A theme in the trend area at Maison & Objet was “making” which I was obviously interested in so here are a few of the pieces shown: Exquisitely finished stitched wood veneer furniture by Akiko Kuwahata Amsterdam-based Lex Pott’sTrue Colours panels have their colour recipes on the surface and are available in a limited edition of […]
Some makers shown at Maison & Objet
Latest products from Atypyk at Maison & Objet
I do like the humour from the boys at French company Atypyk. They have a few stockists in the UK or you can buy online so here are some of their latest offerings seen at Maison & Objet: If you want to hack away at french cooking here’s the ideal thing A delicate featherlight paperweight More featherweight […]
Sirocco Living at Maison & Objet
Back in my mainstream sourcing days this company would have been a sure bet for one of my clients; I did in fact pass on their details to a potential buyer at the fair. I stopped at Danish company Sirocco Living trying to figure out how the sealskin on display (not pictured) fitted in with their desert […]
Visiting The Mondrian Hotel London
The recently opened Mondrian in Sea Containers House used to be a pretty ugly building. It has now been adapted to resemble a modern cruise liner moored by the Thames. The interior design was by Tom Dixon so you can see his products everywhere. I’d only been to the top-floor Rumpus Room before, so was […]
Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris
I made a point of visiting the Fondation Louis Vuitton during my last trip to Paris, mainly to see the Olafur Eliasson exhibition, Contact, which is on till 23rd February. We were somewhat taken aback to find that the queue to get in was 1 1/2 hours long so, as we didn’t have time for […]
Arthur Beale – the yacht chandlery for London
Perhaps, like me, you have passed this shop in Covent Garden and never gone in. I’d always see Arthur Beale from the bus or my bike and wondered how it happened to be there. As I needed to source some rope for a project I finally visited and was charmed by what I found. In existence […]