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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?

• I can’t get enough of Abigail Ahern. Her home, her Atelier, her book A Girl’s Guide to Decorating, her blog. Cutting edge mistress of the darkside, she is one of the world’s most subversive style makers. Grey is the new black is the mantra we all chant (actually black is fine too just not white, never white). I fell off my chair when PR Megan sent me these lush images of Abigail’s latest venture – faux flowers. YES! Big, blowsy, almost slatternly in their voluptuousness. I have always loved the much maligned faux flower. They can be the offerings at the high altar of kitsch but they can also be simply gorgeous. Think how eco-chic you can be. You can cut out the water waste of intensively farmed blooms, the airplanes full of flowers jetting round the world, the waste of week after week replacing dead bouquets. If the feng shui of the faux weirds you out think of them as not dead flowers but little manmade works of art. Hang it you don’t need an excuse. You just need a vase full.

• Lusting after anything by Italian design masters Molteni&C. Anything. Everything. Sleek, modern, luxuriously comfortable furniture, clever stylish storage solutions. Beautiful and functional.

• Exotic tiles from Hastings Tile & Bath. The Tusk and Animal Skin collections caught my eye. Animal instincts.

• After receiving an email about Trads this week I wish I lived in a climate where cast iron radiators were needed. Look at these beauties. I feel cosy and nostalgic just looking at the images.

• Time for a little science lesson. The Science Lesson collection from Heather Lin that is. Botany, geology and anatomy. Embrace your mad scientist!

Dear Ms Rachel Whiting,

How did you get to be so damned good at photography? Was it nature or nurture? Simplicity, colour, form and light. Your photos are restrained but also refined. Dear Ms Whiting your portfolio is fabulous. I for one am a big fan. So was Kim when she posted about your work back in 2008. So many more new images since then. I guess a good photographer is always busy. Your work makes me want to move into every room I see. Sorry I’m gushing. Just wanted to write this short note to say wow… just wow.

Parisian designer Tristan Auer is a one to look out for – he was recently named by Architectural Digest as “One of ten best contemporary interior designers, stars of tomorrow” and has worked on projects with the likes of Christian Liaigre and Philippe Starck. Below are several photos of his residential work along with some photos from some hotels he has designed (which are located in Monaco, Cyprus, Caracas, Cannes, and Paris). While mostly modern, his designs are bold, yet I spotted some beautiful spaces in his portfolio that have a decidedly French touch.

More great photography! Landon Collis has a great eye for composition, interesting angles and crop and wonderful light and shadows. While my last photographer crush was all about simplicity and serenity, these are about detail. There is almost a sense of movement, of turning and catching a glimpse of yet another inspiring scene, that if you’re not quick you’ll miss something. Busy rooms captured in a clever snapshot. Time stands still through the lens and we get to pick over the details, find what inspires us.

While I attempt to not pass out from heat stroke in my house (my thermostat is reading 85°), please enjoy some wonderful photography from American born, award-winning George Seper (now located in Sydney, Australia).