I'm so happy with our new laser cut colours. We've added Ultramarine which is a very vibrant blue and Bright Pink which is..well..a bright pink! Produced, as ever, by our wonderful laser cu...
We found Copenhagen to have a very positive outlook and with everyone seemingly cycling or running around the place it just feels really really healthy! The Danish are very committed to living sustai...
We're spending a few days in Copenhagen. Partly for work and entirely for pleasure! I'll do a couple of posts over the next few days to share a little of what we have seen. This is my first...
8m x 6m wall art by Matt W. Moore. The Portland based artist did this mural as part of his Cristal and Lasers show at Since Utopian gallery in Paris in 2010. He is now back at the gallery until mid J...
By Irish textile designer Claire-Anne O'Brien.
Somehow every time we go for a walk in the forest our son Lucien comes back home with his arms full of sticks and branches. Instead of hiding the branches at the back of the garden I decided to make ...
Yesterday, 1st May was a bank holiday here in France. While thousands of people were marching the streets of Paris (Sarkozy was in the Trocadero, Le Pen at the Place de l'Opéra and the left unio...
Daniera ter Haar and Christoph Brach are the designers behind the design studio Raw Color based in Eindhoven (Netherlands). They are both graduates from the Design Academy. The work of Raw Color refl...
We are spending the week with our relatives from New Zealand on l'Ile de Ré. So far we have managed a little cycling while the sun was out and avoid the heavy rain showers...You can read a bit m...
Talking of bright colours, I received this morning a pack of luminous envelops and a card by Australian letterpress design company The Hungry Workshop. As soon as I spotted them on Oh Joy, I had to p...
Work in progress paper cut garlands. Kaleido trays by Hay. Hand dyed fringes necklaces made by my sister Coralie. My sister's necklace hanging from a pig's head in my bedroom. Seen on By Fr...
Studio on Fire is a letterpress printing agency based in Minneapolis, USA. The quality of impression and the colours are so stunning...
When Ophelia comes back from school she often comes to my studio and ask to do stuff with me (like drawing and making things). I had a dozen of Posca (water based paint markers. They are very easy to...
On saturday we will be at the airport to welcome Simon's brother and his 2 daughters who are coming all the way from Blenheim in New Zealand to visit us for few weeks. We haven't seen the g...
Last week we had the visit from our dear friends Coco and Hisashi from Edition Paumes. They very kindly offered us a selection their latest books: Lovely Tea Time in Paris, Finland Children's ro...
Few shots details of our home after a big Spring clear up last week... Nous avons fait un grand rangement de Printemps la semaine dernière et avec ce beau soleil la maison est resplendissante de coul...
Ophelia (our daughter who is 5 and a half - very important the half) has been asking me to make her a dollhouse for a while. So when my mum moved house, she gave Ophelia this little wooden cabinet fo...
Oh yes! and it has been a pretty good one last week as well. I am very much enjoying working with a couple of creative people who are doing a project on Famille Summerbelle. Can't say much for n...
Jim Hodges at the Gladstone Gallery in 2011. I know it's a way back but I had to share this with you. I love his work. I hope you have a nice and sunny week. This morning I'm off to London ...
Chatou is a place to the west of Paris where the Impressionists used to come and paint on the charming banks of the river Seine. Twice a year (March and September) a huge flea market La Foire à La Br...
This will change the way I look at my Pantone book...yummy! Merci Emilie from Griottes! If you like creative food then check her blog, you are going to be very impressed.
Her paintings caught my eyes when I saw them hanging on the wall of the Design Files Open House. Kirra Jamisson is an Australian artist who grew up in Byron Bay and is now based in Melbourne. Oh! I&#...
We have just launched our brand new hand screen printed city maps, and we couldn't be happier with the finished product! Screen printing allows us to produce tremendously vivid colours and a bet...
I love the retro furniture cabinet and table by Charlie Crowther-Smith, a Bristol based furniture designer. He will be exhibiting his range of furniture and lighting at Tent London in September. Two ...
Merci à mes darlings pour ce petit déjeuner de rêve, un beau dessin de mon Ophelia et un superbe appareil photo Fujifilm X10 de la part de mon mari chéri...je suis comblée!
Hello les amis, we're back home and fully rested from this horrible flu that has knocked us all down for 10 days during the children's holidays (not the best timing to be ill!). We decided ...
The whole family is in a middle of a nasty flu and we are trying to slowly recover from it. Ill be back soon but in the meantime here is a little sneak peak from Bonton window display in Paris rue du...
I bought this interactive book for Ophelia as she's learning to read at the moment at school. Tip Tap is a French book with a CD included. It's from Anouck Boisrobert the same designer who ...
...this beautiful interior styling by Susanna Vento.
After school relaxing time with my daughter. Her, dressed in a pink synthetic princess dress drawing the castle she would like to live in with her prince. Me, painting triangles and sewing a cushion....
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