Mitchell & Dent's Tittle Tattle

If you, like me, buy books by the cover and think every accessory you own is a piece of art, then you’ll thank the. for these.

thinkofthe.com

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Trine Thorsen is a photographer and lives in Norway. I stumbled across her website when I was looking for chairs online. Let me tell you, it is a silly and disheartening place to look for chairs when you live in Perth and have elderly house guests arriving and need four nice new dining chairs stat. I’m not sure I can achieve what Trine does in these images by dinner time this evening. Still.

trinethorsen.com

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The thing that has always bugged me about clocks is how that little hand keeps spinning around, making it painfully clear that seconds are being counted down. It’s nerve-wracking. I don’t want a household appliance reminding me of my mortality. That’s why I like this clock. It is more relaxed. And pretty. Thanks Biegert & Funk for Qlocktwo. And because I don’t have a spare 800-odd Euros handy, I very much appreciate the iPhone app version.

qlocktwo.com

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Look at this light. See how it shines for you. And every thing you do (presumably).

www.artecnicainc.com

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Cardigan weather is upon us here in Perth, Western Australia.
I might even get one out for my sofa.

www.biscuitscout.etsy.com

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Our Mitchell & Dent studio walls are bare, we know. Not by design but through a lack of design. How the heck can anyone decide what to surround themselves in, when folks like Trove from NYC keep coming up with large image wallpapers like Indi (left) and printed wood veneer wallpapers like Alcyone (right)? Clearly it is some kind of wonderful torture.

www.troveline.com

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So. Here at M&D we are completely addicted to Pinterest (more about that in the days to come), but this is how the wonderful web works… the very clever Dana Hughes, interior designer in Sydney and creator of the inspirational design blog Yellow Trace (go! see!), posted these amazing hand blown glass bottles by New York designer Elizabeth Lyons on Pinterest and we fell in love with them and posted them for you to see. We love the internets.

www.lyonsglass.com

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Carboard Safari have made it so we can feel like intrepid adventurers without the pith helmet, safari suit or all the animal cruelty. These spiffy-looking animal heads are made of cardboard and come flatpacked so you can assemble them yourself and dress them up however you may desire. Marvellous.

www.cardboardsafari.com

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Oh chenille, forgotten fabric of the past, hello again. What have you been doing since the 1970′s? No matter. It is nice to see your sometimes-tufty, sometimes-taut textile-y self back all over bedspreads, dressing gowns and pillows like this one from The Pink Palace. You put the fancy into frou frou.

The Pink Palace on Etsy

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Despite being from the country, a little shiver goes up my spine when I hear the words ‘country’ and ‘style’ in the same sentence. I have nightmares about knotty pine kitchens with pictures of pepperpots and geese on the tiles and I think a ‘this kitchen seasoned with love’ cross-stitch might actually make me cry. And yet, Country Living online has terribly cute upcycling ideas for old oars and tennis raquets. Love – all.

www.countryliving.com

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