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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?

• Katrien from Voila thought we might like these. Yes please! I’m at a loss for words except for ones like want, weird, way out, want and strangely inspiring. When the living room bumps into art. If you don’t already know you can also find Voila on 1st Dibs. In the mean time I’m trying to figure out how I can move in to Voila to live there.

• Granny chic reaches new heights. Crocheted lights by Moonbasket. Imagine the shadows thrown on the walls and ceiling. Cozy and chic!

• Two trends, birds and bunting. Combined and the result? These too too cute one of a kind 3D bird art by Atlanta based independent artist and illustrator Pragya. Etsy shop here.

• The gummybear chair and free-range toy boxes by Yam & Toast… designed with your kids in mind. OK team these with the birds and bunting and you’re on the way to a stellar kid’s room. Too fun!

• Modernica have a great deal running Monday April 19 to Friday April 30. They are offering free shipping and no tax on the V-Leg and Bentwood Modernica Case Study beds. This includes all single, full, queen, standard + California kings, with both metal or bentwood legs. It’s a great opportunity to get one of these timeless beds! Everyone can take advantage of this opportunity through the Modernica website  or at the Los Angeles Showroom located on 7366 Beverly Boulevard. (This promo does not include the Alpine or Fastback beds. Shipping must be within the continental United States. Residents of California pay no tax as well.) Damn don’t you hate the fine print if you don’t live in the States!! 🙂

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?

• Australian stylist Megan Morton has just released a new book Home Love. It’s stunning! Gorgeous gorgeous rooms and fabulous advice. This woman will be your new best interior design friend. She shares her secrets, her experience, her fabulous style. Eye candy and pearls of wisdom all very readable and accessible. It’s a beautiful, heavy, high quality, pour a drink, pull up a comfy chair and lose yourself for an afternoon book and I love it. These pictures don’t do it justice! Get a copy. And check out the blog. You’ll be hooked.

• Loving the new range by HPM –  colourful and stylish cover plates for electrical outlets. Linea lets you go bold, sleek and metallic, earthy and neutral but never ever boring old white. The profile in thin, the finish matt and smoothly sexy. Light switches sexy? Oh yes. I have rubbed my hands across these beauties. With click removable face plates they are new on the Australian market. (Available at Bunnings. See the website for more details.) I loath the chunky white generic GPOs we have here in Oz so I’m dying to use these in my next house!

• Dear Kim can you please jump over to Montreal and visit Style Labo for me? I’ll send a shopping list. The above pictures will give you an idea of what I really really need. Do you think they will all fit in a post bag? I am so jealous of Montrealers who can just cruise in themselves!

• New mirror collection – Addiction. Some of the best French designers interpreted the material – Jean Marie Massaud, Arik Levy, Patrick Norguet, JC de Castelbajac, Christian Ghion… Cool, hip and definitely statement pieces. Mirror as art.

• I received my very first parcel from Uzbekistan the other day. I was so excited. I had won a suzani on eBay and 2 weeks later it arrived. It’s gorgeous! Pricing was reasonable (only one other person bid against me and a bidding war did not break out). I thought I’d plug the seller because if hand embroidered textiles ring your bells then with a little luck and some patience you too could have a wonderful traditional fabric in your life too for a lot less than designer shops. Large or small and very traditional they may not always be in the “trendy” colour ways but they are genuine and truly beautiful. Ikats too 🙂

… especially when you’re house hunting?

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?

• Yum! The colours, the pattern, the feel under foot of wool. Just loving this rug from the Tufted collection by the Piodao Group. So lush and rich. Sure to be a hit at Milan Design Week.

• And Kim thought she had the market cornered on cute animals on furniture! Jeff Friesen, an award winning photographer found his work changing since the arrival of his daughter. “Over the winter I started photographing little dioramas made from my daughter’s toy animals and leftover bits of various home renovation projects. We used the resulting prints to decorate our apartment.” Now you can too because Jeff’s prints are available through his Etsy store Wild Life Prints. Too cute! Zebras or pigs? Meerkats! Yes meerkats!

• Peled Lighting by Antoni Arola for Via Bizzuno. This modular lighting system can either be recessed or fixed to the ceiling. Polished or gloss black painted steel plates support a series of ball jointed aluminium rods allowing them to rotate off axis. Seriously sexy!

• How about this for a fun funky clothes tree? A statement piece and functional too. By Carolyn Clegg. Check out the rest of her portfolio while you’re there.

• Prints, colors and texture. Contemporary cushions fro PARK by Matt & Carlos. Working in cotton, canvas and linen the duo create gorgeous, fun and sophisticated pillows for the modern home.

… drinking coffee reading magazines

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?

• Ecostasy – handcrafted beauty, inspired design, high quality, natural and renewable, productive conservation, social preservation, accessibility, contextualization and collaboration. Buzz words or beliefs? Katherine Ponte, founder of Ecostasy believes we can all make a difference. You’ll see what she means when you visit the website. Beautiful homewares, accessories and children’s clothing. Earthy and tactile.

• Meet Pierre & Charlotte. Transplanted from Paris to Melbourne they design the most gorgeous contemporary furniture and lighting. Earthy and modern, beautifully crafted and finished. I have lusted after the Big Tree Light for some time now.

• Discarded books have never looked so fabulous. Individual and handmade from discarded hardbacks each piece is a unique exploration of colour and traditional bookbinding techniques. As much a piece of art as a functional screen. By Samantha Parsons and Studio Sam.

• I want to run my hands all over this schnapps flask and glasses by Fenke Gabriel-Schwan. Made from dyed porcelain with a transparent glaze and the most tactile of squirrel imprints. (Deer available as well.) Head to her Etsy shop fnk for more loveliness.

• Zuster, Dutch for sister and Australian for stunning contemporary furniture design. Four sisters based in Melbourne and a company that has become known for beautifully crafted furniture. Simple clean lines, unadorned and of the highest quality. Every order is a unique and special project. Head online for more.

…. but are they 70s or 80s?

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?

• Love suzannis and all things ikat? Vintage textiles from Afghanistan and Uzbekistan give you goose bumps? Live in Australia and don’t know where to get your fix? Try Table Tonic. Louise Bell caters for textile junkies and armchair travellers. I’m waiting for the Moroccan wedding Blankets to come in! Oh and she has a gorgeous blog here.

• More Australia textile goodness. AURA by Tracie Ellis luxury fabrics, fabulous designs. Be bold in bed. Sleep is too long. Life is too short. Texture pattern colour!

• Barcelona beauties. Love these modern wallpapers by Tres Tintas. Fresh, original, fun and fab.Designers and artists collaborated to create collections based on urban art to women’s fashion.

• Blog love time. I’m hooked on yellowtrace. Design, interviews, lots of gorgeous pictures and inspiration from Sydney interior designer Dana. Go raid the archives and find out why it’s called yellowtrace.