Exclusive Discount - SPORTING WALLPAPER: Turner Pocock Cazelet

WITH THOUGHTS TURNING to summer and sport and outdoor play, we’re loving the unusual sporting themes of the Tennis and Cricket wallpapers from Turner Pocock Cazelet, the new-ish collaboration between Turner Pocock, the London-based interior design company founded by Bunny Turner and Emma Pocock, and artist Catherine Cazelet.

Cazelet’s illustrations form the basis of the graphic motifs featured in the company’s growing TPC collection that were developed as a reaction to clients’ desires for wallpapers that were striking without being scary and that were sophisticated enough to appeal to adults and well as kids. With motifs spread between the initial two collections featuring wild animals and English sports - i.e. hand-drawn polar bears, ibises, galloping zebras and cricket bats - who could possibly resist?

What’s more, all of Turner Pocock Cazelet’s papers are made and printed in the UK at the Anstey Wallpaper company in Read the rest of this article

Posted 18 April 2011 in Decor

GIVEAWAY: Livingly mobiles by Anni and Bent Knudsen

by Jenny Dalton

FOLLOWING MY LITTLE profile of the newly reissued mobiles of Danish paper designers Anni and Bent Knudsen here at How To Spend It, Livingly - the company behind the Knudsen collection renaissance - have kindly offered two of their mobiles as a giveaway.

Bent Knudsen created his first mobile in 1938, aged just 14. He then trained as a silversmith working for the Georg Jensen company (then known as Hans Hansen), before marrying his wife Anni and together becoming makers of hand-crafted paper mobiles that achieved worldwide fame. The company’s mid-20th-century designs were bought by Livingly in 2008, and we’re very glad they’re back.

The Anni and Bent Knudsen collection can be seen here: www.livingly.dk

We have an elephant and storks mobile to give away (both pictured). Just email us your details (name, address, email address), and specify if you would like to win the Elephant or Storck mobile. Add in if you are happy to join our occasional mailing list: mail@littlebigmagazine.com Winners will be picked on 14 April 2011 and notified by email. PLEASE NOTE THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED.

Posted 4 April 2011 in Decor

TREND: It’s all there in black and white

Illustration, Marina Kharkover

SEEMS WE’RE INCREASINGLY unafraid of using black for not just children’s clothing, but children’s rooms too. And it makes sense. Black & white is a perfect backdrop for any colour accents you wish to layer on top. And the monochrome palette will take a child from baby to teen.

“It’s funny to notice, often without realising it, that you get influenced by adult fashion and interiors when designing a collection,” says Esther Schuivens, toy designer, who has recently added black and white, and a complete so-dark-it’s-almost-black denim collection to her Esthex range of soft toys. It’s a brave but delicious move (see Louis bear below). Our other current b&w favourites are:

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1. Skandivis’s photographic black and white Animal Bedlinen (there are cushions too) for children. Moose, £89 from Skandivis. Read the rest of this article

Posted 30 March 2011 in Decor

WALLPAPER - the new neutrals

THERE’S A WHOLE smorgasbord of monochrome, limited palette, dark smokey blue and grey on white wallpapers out there, and all are guaranteed to inject some lively illustration / graphics / eyes-to-the-wall innovative pattern to your home / child’s room, without completely dominating the interior scheme.

Kind of like neutrals without really being neutral at all. Here are our current favourites:

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1. Zebras in blue/grey by Turner Pocock Cazalet, £60 plus VAT from Turner Pocock Cazalet. Also seen above. Read the rest of this article

Posted 27 March 2011 in Decor

COLOUR: spring/summer palette

By Jenny Dalton

TRYING TO gravitate my son towards ‘proper’ reading books has hit a rut. “There aren’t any coloured pages!” he laments.

He’s got a point. Particularly as I’ve tended towards finding the most vibrant, colour-saturated picture books for the first five years of his life (our current favourites are by Tim Hopgood, by the way, who also seems a bit of a colour fanatic).

Colours like these: which hail from the new Spring / Summer paint palette by Homebase. Part of their own 100% British-made brand called Home of Colour, wouldn’t the first row make a great inspirational palette for a boy’s room, and the second for a girl’s?

*Home of Colour matt emulsion, £5.93 for 2.5L, Homebase, www.homebase.co.uk. Colours from top left to right: Mountain Rain, Iced Lime, Coral, Marine Blue, Ballet, Plum. Bottom: Raspberry Coulis, Azure, Slate Grey, Fresh Lime, Dusky Plum, Chocolat.

Posted 7 January 2011 in Decor, Design + Decoration