Sludgy Colours

Illustration by Alexander Wells / theartworksinc.com 

It's unusual for me to be drawn to muddy or sludgy colours but I saw this illustration by Alexander Wells in the FT last weekend; it's a fabulous illustration that worked especially well with the pink newsprint paper. I kept the illustration on my desk and it's influenced my colour choices this week.

On Wednesday, while taking a break from giving a seminar on Colour at The Fashion Retail Academy, I popped into Paperchase as I love stationary...dissaster! I ended up buying these beautiful little boxes of stationery from East Of India all in natural taupe shades. I'll never use them - they're too beautiful!

The People's Prints

I finished the week being fascinated by this great menwear fashion spread, styled and photographed by Damian Foxe in How To Spend It. I love this magazine, it's so far from everyday reality, it's style on another level.

Porcelain by Paola Navone

 I often look at the Cos Stores website, I love their clothes, but also the 'Things' section, where I found these really beautiful porcelain plates.

Designed by Paola Navone, the full collection can be found here Reichenbach . I adore these!

The Red Shoes

To compliment the Capturing Colour exhibition I mentioned last December, Brighton's Duke Of York's Picturehouse yesterday screened the digitally restored film - The Red Shoes. The Red Shoes from 1948 is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made - the magnificent restoration brings all the true glory of the original technicolour back to this classic dark fairy tale. A great way to spend a bleak February Sunday afternoon.

The John's Phone

I love this - a phone that's just a phone. No texts, emails, cameras ...... I saw the John's Phone on the Springwise newsletter. Great design but I'm not so sure about the colour choice.....  

White Floors

I've been looking into white floors, for a new interiors project that I'm working on, and came across these pictures of Tine Kjeldsen's house.  I first saw these last year in Elle Decoration but I still love them.

Tine has a wonderful website for her interior design business called tinekhome, it is full of beautiful objects and images....

  I'm inspired!

NOMA - Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine

I was really lucky to receive the NOMA cookbook for Christmas - stunning, beautiful and inspirational....

This book by Rene Redzepi the chef at Copenhagen restaurant, Noma and photographer Ditte Isager, goes beyond food to culture, essence and philosophy. 

The book is published by Phaidon - NOMA, Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine by Rene Redzepi.

Happy Christmas