Posts Tagged ‘postcode’

POSTCODE 3141

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

Her father is decorating royalty. Her sister is a Melbourne fashion icon. She is a hyrbrid of style and her store, selling plantation chairs to lobster baskets for large olive trees of boxed ficus is stunning. I love how it’s so rarified, so low key but so elegant. While you are shopping locally, visit her father’s site where you can see castle restorations, mansions and other fine things. Her Irish linen is sublime and very, very reasonable, all things considered.

Charlotte Coote

Shop 7, Kings Arcade

978 High Street Armadale

Melbourne 3143

www.charlottecoote.com.au and for her and her father’s interior work, www.cooteandco.com and www.cooteandcoote.com.

POSTCODE 2130

Monday, September 13th, 2010

For vintage and hand-printed wallpapers, head to Scoop. In a design landscape that is filled with custom wallpaper offerings, Scoop shows the best of the past, as well as what’s possible. I love using paper in non-traditional ways, like inside a robe or cupboard where you least expect it. Scoop has perfect rolls for these kinds of applications. They hunt down old patterns and can print new ones if you feel you have a inner designer lurking in you.

Scoop
45 Junction Road
Summer Hill NSW 2130
Phone: 02 9716 8007

POSTCODE 2207

Monday, September 6th, 2010

Where to take precious things that need fixing? Every one needs a fixer and The Doll Hospital might specialise in dolls and teddies but if they can patch up someone’s favourite thing, they can definitely fix your Limogue. They have fixed plates, cake stands and crystal in the past for me as well as being capable of other things like suitcase and luggage repair. Sometimes auction things are more to fix than they are worth having, but sometimes they just need a little bit of TLC. A good fixer like this is as good as an upholster. Or a good hair colourist.

The Doll Hospital

38A Stoney Creek Road

Bexley NSW 2207

Phone: 02 9150 0266

www.dollhospital.com.au

POSTCODE 2010

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Gift giving is a trait I love to encourage. Mrs Red and Sons is more than just an Asian emporium. It’s a dying breed of single-interest retailers who deserve patronage on their generous gift wrapping alone. As well as being great for presents, (think ceramic chopstick rests in the shape of pastel painted butterflies for small change), things here are just special and just so. No matter what you buy, or how much it costs, they wrap as if you have spent a king’s ransom. And where else in Sydney do you get your change on a silver service tray? Beautiful manners win every time, especially in a service-starved place like Sydney.

Mrs Red and Sons

427 Crown St

Surry Hills NSW 2010

Phone: 02 310 4860

(www.mrsredandson.com – but don’t expect anything from site but regal red, they are revamping site)

It’s got a corner posi with a red door marking entry to the little slice of a shop.

POSTCODE 2033

Monday, August 16th, 2010


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POSTCODE 2016

Monday, August 9th, 2010

A fabulous find that you maybe not know about is Ken Wallis’s Seasonal Concepts. It’s a florist up the front of the store but is then filled literally to the rafters with props for hire, things to buy, folly, and vintage everything. It also has one of the most beautiful real leopard (with head on and all) rugs. I have used it in a shoot and hope one day I work with a client who has it on their wish list so I can buy it.

Seasonal Concepts

112 Redfern St

Redfern NSW 2016

Phone: 02 8399 2435

www.seasonalconcepts.com.au

POSTCODE 2010

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Perkal Brothers is a leather store like no other. I have had them make me leather handles for cupboards, leather trims on rugs, desk tops as well as shoes. The brothers have a client who they have been making shoes for, for 25 years! They’ve never met her but exchange notes and letters till they post the finished product. It’s the type of place where you can take a brief – even though at first you think it’s not possible – and they surprise you no end.

A must have for people customising joinery or special requests.

Perkal Brothers
386 Crown St
Surry Hills NSW 2010

Phone: 02 9331 3692

POSTCODE 3143

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Stylists get to see so much good stuff. So much so that it is sinful not to share. Today, while researching for a job that requires outdoor dressings, I was reminded of the goodness that is The House of Orange. It’s based out of Melbourne but the designs and sensibilities are via Amsterdam. It’s totally clean, immeasurably chic and well priced. They have lovely bench seats, tables and planter boxes for the outdoors, but what I love most is the attention to the smaller items –  like a simple child’s swing and more than suitable sandpit. All House of Orange products are available in five colours – limewash, charcoal, stone, dutch blonde and domino black, but it’s the limewash that seems to befit the pieces best. The general solid proportions of the peices seem to add the strength, so the limewash lets it come over all quietly beautiful. For a country that lives outdoors, we now can feel spoilt for choice in the outdoor department. Yeaha

917 High Street

Armandale 3143

Melbourne

Phone 03 9500 9991

www.house-of-orange.com.au

POSTCODE SW32BB

Friday, May 7th, 2010

We love this clip. Yes it’s VB (Victoria Beckam) but can it get any cuter than this little inspiration video for a series of coloured dresses?? I like to think—in real estate Pandora where budget and true circumstance have zero bearing–that whatever country you live in you would be in the movie-version of it.  For instance, if you were posted to New York, you would HAVE to have a Tribecca-something address. If in Sydney, somewhere close enough to the beach but with gum trees galore and enough room for a herb garden. In Paris, it would need to be near St Germain or a possie that had you walking by the Lanvin window on 22 rue du Faubourg St. Honoré, at least once a week. In London, for me, it would have to be a white three story (minimum) Georgian with black lace iron trim. In homelove real estate Pandora, I love a particular line up of preppy all white-on-white townhouses on Cromwell Place. The Place is as beautiful as the next, but a nice distance (so a little more quiet is my thinking) from the Natural History Museum, the V & A and some sterling home stores. When homelove shops London, we take the Knightsbridge tube and head straight to Cromwell Place and give it a little ‘hello’, get our bearings and then turn back to Brompton Road to get shopping at Few & Far at number 242. To call it a shop is not really right, because it is beyond that. Clever Priscilla Carluccio (the owner) curates wonderous things for the home and surrounds (throwing in some food, fashion and kids pieces to keep it fascinating). This is a long way about showing you an impossibly cute fashion video that also shows some London real estate porn as well as telling you about Few & Far… Phew! More London interior shops on page 210 of homelove, but if you only have half a day, go to Few & Far, Priscilla won’t dissapoint. You can go on the website, but we dont want you to as it doesn’t show the stores special ‘3d-ness’.