The Fringe on Kloof
My favourite retailer, The Fringe Arts, now has a beautiful new home.
Find them at 99B Kloof street, Cape Town.
Thessa & Chantal, owners and curators of the space… now who wouldn’t want to pop in and browse here?
Garden & Home
“A Cup of Tea would be Nice” and “Rainy Day Umbrellas” (exclusive to Design Kist) were both featured in an article on online shopping in the June issue of Garden & Home. A wintry selection to suit the weather.
Decor8
My ‘Portrait of the Silverware’ placemats featured on the Decor8 ‘Etsy Take Five Tuesday’ with other pretty things…
Mad for patterns
I’m on a roll. Some of my latest designs for fabric, wallpaper, upholstery… any surface.
Some of them can be purchased exclusively from Design Kist.
I love to take pictures
so I recently bought a Canon Powershot G12. Here are some of my photographs on Flickr.
This is one of my favourites…
It was taken early last Sunday morning in Bo-Kaap. We were feeding the pigeons to attract them for our shots of this lovely old building, when this street cleaner came along and offered to help us dramatize the scene by ‘shooing’ the birds so they would would fly about.
A fine Christmas market… follow up
The evening was warm and balmy, the venue impeccable. An estimated 1200-1600 visitors attended, ensuring the courtyard was packed full of the holiday spirit. Pictures courtesy of Lorenzo Nassimbeni
A fine Christmas market
Read about this exciting upcoming event, in which I’ll be participating, on one of my favourite blogs Ifor1.
And if you live in Cape Town, or happen to be visiting at the time at the time, don’t miss out!
The Fringe Arts
I am a proud new contributor to this outstanding South African art and design collective.
“The Fringe Arts sells art through versatile concepts in which we collaborate with integrity with artists and clients in a way that makes business sense. Based in Cape Town, The Fringe Arts is owned and run by Chantal Louw and Thessa Bos.”
See me in these places
Rhubarb Room
An absolute haven of delightful treasures, not to mention irresistible coffee and cakes.
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LIM
Founded in 1997, the same year I moved to Cape Town to study graphic design, this Kloof Street store has since been to me a true icon of decor style. Always up-to-date with trends yet maintaining a strong identity of its own.
So you can imagine how thrilled I am not only to be stocking them with napkins, but to see said napkins displayed
in a stunning table setting as you enter the store!
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The Wedding Gift List
Voted BEST GIFT REGISTRY SERVICE in South Africa
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Chelsea Decor & Gift Emporium
Exquisite boutique in Somerset West, luxuriously appointed and stocked
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The Imaginarium
Artist Management and Concept Consulting
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Find Design
A directory sourcing South African design goodness
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Mighty has come to town
This certainly is a mighty range of handbags by designer Casey van Embden. Think big bags, small bags, functional bags, decorative bags, classic bags, avant-garde bags, bags with interchangeable accessories and bags which can multi-task. What they all have in common is beautiful materials, considered design and detailed styling.
Available to have and to hold for the first time at the Mighty Pop-Up store.
Other fabulous products on offer include vintage never-been-worn sunglasses, lots of beautifully unique clothing items, jewelry and scarves. Oh, and some pretty napery from me.
See you there!
Lookie here…
a teeny tiny topsy turvy teapot tea towel in this month’s House & Leisure!!!
More World Cup!
While football teams from all over the world have been thrashing it out on South African soil, The Rikrak Studio has been running another international tournament. This one featuring crafters from all over the world representing their countries in the Handmade World Cup. Check it out here to see who won!
Spill. A food & drink blog.
I met the fabulous Clare Mack of foodie blog Spill at Kim Gray’s shopping day. She’s a character for sure! Here I am showing off the new Soccer Sister shoulder bags I made in time for the World Cup fever about to hit our shores.
And she followed up with this outrageously complimentary feature on her blog a few days later.
Thank you Clare!
Now this a blog seriously worth following if you live in and around Cape Town. Clare reviews everything from the noted Jardine Restaurant to Pollsmoor Prison, not to mention the finest wines and Kalahari truffles!
She also wrote this great guide for soccer fans in Cape Town entitled Great nosh for little dosh. Love it!
And the winner is…
Tea towel give-away winner on i want that has been announced!
BLOGALICIOUS
Tasty blogs to feed a BIG creative appetite:
Eat Drink Chic
I Want That
JezzePrints
Freshly Found
Ruby Rhino
Beatnik Bazaar
Miss Moss
Touch-it
Carina’s Craftblog
Design Sponge
Etsy Storque
International orders
My Etsy shop is now open!
Too good to be true!
A feature on Design Sponge, it is true!
This fabulous feature…
on of my FAVOURITE blogs, i want that, makes me happy and warm inside. Thanks to the super stylish Vicki Sleet for that! And there’s a competition. Simply say who you’d like to have tea with, and why, to win a set of three tea towels. Tart up your kitchen. Or someone else’s… The tea towels make great gifts for birthdays, kitchen teas, and don’t forget Mothers Day is just around the corner!
Call to Dangar
My aforementioned sabbatical refuge, the breathtaking home of my brother Greg and his partner Nick, featured in Australian decor magazine Inside Out, May/June 2010. Also blogged about here and here.
Well done boys!
Gregory Mellor
Nick Krull
