three-quarters of an idea so my brain has to work overtime for the complete concept to form. I get there eventually (it may even take a year or two) and this makes the end part of the project so much fun as I finally get to go on a treasure hunt for the objects I need to create the works. Then the hands on, creating side of the vision pours out and, hey presto, a gravy boat, a Crown Lynn vase or an iconic Jackie Howe singlet is formed into something else like a Tiki, a medal or a Map of New Zealand.
Do you photograph the still life pieces or do you enlist a professional? Kevin Emirali photographs each series for me. I am very lucky I can call upon his genius to capture my ideas!
What are your top three styling tips? Styling is very instinctive for me so I find it a little hard to answer to this question. First tip I guess would be to always be on the look out! If you have the urge, just start gathering bits and pieces of interest to you – random is always best. You may not have a place for them then and there, but a place can always be found. Experiment with clustering different types of objects and put furniture in new places and see where its leads you. Don’t be afraid to titivate until it feels right. Use different heights, comical or unusual objects used in a different way is always fun. Stand back and scan a room, there are often treasures to be found gathering dust at the back of a shelf for sure! And nothing can beat adding a posy of flowers or foliage to any arrangement. I actually like it when flowers are past their best and start wilting and browning off – they start take on a whole new look again.
What’s the most valuable piece of advice you’ve received concerning your career? I don’t think anyone has given me advice career-wise, other than saying “Go for it”, what ever it may be! But the advice I give to myself is that if an idea tickles, and nags, and refuses to go away don’t ignore it. Give it room to breathe and let it grow. I believe that within the exploration of any idea there is the possibility for it to become a tangible reality. Go with what your passion is; it seems there’s a career waiting in the wings for any path you can dream up these days!
Editorial interior styling by Anna Church for Your Home & Garden and Life & Leisure
What advice would you give to a stylist starting out in the design world? Don’t be afraid to lots of work experience, even if it’s unpaid. This is the best way to make contacts, prove your worth and gain credibility.
What would be your ultimate creative dream project or collaboration? An ultimate dream styling project would be to work on an Anthropologie catalogue. But I must say I have been lucky enough to have collaborated on some dream projects already in my career. Working alongside Trelise Copper on her interior fabrics range is one. Drool…I love her fabric choice. I also really love working on the Citta Design catalogues. I can fully immerse myself in styling heaven for two solid weeks of the year.
Who in the creative world do you most admire and why? Artist Michael Parekowhai, because his work is so broad and accesses a range of media that intersects sculpture and photography, interior designer and stylist Katie Lockhart because I love her individual, quirky style, interior stylist Sibella Court, who has introduced the world to fantastical styling, and Trelise Cooper, a woman with a clear vision with an astute business sense, but also with the ability to listen, collaborate and work alongside other visionaries.
Anna uses lavish sets and props create a heightened sense of drama for Trelise Cooper Interiors
What’s the most recent design or art piece you’ve purchased or been given? I have some wonderful friends who are talented artists and the walls in our house are covered with their pieces. I have a couple of original works by Nikki Apse, many Penny Stotter prints, and my most recent acquisition (which my husband and I bought for our forth wedding anniversary) is an Emma Wright piece for above our bed. The painting is called Passage Through. It is mixed media on board, finished with furniture resin and is based on the idea that two people in a relationship, while independent from each other, journey though life together. As well as being independent, the two reach out and connect adding to the beauty of life and the world around them. The quatrefoil shape denotes the four aspects of humanity – mental, emotional, spiritual and physical – and so is a reminder that when in a relationship those four things need to be honoured for life to really hum. Each friend/artist’s work is quite different so it makes our collection rather diverse. I love that but most of all I love that they are by people who mean the world to me.
What’s your favorite Sunday ritual? We have started a family ritual of making home made pizzas. My mum comes over and helps bath and read stories to the kids (she has just recently moved to Waiheke Island) and Nick, my husband, creates these amazing pizzas from scratch, dough and all! They are divine! The goal is that in future each family member, including Molly (currently 2 1/2) and Thomas (7 months) will be able to create their own as a Sunday tradition.
What are you most looking forward to in 2012? Professionally, I would like to work towards creating a new series of prints as there are a few ideas swimming around in my head; I just need to catch one! Personally, I am loving watching and observing my little ones grow, and how they create and interact with the world around them. It’s quite magical to watch and I find myself learning from their ‘living in the moment attitude’. It’s wonderful to be a part of and I wouldn’t swap it for anything!
Anna at home with her gorgeous tots, Anna’s At Your Service artworks take pride of place, and Anna’s latest artwork purchased from NZ artist, Emma Wright, hangs above the master bed.
To purchase Anna’s art work, visit her website for a list of stockists. To see Anna’s work up close and personal, visit Toi Gallery on Waiheke 18 May – 4 June.
