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Miniature street sculptures by artist Slinkachu. The Little People Project involves the re-modeling and painting of miniature model train set characters that the artist place and leave in the street (of London and Italy). Slinkachu plays with the notion of surprise and encourage city-dwellers to be more aware of their surroundings.
The Last Resort, Wandsworth, London.
The Local Authority, Italy.
Slinkachu's Concrete Ocean is at the Andipa Gallery, London SW3 from 3 March-2 April 2011.
Stunning work by Raw-Edges design studio. Yael Mer and Shay Alkaley borth graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2006 and since then they have won many awards (Dutch Design Award, Wallpaper* Design Award 2009 and the Elle Decoration International Design Award for best furniture of 2008-09 and just recently the Designer of the Future Award for 2009 from Design Miami-Basel).
At last something interesting in the post. The first printed magazine issue by Papier Maché arrived this morning, Yeah! The cover says it all 'beautiful on the inside'...and bonus, the Paris canvas bag is featured. Congratulation Beck & all your talented team. I am so impressed.
Cover Papier Maché.
Photos of the beautiful world of Mor Mor Rita.
There's no one better than Virgin Mary for keeping our prized data safe!
Maria USB designed by Luis Eslava.
The Latten Shelving System by Hannes Gumpp at ABR Produccion.
I think it would look great in a child's room.
If you miss your skis at home, just add the Skis de Chaise (ski chair) under your favorite chair and keep rocking. Designed by Marie Thurnauer.
It's the school holiday this week in France and we're spending the week with my mum in her home town of Megève in the French Alps.
Megève is a beautiful alpine village within site of the stunning Mont Blanc, and we are fortunate to escape here a number of times every year.
Today Simon and I were lucky to escape for a walk and then lunch in a beautiful chalet at the top of the mountain called L'Alpette. Not just a beautiful chalet; this is the place where 68 years ago my grandparents met for the first time. At almost 2,000m altitude!
My mum is a very proud Mégevane (the name for the natives!) who has a wonderful photographic history of the town dating back to the 1940s. So I thought I'd share a few - starting with a magnificent picture of l'Alpette taken in the 1960s, with some pictures of my grandparents taken the summer that the met working at the chalet:
L'Alpette really hasn't changed much at all (the wonderful simple wooden sign remains the same). Sadly the only thing that is different is that there really isn't very much snow in 2011..
Here are a few more pictures of my family:
My mum (centre) with her brother and sister - check out the matching outfits! My grandfather (Charles) with his very fashionable pipe, and another picture from my mum's childhood, which is my son's favourite photo right now (I think mostly because of the bear...).
The new Love Bugs prints are now available on Famille Summerbelle website. The prints come in 2 colours (Red heart/dusty pink background & Blue heart/ warm stone background) and are based on my original paper cut.
This idea of a love heart with bugs and butterflies hiding in leaves came to me after my daughter Ophelia went on a school trip in the forest and came home with a variety of leaves in a box with a hairy caterpillar and a tiny spider...
Let me know what you think!
Ophelia has been talking from an early age and she loves it! It's non stop from the moment she wakes up until she goes to bed. When we went travelling Ophelia was 2 years old. I didn't have anything to record her voice so I decided to sketch what was coming out of her mouth...
This was a pretend telephone call...
