Watch Melanie Porter knit a floor lamp in her colourful pop-up shop
Melanie Porter is one of the most distinct designers I’ve met. All her home accessories and furnishings are covered with deliciously tactile knitted patchwork designs, from foot to back and base to shade. On her cute clocks only the hands remain bare, and with her inviting chairs only the feet are not wrapped up in... Read more...
Take a video tour of design-led Christmas pop-up shops in London
Happy Christmas design enthusiasts! At the mydeco.com Christmas party last Friday the Secret Santa sleigh was overflowing with quirky presents and original gifts for the home. But where did our Secret Santas do all their Christmas shopping? At the North Pole? Oh ho ho no. The mydeco.com elves had zoomed round all the festive London... 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...
New to mydeco: Squint Limited makes us colour confident like never before
Last week I invited you to be the first to grab a glimpse of the brand new mydeco.com full of gorgeous, curated homeware that will transform the way you shop for your home and garden. And, as promised, I have some further enticing snippets to get you as excited as I am. The new-look mydeco.com... Read more...
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Watch our video highlights of boutique design at London Design Festival 2011
In a recent blog showing Crane.tv’s video highlights from London Design Festival I promised that mydeco.com’s own video of LDF 2011 would be coming soon and, true to my word, here it is! We spun around the shows and events faster than a screenprinter ‘in the zone’, but managed to catch quite a few of... Read more...
Take a tour of designjunction at the London Design Festival 2011
One of my stops at the London Design Festival this week was designjunction – a great place to see cutting-edge design from small-scale companies across the globe. As I wandered around inside the striking Victoria House in Holborn where the exhibition was held, the wealth of innovative and exciting design was abundant and it was... Read more...
Watch video highlights of the London Design Festival so far
With London Design Festival in full swing, I had a brilliant morning at the 100% Design exhibition which opened today at Earl’s Court 2. The exhibition was full of the latest cutting-edge, vibrant designers and I felt like a magpie amidst a field of treasure and didn’t know what to film first! Thankfully I had a... Read more...
Watch our Top Drawer video of mydeco boutique gorgeous eco design
As my last blog told you, London Design Festival is literally knocking on the capital’s doors and mydeco boutique designers are right there, rapping their knuckles against their handmade, unique and original product. In fact, tomorrow kicks off the style-packed event and I just cannot wait! So much so, that I couldn’t resist treating the... Read more...
Amazing ‘futuristic’ kitchen appliances of tomorrow from John Lewis
The greatest inventions come from the simplest of ideas. No truer is this statement than when applied to home appliances. All over the world there are scores of inventors trying to solve the daily problems of modern living with high tech gadgets that they hope will become a necessity for everyday life. In a quest... Read more...
Get a pop-up tour of handcrafted homeware from mydeco designers Lorna Syson and Ellen Calvert
On a rare sunny afternoon, mydeco TV headed to Clerkenwell, London, to visit a pop-up shop hosted by two talented mydeco designers, Lorna Syson and Ellen Calvert. Their Something Blue temporary boutique offered style-hungry shoppers a chance to buy bespoke and handcrafted British-made pieces themed around this summer’s most versatile colour, blue. mydeco’s Lorna Syson... Read more...
Marvel at these home appliance designs of the future
Everyday, all over the world, there are inventors dreaming up new contraptions in the hope that their light-bulb moment will fill a gap in the market and become a can’t-live-without product. Just a few years ago mydeco’s 3D room planner tool was just the figure of someones imagination, but has now progressed into a vital... Read more...
Exclusive video! Watch mydeco boutique’s A/W press show
In an uber cool and colourful press showing last week, mydeco unveiled its highly anticipated, brand new Autumn/Winter boutique collection. The show, held at Home House in London, was a huge success with interior-hungry bloggers, journalists and designers all in attendance and loving the variety of style, material, product and eco-credentials surrounding the brilliantly eclectic... Read more...
