Yay for HAY

HAY is a Danish furniture and accessories company that both designs and manufactures a range of  functional and stylish goods. Whilst HAY products have an undoubtedly contemporary look and feel there is a strong nod to the Danish style of the 50’s and 60’s and this is can be most strongly felt in their range of furniture. As a fan of Verner Panton, Arne Jacobsen, Hans Wegner Danish greats who have all designed chairs that I shamelessly long to add to my collection, I have a lot of respect and admiration for HAY’s ambition to encourage a revival in Danish furniture design.

Furniture aside, I particularly like their stationery items and their eye-catching rulers have a special place on my wish list. Bold, playful and covetable for the stationery aficionado, HAY’s printed beech wood rulers are a welcome departure from the shatterproof wobbly things I used to take to school. With so much to offer and with such a strong commitment to design and create products that are simple, useful and modern I am finding more and more to like about HAY. - Yasumi.

HAY Stockists - Goodhood, Liberty London, Conran Shop, Skandium. 

You can find Yasumi at - Stranger London / Worship Blues / Twitter

Shona Heath for J.Crew Regent Street, London

   

Set designer Shona Heath was recently commissioned to create a unique temporary store front for the lead up to the launch of J.Crew's London store on Regent Street. I for one am really looking forward to them finally opening their doors in London this November, it's a store I enjoy visiting when I'm in America and their customer service is top notch. Let's hope they bring some of that enthusiasm over with them. However, I do wonder what they'll do with the taxis once the store is open?

Alexander & James Giveaway Update - Thank you to everyone who entered the Whiskey + Gin Giveaway,  the winner is....Sarah Waldron! Look out for more giveaways on Buckets & Spades in October.

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10 Favourite Things

The other day I was given an award by Clare from Tweet, whose blog is getting a bit good now eh? To get to know each other a bit better I will share 10 of my favourite(right now, we all know things change from time to time).

1. Favourite Set Design/Illustrator/Stylist

Gary Card. This guy has such a body of work, regularlly contributing to Dazed&Confused, AnOher Man and designed for Uniqlo, Matches and Dover Street Market to name a few.

2.Favourite Shoes

The soon to be released Oliver Spencer for Topman Collection and more specifically, this navy blue suede with brick red sole. They are set for release on 10th May, I'll be online waiting.

3.Favourite Artist

Anyone that has been reading my blog for some time will know I've been pretty much obsessed with surrealism for quite a while. This all started when I visited the Salvador Dali Museum in St.Petersburg, Florida. I'm a bit crazy like that.

4.Favourite Band

My current music musing are mostly 90s and the Britpop era. Suede are doing it for me at the moment. This is mainly due to my girlfriend being so obsessed with music(and most importantly Brett Anderson, the lead singer). They are doing great things for Teenage Cancer Trust.

5. Favourite Style Blog (Non-UK)

The lads over the pond really know what style is, and no more do that Street Etiquette. I've been a follower of their ever evolving "Street Dandy"style for some time and no they are getting much earned exposure.

5.1 Favourite Style Blog (UK)

Style Salvage. This is menswear blogging at its best, I've been reading Style Salvage for many moons now and their constant updates into brands, reviews of shops, introducing new brands and uber cool satirical purchases make me green with envy. (This image is from their recent trip to the Dr Martens factory)

6. Favourite Other

It is safe to say I am totally obsessed with the solar system. It's just amazing how far we have come in 60 years of space travel. I hope everyone is watching Wonders Of The Solar System on BBC2, Sunday's at 9pm. With Prof Brian Cox.

7. Favourite Designer

Stefano Pilati at YSL. He sure knows how to dress a man.

8. Favourite Place

Orlando, Florida. I have been lucky enough to go to Orlando twice in the past 4 years, where we have stayed at my girlfriend's parents villa(not the picture above, I wish. That's a cinema near by).

9. Favourite Furniture Piece

Over the past few months I have really got into interior design, when I finally get my own place I would love to start designing my own pieces. There is so much inspiration out there, my favouite piece right now is this green chair by Adessin. "For out of season sunbathing".

10. Favourite Girl Shape

Me and my girlfriend Hollie have been together now for just over 4 years. Geez, how has she put up with me for so long? Check out her blog Lipstickk, it's all the blend of music and fashion.

So there we have it, if anyone wants to find out anything else about me, just throw your questions in the comment box and I'll be sure to swing by your blogs and answer them the best I can. 

Jacob Sutton's Monochrome

Well monochrome has popped up again, it never really goes away though to be fair. When done with such conviction as this it just looks rather superb, wouldn't you agree? In the light of Tweet's post on Dawid Tomaszewski I thought I'd post one of my current favourite photographers, Jacob Sutton. 


I'd like to take a peek into Sutton's note pads and what-no, something tells me suggests they might be a bit bonkers, in a good way. Some of the set which feature in his shoots are designs by none other than Gary Card, who I'm pretty obsessed with.


If you like these you should check out the rest of his work on his site here. What do you think, pretty exciting eh?!