Please excuse the rather late post today (hopelessly late)– the wholesale collection which we are debuting at Maison Objet in September is proving a little more complicated than first imagined and is causing quite a headache. Sure it will all be all right on the night as they say but feeling a bit drained of energy to say the least. The lack of desirable merchandise out there has prompted us to produce our very own range but beginning to find out being a manufacturer so to speak is a whole other ball game.
Tomorrow just to warn there will be no post as I am off for a meeting in Paris and leaving at the ungodly hour of 4.45. With all these early mornings of late I’m thinking maybe I should switch to a career in farming! Keeping bees and milking the odd cow is sounding strangely appealing.Anyway enough of me moaning on – I wanted to bring to everyone’s attention how fabulous it can be to highlight trim or woodwork. I remember seeing Martyn Thompson’s NY pad a while back – and whilst his trim was deepest darkest black (the walls were white) the image below shows woodwork in boldest, brightest orange.Point being it really vamps things up with a high voltage burst of colour. Doorways are also great painted a different hue Tricia Guild has been doing this for years – and it makes transitioning from room to room an experience to saviour.
Happy evening (afternoon, morning everyone) – Gem my sister is staying over as we are both in Paris tomorrow so she’s sleeping over (Maud will be terribly excited) and we are about to call it a day and sit in the garden sipping Prosseco in the late afternoon sunshine discussing guess what. Work, manufacturing, and all that schbang.
Photography Damian Russell
Good luck in Paris, love the orange windows, bet they look great aginst the dark shutters at night, the chair is wild but not sure how comfy (!), know how you feel re stress levels – have been folding things all day like a benneton saturday girl, ready for last post mailout. Oh, and agree, sourcing and manufacturing are a true headache! But you are fabulous so cant wait to see the results.
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I do feel for you Abigail – as a hand craft artist myself I know only too well the disappointment that comes from designing the ideal thing in my mind, only to find the materials I need are not available, or the wrong colour, whatever. If only we had little oompaloompas to create exactly what we need! Speaking of trims on woodwork etc, I’ve done that exact thing in my store. I’ve ‘cut out the red tape’ and literally trimmed many areas in red tape. It’s smartened up the space, and made it quite individual. Good luck in Paris – it will all work out in the end as you say. Just keep sipping! xo
What a wonderful room. I really like that mirrored armchair. I always figure that mirrored what-evers are fabulous for styling for photos but horrors to keep clean, let alone getting smacked with something to be chipped or broken. I guess I’m too practical.
Grrat trick. Still not recovered from a shot you posted a few months ago with wood-panelled walls and bright red skirting boards.
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