Show stopping popping armchairs

Red & green a perfect pairing

I'm a chick with a truly 1970s childhood, I was totally immersed in bold patterns and colours with my parents' decoration of their business and home. Lime green was big, red was another feature colour. It was nothing to put mandarin orange with lime green and chocolate with turquoise and hot pink with canary yellow. 

What I like about bold fabrics for armchairs - is that the chair assumes a 'personality' of its own.  I can't wait to get my feature chairs covered now!

Michelle Nussbauer - beautiful green pagoda chair

The Eponymous Squint Design - a cavalcade of colours

The Waterloo Armchair

Orange Imperial Trellis cushions, turquoise mirror & beige couch. 

Turquoise pagoda covered love seat

Light chartreuse green walls with candy red stripes and jacquard prints

I can't get enough COLOUR

Beautiful peacocks

A plain old set - now a wallpapered delight!

Look at this museum floor - all done by Nikko pen!

Brazil art piece

Some days are just plain GREY.  So on those days, it is always great to get inspiration from colourful design.  I'm obsessed with the museum floor, which is just painted concrete then an artist went through and drew circles entirely by nikko pen!  Makes me want to go home and paint my floors with Nikko pen!

Gindora salutes: Dinosaur Designs

Louise Olsen, Stephen Ormandy and Liane Rossler met while studying drawing and painting at a Sydney art school in 1983. They formed the company Dinosaur Designs in 1985 and began selling handprinted fabrics and painted jewellery at Paddington Markets. 

 

Dinosaur Designs has become a brand to be recognized in Australia and worldwide.  The creativity that shapes their distinctive work in jewellery and homewares has ensured that they keep driving creative and exciting collections each season. Dinosaur Designs now stands as one of the most visible and successful design-based businesses in Australia, operating its own stores in Sydney, Melbourne and New York as well as exporting to more than twenty countries worldwide.

 All of their homewares, jewellery and designs are available through their online store.

Dinosaur Designs trophies

Blue Pavlova

Green - the new hue

Green with envy, he's green in experience...why is so much negativity attributed to the beautiful colour green?  For me green is peaceful and fresh, and it just plain makes me feel good.  From apple, aquamarine, beryl, bice, blue-green, chartreuse, fir, forest, grass, greenish-blue, jade, kelly, lime, malachite, mint, moss, olive, pea, peacock, pine, sage, sap, sea, spinach, verdigris, vert, viridian and willow.  I'll take it all!

Green Pagoda Toile Source: Verandah House

The ever stylish Marie Antoinette obviously loved green and all that whooshing silk.  This beautiful french set of drawers is also a twist on the kelly green theme. 

I don't think I can ever look at wallpaper the same way after I'd seen deGournay silk panels.  This old french company excels in silken chinoiserie walls at nearly criminal costs - but how beautiful are they?

I'm sorry this 8 carat Emerald (below) one can get lost in!

Green & blue vignette of old frames & candle holders

Green goblets from Black & Spiro

Opal, Onyx & Diamond Ring

 It's Sunday afternoon, and I have the Sunday blues.  It doesn't matter how old you are there is a feeling of dread on Sunday afternoon that you haven't quite done everything and a new week is looming with new pressures and stresses.  However I've decided to do a post on things that I like RIGHT NOW that make me feel good.  I mean - we all find beauty in different things.  Like this Opal ring I saw on 1st dibs.  What a site!

Painted spoon installation

 I'd love to do a display like this one!  My difficulty would be in finding all the lovely tones of paint for a single use!

 

Chinese Shadow Box

 Again with the chinoiserie!  I know, I know - but this packs a double whammy.  Green (favourite colour), Chinese (favourite influence) and shadow box (just plain whimsical)

Botanical wallpaper

This is just because I love prussian blue velvet and the lovely botanicals!