Love at 1st Sight specialises in revamping antique and vintage furniture items which have passed their used-by date. They refurbish them and give them a new lease on life by repainting them in bold colours and reupholstering them in contemporary fabrics. From 1950′s and 1960′s retro chairs, 1970′s wicker peacock chairs, vintage bentwood & bamboo [...]
Tag Archives: sydney
Interview | Rina Bernabei & Kelly Freeman {bernabeifreeman}.
Cloth table with perforated aluminium tray top which can have a reverses orientation on frame to work as a tray or table top. Suitable for indoor or outdoor use. Extreme love. Gold ‘Lace’ light, perforated aluminium. Left – Totem Lighting was the winner of the Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award in 2007. The shape and [...]
Interview | Studio Ham.
Hamming it up. Hannah and Mark from Studio Ham. Ummm… how AWESOME is this photo? Definitely my favourite here so far. Love it! “Me So Horny” Light, 2007 – Vintage antlers, resin and rosewood. Sketches for ‘Me So Horny’ lights. Ok, so… Interviews like this one are exactly why I love what I do, and [...]
Sydney Design 2010 | yellowtrace Picks.
As most of you design folk would know, Sydney Design 2010 is rapidly approaching (eek!) and with it a bunch of excellent events around our glorious city. Ummm… excitement! From this Saturday 31st July, until Sunday 15th August, Sydney Design will host one if its most dynamic programs in 14 years. The city-wide program boasts more than 70 events [...]
Interview | Kate Banazi.
Collaboration with photographer Chris Searl. Silkscreen prints on board and paper. Exhibited at Three Drunk Monkeys. Left – “Hampstead Heath”, handpulled silkscreen print for the exhibition at the Lamington Drive Gallery in Melbourne. Right – “Your favourite blue”. Kate Banazi is an illustrator and silkscreen printer from London who currently calls Sydney her home. I was quite taken with [...]
Cockatoo Island | 17th Sydney Biennale.
Spectacular installation inside Turbine Hall by Chinese born Cai Guo-Quiang titled ‘Inopportune: Stage one’, 2004. A series of nine cars frozen in an arc of explosion. Very cool! This was one of my favourites – by New Zealand artist Rohan Wealleans titled ‘He with Glands of Wasp’, 2009, also at Turbine Hall. Three bejeweled animal [...]
Interview | Marsha Meredith {2026}.
Top image – Stencil at Bondi Beach, Sydney. Bottom left – Valentines Day, stencil at Bondi Beach. Bottom right – Bondi FM stencil, Sydney. London, Shoreditch – Paste Ups. Marsha Meredith is a Sydney based artist who’s work focusses aroung the theme of Peter Pan life in the bubble around Sydney’s Bondi. I first came [...]
Explore The Kerb.
Top – Imperial steel typewriter, $95 (awesome!) Bottom left – Sydney bus destination blind, original distressed condition – ok, this one is sold so don’t shoot me, but it looked too good not to include in here. Bottom right – 1950s Housie Housie (bingo) set, complete and in original box, $30. Top – Cut glass [...]
Interview | Sarah Thornton & Brooke Johnston {The Finders Keepers.}
Two little ladies, one huge event - Sarah Thornton & Brooke Johnston in front of The CarriageWorks which is the home of The Finders Keepers market. Selection of images from The Finders Keepers at The CarriageWorks. Such a brilliant venue, no? I am so excited to be able to share with you yet another interview with [...]
Interview | Juliette Arent & Sarah-Jane Pyke {Arent & Pyke.}
Juliette & Sarah-Jane in their Potts Point studio. You know, making fabulous happen. Photo by Nick Scott. Vaucluse House is smoking hot! Photography Will Meppem. Styling Megan Morton. I am extremely proud and super excited to share with you an interview with two very good friends of mine – Sydney based interior designers Juliette Arent [...]
