Displaying posts from July, 2008

Ed from Swank Lighting emailed me this photo after seeing the last dog post. The subject line read ” Oh Please!! that’s not a dog on a couch… this is a dog on a couch.” Ed do you realise that animal protection agencies will be up in arms over the cruelty displayed in this photo? A flower headdress? I emailed back and asked what puppy’s name was and if he wanted to remain anonymous. Here’s what he wrote. “Me remain anonymous??? No way. His name is Peabo the Pit Bull. Isn’t he cute. We call him Brad Pitt for short. That’s his flower halloween costume. He’s so sweet he even lets our housekeeper Nancy paint his toenails.” Ed you are incriminating yourself!

This is a quick welcome to our new sponsor, 2Furnish, a furniture company based in the UK that carries cane, wicker and rattan furnishings for conservatories (or wherever you’d like to use it). Furniture styles range from the very classic to modern eye catching contemporary designs all available with a choice of 32 luxurious fabrics. The cane, rattan and wicker used within their sofas, chairs and tables is of the highest grade, carefully selected and harvested from sustainable sources in South East Asia. Go have a looksie here.

The following photographs are from Canadian House & Home, a magazine always guaranteed to inspire.

Just had to share this fabulously fun photo by Miki Duisterhof whose work I’ve highlighted below. Too cute and love the colour. Miki what a wicked sense of humour!

Our favourite Australian architect Scott Weston has been giving us an inside view of his latest project, a fabulous fantasy Marie Antoinette beauty salon. Here’s his latest update.

“The thing that I really enjoy is the nose to the grindstone & watching a project evolve and become just like our models we originally present to the clients. We like nothing better than to nut out all the details & mock things up prior to manufacture & installation. For the hair salon we are doing in Sydney we are having the perimeter wall panels digitally printed on 3mm solid grade laminate panels to withstand chemicals & sprays in the cutting room. I’ve attach various scale mock-ups of the cutting station walls with the final being at scale 1:1 so we can check the graphic quality & linework- it is spectacular & we have designed it to emulate a French Apartment Lithograph. Other areas & furniture items will be built & then finished or laid up in the digital printed laminate to continue the look & feel throughout the salon. I’ve also included some very beautiful bespoke pieces of furniture and the corresponding study models currently being built for a Client. The table seats 16 people & is turned timber & will have a resin table top in matching colour in tomato red gloss. The tansu cabinet is finished in Walnut veneer & gloss laminates internally. Once again the as built joinery pieces look just like the models. Happy Client & yes happy Architect!”