Mitchell & Dent's Tittle Tattle

Who knew afternoon tea could be so risqué? Dutch illustrator Esther Horchner, that’s who. Go on, live a little, abandon your inhibitions and maybe swap the Liptons for lapsang?

estherhorchner.nl

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1. To a tea
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When our friend, the very lovely Jessica Shaver (go peek), said there is only ten days until Christmas we told her to take it back. Bum. No time then, to order delicious little decos like these ones from Folksy. No excuse though not to be merry and bright.

folksy.com

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1. So, I lied. Bite me.
2. Beginning to look a lot like Christmas
3. Take notice

Excuse the little lull in posts but yours truly has been at home with a monster sniffle, moaning about bad daytime telly and staring at the walls. If only I had more things to look at, like these brill bronzes by Walter Bosse and his missus Herta Baller. If you can’t find the midcentury originals, don’t fret. They are still being made in a sleepy snowy town on the Austrian-Hungarian border. Hurrah Modern Vienna Bronzes!

bosse-art.com

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I cannot drive down Stirling Highway in Mosman Park without wanting to glance at views like this. It is possible I’ve spent so long gawking that people have beeped at me. Hunters and Collectors is pure modernist eye-candy and is now available for gazing at in a safer way on Facebook. One day I might even be able to buy something. Into my arms, I wish.

Hunters and Collectors on Facebook

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Fleur Schell is one clever little cookie. She is a ceramic artist maker and the Founding Director of SODA Studios in North Fremantle. She has worked all over the world and her pieces are held in collections near and far. We’re particularly fond of her most recent series The Excellent Adventures of Heidi, narrative pieces in porcelain inspired by her daughter. We take great pride in joining Fleur at SODA Gift 2010 this weekend, an invitational exhibition showcasing works by four ceramic artists from SODA and four invited guests including, you guessed it, Mitchell & Dent. Why not come along?

Open 10am to 6pm
Saturday 27th and Sunday 28 November 2010
1/98 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle
Parking available at North Fremantle train station

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1. Be-hold
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Well, imagine that. This is Mitchell & Dent‘s 300th blog post. And we’ve just started year 2 of our little weblog. Goodness. Where did the time go? Well, we do grow old. Thankfully, old does not necessarily mean less stylish. Case in point: Model 137 designed by Mr ‘Danish Design’ himself, Finn Juhl (1912-1989). Contemporary since 1953.

onecollection.com

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1. Sit on it
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Some things are surprising and not just that our lovely printer extraordinaire Mister Clifford is 50 today, but doesn’t look a day over 35 (or behave a day over 25). This Postfossil ceramic fruit bowl with a sneaky wooden chopping board underneath and wooden bottle vase with ceramic water well, for example.

postfossil.ch

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Trudy and Andy are the clever couple behind Perth’s Mokoh, who make prints and paperwares and all-round prettiness. What I really love is that they are originally from England and yet they make some of the most Aussiest (is Aussiest a word?) of Australian design. I bet they’ve even been to more than a handful of these places, unlike lazy ass me. Heh! I can get the tea towel.

mokoh.com.au

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3. She’s got form

Madame Mitchell is attending classes in ceramics. I can just picture her in an art smock with a scarf knotted on the top of her head. So elegant is she, she probably doesn’t even get clay under her fingernails. Madame Dent is much more mucky. She’d probably just go out and find a little something like this porcelain Annette Bugansky cup and make believe she made it herself.

yoyoceramics.co.uk

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This reminds me of my sister. She loves bunnies (which I have spoken about before here) and just this week she picked herself up a little bundle from the cabbage patch. If only those crazy tales about where babies come from were true, heh Jen? Might have been a tad easier. Still. My brand new nephew Austin might like this bone china bunny lamp from Sydney’s Have You Met Miss Jones? I don’t think it comes with cabbages though.

haveyoumetmissjones.com.au

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