Mitchell & Dent's Tittle Tattle

I’m not sure what these number clips from Present & Correct are actually for, but as they are letterpress and paper and have pretty typographic numerals on them, they are as appealing to the mesdames as shiny things are to magpies.

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In the Mitchell & Dent studio, we discuss important things while we are working. Things like, “which muppet do you most resemble?”, being sure to make the important distinction between The Muppet Show and Sesame Street. Our SS conclusions? Mademoiselle Michelle is as sweet and smart as Prairie Dawn, Little Miss Fliss is organised and particular and a lover of purple like Telly Monster, Madame Dent is a klutz and a bumbler and a ditherer so Grover it is, Madame Mitchell could only be Big Bird (tee hee) and Mister Clifford, printer extraordinaire, is the voice of all reason – Kermit. We may buy him this artwork by Castle in Sydney, makers of embroidered artworks and brilliant bed linen. So, which muppet are you?

castleandthings.com.au

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Mesdames Mitchell and Dent are soon to become aunties. And like all childless aunties we will most probably end up buying perfectly pretty, but pretty impractical, presents for our new neice/s and/or nephew/s. What’s function got to do with it, when the form is as good as this junior Lampert sofa by Jonathan Adler? Baby sick? Leaking nappies? Sticky fingers? Not an auntie’s concern. And just wait until they’re four and we buy them finger paints and kiddie drumkits.

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Given that my only knowledge of Los Angeles comes from movies and The Hills, I can’t quite believe that Sixth & Main‘s glorious sunshine and bubblegum images are of the same town. They’d best be careful, if these images become too popular and sought-after, I’m sure it won’t be long before Spencer Pratt starts popping up everywhere trying to get his mug in them.

sixthandmain.etsy.com

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We first met designer gal Jennifer Berney when she worked at local brand agency Block, but then she fell in love and was whisked away to Canberra. Lucky Canberra. Look what they get… screen-printed flora and fauna wonderfulness in homewares form. Thank goodness for online shops. Check out Jennifer’s Formosa website, her blog and of course, her online shop. Unlike other online purchases from Canberra, you can look the postman in the eye when these turn up in your mailbox.

formosadesign.com.au

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These exquisite illustrations are the work of Martine Johanna. With a solo exhibition coming up in Amsterdam (*sigh*) and works featured in a ridiculous amount of publications, this girl has talent in bucket loads. I am very curious to know which illustrations featured in Playboy.

martinejohanna.com

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For some reason, when our ‘minty’ Keren (a final year design student we mentor) is in, the iTunes shuffly thing decides to play non-stop 90s Brit-pop. It is embarrassing. There is only so much Oasis and Blur and Travis one can bear. Unless of course, it is Travis Price (smooth segue that, don’t you think?). We had the great fortune to meet Travis at Life InStyle and go gaga over his Mister Mista goodies for not-so-big boys. He’s much nicer than a Gallagher.

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mistermista.com.au

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At Mitchell & Dent we torture ourselves via e-mail. Not ours, but via the mailing lists of people who sell lovely things we can’t possibly make our own. Like David Met Nicole‘s. Today they sent us an e-mail and in amongst their glorious vintage homewares was this English haberdashery drawer unit. Sadly, it is out of our budget and made more so by being in Sydney. But look how pretty it is. Wouldn’t it be perfect for our studio? See? Pure pretty perfect torture. Sadists.

davidmetnicole.com

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OK. I admit it. When I first saw the name ‘A. Speer Studio’, the thought did cross my mind that Adolf Hitler’s right-hand architect Albert Speer had somehow seen the error of his Nazi ways and switched to whimsical works of stoneware instead of stone monuments to the Third Reich. Then I realised he was dead. Sorry for the mix up Adrienne.

aspeerstudio.etsy.com

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Step right up. Step right up. Madame Mitchell and Madame Dent’s travelling museum of misfits is in town. See these strange and unusual curious critters, right before your very eyes. Now available in the little online shop of Mitchell & Dent.

mitchellanddent.com.au

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