REAL LIFE, EAST SUSSEX: Florence’s Rooms
WE ARE JUST A LITTLE bit envious of Nubie owner Amanda’s 2-year-old daughter Florence. For this is her bedroom and playroom at her home in East Sussex, filled with goodies that Amanda has sourced for her modern kids’ goods boutique.
“We moved house when our daughter Florence was just 6 weeks,” explains Amanda. “This isn’t something I’d recommend when you have raging nesting hormones plus I was also in the process of setting up Nubie with Mischa my business partner. The up side though was that as we sourced products for Nubie I also took the opportunity to choose things for Flo’s nursery.” The décor evolves around the zebra cot made by ninetonine, which Amanda spotted at the Kids Modern show in Dulwich. “It was love at first sight! Not only is it creative and fun, but beautifully and thoughtfully made, with great detailing such as slanted bars and wheels. Florence just adores it and feeds and pats it.” Read the rest of this article
Posted 18 May 2009 in Real Life Interiors
REAL LIFE EXTERIOR, NEW ENGLAND
SIXX DESIGN‘S Robert and Cortney Novogratz know families (they have seven kids, including two sets of twins) and they know houses (they’ve been renovating them all their married life). And so it was an obvious thing to share their knowledge in a book about renovating chic family homes that is genuinely useful. Our favourite tips from Downtown Chic (released the end of April, see sneak peek visuals below) include getting to flea markets before 6am, because all the best stuff goes before then; probing your local restaurant owners as to where they source their functional, stainless steel kitchens; go to the design fairs which are now open to the public as well as design professionals; don’t overextend yourself on your holiday home and do rent it out to help pay the bills. But although Robert and Read the rest of this article
Posted 26 March 2009 in Real Life Interiors
REAL LIFE, LONDON: Anton’s Bedroom
ANTON’S ROOM in south London is - mostly - the work of his stylist mother Emma Cassi, who makes intricate jewellery from vintage lace and beads for adults and children.
Four-year-old Anton’s room is painted white “like the rest of the house,” says 33-year-old Emma, who moved to London from Dijon with her husband, Bertrand, prior to Anton’s arrival, “because it was his dream to live in London since he was 11 years old.”
For hits of colour on top of the white background, Emma has “added two coloured lines [on the walls - paint inside masking tape]. I prefer to bring colour to the room with vintage plastic toys and books.”
Emma and Anton find these “together in junk shops. They can be old frames, postcards… His taste isn’t always toy oriented, and he likes seeking out treasures!”
Posted 3 November 2008 in Real Life Interiors
SPORTING CHANCE: Sports-themed Bedrooms
WHAT TO DO if your son (or daughter) insists on a Chelsea FC-inspired bedroom? Tara Bernerd, CEO of Target Living found herself in the exact same quandry recently - creating a bedroom for a client’s football crazy almost-teenage son.
So, she took the Chelsea colours (a strong blue) as her guide, plumping for a B&B Italia FatFat bed by Patricia Urquiola, upholstered in denim fabric, a navy corduroy carpet, a Mini Buddabag seat in denim cord (289.99 euros), and a blue Miss K lamp by Philippe Starck from Panik Design, £139.99. She then added a good deal of bright orange in the form of an Eileen desk in grey oak with an orange base (also B&B Italia) and bespoke orange lacquer cabinets. She found a classic (rather than current) Chelsea footballing image and had it blown up into bespoke wallpaper by www.55max.com.
Kate Hume, a British interior and glass designer based in Amsterdam, decided on a similar solution to a Moscow-based boys’ room (pictured above right - click to enlarge). She found a vintage Ajax football image, had it blown up as a feature wall, and then accessorised with Jielde lamps (find them at www.espacio.co.uk), plywood animal trophy heads from Vlaemsch, from 60 Euros, Eames chairs at the desk she designed herself (along with the beds) and custom made bedlinen from Gwendolino. There. As easy as kicking a bit of leather around a field.
Posted 29 August 2008 in Real Life Interiors
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