HAY at Milan

Okay, we're totally crushing on the new ranges that were spied in Milan. HAY showed at Le Pelota which was set up as distinct environments surrounded by pieces of HAYs focus collections.   It showed the breadth of HAY's collection and really emphasised the success of this amazing brand.   

HAY has developed itself not only as a furniture brand but a design driven brand as well, showing a great selection in their Mini Market concepts.   

   

Of course we love these little trays.   

HAY have introduced a new range of garden furniture - seemingly inspired by the garden pieces you would commonly find in Paris.  The range is called Palissade- more about it later.   

This light is from the new offshoot of HAY- the Wrong. London brand.   This brand will focus only on lighting.   The brand Wrong for HAY is superseded.   

Here's an example of the sinker light which comes in lots of cool stained wood colours.  

Some classic HAY accessories.  

The slit tables now come in an XL size.   Gorgeous!  

The Hackney sofa has become very popular in the store!

A nice little tableau for HAY- more about the coffee table later!

Gosh it's hard to get a good laundry basket these days....HAY to the rescue.   

These Terrazzon tables have a solid base and are suitable for outdoors.  

Images are via HAY.   

Visit us in store if there's anything you fancy!  

New AndTradition Lighting 2016 in Hong Kong

New this year from &tradition is the Passepartout light designed by Spanish designer Jaime Haydon.

Whether you need lighting for a large, expansive space or a narrow corridor, for a cosy home environment or a welcoming workspace, the Passepartout Lamp emits a light that’s surprisingly calm and tranquil. Add to that built-in LED technology that ensures a high quality light emission that’s also energy-efficient, custom designed so the light is uniformly dispersed throughout a space. 

It's available in white and black as well as brass and polished aluminium.  

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Jaime Haydon has also lent his design talent to the Formakami lamps

The Paper Lantern series is comprised of three different versions in ivory white rice paper with black stained oak accents in sizes from 46 cm in diameter to 70 cm. Each weighing only 1 kilo, they hang delicately in any indoor setting. Living proof that when East and West meet, the past becomes the present in a poetic expression of both.

Dating back centuries, paper lanterns have featured in Asia amongst the privileged and the poor, where different colours, shapes and sizes connote different meanings. Here Hayon has dispensed with cultural formalities to create a series of lanterns all in white. Hand crafted with rice paper merging various sizes and shapes together.

They look amazing in clusters.   

We'll soon have some samples in store for you.   Check back soon.   

Take a look at the NEW CATALOGUE from &TRADITION

Choosing tiles and bathroom fittings

One of the most fun parts of any interior design is choosing the bathroom fixtures and fittings.   I love colour, but in my own house I tend to avoid it, fearing that after some time I will get sick of it.

Our house will have a bit a country feel but we are using very contemporary fixtures but with some classic additions.

We're keeping the palette black and white with a touch of grey.

I want to use hand cut tiles, marble, concrete and leather as the material palette.

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This is one of my inspiration images for the bathroom.  I like the black tapware and the free standing cabinet.   

The first thing I chose was the basin.  

The astrawalker basin

This basin  fits the bill for a few reasons.  You can see that the interior of the bowl has rounded corners which is great for cleaning purposes.   We are also able to powder coat the rail black as we are using black tap fittings.   

We're going to use the CityPlus range of tapware.   It is shown here in a bronze finish but we are going to specify black.  

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Here is the type of handcut tiles we are using- I love the rough texture of this for a country property.   

We're mixing it with a calacutta marble subway tile... or even a hexagonal marble mosaic

Which will end up looking a bit like this...

We want to use a dark grout- it's very practical for cleaning purposes and the contrast can look stylish....

I like 503 which happens to be mould and fungi resistant as well.  

The finished result will be something like this....

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I've been a bit lazy these past few days/weeks.  We've been travelling a lot and have just been down to the house in Berry to oversee the start of construction.   When we arrived, the lawn was around 50 cm high and we spent the first few hours on the Hustler trying to tame it.  

The next day the workers showed up....and after 4 days it looked like this.... so glad we made the effort to mow the lawn.  

a fabulous panorama of the old house...

The fabulous Ryan turned up in his bulldozer (?) - what are these called?  and ripped out all the lawn, quite a few trees and most of the hedges.  

We are leaving the existing house in situ while we construct the new house.   However as verandah of the old house overlaps the site of the new one, we have to remove the verandah.   A concrete saw was used to cut through the existing verandah and holes drilled into it.  It will then be attached to some sort of machinery and pulled off.  

Here's another view of the old house...

One of the best things about living overseas is not having to watch this building process day by day.   Considering it's going to take around a year to construct, it will be too painful to watch...