We really like aluminium and use it whenever we can, it’s recyclable and so much nicer than plastic. (The exclusive tuiss toggles are one of our aluminium coups.)
This coffee table by Italian designer Angelo Tomaiuolo also uses aluminium and thanks to plasma cutting technology a fine but strong lace effect has been created.
Thanks to HomeDosh.
I’m sure we’ve all drooled over a home on the Channel 4 Grand Designs programme, and cringed in sympathy as things have gone totally pear shaped for the poor home owner! There’s a magazine that accompanies the TV programme which features the gorgeous homes as seen on TV, plus there are features on great new products, design icons and trade secrets.
We’re are really pleased that the good people at Grand Designs have featured tuiss in the Radar section of the March issue of their magazine. Karma Zest roller blind is the blind that’s showcased, it’s a fabulous blind that is bursting with colour and interest in vivid chartreuse green.
Click here to have a peek at tuiss in the media.
We truly love Baby Duck Shop, they tick all of our boxes; affordable luxury – their pricing is great, greener by nature – there’s lots and lots of organic and eco items to choose from and of course better by design – they have so many lovely products. We particularly like the upcycled sweaters by Barley and Birch. And incidentally their duck is very cute!
Baby Duck Shop blog, twitter and post on facebook too. Just where does everyone find the time?
As you all know at tuiss we love good design and we love it when we find people that love style and nice things as much as we do. So meet Love Post, who love nice stationery, cards and posters and the delight of opening post! (By the way, order some tuiss samples and you’ll see that we love opening post too! Black tissue paper anyone?!)
In homage to the forthcoming Valentine’s Day I found three great posters.
Welcome to the fabulous new Love Post online boutique, home to beautiful design led stationery and gorgeous posters. The one thing that everyone here at Love Post has in common is that we all LOVE to receive nice post! Spread the Joy… post something fabulous today!
Check out the blog too.
Have you heard of ‘Stylist’ yet? It’s a brand new weekly magazine for style conscious women. What’s more, it’s free on the big city streets as well as being online too.
We really like its mix of fashion, style, home, features and interviews. It’s the new must read for every savvy lady who wants to be at the top in every area of her life.
Stylist clearly knows all about style as they featured our Fleurista Mono blind in this week’s issue.
Can you spot our Fleurista Mono blind?
By the way if you love the look of the Fleurista Mono roller blind then you may be interested to know that we have a cream, green and pink Fleurista too!
Fleurista Pink
Fleurista Mono
Fleurista Green
Who’s Glass is our sort of company, they’re clearly passionate about what they do and their heart is in the right place. And it goes without saying that their products are gorgeous.
Did you know that about 3.6 million tonnes of glass is used in the UK every year and over 1 million tonnes goes to landfill? Who’s Glass is doing their bit to correct this by upcycling old bottles into new things of beauty:
Every bottle we use is collected locally, heated and shaped by hand, then slowly cooled and packed. We take pride in ourselves that our glass is about as environmentally friendly as it possibly can be! We use no glues, either with the glass or in our packaging and every piece is hand engraved instead of labelled.
Over the years I’ve used Wiggly Wigglers many times, in fact my very first purchase with them, which was a can-of-worms wormery back in 2004 is still alive and squirming!
Wiggly Wigglers are based at Lower Blakemere Farm in rural Herefordshire and operate a wonderful business selling responsible and useful things for the garden and some for the home too. Despite offering so many traditional products Wiggly Wigglers are at the cutting edge of technology, you can view their ‘cinema’ as well as listen to their podcasts (which ideally need to be listened to while wearing big socks and clutching a mug of tea!).
You can’t fail to be impressed by Wiggly Wigglers, check out their floristy section and you will never use inter-flora again!
Here at tuiss we hope that you had a lovely Christmas. We all had a great time and are looking froward to 2010 and all our plans.
So without further ado onto the first blog post of the year.
Now we don’t want to assume but this is the time of the year when waist bands are a little tighter than usual and minds turn to easing off on the chocolates and wine!
We have just the thing for you with We Are Bear. We Are Bear produces a range of healthy snacks with no preservatives or additives at all. They also keep their carbon footprint as small as possible and generally try to be good people in all that they do, like paying farmers good prices for good fruit. (By the way if you have children then their fruit Yo Yo’s are a must.)
Apple Crumble
Cherry Berry
Peach Yo Yo
Last week we featured the Rough Luxe Hotel, this week’s hotel though is luxury as you may expect it, the Color Design Hotel has full-on designer feel. Quite fittingly the hotel is based in the heart of Paris in the Bastille sector, the capital’s trendiest quarter.
Every floor of the hotel has its own colour with bright colourful touches and dazzling mosaics, the bright colours sit on white backgrounds and create a totally unique look. Color Design Hotel ticks our design detail box big time!
The nights have drawn in here in the UK. Curtains are being closed across the land, throws are no longer laying decoratively on the back of the sofa but are warming up toes instead. There is light at the end of the tunnel though, we can all start lighting candles again!
I have found a selection of candles and candle holders, some are fairtraded, some made from recycled materials and some are made from soya oil and bees wax. There’s even an olive oil lamp.
For a light hearted take on the environmental issues surrounding candles go to New Scientist.
100% renewable soy wax and fairtrade to boot
100% soy wax in reusable glass jar
Candle in bamboo candle, hand poured in Thailand
Keeps tetra pak from landfill, fairtrade too
Beautiful recycled glass tea light holder
Made in Cornwall from hand painted wind felled timber
Brighter than a candle, uses 99% renewable olive oil, US shipped
Vegetable palm oil tealights, nicer alternative than paraffin based lights
Chunky recycled glass candlestick in a variety of colours
