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Colour thinking
I’ve been holed up in my studio this week, with scissors and pinking shears in hand, as I hack into mounds of my printed offcuts, putting together colour groups as I think about next year’s fabric...
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Jaipur colour
Hope you enjoyed that colour explosion! All photos taken while I was in Jaipur with Ritchie Ace Camps, teaching on the Jaipur Block Printing tour. See all posts here.
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Colours of Echevaria
We have loads of succulents at home and on the studio roof garden, but I have never been very good at remembering their botanical names. However, the name of the Echevaria genus - named after the 18th...
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Ahead of the pastel pack
I just heard that Pantone has released its colour palettes for 2016, including one they call Ephemera, featuring “delicate shades of wan blue, pale peach and tender yellow”. Well, ahem, what have I...
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Best Things #06: Colour Yum
Woven bamboo chairs by W&Q …………………………………………… Photos of food gradients by Brittany Wright. …………………………………………… Delightful stop motion video for Samsung by Vallee duHamel …………………………………………… Photos of...
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Making Friday: Book Rainbow!
If you read my Best Things post from last week, you’ll see that I’m pretty colour crazed at the moment, probably because I’ve been working pretty non-stop on the Skinny laMinx Colour Book, which I’m...
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Colour Book 2015/16: Fruit Salad
One of my biggest jobs every year is styling and photographing our catalogues. This year, I really had a good time working on the Colour Book, where I created five distinct looks that showcase the...
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Colour Book: Liquorice Mint
That’s a photo of my sitting room, you know! I took while preparing the Liquorice Mint colour board in our Colour Book, and liked it so much that I left it exactly the same after the shoot (give or...
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Colour Book: Lemon Green
A room painted green is quite something to carry off, although this coffee house I photographed in Jaipur, and used on my Lemon Green colour board certainly manages to create an atmosphere with it. My...
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Colour Book: Signal & Steel
For some reason (I’m completely to blame), there have been two big gaps in the Skinny laMinx colour range. The one gap will always remain, because it is purple and I am allergic to purple. The other...
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Inspired by: Lemon & Fog & Sage
I’ve had this little cluster of objects on the meeting table this week, and it made me wonder which of our table runners these things might work best as a centrepiece. Take a look at a bit of fun I...
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Inspired By: Mint & liquorice
I spotted this photo by Tom Leighton on Remodelista, and it made me think of the Liquorice Mint colour group I put together for our Colour Book. Gridly, in glass / mint Palmetto, in tarmac Simple...
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Inspired by: Red & Blue & More
I’ve always found a red and blue combination to be a little bit “obvious”, bringing to mind things like cowboys, Stars & Stripes, Union Jacks – you know what I mean. But it doesn’t have to be that...
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Colour Inspiration: Cheerful secondaries
Just look at this inspired use of colour in the home of stylist Anne Millet (via ElleDECO.es). Individually, the colours are quite muted, secondary tones, but in combination, they’re wonderfully...
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Colour: Shell and Sage
The colours in this gorgeous kitchen (Styled by Saša Antic for Alcro) could not be a better match for our Borrowed Spoons tea towels, in shell and sage.
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Colour: Inspiration for Brise Soleil
Post-launch, it’s always great to look back at what inspired a collection, and of course you know that the patterns designed for the BRISE SOLEIL collection were inspired by breezebrick midcentury...
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In the Press: Creative Crush with Plascon Spaces
Thanks to Plascon Spaces for their Creative Crush interview, all about colour!
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Inspired by: Pastel colour blocks
I don’t have a lot of pastels in my own home, but I’ve been having fun, imagining how Skinny laMinx fabrics might fit in with some feisty pastel interiors I’ve spotted around the web. Photo:...
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Colour Yum: Mint & Melon
Sometimes I’m totally floored by an astonishing colour combination, and in fact, I’m on my knees right now as I type, thanks to the delicious Stockholm apartment of interior designer Daniel Hecksher,...
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In the Press: Elle’s experts
I added my voice to ELLE Decoration’s panel of experts’ opinions on how to select fabrics. If you like that kind of thing, you’ll probably like some of my blog posts about interiors and colour too.
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