This is really about the different levels of skin tone colours I've spotted from a pink through to softer brown tones; they've been used as an accent colour or as a block. Pink is usually associated with a girls bedroom ...Read More

Pink Tones

Look under the table or chair and you will probably see four tidy straight legs, but increasingly designers have been playing with this convention. You can change the height of your table, use other materials for legs or if you ...Read More

Legs

There's a bit of a blur in the distinction between art and design. Functional products and merchandise can't be classed as art can they?  Both go through a creative (and sometimes torturous) process  and then get tangled up in methods ...Read More

Art

An era that has been a little overlooked in our current love of Modernism.  Mid Century Modern  pieces, either original or inspired by, have seen a phenomenal revival in the past few years - and its now almost impossible to ...Read More

Art Deco

There was a time when you either used synthetic materials or natural and which ever path you followed the two should never be mixed.  The idea that something natural should be tainted by dare I say it....plastic! No no no.....But ...Read More

Natural Fusion

Marquetry has had a make over. Bold contemporary graphics have taken over from traditional classical forms to resurrect a craft that was in danger of disappearing. Laser cutting may have replaced the hand carved, but it still takes skilled craftsmen ...Read More

Marquetry

Space saving, or a temporary addition that needs to be tucked away, there are plenty of practical reasons for products that fold down. And aside from the technical challenges there are also the aesthetics to think about.  Here are a number ...Read More

Fold

Mixing old pieces with new technology here are a few examples of the way designers have updated traditional pieces in a non traditional way. Shown at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2010 Paul Smith has taken a series of wood frame chairs and ...Read More

Reinvention

                            Do we have too much....stuff? Are our wardrobes bursting at the seams, all manner of clothing bits and bobs tumbling out? I have to confess, I would love to say I have everything neat and ordered, shoes boxed and labelled, but ...Read More

Bursting at the Seams