Mitchell & Dent's Tittle Tattle

It’s time. Time to work on those new year resolutions. If you want a little inspiration, look no further than the folks of Duryea in Pennsylvania, USA circa 1961. As for us, Madame Mitchell is thinking she might perfect the practice  of folding dinner table napery into swans and Madame Dent plans to take up krumping. But if you have any suggestions for the Mesdame’s new year resolutions, go on – leave a comment. We’d love to hear them.

Click here to read the full Duryea News article.

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Happy ho-ho-holidays from 1. Mitchell & Dent and a few of our other favourite designers of paperwares… 2. Rifle Paper Co., 3. Snow & Graham, 4.Darling Clementine, 5. Pop + Shorty, 6. Present & Correct, 7. Mok Duk, 8. Crumpet & Skirt and 9. Egg Press.

Have yourselves the silliest of silly seasons and as the Mesdames will be taking a little time off, our tittle-tattling will be sporadic in the next wee while. See you in the brand new year.

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If you’ve been hankering after a Mitchell & Dent original you just may be in luck. The Mesdames are taking part in SUMMER, a group exhibition opening tomorrow night at Little Creatures. On display and available for purchase will be six hand-made artworks including the lovely objet d’art (pictured) by Madame Mitchell. Also exhibiting are an assemblage of emerging artists including Simon Boxer, Forks Open Doors, Rebecca Lee, Nick Lowe, Luci Everett, One Trick Pony and Jessica Singh. Hot diggity.

Opens 22 December 2009 – 6-9pm – Until 01 February 2010
Little Creatures, 40 Mews Road, Fremantle
Find SUMMER on Facebook

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OK, so Apartment Therapy diehards aren’t fans, but M&D is. How could you not resist inflatable beach balls fashioned into lightshades? Thank you TOBYhouse of London for thinking outside the box, sorry ball. Mind you, banana lamps and tennis-table bat hand mirrors? Hmm.

www.tobyhouse.org.au

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I’ve just read a lovely interview with Tegan from Melbourne’s Ink & Spindle on Living Creatively. She says “We’re prepared for it to be fairly slow at the start. We’re young and we have stars in our eyes. We have got no mortgages and no kids, just one dog and one cat”.

I beg to disagree. How could things go slowly with design like this? M&D love the way these environmentally-conscious, super high quality, textile-printing gals think. Go see for yourself.

www.inkandspindle.com.au

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I couldn’t care two hoots about a partridge in a pear tree, but if my true love were to give me one of Finnish-English designer Sanna Annukka‘s wooden birds, I swear I would make him breakfast in bed every Saturday morning until next Christmas. Available mid January 2010 from her shiny new online shop.

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Searching for a last minute gift? These illuminated photo boxes are sure to light up your Christmas. Each one is crafted with care by the lovely Marianne Symons and feature her beautiful and whimsical photography. A splendid addition to anyone’s wall, they come ready to glow with batteries inside (no need for troublesome cables). If you ask Marianne nicely, she may even make you a custom box with your own favourite snap.

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Let us preface this post with a Mitchell & Dent design disclaimer… in our other lives as brand boffins Studio Bomba, we are so fortunate to work with energiser bunny Clara Jane. Not only is she the mother of a one year old, but she has single-handedly established not one, but two, brand new businesses.

Lad & Lass creates artworks and interiors products as shown above, wholly designed and manufactured in Western Australia. Ball and Skittle is an online emporium that carefully sources children’s play, gift and home wares that are good for imaginations, good for growing bodies, good for the environment and good for the future happiness of the world. Good for Christmas too, I’d say.

www.ballandskittle.com.au

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Letterpress. Paper. Typography. Jessica Hische is talking our language. And if you’re hearing this super-talented illustrator and typographer too, best be quick to snaffle one of these limited edition letterpress artworks right here.

jessicahische.com

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It is just ridiculous what you can find on Etsy. We spotted these beautiful wooden products by Nature Design there and fell in love. Handcrafted by a father and son team, they create kitchen products from aromatic woods like juniper, alder, cobnut and apple trees. Of course, we can’t promise they meet Australian quarantine standards, but wooden it be lovely if they did?

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