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Mark Tuckey bedlinen

The Mark Tuckey offering just keeps getting bigger..and better. Right now I am digging the soft and textured bed linens work beautifully with their heavy timber bed frames.

IMAGES: Mark Tuckey

Concrete Wallpaper

Concrete wallpaper genius by Nordic design firm Concrete Wall.

Images: Concrete Wall

Jean-Christophe Aumas's Paris apartment

Designer Jean-Christophe Aumas has exercised beautiful control of colour in his Paris apartment in the 5th arondissement. Bold blocks of colour in simple but bold shapes set against traditional elements like worn parquetry floor. It feels frenchie and fifties all in one.
Images: Marie Claire Maison

Fleur Wood - Food Fashion Friends

Super sweet lady and talented fashion designer Fleur Wood launched her first book 'Food Fashion Friends' on Thursday night with drinks and some eats. It's a great little concept, it's a cookbook centered around different gatherings, picnic with friends at the beach, formal dinner party, kids birthdays etc - you get the drill. The pages are filled with great recipes, Fleur's fashion and some seriously inspiring dinner party shots. As a not-so-new Mum I am desperate to get back into hosting friends like we used to. Great inspiration indeed - so much so I all of a sudden feel the need for a cane peacock chair this summer.

All images: Fleur Wood

Zenith Interiors

Round chairs by Christophe Pillet available in white, antique iron, warm grey, pale grey and red. Choices, choices.

Re Trove armchairs and stools available in a variety of colours

Zenith Interiors are more than just their workstations - or so I've only just recently discovered. They also have great outdoor furniture, precisely what I've been looking for - colourful wire dining chairs. The outdoor furniture works equally well indoors, in fact I just used the Re Trove and Heaven pieces in a shoot this week, and they came up a treat. Designer of the Round Chair Patricia Urquiola sums it up perfectly "there is something that is often difficult to find in outdoor furniture, and it is precisely those things that I have tried to express in the collection: simplicity, timelessness and a touch of distant elegance'. Job done.

Diesel

How amazingly comfortable do these Diesel couches and chairs look - I could sink right in and not come out for days. Diesel have launched into the homewares arena with furniture, lighting and textiles. Amongst the expected Diesel in your face attention grabbing pieces with studs and dark leather, are these imaginative & floaty pieces -they feel like a fluffy doona and a cup of tea! Stylistically I really like the lighting in the moody shots, very dramatic and textural, also love the projected cloud image onto the wall.

IMAGES: Diesel

Now open

This weekends find was this 'Now Open' sign - now just got to find a use for it.

Fenton & Fenton rugs

Wow we wah, popped into Fenton & Fenton this week to say hi to Lucy and do some do some sourcing and was totally blown away by this rug. Hand-made in India this woollen rug is an impressive 4m x 3m - it's ah-mazing. Lucy will organise tailor-made rugs with the colour of your choice, at any size. Just allow 8-10 weeks for production. This particular orange stripe is on sale right now for $1800.

Colour me happy

I am having a ball playing with colour this week, I am working on a huge job that requires me to use a lot of colour, not naturally something I do - but i am totally into it. Taking cues from our stay at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs - how amazing/crazy are these stripes?!

IMAGE: Claire Larritt-Evans.