Falaknuma Palace: Mirror of the Sky
Hyderabad. It felt like 1895, calling images of the sixth Nizam (administrator of the realm or “king”) of Hyderabad, Mehbook Ali Khaan, to mind, alighting from his royal carriage. Sore […]
Category Archives: Inspiration
Upcycling for Your Holiday Decor
It’s Christmas Day and I promise to keep this blog, long overdue in writing, short and sweet. In my previous posts, I have long promoted the view that very few […]
Inspiration for Creative Textile Designs: from “Bombacha” to City Park
What do Brazilian bombachas – the traditional pants of Brazilian gauchos – have in common with a walk in the park? Though it may not immediately seem so, there is a fairly […]
Clarity and Mystery … the secret to good design?
Graphics Designer Chip Kidd identifies good design by putting it to a test. Good design can be clear or mysterious. What really matters, however, is that it is usefully clear or mysterious.
Moodboards: An easy yet effective way to communicate design ideas and vision
Digital moodboards help develop and share design ideas. Online apps such as olioboard offer easy to use tools to create fairly realistic visions of future designs.
True Beauty is “Born” , Not Created!
Last month, I visited the newest, lifestyle focused addition to the Eslite Spectrum bookstore in Taiwan – their Songyan Store which is housed in a renovated tobacco factory. Think of […]
Decorating with Obis
Tokyo. Several years ago a friend of mine suggested that I should look into obis to accessorize our place. She had lived for many years in Japan, so it came quite […]
Worldbuilding
Hi! I’m back! It’s me again! (Natasha, in case you were confused by the sudden influx of enthusiasm and superfluous exclamation marks. I am the Daughter.) So… worldbuilding. It’s a […]
Borrowing The Mopane Worm’s Coat
Ngala (South Africa). We “met” them – the Mopani (lat. Gonimbrasia belina) – in the middle of the bush. Beautiful animals: extremely colourful (almost neon!), spiky, showing lots of contrasts […]
Sketchbooks
Hi, my name is Natasha and I am Sabine’s daughter (joy!) Well, today she decided that she’d rather I finally pulled some weight and wrote an actual blog post (instead […]
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