Posts Tagged ‘design’
Monday, Monday
A little Pinterest love to start your Monday. May your images be many and your pinning problems be few.
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Tags: design, fashion, pinterest
Love your iPad but want to avoid adding an ugly, cumbersome cover taking away from the style? The grapple may be your soultion! This product was just recently put up on Kickstarter, an amazing site that helps designers fund projects and spread creativity. What’s the point of the grapple? Get a better grip while holding, [...]
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Tags: apple, design, grapple, industrial design, ipad, kickstarter, smartcover
February is fabric month!
The beginning of the year is always a great time for textiles. Fabric houses usually release their new collections and no matter the terrible weather outside, the world is once again flush with beauty, colour and lots of lovely textures. As we spend the month exploring fabrics, from the traditional to the contemporary, I thought [...]
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Tags: design, etamine, fabric, interior, textiles, west of westminster
hand.written.letter.project
Craig Oldham is putting a project out into the universe. In an attempt to explore the art of personal communication and say “down with all the e-correspondence,” Oldham is collecting handwritten (and yes, SENT) letters. Via snail mail. Written in pen (or pencil, or crayon, or marker.. just no lipstick please. That crap smears all [...]
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Tags: communication, Craig Oldham, design, handwritten, letter, project
Fun with Furniture…
So you love design, but do you really know your history of furniture? Now is the time to learn! Throughout the next few weeks we’ll be featuring history bits for your enjoyment! This weekend we’ll start with the most well known… but also most mixed up: Louis Chairs! Stay tuned! Love the image? Check our [...]
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Tags: design, furniture, history, louis chair
Lust has a name and it’s Jayson (Home & Garden). Today’s gift guide is for the person in your life who loves to create a beautiful house and home.. and does some knock out entertaining! Since it’s great to shop local when we can, we’ll be peppering our gift guides with some amazing local finds [...]
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Tags: christmas, design, gift guide, holiday, interior, wish list
Sometimes you just need to take a break from the holiday madness and read something interesting! Here are a few selections for the day! There is always lots to discover on 1stdibs.com, this weekend is no exception: Style Compass with Robert Couturier (here). The October edition of Veranda magazine also had a great feature on him [...]
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Tags: 1stdibs.com, chocolate & zucchini, design, required reading, saveur magazine, WSJ
I’ve mentioned before that I love Apartment Therapy… today is no exception. The featured house tours are always inspirational, no matter what city’s page you are looking at. One of the tours featured on the site is a look at Antoine Roset’s Union Square loft. I love the living room space — a great mix [...]
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Tags: antoine roset, apartment therapy, contemporary, design, furniture, interior, Kartell, Ligne Roset, loft
Books of the day!
How do I kill time? Browsing at the bookstore or searching around online. Take your favorite topic and dig a little. Different vendors offer different things. Really want to switch it up? Check out what our neighbours to the North are offering by visiting some Canadian online booksellers such as Chapters/Indigo… sometimes you can find [...]
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Tags: books, deocration, design, interior, Paris, rizzoli, taschen, victoria hagan, zaha hadid
Mood boards at MyDeco.com
I’m obsessed with mood boards, vision boards and even the old fashioned cut-and-paste collage. It’s such an easy was to catalogue things you love while at the same time get your creativity flowing. Today, I discovered mydeco.com — don’t bother playing on the site if you’re in a time crunch.. you’ll be amazed at how [...]
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Tags: 3d, damask, design, eames, moodboards, mydeco, osborne & little, Pierre Frey, stripe, velvet
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