I wish I could get myself to Designing Women: Post-war British textiles at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London, featuring the work of Lucienne Day (1917–2010), Jacqueline Groag (1903–86) and Maria...
Vintage clothing & textiles from Mina Perhonen. A brand of ‘good natural taste’ (thank you google translate)! I couldn’t agree more. Wallow in similarly lovely images and try na...
Why, you’re welcome. Erdem pre-Spring 2012. I love the hexagonal prints. HF.
Untested waters for t&t, but I couldn’t not share some images from the film La Delicatesse, the set and wardrobe of which are worth viewing alone. There’s this wonderfully unforced re...
Cibi, Collingwood, Melbourne. Purveyor of Japanese ceramics, cast iron cookware and Japanese cafe fare. They also like to drape cyclamens en-masse in milk bottles on the cafe tables; completely disar...
There is always one garden at Chelsea each year that speaks to me (via the internet) above the onslaught of perennials, water features and topiary. Last year it was the Diarmuid Gavin’s green &...
This could only be from Vogue Italia. And a good reminder of what so many Vogues have been missing: irreverence, artistry and the unexpected. Photography by KT Auleta and fashion by the likes of Prad...
At first glance, I thought the shot, at top, was a digital manipulation. But no, it is the work of Architects CMA and SeARCH in Vals, Switzerland. The cardboard bedroom was designed by Studio JVM, wh...
Bó Hamsa rugs, hand-knotted with Tibetan wool, hemp & silk and designed in Hamburg, Germany. Founder and designer Julia Gesine Stefan, above, worked in an embroidery studio in Marrakesh and went ...
I don’t often do an out-and-out blog crush posts on t&t (last I can recall was Justina Blakeney‘s – fair enough too). This time it’s Miss Moss, a compendium of radness and...
After reading This Sydney Life’s post on French tapestry mavens Frederique Morrell yesterday, I recalled a recent present from my Mum: a vintage tapestry pear, bought at ever-lovely Calico &...
A Monday aaaaaaah. Bows and Arrows is a Dallas, TX-based floral studio. Their Cinco de Mayo themed shoot (top three images) made them a must-post. The use of ink black succulents and violet anemones ...
Rochas A/W 2012. I didn’t post the collection when it launched, but as winter approaches it felt more appropriate to revel in their wonderfully cosy 70s layered geometric prints and textures. A...
BonBons II lamps by Serbian designer Ana Kras. Made from a wire frame and hand-wound cotton thread, it’s Kras’s sense of colour and geometry that makes these beauties sing. And I can̵...
I first came across the work of Mirocomachiko when Kirra Jamison posted an amazing tour of her Tokyo abode on The Design Files last year. When I spied her work popping up all over pinterest it remind...
Pyramids of Makkum at Gallery Libby Sellers, NYC: Flower pyramids, elaborate tall structures designed to hold a cascade of individual blooms, emerged in the Netherlands in the 17th century, at the ti...
Hmm, you’re thinking, these are not thematically linked at all! True. They are two of my favourite shows so far from M-B FW, and I love the contrast. Jenny Kee‘s waratahs-on-crack prints ...
Grandiflora vertical garden at Bec & Bridge (that tuber rose amongst it would have smelt divine), jungle prints at Lisa Ho and Alice McCall‘s folk flowers. HF.
Prints at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia 2012. From top: rorschach at Michael Lo Sordo, splatter at Zimmermann, graphic novel at Romance was Born. HF.
Let’s be clear: there was no way I was not going to love Japanese, hand-crafted animal ceramics that can hold flowers. KuSaFuNe is Tokyo-born ceramicist Sasaki Kaneko, and translates as ‘...
Bloom forth: Abbey Lee Kershaw photographed in the likes of Bottega Veneta, Rodarte and Valentino by Lachlan Bailey for Vogue China May 2012. HF.
Thank you to Miss Kirra for pointing out the elegant epiphytes and orchidaceae of Opus Studio, Cape Town, SA to me. The images have spurred me to retry some string plantings, this time with our Rock ...
I feel so ashamed that I found out about a Sydney textile duo that work with Indian block and mud printing on design*sponge! Surely I am meant to know about things in my own back yard before they rea...
milleneufcentquatrevingtquatre (1984): textile designers Amelie Charroin and Marie Colin-Madan’s series of silk squares. These incredible painterly designs are produced with original drawings, ...
Yes, yes, I’m totally behind the eight ball on the Valentino S/S 2012 campaign photographed by Deborah Turbeville , but I couldn’t not post them once I’d seen them. The shoot was he...
Chemistry that involves yarn is my kind of chemistry. These knitted mohair and nylon/glass bead textile (otherwise known as reflective fabric, a la what you wear when cycling at night) vessels are th...
Valerie Finnis (1924-2006): photographer, philanthropist and plantswoman. I’ve always found her a romantic figure, but upon further reading she was actually more gutsy and dedicated than I̵...
Awesomely crazy work of All for the Mountain, predominantly a purveyor of hardware and jewellery but with the odd venture into silk scarves. Their designs remind of Tom Robbins’ novels. Which i...
Milan 2012! Chairs from London design duo Raw Edges, fashioned from selvedge fabric, which allows the maker to unravel individual threads to mould the desired form (top two images). I love how much t...
Some incredible Chastain for your Monday. In the likes of Dolce and Prada, for Vogue Italia April 2012. How about those deco parrot tiles?! HF.
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