Designers and their blogs ... and their pop up shops
Sat, 18 Aug 2012
You will remember Steve and Helena Trupp from this post featuring their Sydney apartment. Things have moved on in the last few years. Steve (runner up on Australia's Top Design) and Helena have moved to Melbourne, decorated a whole new home, grown their online business Empirical Style (their cage lights are to die for) and ... "ta-da" ... opened a pop up shop within The Industrial Revolution, 1114 High St, Armadale. Their retro, "can never have too much, too bright, really quirky, life's too short for beige" aesthetic is a favourite of many DTI readers and you can follow their design journey and inspirations on the Empirical Style blog.
When Helena emailed me to torture me with the news let me know of the pop up retail space I was salivating. (I'm 2000 km away. What I wouldn't give to stand transfixed by all those vintage maps and science posters in the flesh. I'd love the wall map of Queensland but my husband just quipped that he'd have the map of Tasmania .... bad boy!) I begged Helena for shots of the shop and their new home as the secondbest thing to being there. You know I could easily move into the Trupp's spare room and stay forever but failing that maybe I could live in the shop ... or at least follow their adventures on their blog.
More shots of the Trupp home and their pop up shop after the jump.Thanks Helena!
Reader Comments (4)
cool!
Beautifull ! The shop and they home is the same place or not ?
I feel rather sick with envy myself. I want all of those posters and a few of everything else please. I must check out the web-site.
Every home should have at least 3 globes.