tuiss Loves :: United Nations World Environment Day

Tomorrow is World Environment Day (WED) and the theme is think, eat, save.

This year’s campaign rallies you to take action from your home and then witness the power of collective decisions you and others have made to reduce food waste, save money, minimise the environmental impact of food production and force food production processes to become more efficient.

For ideas of how to think, eat and save check out some great ideas on the United Nations website, we love the idea of funny fruit, FIFO and Zeroing our fridge. What will you love and do?

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tuiss Loves :: Vintage by Hemingway

Vintage by Hemingway is a stroll back in time to when life was maybe a little less hectic and dresses were definitely more dressy! If you like your colour palette a bit retro and your accessories kitsch then Vintage by Hemingway is absolutely for you.

As collectors and scholars of the history of 20th Century creativity from music, fashion, film, art and design to food we are constantly inspired by this wealth of creativity. Vintage by Hemingway is our tribute to the cultural movements of the 20th Century. From our Vintage inspired product ranges to the magical Vintage Festival. Vintage by Hemingway celebrates the wonderful legacy that has been left to us and reinterprets it for the 21st century.

The Vintage products are a mixed bunch from wallpaper to murals as well as bits and pieces for the kitchen and bathroom. Not satisfied with just selling authentically inspired vintage products Hemingway also organise vintage festivals too. Any plans for 27-28 July yet? See you in Glasgow!

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Vintage Festival, 27-28 July, Glasgow

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Do The Stretch

Do the Stretch Wallpaper

 

V&A Illustration Awards 2013

If you have ten minutes to spare you really should pop over to the V&A website. On centre stage at the moment are the entries for the Illustration Awards, and what an eclectic set of illustrations they are. From poignant sketches to children’s book art, as well as social commentary pieces, there is probably something to inspire us all. The winners will be announced next week.

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tuiss at Evteks Expo

A little over a week ago some of the tuiss team took a trip to Evteks, the absolutely huge fabric and home textiles fair in Istanbul.  With over 1000 exhibitors feet did get a little sore, we did however select some beautiful fabrics for our forthcoming collections. Here’s just a tiny glimpse of what we saw….

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Green Office Week :: Green eco blinds at tuiss

It’s Green Office Week this week and here at tuiss we have some things up our sleeves that will help get your office that bit greener. Here are our top three blinds for a greener office.

1 – Recycled cotton blinds

Made from 100% recycled cotton, these cotton blinds originate from the floor of clothing and textile workshops. Fabric remnants are turned back into their original fibres and then spun once more to make new fabric. Choose from five contemporary colours that will suit an office environment perfectly.

Cotton roller blinds

2 – Recycled PET blinds

Here used drinks bottles have been put to much better use than merely filling up landfill sites.  The recycled bottles are processed to make PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) fabric and it takes six bottles to make a metre. The roller blind fabric is easy to wipe clean and is also anti-bacterial, great for keeping the office healthy. Available in office friendly neutral tones.

Recycled roller blinds

Index White Sand roller blind

3 – Energy saving NRG blinds

Another way to be greener is to cut the energy costs associated with heating or cooling your office. Our energy-saving blinds will work really hard to keep your office space warm in the winter and chilled in the summer, reducing your reliability on heating and air-conditioning. We have a huge range of thermally efficient blinds, choose from roller blinds and vertical blinds as well as our very best energy savers, our pleated duoshade and duolight blinds.

Duoshade Alabaster NRG21

Duoshade Alabaster NRG21 energy saving blind

tuiss Loves :: Rory Dobner

A graduate of Fine Art, Rory Dobner’s beautiful, wonderful and almost always humorous line drawings are fantastic. We particularly like this monocled cat cushion, but there is something for every animal lover, or indeed lover of the ‘quirky’ in his collection. From pesky pigeons to mischievous monkeys as well as the occasional slippery fish, we hope you’ll love his work too.

Cat with a monocle

It’s Our Secret Sale – 10% Off Everything Online

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At tuiss we love to reward existing customers so if you have placed an order, received a sample or simply signed up to our newsletter then help yourself to an additional 10% discount until May 14th.

To claim your discount you must visit our secret sale page, but don’t worry there are no forms to fill in or anything else, simply click the link www.tuiss.co.uk/secret, but don’t tell everyone it’s a secret!

tuiss on facebook

tuiss is now on facebook. Ta dah!

It’s a great place to see our new products, hear about our special offers and generally keep up to date. If you want to see blinds and curtains actually hanging in ‘real homes’ then take a look at our ‘tuiss at home’ album plus we’ve got a lovely album of press cuttings too.

Our community of ‘likes’ is growing so why not nip across and join in the fun?

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tuiss at home albumIn the press

tuiss in the press album