DESIGN

I’m terrifically in adoration of this ‘Design On A Dime’ initiative by interior designer, James Huniford. Started as a way to address homelessness in New York City, he created DoD as a showcase where designers could only decorate rooms with donated (and often very high-end) stock. 

The stock is then sold off at thrift-shop style prices with all proceeds going to Housing Works, a local nonprofit working to end AIDS and homelessness. 

See more via Elle Decor and head to Clever for some amazing tips n tricks.

SHOPPING

Some of the best online homeware boutiques you’ve never heard of via @refinery29 

DESIGN

In the hopes of helping designers find the right shade hassle-free, PANTONE have released Large ‘TPG Sheets’.  As a complimentary extension of the FHI system, they are printed on an  21.6 cm x 28 cm full  sheet of lacquer coated paper.  With dotted lines on its back, it also helps creatives to scale down to  1" x 1" grids. Retailing for £14.40, these ‘TPG Sheets’ are available in over 2,000 Fashion, Home & Interiors colours. 

...”we have this tool called the Log-O-Rithmic Slide Rule, with which you can find unexpected combinations of words. So we shouldn’t be surprised when someone asks us to, let’s say, make something in ‘rustic exposed concrete’. “

Why Trix and Robert Haussmann are the architects you need to know. Read the fantastic interview over on Apartamento

Interior Design

A lovely dose of  nostalgia today, as I reminisce to when @ardourdesign got shortlisted for a a World of Interiors award as 'Emerging Interior Practice of the Year'! 🏆 I’ve watched David - owner and 1/2 of creative lead at Ardour - put literal blood, sweat and tears into creating an eco-friendly business, so it was wholeheartedly amazing to see his work recognised. We’re not ones to put on a whole show, but if you want to read a bit more about how we felt when re received the news, head to our blog where I give up the skinny on what it meant for us and blueprint plans for world domination 😜

Despite the fact we didn’t win, I still took joy in blasting out some good ol Springstein and having a wee boogie at the agency being shortlisted. We’ll get them next year! 

La Bomba

Inspired by the memories of his mother walking around the villages outside Marseille, Jacquemus takes us to that easy breezy place in the sun. According to Vogue, it was also a photograph of his mother walking through the port one summer, wearing a scarf around her head, a ceramic earring and a pareo tied around her which inspired his SS18 collection. 

Creating the video in partnership with film director Gordon von Steiner, sit back and enjoy. 

Day 1434 — Hers Jane Goodall - “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

Judith Watson | United Kingdom | Textile Design via @keinmagazine

In 1973 Ricardo Bofill stumbled upon an old cement factory in Barcelona. Struck with the amount of possibilities the space could bring, he set to work turning it into a home. 45 years in the making, La Fabrica is now a breathtaking and spectacular home! Seasoned with vegetation, the space is a perfect marriage of concrete and greenery made up of olive, eucalyptus and palm trees. Unique, romantic and unrepeatable where no two rooms are alike, Bofill has said living in La Fabric has given him the impression of living “...in a closed universe which protects me from the outside and everyday life”.

Los Angeles unique home embodies the intent to offer respite from the city below - CAANdesign #architecture #homedesign #interiordesign

PANTONE’s colour predictions for 2017

Pantone’ has crowned the colour of 2017 to be Greenery -  a colour used for its representation of freshness, life and most of all new beginnings. 

Partnered alongside their Top Ten shades for 2017, featuring an array of subdued colours with pops of primary shades like Primrose Yellow and Lapis Blue, Pantone have described the colour synergy for next year as “airy and light to explosive and bright, ...to unique and diverse color mixes that tell the story of our global culture.“

Chairs, tables and lamps, Guillermo Santoma (2015)

Guillermo Santoma, Where Colour is King Casa Horta, an early 20th century family home in Barcelona, has most recently found itself the home of the the young-and-upcoming furniture designer, Guillermo Santomà. Showcasing vibrant shades of pink, green and blue to provide a dramatic backdrop, the careful selection of colour also helps to delienate the space. A gut renovation with the help of five others who all had "very basic notions of construction", Guillermo managrd to achieve a stellar interior that reverberates with life, "juxtaposing traditional Spanish tile with tiny, ’80s-era pink squares, turning staircases into spare, decorative geometries, and providing a grace note of sheer silliness with a faux “skylight” that’s actually a blue ceiling painted with clouds." Read more via Sight Unseen

BFGF shop: http://bfgf-shop.com/

An art led fashion brand out in LA, BFGF work with digitally printed textiles and hand painted fabrics, to then impose upon natural fabrics. With influences from exotic places/landscapes (real #Havana-esque vibes), the Internet and overall transcendent experiences, they serve up dream-like garments and accessories. Slide through their Instagram feed Drake style to get to know what they’re about!

Boho plantlife Via @Guatitlan (Instagram)