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fog linen work
Also posted in Design, Fashion Tagged clothes, Fashion, fog linen work, home, homeware, japan, linen, textiles, Yumiko Sekine Leave a comment
the brick house
perhaps you remember this post i did about these rad DIY shelves? well apartment therapy did a tour of the brick house’s, well, house. the portrait above the desk was naturally the first thing that caught my eye (and the rest of their art is also wonderful). and the kitchen! i would move in right now.
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arthur erickson
i am positively salivating over these houses by late architect arthur erickson, all designed in the late fifties / early sixties.
catton house, 1967:
filberg house, 1958:
smith house, 1964:
graham house, 1962:
Posted in Home Tagged architect, architecture, arthur erickson, Design, houses, modernism, sixties, Vintage 2 Comments
retreat
the site is a waterfront property located on an island in the archipelago of stockholm. oaks and pines live in meagre soil between sculptural rocks that dominate the landscape. a large section of the site’s upper part is taken by a large oak aged over 500 years
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hobbit bunker
The home features an enormous patio with an elliptical opening designed to accentuate the view. The old-looking barn in the distance even features an underground tunnel that serves as an entrance into the home.
via gizmodo
Posted in Home Tagged architecture, bunker, Design, hobbits, hole, homes, houses, interior design, switzerland, underground 2 Comments
kris·miss·moss gift guide
i’m thinking about christmas already. sigh. my family has instituted a one gift per person R100 limit (to combat the “meltdown“). i told them R100 is almost impossible, so i’m shooting for under 200 bucks. anything handmade is great to me, and anything i can order online is even better. if i can walk to a shop – wonderful, but that kind of limits you geographically & since i’m out in “the sticks” (as some might say) i welcome e-commerce with open arms (i’m also lazy). PLUS i’d also like to inject some christmas cheer into the south african postal
Also posted in Art, Design, My Stuff Tagged bags, beatnik bazaar, books, buy cool, caitlin quiet, christmas, clothing, couchies, curios, decor, dvds, etsy, franzart, gift guide, gifts, handmade, holidays, jewellery, jezze prints, kim gray, marisa girardi, moleskine, online shopping, presents, sewing, shine shine, skinny laminx, south africa, take2.co.za, textiles, the wren, threadless, victoria's secret 5 Comments
cable drawings
Posted in Home Tagged Art, cable drawings, cables, fireplace, interior, lighting, mantelpiece, mirror, wires Leave a comment
smith’s rosebud salve
have you tried smith’s rosebud salve? i got a tin for my birthday – it smells like roses and flying dreams and puppies and baby powder, not to mention how radical it makes your lips feel
it was formulated in 1892 and contains a secret blend of essential oils & cottonseed oil in a special petrolatum base. an all purpose skin preparation that’s good for relieving chapped lips & skin, diaper rash, blemishes, detergent burns, rough cuticles & softening rough hands.
you can pick it up for R99 at any Melissa’s (it’s really worth it as… Read the rest
Posted in Home Tagged beauty, blemishes, cosmetics, detergent burns, diaper rash, products, relieving chapped lips & skin, rough cuticles, smith's rosebud salve 1 Comment
steven holl architects
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cardboard office
Also posted in Design Tagged cardboard, design company, environmentally friendly, home, interior design, nothing amsterdam, office, recycled, sustainability 1 Comment
21 bathrooms
this home designed for a ‘malaysian power family’ has nine bedrooms, two family rooms, a family kitchen and a private dining area, a family library, a game room, a study, a public reception area, a formal dining room, a ballroom, chapel, 21 bathrooms, a swimming pool, two guest suites plus indoor private and guest parking. the ballroom has a round chandelier of 13,000 custom-designed undulating petals of unglazed cast porcelain biscuit. top notch – via coolhunter
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chesty before & after
now i know some of you might think it’s sacrilege to paint over a wooden piece, but the fact of the matter is that this particular chest of drawers only cost me R300 (that’s like, US $40) – and it basically just had a shoddy veneer that was chipping in places.
i also took major shortcuts in it’s ‘resoration’ as i had to do everything in my tiny flat in an afternoon. i would have preferred to sand the entire thing down and give it a lighter oak finish, but that would have involved way
Also posted in My Stuff Tagged before and after, chest of drawers, DIY, home, house, interior, restoration Leave a comment
colour with an u
i love grouping things by colour (you’d only need to take a peek at my fashion specials to figure that out) – so i was immediately drawn to these object collages by salbug00. i would attempt this but i don’t think i even own enough stuff, the benefits of living in a small flat i suppose. actually, i did sort all my books by colour – it looked something like this:
just… not as cool.
Also posted in Photography, Vintage Tagged blue, brown, collage, collecting, collections, colour, ephemera, flickr, green, grouping, home, household items, organising, Photography, sorting, styling, things, Vintage, yellow Leave a comment
anthropologie home
hey anthropologie, come to south africa please. i want your crazy awesome homeware in my home, homey.