Embroidered Motif Baskets – An Intercontinental Collaboration
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TREND ALERT: Rust Rose
A rich, earthy and warm palette is making waves in the interiors world this year, harking back to those groovy caramel, rust and burgundy tones that characterised the aesthetic of...
How Kenyan Women Are Weaving The Future For Gender Equality & Independence
Today is International Women’s Day and this year the theme is #BalanceForBetter. So we are celebrating the COMMUNITY, DIGNITY, INDEPENDENCE and EMPOWERMENT that the female weavers in Kenya represent in a short films. This film takes you on a journey to Kenya and right into the heart of one of our biggest and most prolific weaving cooperatives – all women of the Kamba tribe.
The Greatest Burden. The Least Reward. #SheDeserves better.
This year, the Fairtrade Foundation is telling the stories of female cocoa farmers through its #SheDeserves campaign. We’re delighted to see the spotlight on women for Fairtrade Fortnight since the vast majority of our incredible weavers are female farmers. Like the cocoa farmers in West Africa, our weavers are juggling the demands of family life with the ups and downs of agricultural work and drought – weaving their wonderful baskets when and where they can for a more dignified life.
Give Presents with Purpose
Christmas and Black Friday: forever the cause of a moral dilemma for ethical retail businesses like ours. Encouraging people to quickly and mindlessly buy things they don’t need doesn’t sit well with us at all, but nor are we exactly in a position to demand abstinence when it comes to shopping… we’re a retail business after all!
Image Credit: @gaiaforwomen
NOW WE ARE FOUR
Long days. Many sleepless nights. A ton of coffee. Whatsapp conversations around the clock. Teething problems and tears. And a constant state of learning and adapting, growing and marvelling. What a whirlwind it’s been!
Say Hello to Japandi Style
When Japanese-style functionality meets light and cosy Scandi style, we see a beautiful blend of aesthetics take shape in the home. Japandi interior design takes inspiration from the traditional Eastern ‘wabi-sabi’ philosophy that celebrates all things naturally imperfect. Yay!
Image Credit: Heals
MAXIMALISM: More is More!
If you’re a little bit interiors-obsessed like us, it’ll come as no surprise to hear that Scandi-style minimalism is officially OUT, and it’s all about ‘curated clutter’. Yippee!
Sustainable, Chic & Responsible - Because Fashion Can
To embrace the modern, cool and new wave of eco-chic we've teamed up with a few of our friends, who like us are doing things a bit differently.
At Home With... Cara Sutherland
For our first At Home With feature we were delighted to chat with the very lovely Cara Sutherland, whose Instagram account @CaraSuthers and blog Within These Walls we have swooned and cackled over for several years now. She's got a dreamy Cotswold home, killer dress sense and seriously great hair, but it's her hilarious captions, honest portrayals of life's ups and downs, and abject refusal to take herself too seriously that captured our hearts and our minds.
¡VIVA MEXICANA!
We’re no strangers to South American-inspired pom pom fringes and cacti prints in the world of Instagram and interiors. In fact, our love affair with Mexico has never been stronger than right now.. This is a jolly, upbeat trend and it is RIGHT up our street.
Image: @RedMagazine Instagram
New Baskets Bringing JOY To Laundry Day
Sometimes when we’re doing the laundry at home we have to stop and wonder whether there are actually secret people living in our house that we don’t know about. Sometimes life just feels like ONE ENDLESS ROUND OF LAUNDRY
