BRB just going to file this under my Things I didn’t know I needed: A Tiger Print Duster Coat moodboard. British designer Hayley Menzies started out with a stall at Portobello Market, and keeps her collections small and considered – but with maximalist tendencies. When I was growing up my parents couldn’t always afford the latest …
When last did you stay in a hotel? For many of us it’s probably been a loooooooooong time. We had a trip planned to Paris exactly a year ago, and about a month before the first lockdown, as the pandemic just began unfolding, we thought to ourselves, “do you think we could still go?” Oh …
When I saw this colourful kitchen transformation by Johannesburg based Arrange Studio i felt like I had to share it, if only because it might make someone as happy as it did me. We all need some cheer right now, don’t we? Arrange Studio were tasked to transform the space by Jayne Crawshay-Hall and Michael …
one of the stranger things to emerge in the past couple of years is the popularity of the 80s decor aesthetic. i don’t mean typical neon miami vibes (though that is having a resurgence, too) but the sort of beachy, creamy, beige, soft pink, round edges, boucle, rattan rattan rattan of my childhood. and i …
what better to lift your spirits on this Friday than hats shaped like bread? or creme caramel or an apple or a friendly marshmallow or perhaps a delicious canele? honestly nothing has come close to cheering my spirits lately. and for someone who never wears hats i sure do contemplate buying hats very often. Kent …
Look, as someone who went through 5 months of hard lockdown with two small kids under the age of 4 i can tell you one thing – my respect for parents went up by 1000%. and to be able to produce an entire body of work with a newborn, let alone while in isolation, is …
wow it’s been a long time since i sat down at my computer and just looked for cool stuff on the internet. during the lockdown i have been spending most evenings on the couch, in front of the tv, while death scrolling on my phone. instagram, tik tok, twitter, over and over. it’s so depressing!! …
Here’s a story that I feel encapsulates Jeanne von Hirschberg: as a teen she used to work at the flagship Melissa’s in Kloof Street, Cape Town when it was but a little coffee shop, and she began hand-writing the labels for the brand’s homemade goodies: rusks, cookies, jams, that type of thing. Her now iconic …
this past week i had a heavily debated conversation about our kitchen on my IG Stories. i have been wanting to paint our cupboards for the longest time (they are currently white) and was vacillating between sunshine yellow and some kind of amazing green. green and pink maybe?? – this house is for rent on …
