Handycrafted: January 2011

Today at Poppytalk Handmade

1. Love Print, Heartfish Press
2. Vintage Cream Jug, Sunday Hatch
3. Letterpress L-O-V-E, Daily Sip Studios
4. Arrows, Verla Ivans
5. Valentine, a.favorite design

Stop Motion Digital Magazine Cover

Stop Motion Digital Magazine Cover from Adam Voorhes on Vimeo.

Check out this rad illustrated magazine cover for Bluetooth that our all star, Will Bryant has done in collaboration with local photographer Adam Voorhes. See more from Will at Blogtown U.S.A..

Why should your plants stay at home? That's what Atlanta-based Colleen Jordan asked and why she subsequently designed these adorable wearable planters! Carry a sprout, a succulent, or a flower you found on your morning walk.

Photo of the Day!

Beaujolis Sideboard with Clock

$3,954.00

Come Up to My Room Event

More photo's from the Come Up To My Room event that was held this past weekend in Toronto. The event, an annual alternative design event is held at the Gladstone Hotel during Toronto's Design week and invites artists and designers to create installations, projects and collaborations limited only by their imaginations. See more at Gladstone's facebook page ). All photo's by Gina Chung (www.ieota.ca www.flickr.com/photos/ziggy478) unless otherwise noted.

Photo by Stephanie Cloutier http://www.stephaniecloutier.com/

Kravet and Echo Design Fabrics!

These beautiful Ikat patterns are from Echo Design! Perfect fabrics to pair with other prints or to make as your focal point in the room.
Top to bottom:
Bansuri in 1635
Vari in 35
Bansuri in 319
Vari in 3
Bansuri in 1611
Vari in 16
Bansuri in 515

These two Ikat patterns are 100% linen with a heavy durability due to a soil and stain finish. The large repeat makes this fabric the focal point of the room.

Use Pop Flower as a great coordinating fabric! This fabric is 100% cotton with a repeat of 7 3/4" x 4 1/2". Notice the embroidered center too!

See more of these fabrics at Kravet, to the trade.

Toronto Design Off Site: Amanda McCavour

From the @comeuptomyroom event, at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto for the Toronto Design Offsite weekend, a two dimensional depiction made of thread by artist Amanda McCavour's living room. Her "thread drawings" are made using a sewing machine, then sewn into a fabric that dissolves in water leaving just the thread. See more here. (Via Moco Loco).

On the Radar: Cutlery

Ladies & Gentlemen

Seletti

Seletti (Photo: Marie Claire Maison)

Seletti

Konstantin Slawinski (Photo: marieclairemaison.com)

Dispatches from the UK

Contributor post by Will of Bright.Bazaar

Darkroom is a concept store in the heart of London's West End. They stock an eclectic mix of high-end fashion, interior and lifestyle accessories, whilst there are art and sculpture exhibitions that rotate on a bi-monthly basis. It's certainly an interesting space - inspiring, too. The store explores the crossover between fashion and interiors, and with it the juxtaposition of materials, scale and form. Personally, given my penchant for bright colours, I'm lusting after their bright notebooks from last summer's collection. For all the details on how to visit Darkroom, check our their website.

IDS11: {Guest Post by Michelle Carangi of Holley & Gill}

Guest Post by Michelle Carangi of Holley & Gill

Style at Home booth at IDS, designed by Margot Austin in collaboration with Beauti-Tone Paints.

Style at Home booth with a mural painted by Alanna Cavanagh.

IDS 11 opened this week at the Metro Toronto Convention Center with an exceptional array of designers, manufacturers and artists from across Canada and around the globe. One of the feature exhibits was SIBLING REVELRY which focuses on family ties by challenging four of Canada’s most creative siblings to each design and transform a 600 square feet of space. Sarah and Theo Richardson as well as brothers Jason and Lars Dressler are two of the sibling teams.

Visit their work and also place your bid for on a fundraising campaign which had influential designers and architects re-invent the iconic Vitra Panton Chair in support of IDS11 Opening Night Party's charitable partner, Casey House.