Homes & Gardens design awards 2013
This Wednesday sees the annual homes and gardens Design Awards take place for 2013. Here are just a few of my favourite contenders… On the list for Young Designer of the year is Billy Lloyd, a hugely talented ceramicist, who has a studio at Cockpit Arts in Clerkenwell, and made his name with the ‘Thrown... Read more...
Design Watch
We love excellent design at mydeco.com and we’re always on the lookout for that magical piece of furniture or art. So each week we’re going to bring you our favourite designs that we’ve found on the web. We found some particularly stunning pieces this week that we hope you enjoy! Read more...
Eco-luxury furniture from Lucy Turner
The last few years have seen interior designers taking great inspiration from the 1950s and 1960s, particularly when it comes to kitchen, dining and living areas. Vintage furniture from these decades has come back into fashion and we are coveting the wooden sideboards our grandparents had, wanting to bring them into our own modern interior... Read more...
See how mydeco models their furniture in realistic 3D (hint: there’s no plasticine)
Every day we receive stunned messages commenting on how realistic our 3D models of home furnishing and accessories are. ‘Are they photographs?’ we’re asked. ‘Plasticine models?’ We laugh in the face of plasticine. Daniele Babusci, our talented 3D artist, creates a computerised mesh mirroring the structure of a product and builds it up layer upon... Read more...
How to prepare your home for al fresco dining
Outdoor or al fresco dining has become more popular over the recent years as people have found a way to remove the stuffiness and formality of their dining rituals and replace them with casual fun. One of the pleasures of al fresco dining is that it’s a chance to entertain friends with low maintenance dinnerware... Read more...
How to become a designer – our video of New Designers 2011
New Designers 2011 had a lot to live up to. Having been cited by mydeco’s features editor Ellie as her ‘highlight of the year,’ (direct quote), we had high expectations heading down to the event and awards presentation at the Business Design Centre in London last week. We weren’t disappointed – and not just because... Read more...
How to master wood bending – watch our tour of the Ercol factory and showroom
When mydeco was invited along to the Ercol showroom and factory in Bucks we didn’t know quite what to expect. A loud industrial factory attached to a luxury showroom? Lines of factory workers churning out chairs amidst the furniture displays? It seemed a bit far fetched… Image credit: ercol.com Actually, Ercol’s headquarters lie in the... Read more...
Design inspiration: Festival trends 2011
With Radio 1′s Big Weekend, Secret Garden Party and Glastonbury just around the corner it’s time to dust the cobwebs off the camping gear, shake out your tent and ransack your wardrobe in preparation for the upcoming festival season. Image credit: blogs.mirror.co.uk If you’ve got that festival feeling but look more geek than chic in... Read more...
Favorite design discoveries at Salone del Mobile 2011
Chauncey Zalkin, founder of What Women Make and an advocate for female innovation and creativity, reports for mydeco.com on her favorite finds at the 2011 Milan Furniture Fair. Weltevree, Holland It may seem silly at first – a car tugging a salmon pink hot tub down a dirt road – but Weltevree draws you into... Read more...
Dear Designer visits Grand Designs Live 2011
Yesterday was the last day of Grand Designs Live for another year and my weary feet are suffering. I’ve never seen it so busy before. We may be living through a time of austerity but tell that to the hoards of people who flocked to the show. In fact, one of the biggest impressions I... Read more...
Wake up with a new Hammonds bedroom…
Welcome to a different kind of bedroom Whether you use it as a place to relax, chat, unwind, reflect and sleep, your bedroom is a space that should be as individual as the person it belongs to. Creating a beautiful bedroom is often the thing of dreams but Hammonds are offering you the chance to... Read more...
Spot the trend at the Milan furniture fair: Triangles
Chauncey Zalkin, founder of What Women Make and an advocate for female innovation and creativity, reports for mydeco on the triangle trend sweeping this years Milan Furniture Fair. Wooden podiums at Wallpaper Handmade at Brioni: I took my usual hunt-for-female-talent cap off and put on my trend cap to troll the fiera and all of... Read more...
