New Celia Birtwell online Shop!

As far as I'm concerned this is the stuff dreams are made of - a Celia Birtwell online shop! I've loved these extraordinary prints for decades and this shop is so well put together and has such a fantastic range of her stuff! There's everything on here from clothes, to garden trowels, to wallpaper, to face compacts. Some of the patterns are her traditional 70's Boho-Chic classics and some of the more contemporary ones are more of a Paris-pretty vibe. There is even a vintage clothes store with original Ossie Clarke dresses that she produced the patterns for (very on trend at the moment!) There's a fantastic interview with Ms Birtwell, by Annie at the ever inspiring MyDeco blog today too!

 

 

Incredible Saul Steinberg Bath

I was amazed when I saw this image by Romanian/ American illustrator Saul Steinberg. Many people will probably be familliar with the fantastic work that he did for The New Yorker magazine, but this is something very special; it really demonstrates his sureness of brushstroke. The face on the Modernist girl is so beautiful!

My Home!

Recently I've bought a really rather nice new camera. Hence I've been papping everything in sight! I thought you might like to take a peek into my home, so here's a few pics of the Pargy pad.

The first picture is of my childhood teddy Wilby (aka Wilberforce Bonthorpe Shelmerdene III)! The next couple of pics are of my beloved kitchen. The blue units were in the flat already when I moved in. I like to have bright pink accessories in there. I once saw Zhandra Rhode's kitchen in a Sunday supplement, and it wasn't too different! The bright pop art picture in the last photo was created by my other half, Paolo Pesce (or Mr Fish as he is known!) As you can see, the colours he uses are incredible!  

Jonathan Adler Ceramics

@ the utterly brilliant online shop/ blog Castor + Pollux (also a real shop on the sea-front in Brighton!) I've featured these guys a couple of times now with their Angie Lewin prints and Jackie Brazil jewellery, but now I've found a new love - Jonathan Adler! His beautiful ceramics have a very fifties feel to them if you like that period. Mr Adler is another US outfit that I hope follows the pack along with Anthropologie and Kate Spade and brings his fabulous wares to our shores! See below pics to swoon over! (all available at Castor + Pollux).

Stephen Webster - The Seven Deadly Sins!

I've admired Stephen Webster's blingtastic jewellery for some time now, but nothing prepared me for the new "Seven Deadly Sins" range. Is it sinful? Yep. Is it Deadly? Well yes on the wallet it is. But hell what do you expect from such a deliberately ostentatious brand!  I especially like Pride, not my favourite sin admittedly, but definitely the best ring out of the bunch as far as I'm concerned!

Pride comes before a fall!

Papermash!

There are some top stationery gift ideas for Christmas on Papermash. A one stop shop for cool stationery, cards, gift tape (and they also very generously do very nice free downloadble craft projects)...

...you can also check out the wonderful Tea for Joy blog, written by the lovely Lynne (owner of Papermash)

Julia Rothman

I totally j'adore the work of New-York (City Island) based illustrator Julia Rothman! She is part of design trio Also, whose style you may be already be familiar with ("Also" was commissioned by Design Sponge to create a "more feminine, craftier and elegant" redesign of their very popular blog/ design site)! How gorgeous are these beautiful Louis Chairs!