For Love of...Industrial Pendant Lamps

Another thing that keeps catching my avian eyes lately are all the stunning vintage industrial pendant lights to be spotted.

image courtesy Apartment Therapy

What an amazing job lot of lamps below from In My House! Think these folks must have a store, but there is no translation from Swedish, so can't tell...also can't figure out how to subscribe, which is a little frustrating! Must learn Swedish.

This is a great shot. The colours against the sea of white look fantastic.

More pendant fabulousness from Dutch magazine VT Wonen.

Check out the link above for online issues of the magazine, there are some great images.

Vintage Tray Joy

Uh oh. I think I am becoming an ebay addict.

Won this metal tray today, though, and it is causing me much joy...

Yesterday I impulse purchased a series of jewel-like postcards of collages by John Murphy that he has done for Habitat (£3.50 for 10 and worth every penny!).

They are in a similar style to the image below:

I plan to attach one of my favourites to the metal tray with some cool, wooden, animal-shaped magnets, also from Habitat (it was a chance find whilst picking up things for work! Oops.).

I may even win another vintage tray in a few days that I am bidding on, and then I can have them both side by side on a wall. Oooh. Joy. Fingers crossed.

Think they will have a similar 'feel' to these yummy trays  by cool french design company ibride that I have been covetting for months, which you can get at Lifestyle Bazaar in Soho and Shoreditch, but just can't justify spending that much money on at the moment.

Here are a few:

What a gorgeous shot:

As I was checking their beautiful website for photos, I saw these Volubilis stacking stools, which are not just elegantly styled, but stack into a sculptural shape (the woman is sitting on a stack).

Also chanced on these miniatures of their larger tables. Wonder how much these sweet babies are? They would be such unique plinths for little treasures on a shelf or table.

I can't resist adding this shot of the 'Bambi' chest of drawers.

Also this one, the 'Diva' console. One of my favourites.

Their 'alice in wonderland' themed advertising photos are wonderfully whimsical and show their cheeky designs off.

I will try to remember to post an image of the final postcard/tray project when they are done!

Chair After

Always a sucker for 'before and after' segments in other blogs, here is the first of many.

Below is a refresher of what the chair looked like 'before' with it's tatty pleather seat and wobbly joints:

Here are the 'after' photos of the chair newly glued and with it's new peacock linen seat. Having a bit of a swing off the back of the chair is my mate Finbarr (as per a friend's suggestion that I include more of them in my photos!)

I am still undecided about leaving the plywood of the chair back exposed, as it isn't the nicest ply and looks a bit cheap, but think I will leave it for now, as is.

Seaside Charity

Whilst trolling the charity shops on my seaside excursion this weekend, I found a few great things that will keep the projects going for a while.

The  most exciting find was this chair for a fiver, and the gorgeous peacock linen fabric that I am going to recover the seat in! Needs a bit of glue as the joints are loose, but in pretty good nick.

Waffling a bit about whether or not I will cover the back of the chair as well, as it is only plywood, with a bit of damage on one corner. Think I will wait and see what it looks like when the seat is done.

Got to love a deal.