Famille Summerbelle

Amyisla Maccombie

Beautiful hand drawn illustrations by Amyisla Maccombie. Her illustrations are available as prints on her Etsy shop and at the moment if you buy 2 prints you get one free!

What Makes a Home:

The Lonely Fisherman:

The Performers collection

Our most colourful and fun collection The Performers has reached it's first birthday and we thought it'd be nice to celebrate with a special offer for the friends of Famille Summerbelle.

So for the next few weeks, we'd like to offer our friends a 10% discount on all products from The Performers collection!

To receive this offer, just enter the following code in the coupon box on checkout :
Ludo
The coupon expires on 21st October so please make sure you don't forget to use it in time!

Ludo Le Lapin, hand pull screen print. Size 50x70cm.

Maximilien Le Magicien, hand pull screen print. Size 50x70cm.

Maximilien and Ludo cushion cover. 42x42cm, 100% cotton. On one side it's the Rabbit and on the other side the Magician!

Boom le Clown & Flower. 100% cotton tea towels. Comes as a pack of two. Size 45x75cm.

Boom Le Clown mug, fine bone China mug made in the Potteries in the UK.

Scandinavian birch wood Flower tray. 28x36cm. Made in Sweden.

Maximilien and Ludo tea towels. 100% cotton. Comes as a pack of two. Made and printed in the UK. Size 45x75cm.

Maximilien and Ludo mug. Fine bone China mug made in the Potteries in the UK.

Ludo Le Lapin birch wood tray. Made in Sweden. 28x36cm.

Marimekko

Japanese publishing house Edition Paumes is releasing a new book on the iconic Finnish brand Marimekko this month. They visited Marimekko factory, stores and the homes and studios of the designers behind the brand. Is is a compilation of colourful prints, pattern, fabrics and home products. This book is on my wish list!

Lait Fraise & Famille Summerbelle

Famille Summerbelle is the guest of the week on Lait Fraise ! Yeah!


Thanks Emilie for inviting us.

My new large scale Paris map

I am so excited to share with you some images of the project I have been working on since last January. I had a fantastic opportunity to work with Outsign architects in Paris to design a unique art piece for the newly refurbish Italie Deux shopping centre in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. The commissioned work was to design a permanent three meters diameter map of the South East of Paris to be featured on the floor of the shopping centre.

I started to do a lot of research, to draw landmarks and quirky details of the Parisian landscape. It was a real pleasure to design this map and to work on this scale.

The challenge was to excecute this large map as my papercut map series so we decided to laser cut the design onto a 3 meters diameter circle of polished metal.

The disk had to be sectioned in two parts as it was too big for the machine to cut in one piece. Cutting the design with a powerful laser cut machine took more than 4 weeks. It was filled by hand (with a seringe!) with a heated resin that would become hard when dried. This was the most difficult part of the job as the map had a lot of details!

The map can been seen at Italie Deux, Place d'Italie. It is located on the ground floor entrance near La Fnac.

FS featured in Taiwanese design magazine dpi

We are very honoured to be featured for the first time in a Taiwanese magazine, and even better in the beautiful DPI design magazine. The article is about our paper cut map series and the world of Famille Summerbelle. It is such a pleasure to be featured alongside talented map lover illustrators like Vesa Sammalisto, Mads Berg and Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinski.

This week-end

We will be visiting Maison & Objet on saturday to be inspired and see friends in the evening. Hopefully the weather will be as beautiful.
What are you up to?


This is a photo I took on my phone last weekend at the village fête while on holidays in the South West of France. I wish I was still there!

Let's get organized!

The children have started school this morning. They were excited to see their friends again, but it was so difficult to wake up early at 7am. During the Summer we all went to bed late and never woke up before 10am!
I am also happy to be back in my studio to get working on new projects. First off, I'm very keen to re-organise my studio space and to find a way to display some objets that I have randomly put on a corner of a shelf. Last night I was on Pinterest to look for some inspiration. I like this idea of recycling wine wooden boxes, paint them and display all the things I treasure...


1. Studio of Love Mae via Blogdelanine
2.Cheap and easy to build: cardboard boxes via blog.jelanieshop
3.Stacking up wooden boxes via 101 woonideeen
4.Beautiful display of hand made shelves via ouiouistudio