Displaying posts from January, 2008

Moorish

Posted on Mon, 7 Jan 2008 by midcenturyjo


Scott Weston shared with us images of his Moroccan interpretation for Vogue Australia editor Kirstie Clement here. Now he has sent us images of this Moorish beauty filled with all its treasures. The Sydney house is featured in this month’s Vogue Living Australia and we have a sneek peak too of Scott and designer Gregory Phillip’s minimalist Moroccan marvel. Photos by Nicolas Watt. Thanks Scott!

Christine Rudolph

Posted on Mon, 7 Jan 2008 by midcenturyjo


I fell in love with stylist Christine Rudolph’s work when I first saw pictures in Vogue Living Australia. Beautiful and thoughtful collections of found, new and vintage objects holding pride of place in faded fabulous rooms. Here are some of my favourites. You absolutely must go to her rep Judith Miller’s site. Gorgeous portfolio!

Images from Judith Miller Inc

Flickr finds – vintage couches

Posted on Sun, 6 Jan 2008 by KiM

Jo’s place

Posted on Sun, 6 Jan 2008 by midcenturyjo


What a week! Never again will I take on the job of painting my 2 bedroom apartment. I wanted to call this post “Paint, prints and problems”. 1) I had forgotten how physically hard painting is. 2) It took three coats to cover the walls to my exacting (fussy) standard. 3) It is so humid here after a week of heavy rains that the removable adhesive hooks I bought won’t stay on the wall. The wall plugs and hooks to hang the heavy artwork and frames won’t grip the drywall properly (thanks Mr Hardware man for the recommendation) and I’m left with a lot of artwork still to hang. 4) I still have to put all the furniture back and clean up! At least I managed to paint up some new prints for my etsy store! Thank god I’m back to work tomorrow.

So what colour did I paint those walls? White. That’s a close up in the centre (although looking at it you’d think it was grey bad photographer that I am). Renting in Australia is fraught with design dilemmas. Landlords must give you permission to paint and then it’s a 99.99999999% chance that they will say only white. I wonder if they’ll change the ugly carpet for me? Better get back to figuring out where all the paintings are going to go. Those colourful ones above are in the entrance hallway. One up several dozen to go. Wish me luck.

Calling all Australian readers. Are you prepared to give up your favourite/secret vintage shops? Stylist, photographer, author and blogger Pia Bijkerk emailed me with an interesting request.

“…. one of my stories will be featured in home beautiful soon and i am writing up a list of antique and vintage stores for them that i can recommend to readers – i have all my faves from sydney in there but i have NO contacts for Queensland (well, nor melbourne or the rest of oz!) – would you be able to recommend at least one or two from there so in the hope they will mention it in the article? i REALLY want to promote cool vintage places across the country. in the story i am saying something like this ‘instead of heading to the mall on a saturday, go and check out your local antique or flea market etc bla bla’…. do you reckon if you posted about it people might write in from around oz with some shops to recommend?? or markets?”

So oz antique and vintage lovers spill the beans on the hottest and the most fabulous stores in your city. But we’re on a deadline. Pia is completing the story brief this weekend so we need your tips by Monday Australian time. Never mind if you miss the deadline still leave all your fav spots in the comments below. Then we can let everyone in on the fun.

P.S. Pia sent us this lovely dog on a bed photo as a thank you in anticipation! Read more about this cute pic and Michelle Young’s work on Pia’s blog
P.P.S. Stay tuned for more cute pet photos again this week.