Inspiration: Kolmas Kerros

 

It's been another long day here

Running around visiting new schools

Watching more end of year shows

Making plans for our hols

Bedtime now

But before I go

To the Land of Nod

Let me share some beauty

Some inspiration

From one of my new favourite blogs

Kolmas Kerros

Thank You Jenni!

Et Bonne nuit !

Lovely!

Everybody's talking about it in France.

I'm sure you can see why.

 If you like Lovely Things For The Home,

This is the place for you!  

 

Calder at Home

Images taken from

"Calder at Home

The Joyous Environment of Alexander Calder"

by

Pedro Guerreo

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An Ambitious Project Collapsing / Mondoblogo

Colporter

If you've been following me on Twitter you'll already be familiar with Colporter, a new online home interiors shop based in London. If you haven't, lend me your ear and I'll tell you about their interesting stock of salvaged and vintage items and their desire to offer an alternative to the "extortionate prices and poor reproductions" so often seen in the market. The team at Colporter are "unashamed francophiles" and have scoured French fleamarkets, brocantes and trade and antiques fairs to find pieces with a certain je ne sais quoi to fill their store.

Colporter isn't just another French interiors shop though. I think that's why I find this shop so appealing, being an English woman living in France. There's a nice mix of traditional British (love the Hovis and Whitworths' flour adverts and the Railway notices) and mainland European finds waiting for you (gorgeous Hungarian grain sacks and framed Italian opera scores) , with Routemaster signs displayed alongside vintage French glass domes. J'aime!

If I had to choose just one item from this new shop, which is apparently looking for London premises to open a real bricks and mortar store too, it would be one of these fun retro heraldic needlepoint cushions with slogans straight from the Imperial War Museum archives. How about you?




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