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This is Ophelia & Lucien's favourite activity during the holidays...and always such fun for us too! Everywhere you go in France you'll find a carousel, and it's always a particular pleasure to discover beautiful old ones like these. It makes me laugh so much when the crazy screams begin on first view, and then of course big tears (particularly for Lucien) when we have to go.
Tsé Tsé & Associées by French designers Catherine Levy et Sigolène Prébois have opened a shop in 7 Rue Saint Roch in the 1st Arrondissement. It's full of surprises, bright colours and quirky objets.
Coral & Tusk designer and founder Stephanie Housley has launched a new impressive collection of delicate embroideries on pillows (check the hidden pocket), baby slippers, cardigan and felt.
First I want to thank all of you who left comments on the San Francisco post (see below). It is so helpful for my research while I'm drawing the map. I have already included a lot of your recommendation on the map. I'm half way through the drawing process - hoping to start cutting it the next week or so.
For now I'm very excited to show you the new colour (Turquoise) and size (50x70cm) of the London map. We've made the map size larger to make it easy to frame it as it now fits the standard frame size from Ikea, Habitat and other high street framers.
The London Red print is currently out of stock, but will be back for dispatch on 1st August!
Summer for the last couple of years has meant a new Famille Summerbelle map...this year is no different.
For all of our maps we've picked cities that have a special place in our heart. So this time...San Francisco. Between work trips and holidays we've had some lovely times in and around the city, plus for the last couple of years Julie's brother has lived just outside of town (working at Stanford Uni).
So, Julie is underway drawing out a map with all the major sites and our favourite picks. We just thought it'd be great fun to ask all of you guys....what do you love about San Francisco?
What are your favourite places to visit in San Francisco - perhaps something or somewhere a little less known (a local secret)?
A shop, a restaurant, a landmark, a statue.....please tell us your favourites and we'll add them to the map!
To make it really worth your while, we'll give away 3 signed copies of the finished San Francisco print to our favourite contributions. Just leave your suggestions in the comments below (and if we need to get more details on location we'll contact you back!).
Please please tell your friends - we'd love to get as many contributions as possible. It makes it much more fun for us - and I'm certain we'll have a great map. You can just click one of the share buttons (twitter, facebook etc) to pass the word on!
New pretty designs by Darling Clementine. I love the mix of orange, pink, dark blue and petroleum blue.
Enjoy your weekend!
'A dreamer and a mathematician'. Designers Tineke Beunders and Nathan Wierink - both graduated from the Design Academy of Eindhoven in 2008 complement each other well. The work of Ontwerpduo is playful, experimental, eccentric, functional and very engaging.
The Marbelous table is a beautiful work of woodcarving for design savvy parents and for children who would rather spend a long dinner playing under the table.
For Tineke, the world of adults and the world of children are two different ones. In the Raster design of curtains and pillows, they have combined both worlds. Children can weave patterns with ribbons and play with the items, although they don't immediately look like toys, they also are just beautiful items for the living room.
Softly rock your baby to sleep in this Rockid chair.
The Room 407 was commissioned by the famous Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam for a temporary event during 'Inside Design 2010' organised by Elle Wonen. Ontwerpduo set up in this monumental room their latest designs based on different fairy tales. On the images you can see the ceiling light (Light Forest)overgrowing the room like the roses overgrew the castle in Sleeping Beauty and the bed is a reminder of the Princess and the Pea.