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Studio Hayon: Salone Milan 2012
The fact that Jaime Hayon’s designs launch me head over heels IN LOVE is no exaggeration. Hayon’s work exemplifies great design; functional, innovative, creative, and playful, plain and simple. The astonishing breadth of Hayon’s work encompasses not only product and furniture design, but art, fashion, and interiors. This year Hayon showcases his astounding talent at Salone Milan with his many collaborations including three exclusive worldwide launches.
Clockwise from top left: An artist’s impression of Spazio Hayon at Salone Milan.
Jaime Hayon seated on his Favn sofa for Fritz Hansen.
The Arpa Chair is just one piece from Hayon’s Collection II for London based design house, Sé. Inspired by musical instruments and insects, the signature piece of the collection, inspired by the harp, reinterprets the classic wing chair form with refreshing modernity.
The Candy Light for Baccarat returns to Salone following its debut at the 2011 Milan Furniture Fair. With its elegant crystal shade and porcelain base in three finishes; platinum (pictured), white and gold, its bold design sits equally well in a modern or traditional aesthetic.
The playful ensemble of trays and dishes, from Hayon’s FORMA collection of tableware, is produced in collaboration with Japanese porcelain producer Maruwakaya. This collection uses traditional Japanese craftsmanship to execute Hayon’s exploration of the relationship between food, culture, and tableware.
These curvaceous, multi-purpose chairs designed by Hayon for Copenhagen based design company, &tradition, make their first appearance at Salone Milan. Ergonomically designed, both function and comfort are catered to with a choice of finishes from the naked shell to Kvadrat’s quality fabrics or even leather.
Hayon goes to town with his imagination with this little trio of whimsical animals for Baccarat. Half porcelain, half crystal, they are a playful take on the traditional sweet jar.
Hayon makes his first foray into the technological realm with his new company, Orolog, which designs and manufactures innovative Swiss made time pieces with luxurious Hermes leather straps.
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MAC & Marcel Wanders: Spring/Summer 2012
Dutch design extraordinaire Marcel Wanders teams up once again with MAC cosmetics to deliver a pretty spring palatte packaged in futuristic style. Many of the Dutch designer’s familiar use of geometric forms, subtle curves and ornate patterns used in his furniture designs are echoed in the new spring/summer MAC collection. The hexagon wall where mannequins reside in one of Wanders’ retail fit-outs in Bahrain and the multi faceted Aqua Jewels faucets for Bonomi are replicated in the Limited Edition Sheer Mystery Powder compacts and the ‘Air of Style’ Solid Perfume. The embossed floral pattern encircling the Marcel Wanders icon in the powder compact is akin to the subtle floral embellishment present in the Skygarden Pendant for Flos. The lipsticks, handle of the False Lash mascara and brush, mirrors the ‘turned wood’ effect legs in his Babel chair for xO Design. Stylish design meets fashion forward cosmetics.
The new limited edition MAC & Marcel Wanders collection is available exclusively in New Zealand at Smith & Caughey, Auckland.
The MAC face chart was kindly created by Stacey from MAC at Ballantynes, Christchurch. Stacey’s hot tips are to use a dark lip pencil over a lighter lip colour to create contours and use lashings of the new False Lashes mascara on top and bottom lashes for added drama!
Stacey used the following colours (* from the new MAC & Marcel Wanders collection):
Brows: Spiked Brow Highlight: Phloof! Eyelid: Malt Crease: Copperplate & Quarry Eyeliner: Rapid Black Mascara: False Lashes* Powder: Sheer Mystery Powder* Blush: Strada Lip Primer: Vino Lip Pencil: Felicienne Lip Glass: Julia*You May Also Like:
Fresh Talent at Salone Milan 2012
RCA of London students: 1.3 Chair by Kihyun Kim, Polyfloss from Design Engineering students and Stacking Vessels (ceramic, glass, and birch wood) by Pia Wüstenberg
It’s been an epic week in the world of design at Salone Internazionale del Mobile di Milano. I’ve kept my ear firmly pressed to the ground for the latest and greatest to share with you. I was interested to learn that many of the world’s leading design schools have the opportunity to showcase the very best of their students’ work alongside the elite designers of our time. I was impressed with the quality as much as I was with the means and methods used in the production of their designs.
The three projects which impressed the most were London’s Royal College of Art‘s (RCA) “Paradise” project, Israeli collective “TVL Express“, and the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (AAAD). As part of their 175th anniversary celebrations, RCA students address three subjects: the exploration of personal dreams and desires; questioning the fabric of the everyday; and speculation on the direction of our future. One of the most thought provoking designs came from a group of Design Engineering students’ (Nick Paget, Emile de Visscher, Christophe Machet, and Audrey Gaulard) development of a micro-manufacturing machine which transforms plastic packaging, using the principles of a candyfloss machine, into a playful new material. Aptly encapsulating the project’s ultimate goal: “Rallied by the desire for change and compelled by dissatisfaction with the present, (these) students will author their own atlases of paradise, landscaped by different paths in the quest for a better future.” Other highlights were Kihyun Kim’s super light 1.3 Chair inspired by a British wooden bomber aeroplane, is made from compressed balsa wood and weighs a mere 1.28 kgs. Winner of the 2012 Designs of the Year Award, in the furniture section, at the Design Museum in London, Kim’s design talent is definitely one to keep an eye on, as is German design student Pia Wüstenberg whose Stacking Vessels (pictured above) have already been snapped up by discerning stockists in London, New York, Germany, Brazil, and Sweden.
