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Colour ideas from Piet Oudolf’s garden – opening for the last time this summer
Even to the non-gardening massive, the name Piet Oudulf will ring bells. The great Dutch landscape designer has worked on many famous schemes from New York’s High Line to England’s Wisley and is admired for his wild, naturalistic style. Current projects include a new Maggie’s Centre at south London’s The Royal Marsden, and roof gardens… read more
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Meet Marakshi Life, the fashion brand making noise with quiet colours
Marrakech used to be best known for its confronting main square Djemaa El Fna with its many snake charmers, henna tattoo artists and street food restaurants, and the neighbouring, disorientating medina where market sellers hustle you through streets of possible purchases. Now that the city has earned a reputation as a shoppers paradise where you can… read more
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8 great paint ideas for ceilings
Colourful paint really can be used for anything – it’s the most versatile, accessible and creative decorating item there is. So why limit your adventures in colour to just your walls? Your ceilings make up a huge surface area of your home, but we usually paint them white, or leave them as an afterthought in… read more
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Interview with Fernando Laposse – on ethical design and working with colour from nature
Fernando Laposse is a Mexican product designer based in London. His experimental work fuses sustainability with craft and he’s drawn to creating colour using natural sources. He captured particular attention with his project Totomoxtle – a surface veneer for interiors and furniture that is made from naturally colourful native Mexican corn husks. The aim is… read more
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In conversation with hot design duo Sella Concept
Through the work of their London design studio Sella Concept, Gayle Noonan and Tatjana von Stein have become known for creating interiors, installations and branding concepts with dreamy colour palettes at their heart. Their clients, such as Instagram, Netflix and Google, have been steered towards peachy pinks over corporate reds. But it’s in new Mediterranean… read more
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The colours of… artisanal ice cream
Did you know that there’s a whole art emerging in the food world, relating to everyone’s favourite treat (even vegans if you get the right brand) – ice cream? The rise of crafted artisanal ice creams brings with it considered flavours and mouthwatering presentation that involves ice cream as floral posies, ice cream in wondrous… read more
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Insta-inspiration: the colourful collages of John Derian
The art of decoupage – the art of ornamentation created with paper cut-out images – has been with us for centuries. From 12th century Chinese furniture to 17th century Venetian art, to collage-making by Victorian ladies, it has associations with past ages. Very much a pre-digital art-form. One man however has been working to revitalise… read more
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Cut and colour – hip hairdressers giving salon architecture a colour boost
Pink hair may be what the fashion world is still hailing as the biggest thing coming out of hipster hair salons. But to those in our arena, it’s the interior design that’s been getting more noticeably inventive. Design bible Dezeen even has a whole section dedicated to salon design to prove it – albeit with… read more
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Stella Maria Baer: painting with the desert
Many painters are inspired by the landscape, but few actually take the use of landscape as far as Colorado-based painter and photographer Stella Maria Baer. Working in both photography and painting, Baer takes inspiration from the dramatic desert-scapes of her childhood in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and often uses raw pigments from the desert soil… read more
