We’re still flicking through the pages of Cose & Case, Forme,colori,oggetti, nell’arredamento. Robin Guild, Euroclub Italia S.p.A.,Bergamo, 1980. Edizione Italiana. Oh the 80s! Remember the knotty pine? Remember the grey and salmon colours? The coolie shaped lampshades? OH NO the masses of dried flowers?
I have been excitedly waiting for my new “old” sofa. Excited but also waiting with growing trepidation. You see I did something I have told clients never to do. I took on a new upholsterer without doing enough homework and without holding the reins as tightly as I should. I trusted a new tradesman and I shouldn’t have.
I won’t make this a long story (you can find the whole story here) but I was in a hurry. I couldn’t wait for my usual very very good upholsterer and I took on a new guy and….. OUCH! What a mess of a couch!!! Shoddy workmanship and extremely rude and sloppy customer “service”. This is the only section of my patchwork couch I can share with you without cringing at the mess I received back. I’m not paying. I’m starting again. Time to order new fabric and apologise to my regular guy. Moral of the story – wait for quality. Don’t rush and take second best. (Email me if you live in S.E. Queensland and looking for an upholsterer. I’ll recommend who you shouldn’t use.)
WINKS – weekend links. Here we list what has come in during the week, things we’ve found and things we think you’ll want to see. If you’d like to see your blog or website featured email us and if we think it fits with our readers we’ll link you. So what’s in this week? (A little short this week. Apologies but lots for next week!)
“We strive to create environments that are serene, minimal, warm and sophisticated. We design and build projects exploring relationships between the built and the natural landscape. Our clients typically identify themselves within their environments by an acute awareness of the natural boundaries: ground, horizon and sky. Comparably, the built boundaries expressed in architecture consist of floors, walls and ceilings. By introducing the built into the natural, we explore the topological relationships of how architecture is situated in, on or above the ground. Views and connections from the interior to the exterior landscape are critical, and play an important role in the design process.”
Love the explanation above from the website of scrafano architects – check out the views from the windows below and it’ll all make perfect sense.