TRENDS: Bubble Review

By Jo Middleton

LITTLEBIG VERY selflessly spent the day last Sunday going all the way to Bubble London to check out the latest trends for kids for Autumn and Winter. We traipsed around all day looking at gorgeous dresses, cooing over tiny shoes, and gasping with delight at hand-sewn cushion covers. The things we do for you…

The whole show was fantastic, and we’ll be bringing you more in-depth features on some of the individual brands over the course of the next few months, but in the meantime we wanted to whet your appetites with a few of our favourites.

Following the success of the Muffin Pouffe, a luxurious leather cushioned stool with a playful elegance [pictured left], Matteo Bianchi has been baking mini muffins! Yes that’s right, they’re stools that look like muffins - what’s not to love? You can create your own unique design by selecting your muffin ‘ingredients’ from a range of beautifully handcrafted solid wooden bases, buttons, and soft leathers and fabrics. So gorgeous you won’t know whether to sit on it or eat it. www.muffinpouffe.co.uk Read the rest of this article

Posted 2 February 2012 in Products, Textiles

Asger Jorn mobile by Flensted

Four small figures based on abstract Danish 20th-century artist Asger Jorn's early sketches, and spelling out 'JORN'. Designed in conjunction with the Asger Jorn museum in Silkeborg.
Design: Museum Jorn, Michala Stigkjaer, Ole Flensted. 58 x 50cm. Cardboard. Click on the picture for a fuller view.

Price: £24.50

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BOOKS: Faces

Introducing our new Books Editor, Jo Middleton, the fine writing talent otherwise known as blogger Slummy Single Mummy…. Send Jo your book recommendations via Twitter to @mummyblogger.
By Jo Middleton
HAVE YOU EVER looked at a cloud and seen a face? Or watched the car coming towards you and imagined the headlights as eyes, staring intently at [...]

Posted 27 January 2012 in Books

FASHION: Woolly Thinking

Photographer: Helen Marsden Stylist: Shani Beadle.
THESE LAST FEW COLD, cold winters seem to have coincided with a return to hand-knitting and a new-found appreciation of the knitted stitch. Claire-anne O’Brien, ace knit upholsterer and designer (see her Knitted Stool in the gallery below), however, believes it never went away.
“I don’t think knitting has ever really [...]

Posted 22 December 2011 in Textiles