‘Balls’ by Asaf Weinbroom and ’Baladi’ cups by Galia Tammuz (Photos via Core77)
A group of young Israeli designers comprising of recent graduates from the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, TVL Express Collective, present an array of lighting, ceramics, furniture, and textiles which aim to illustrate their exploration of design through experimental investigation of materials and technologies. Specialising in handmade lighting, Asaf Weinbroom brings his new lighting designs (above top image) which blur the boundaries between materials where corian is disguised as marble and formica is mistaken as granite. As a lover of unique vessels, I was drawn to the clay cups by industrial designer Galia Tammuz in which the cooperative principal of sharing food and a sense of community is translated through extrusion,a simple and cheap technology, creating long units, which are then cut into pieces.
The AAAD in Prague thoroughly prepares their students for the real world by working closely in collaboration with leading manufacturers within the Czech Republic. Bata, the Czech founded, global footwear manufacturer and retailer, joined forces with a group of students from the Studio of Fashion & Footwear who redesigned the iconic 60s Bata Bullets with wicked results (see below). Dan Gonzales returns to Salone Milan with a new lighting series and Studio of Furniture and Interior Design alumni Zbyněk Krulich presents his ‘Mikado’ project including a shelving system (pictured below) and sideboard. All in all, the AAAD has nurtured a crop of hot house talent.
Studio of Fashion & Footwear students redesigned the iconic 60s Bata Bullets
Lighting from Dan Gonzales and AAAD alumni Zbyněk Krulich’s ‘Mikado’ shelving system
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Up in the Clouds with Canadian Artist Elly MacKay
Her parents had named her spring, but her heart belonged to autumn, set of two prints by Ellie MacKay
Born out of a hugely creative family, it’s no surprise Canadian artist Elly MacKay spends her days creating works of art. It was on a visit to The Movable Book Society as a teen with her mother, who penned books on how to make pop-up books, which was to be the catalyst for her own artistic direction. Inspired by the Victorian marvels like tunnel books, magic lanterns, paper theaters, and zoetropes, Elly began designing her own miniature theatre to begin creating her ephemeral artworks. Under the apt name of Theater Clouds, Elly creates enchanting narrative scenes by layering her illustrated characters and scenery to construct a diminutive set for her miniature theatre, made by her carpenter husband for her as a Christmas present one year (how romantical! ed.). Adding tissue to create depth, coloured light filters for varying atmospheres and other special effects, like mirrors, Elly’s artworks capture a magical freeze frame through a child’s eyes. Botanical and nautical themes dominate Elly’s work and explore a wide emotional scope ranging from playful whimsy, to grandiose fantasy, to subdued, wistful reflection. Mother to three year old Lily and newborn, Koen, and art teacher at local schools, these children offer fascinating new insights everyday which give her work such stunning authenticity. Children big and small will fall in love with Elly’s creations which evoke a deep sense of humanity we can recognise in ourselves and others.
(L-R) On that small hilltop in the mountains, their lives were intertwined, Harvesting the Weather, and Dreams for Weary Sailors
Along the way
Adding the finishing touches to She brought back a gift of the season
Elly’s exciting future plans include an installation in collaboration with her husband, children’s books, and hopes to further explore stop motion animation. Keep in touch with Elly’s future projects on her blog and visit her Etsy shop Theater Clouds to purchase prints.
Resources: Interviews with Small Magazine and Featured Seller on Etsy.
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Editor’s Choice This Month
1 Seeing Double With clever use of double exposure, graphic design student Dan Mountford has created a stunning series entitled The Worlds Inside of Us.
2 Bowerbird ‘Birdstick’ is a multi purpose storage unit perfect for keeping your iphone and car keys, mail, or general bits’n’bobs. Created by Dane Kristina Kjær Hansen.
3 Stacked Against the Odds ‘Cairn’, an ensemble consisting of sculptured wooden boxes that can be assembled in awkward positions as if by magic, ie. with the help of unseen magnets, by Constance Guisset.
4 Cut and Paste New Zealand artist Bayley Collins, aka Birdinabunnysuit, who uses collage to mix and match animal parts, is now part of Auckland design store’s whare textile range at Essenze.
5 Understated Style Designed by New Zealander Carrie Cooper and made in Italy, these boots embody the effortless “boyfriend chic” Beau Coops are renowed for. New to Head Over Heels in Re:Start, Christchurch.
6 All Stitched Up East End London textile designer, Naomi Paul has created these crocheted pendant lamps from surplus luxury textiles from the fashion industry. Available soon exclusively through Douglas & Bec.
7 Dry dishes 80s style Australian based studio, Dubbleyou, has created a series of pop inspired tea towels for your drying pleasure at Foxes.
