Tuesday 30 March 2010

Beautiful biccies

Our lovely friend Viv bought us these incredible biscuits to celebrate us getting engaged in Paris. I've never seen such amazing biccies, the tin is fantastic, and will sit proudly in my kitchen for many years as a reminder of a wonderful weekend - and a wonderful friend!


The biscuits themselves are just amazing - tiny little works of art, depicting Paris landmarks!



My uber fave is the pink permed poodle - what else? think I'll have to eat him last...

Tuesday 23 March 2010

The kitchen is finished! (honest...)

The final result! The wooden bannisters and old window frame look so much better painted white!

Thanks Mum and Dad!!

Check out the funky under cabinet lighting and splashback. And the paint spatters on my sweatshirt...

Lovely new window (finally stripped of the plastic covering)! The units look all shiny without their plastic wrap, and the boiler is finally boxed in - woo hoo!
All guests welcome for dinner any time, starting now.

Patrick Jouin at the Pompidou

In Paris we were lucky enough to see a really interesting exhibit at the Centre Pompidou about Patrick Jouin 'The Substance of Design', showcasing 20 years of his design team's work. I particularly loved the designs made using 3D rapid prototyping, like chairs and table above and the expandable stools below - and the cool 3D video they showed with Patrick and his team explaining their work virtually, in the exhibition!

This lamp is awesome, it opens out like an umbrella!


A funky stool, all made out of a single piece of plastic, which can be collapsed to save space.

and the happy couple!

Paris chic


We went to Paris last weekend and had a fabulous time (obviously!) and stayed at a very cool hotel near Saint Sulpice called Hotel Recamier. All the rooms were very stylish, made me want to move to Paris and live a charmingly chic life of striped breton shirts and baguettes. Tres chic!

I want a wing chair! Especialy in a cool fabric like this.

The bathroom mirror was hung on the wall with a leather strap, and looked antique - will have to scour London antiques markets for one similar.

The wall lights in the bar were amazing - resin antlers! Love them.

How cool is this leopard print carpet? Looks like a set from Domino magazine!
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