Indigo - Aboubakar Fofana

 

Last week, I had the pleasure of being introduced to Aboubakar Fofana @ Hermon and Hermon. The evening was hosted by Neale Whitaker and was a Q&A regarding Aboubakar's lifework, Indigo dyeing.

It was fascinating and inspirational.

 

Mali born and based, indigo artist Aboubakar Fofana is on a quest to preserve and restore his native country’s once popular art of indigo and vegetable dyeing. Driven by a passion to maintain his country’s cultural heritage, Fofana travels the globe teaching his craft and showing his pieces of contemporary art created using ancient techniques.

 

 

Inspiration Board

 

Here is a snippet of my inspiration board, it sits just inside my door and includes visual images, fabrics and trims that I love. Its updated with new fabrics as they arrive and gives a little colour POP! 

Stylish tiles

Love these Hexagonal tiles called Hexitile - available in 20 colours with either a gloss or matt finish.

 

They are fun and its great that you can be as creative as you want or use them in classic designs to look more traditional, as these images show....

 

 

Adelaide

I popped over to Adelaide for the weekend with the rest of the family.
My 10 year old niece was selected to perform in the Australian Youth Ballet of "Mary Poppins".

All 5 shows were 100% sold, and Jess held us well, given she must have been exhausted. Months of rehearsing and finally we go to see the show, it as great and wonderful to see an audience full of kids having a great time as well as proud relatives...

While in Adelaide, we pop down to McLaren vale and managed to sample and purchase plenty of wine.... great weather both days and it was a fun visit, all be it a quick one.

 

 

 

Back to Melbourne and work!!!

 

Designer Guild sneak peak...

Sneak peak of the latest Designers Guild Collection - refer to the attached video.
Can wait to see it as always...

Check it out here  - Designer Guild Video

Prima Ballerina

How fab is this Prima Ballerina Lamp!!!

Designed and made in Australia by a local company with the skills to turn the silhouette of a Ballerina into a contempory shade. I love it.

Contact A Blind Pash for more details, it comes in two sizes, Petit and Prima.

Mandarin & Mint

I'm seeing quite a few interiors coming throught using Mandarin and mint or  stronger shades of turquoise.
Pairing these complementary hues on the color wheel, creates eye-catching interiors and brightens up the space.

BAM BAM

Alhambra, a wonderful Spanish fabric house, this week launched their new Kids collection and its a good one. Designs that cover all ages - using motifs like boats, little houses, numbers, flowers and classic stripes and dots. There are some great patchwork and quilted fabrics and embroideries, that are cosy and comforting.

Vacation with Mokum

The lastest Mokum collection "Vacation" has a holsiday spirit with fun patterns and textured plains in sunkissed colours. The stand out design is Hibiscus (floral cushion) which is a great linen cloth , printed with stylised hibiscus flowers and finished off with hand embriodery.

Latest fabrics are availabe from A Blind Pash and the full range of colours and designs can be found here

Light it up

Came across these images of a quirky new cafe in London called the Corner Room @ Bethnal Green Town Hall. Love the collection of industrial lights and the old circular staircase to nowhere. Getting great reviews for the food as well. I will add it to my list for my next trip to London....

I was lucky enough to be invited by Living Edge to an advanced screening @ ACMI for the documentary Eames: the architect and the painter, this evening. I found it really enjoyable - huge fan of the eames furniture but the documentary introduced me to the photographer / film maker side to Charles and Ray Eames.

If you have a chance, see it. Screening at ACMI from the 1st to the 17th of June.

Plate Heaven

I came across these Ginori plates, that look like paint colour testers and I love them. On doing some research, I came across these image of other Richard Ginori plates.... WOW.
Richard Ginori is an Italian compay, based in Florence, founded in 1735, that produces some stunning contemporary designs.... I'll be buying up big on my next visit to Florence (not sure when this will be....).

This was a display at Object & Maison in France and its AMAZING.

Metroquadro’, pictured above, are a collection of dinner plates, bowls and dessert plates that are lavishly decorated on the outside.

More details on the collections here

Boyd Blue

I had the opportunity to meet with Shelley Boyd from Boyd Blue lasy week. Boyd Blue have a great range of interior products - lamps, cushions, occassional pieces and decorative elements which are sourced from all over the world - including, Italy, Indonesia, Thailand, France, India and Portugal. Shelley is always travelling and seeking new products... yes I'm jealous.

Check out the Boyd Blue range here - all available from A Blind Pash Interiors.

Does it have to match ?

Who said that dining chairs need to match. Here are a couple of examples to show that this does not have to be the case. Whether its the same design, just different colours or a mixture of chairs, both can look amazing.

GASP Tasmania

How great is the use of colour at GASP in Tasmania - GASP is the Glenorchy Art and Sculture Park, set on approximately 9 hectares of public land on the shores of Elwick Bay. GASP! aims to boldly position itself as a place for contemporary site‐specific outdoor arts.

The bridge is colourful and vibrant and sits in this stunning landscape. It was created by Room 11 Architects and was included in this years Dulux Colour Awards, winning the commercial exterior category.

Its on my list of places to visit when I get a chance to go to Tassie.

Hybrid Tea

While sourcing something for a client, I can across this Hybrid bone china dinner setting. I love it, its so quirky and I love the mix of classic traditional china patterns - Blue Willow, Imari and pretty florals.

Hybrid is a collection of Bone China designed by CLtrlZak and features dinnerware made of contrasting halves of European and Oriental style porcelain plate designs - East meets West. Each piece is made using traditional methods and refined by hand in the city of Tangshan, China. I think they are great.