minimarket

minimarket has been a women’s wear label since 2006, based in stockholm. the designers are three sisters: sofie, jennifer and pernilla elvestedt. they were awarded best designer of the year 2010 by swedish elle.

http://www.minimarket.se/

pierre cardin’s bubble house

the bubble house was built in 1989 and designed by antti lovag for the french fashion designer pierre cardin. this very futuristic palace is near cannes in france. it can be rented for events.

http://twistedsifter.com

cartier//stolen kiss

cartier has released a new fragrance called 'Baiser Vole' : stolen kiss. it's classic and simple appearance has been offset with a slightly unconventional side hinged lid. clearly a future heirloom. of course we can't make comment on the scent itself....

www.luxury-design.com

chatsworth becomes contemporary

an interesting exhibition at chatsworth is soon to close. sotheby's has brought contemporary sculpture to the relaxed setting of the historic garden. works by more than 20 leading artists from around the world, including rené magritte, nadim karam, takashi murakami, william turnbull, marc quinn, ju ming, jaume plensa and barry flanagan, will be on display, with many showing in the UK for the first time.

www.chatsworth.org

lush spa

if I say ‘lush’ what do you think of? londoners have come to associate the beauty brand with stores you can smell a mile off, neon coloured slabs of supposedly organic gunge and bath bombs designed for 13 year old girls. we’ve come to see it almost as a flavour rather than a smell, however, it’s come to taste of overly sugared sweets. interestingly it’s ethos of organic and natural ingredients still stands strong in people’s minds but isn’t truly expressed through what we necessarily see in store.

so imagine our amazement when we stumbled across the founding store in poole of all places. the articulate and informed ash gave us a tour of the little known lush spa. this was almost an entity in it’s own right from the store it adjoined and felt like a true and more authentic expression of their philosophy. ash expertly talked us through the treatments and the dedication to authenticity the founders have in creating new products and ensuring the continued quality of current offerings. he talked with genuine enthusiasm and how involved he himself has been with the brand. the trilby hat, pin-thin tie alongside his fascinatingly tattooed colleague kurt simply added to our renewed interest in the brand.

the spas also exist on the kings Rd, kingston and leeds with further information about their ‘validation facial’ and ‘the good hour’ treatment on their website (don’t be fooled by the images that look like witches gift packs).

now is the time to re-visit and revise ones opinion.

lush.co.uk

caseable

some weeks back the lovely people at caseable got in touch about their custom selection of very cool products. handmade in brooklyn, you can customise the design of laptop cases, ipad book jackets, kindle book jackets and journals. their customisation tools allows customers to upload any image and choose from a variety of fonts and colours to be printed in high quality on their case. so keep it simple or go bonkers – you choose.

we decided to give them a go and ordered a laptop case featuring double sided artwork; one side features the bird illustrations we created for our green & spring range (https://greenandspring.com/) and on the other a piece of personal work from one of our girls in the studio (who also does illustration on the side).

the whole process was super easy online and the box turned up this week (be aware it takes some time to get it made and then shipped over to the UK). otherwise we are super happy with the quality of print & make. have a look yourself and have a go!

Thanks guys at caseable!

http://www.caseable.com/

rowan fee

a new still life photographer on the scene with a really strong editorial style. Shame his own website doesn’t seem to be working at the moment – see a small selection at Lisa Pritchard photography agency.

http://www.lisapritchard.com/