Go Dutch with vintage-inspired pieces from Ninainvorm
With Spring in the air I am on the lookout for fun and colourful items to bring new life to my décor. I love vintage ceramics and the bold block colour often found in mid-century dinnerware and kitchen pieces. I’d like to share with you some quirky homewares that fuse mid-century style with contemporary design.... Read more...
Hello May! Here’s how to make your home colorful for spring
Our guest blogger Christiana Coop is loving the spring-time feeling. Here are her top tips for adding spring color into your home. Image credit: christianac Finally, it is May. Spring is here, and I’m feeling like bringing more color into my life to celebrate! Here are a few ideas: How about a flowery print by... Read more...
mydeco loves: vibrant colour used by Plum Chutney
Camel is sooo last year. This spring home and garden accessories are embracing a riot of bright clashing colours, from botanical greens to blood reds to luminescent nudes. And if you’re a bit of a colour magpie, darting from one shiny item to another, Plum Chutney could soon become your favourite. I love the Rajasthan... Read more...
Before and after: the Two Continents House
Welcome, to this bi-continental home where Africa meets Asia after a £250,000 renovation. This unique property in Hammersmith, London, was entirely gutted from a derelict disaster into a contemporary canvas for Ugandan Asian family of four. The four storey residential house was modernised on an extremely small construction budget by Hogarth Architects and the Shah... Read more...
Style your room with easyart: the winners
At the end of January we teamed up with the UK’s leading online art store easyart.com to bring you a fun moodboard competition where you could WIN a best-selling art print! Well, the competition closed and the winning designs chosen by you, the mydeco community. We asked you all to design a moodboard, each weekday,... Read more...
Glocalisation exhibition from Made.com
We recently headed down to Chelsea College of Art to see the wonderful results of a project that a group of 2nd year textiles students have been working on with Made.com. Top students at the college have created collaborative work to help women living with HIV in through a South Africa based not-for-profit organisation, MonkeyBiz.... Read more...
Buyers guide to art prints
Want to invest in art for your home? Easyart.com have given us fantastic expert tips for buying art whatever your budget... Read more...
How to Solve Your Kitchen Conundrum
Kitchen decor can send anyone into the doldrums. here are a few quick tips to spice up your space. Read more...
Keep your eye on… graduate designer Katie Procter
How much do you know about Katie Procter? She’s not a household name (yet) but her designs are both delicate and vivid, with raw illustrative talent capturing your eyes. We spotted the talented textile designer at The New Designers Show earlier in the year and I caught up with her when she popped in to... Read more...
Art exclusive: mydeco chats to artist Joseph Warren
Image credit: Joseph Warren London-based artist Joseph Warren has built quite a following with his nostalgic butterfly montages made from old maps and typographic documents. So charming are they, our discerning head of all things creative, Pia, couldn’t resist getting her paws on one. We chatted with Joesph about his work, his inspiration and who... Read more...
Is furniture art? We investigate…
Image credit: NOCC The answer, of course, is yes. Even the most practical forms of furniture are artistic. Think of the structure, colour, aesthetic, even ergonomic functions and they will have been designed to pleasure your eyes as well as your kitchen/clothes/bottom. What’s the point of posing such a rhetorical question then, you ask? Well... Read more...
Art imitating fabric: Pierre Frey looks back on 75 years of design
Image credit: Pierre Frey Talk about fantasy fabric! On Tuesday evening, I stopped by Pierre Frey’s 75th anniversary celebration which was commemorated by a pageant of otherworldly fabrics and designs harking back to the company’s inception in 1935. Mining their earliest archives, Pierre Frey exhibited a trove of Surrealist and Neo-Medieval fabrics and drawings.... Read more...
