Category: Style
Upfront x
Excess be damned, it’s often the simplest things in life that give the greatest pleasures.
Like using a cast off, or a basic building supply to create an element of magic.
Vertical?
A door?
Or horizontal? Corrugated irons strange, earthly beauty is rock n roll on a shoe string.
Strangely I’m drawn to the black version.
Wonder why…
Laters, Kate x
Leg Lift x
Prettypegs is a simple concept – to bring the option of individuality to mass produced furniture just by changing the legs. It’s the idea that changing one small thing can have a huge impact – effectively it’s the metaphorical butterfly effect for furniture. But without the chaos.
Like Superfront and Bemz before them, Prettypegs main products are designed around anything Ikea makes that has legs – sofas, tables, chests..even beds. But because they have a universal bolt available, other brands can work as well.
(All pics Prettypegs)
On the notion of individuality, it would be nice if they offered a pic ‘ n’ mix option…within similar height options of course….
Laters, Kate x
Design Classic x
Camilla Lundsten is a former designer for Ikea who then published a highly successful series of childrens books’ based around a little red elephant called Littlephant.
Demands from friends and family persuaded her to launch of her own homeware/toybrand…and the making of this drool house and future design classic.
Her philosophy presses many happy polka dot buttons: ‘To simplify everyday life with long-lasting objects that are practical and as eco-friendly as possible’.
Combine that with the alchemy of faultless design, iconic textiles, hours of play, rampant imagination and the urge to make more yourself just to add to the ongoing joy…and it’s product made in heaven.
(All pics from Littlephant.com)
Bella doesn’t get a look in. I want.
Laters, Kate x
Tunnel Vision x
There is nothing worse than saying someone is likeable, but not enough to care. It’s what I though when I first saw duck boots – practical, but not for the streets of London. Now I’ve changed my mind.
It’s an ugly name but surprisingly apt and they’ve been sneaking into peripheral vision for a while: Instagram pictures from NY, at the airport, on the slopes..even in an episode of Fortitude last night during a boxset binge (and if they’re the go-to shoe for those extreme conditions they must be doing something right).
They get a further tick for being unisex (well, at least some of the brands are) which is an itch itself that really needs to be scratched – tell me why can’t there be shoes with just the choice of wide or narrow to accommodate the whole population rather than only ever appealing 50%? The division of the sexes is too often a marketing ploy to separate us..and our hard earned money. I believe changing this simple thing would be a huge step forward (literally) in equality and world peace…
(All pics from Pinterest)
On a lighter note, when you really think about it, duck boots are the living proof that the skinnie will never die. Deep.
Laters, Kate x
Wonderland x
We’re taking the kids to the slopes for the first time this Christmas – well, I say this Christmas – we leave on the 30th. But that’s not much time to move from turkeys and tinsel to long johns and salopettes..
(All pictures Pinterest)
If only I could pack this little lot in my suitcase…
Laters, Kate x
Minakani x
Minakani is a Paris based textile design studio and brand created by Figuette and Frederic Bonnin in 2005. Their work is unerringly recognisable – I’ve long lusted over this picture – yet travels below the obvious radar.
Theirs is a taste for the different – natural, spatial, rich and expressive.
Yet surprisingly simple.
Pared back to just enough.
A name to add to the scrapbook of my future lottery win..
Laters, Kate x
Minted x
It’s what you need when the temperature drops below freezing and the dark nights draw in…
Because Shrimps is the hot chocolate, woolly socks, slightly eccentric hygge of the winter fashion world.
(All pics Shrimp)
Distinctive and dotty with a taste for fun, it’s a bright, cuddly light.
Laters, Kate x
Baby loves!
They are the pajamas you’ve always wanted to wear. Cotton, cut to a manly shape with prints so good they can’t be legal. In fact Desmond and Dempsey pjs have it all – and other than Mr Right naturalment, would make the perfect bed partner for Christmas morning.
Interestingly the men don’t have the same wild, intoxicating options: These are as funky as it gets. So you may want to do as Charlie and buy from the girls section – would make a change…
Laters, Kate x
Winter Warmers x
Rachel Comey. Homie.
Rachel Comey stirs the spirit, lifts the soul and happily shakes it.
Take her Ready to Wear 2017 collection which she staged, in celebration of 15 years in the business, on the streets of NY in reference to her very first catwalk show.
How apt: The source of inspiration part of the realism.
With garments in different shapes and sizes reflecting reality.
Modelled by real people of all genders, age, figure type yet still sewn together with a signature style.
It’s a gauntlet.
Laters, Kate x
Maison Bentley Style 