stay home & feather
The devious side of us wants to pass these off as a collection of wares lugged halfway across the planet from our latest exotic jaunt, but the know-it-all show-offs that are will be unable to resist blabbing that these are from IKEA…
(left to right) pre-cut fabric / cushion covers / side plate / pendant lamp shade / cushion covers / flatweave rug
Does your pulse pound for pattern? Do you heat up for hues? IKEA’s new Jassa collection will tick all your print-obsessed colour-craving interior design addicted boxes…
IKEA must have known that the cure for belated winter blues was to shine an array of brilliant, beautiful and hot-climate-inspired vibes directly into our design eyeballs, thus delivering the message that spring will come, and it will be followed by summer.
The new Jassa collection is a heavy nod to the handmade furniture and textiles of South East Asia and from ink-splatter tableware to rattan furniture (for inside or out), the collection oozes relaxed style.
And it’s the textiles and soft-furnishings in particular that so brilliantly celebrate the marriage of pattern and colour.
Any single item would inject a dose of dazzle to a room, and combined – instead of being a potential disparate riot – the design DNA allows every member of this colourful family to sit side-by-side in harmony. Glorious.
Jassa is a limited collection, so stock is unlikely to be around for long.
No room for a bar cart and a lamp and a side table? Cheers to a hybrid of all three! We Frankensteined together a collection of parts to solve the a lack of space issue while turning the home bar into a beacon…
It started with the beautiful plant stand (below, far left) from Hook & Stem… We knew we wanted it but secretly we also knew that we needed a plant stand like a moose needs a hatrack. So it was destined for an alternative purpose.
The pink wire basket (far right) was a Homesense find that smacked of the Ferm Living basket tables we longed to own but are way out of the price range.
The IKEA Sekond cord set came next – again, purchased without a final use in mind, but destined for greatness, especially surrounded by a vintage-look wire bulb cage left over from a previous project…
In the centre (above) are a perfect wooden circular platform and an embroidery hoop – both from Michael’s – that were morphed together to create a lid that fit snuggly into the rim of the wire basket. The embroidery hoop was trimmed to size and glued securely with Goop to keep the makeshift lid from sliding around.
We then covered the top with a bright and brilliant floral scrap from our stockpile and secured it with Mod Podge…
And then it was literally a series of slotting things together:
The legs of the plant stand, the cord set through the basket, the basket into the plant stand, the lid onto the basket and another wireframe basket that was holding our booze stash on the credenza, now sitting atop the whole thing.
And on or off, this takes up the perfect cozy corner of Social Nesting HQ…
Our love of illustrated books goes deep; we find ourselves obsessively frequenting Toronto gem Page & Panel, giddy at the prospect of a new addition to the Sanna Annukka series of fairytale books, and generally being giant kids-at-heart in all of our design pursuits.
Fresh off big love for Christian Robinson‘s take on Josephine, we bow down with a boundless admiration for illustrators and love owning their takes on the stories of others – or sometimes their own – that can truly be judged by their covers…
Maya Hanisch MAMIFEROS PREHISTORICOS DE CHILE / Aurelie Guillerey LA PETITE SIRENE A L’HUILE / Lesley Barnes JILL & DRAGON / Sanna Annukka THE SNOW QUEEN / Peter Brown MR. TIGER GOES WILD / Carson Ellis WILDWOOD CHRONICLES / Paul Rand SPARKLE AND SPIN
A spectacular story perfectly crafted into bite-sized nuggets of groundbreaking historical importance and illustrated with the heart and grace that truly befits the subject. Yes please!
It started, as many lovely things do, with a pin. This pin:
And from there we rabbit-holed it through to the playful work of Christian Robinson and his illustrations for Josephine – The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker.
Robinson unabashedly tapped into the soul of the most gifted preschooler that ever put wax to paper to illustrate this story, spectacularly-told by Patricia Hruby Powell.
We struggle to think of a child or adult who wouldn’t read this incarnation of the Josephine Baker story and not want to know so much more (if they didn’t already) about the Queen of the Harlem Renaissance.
The glorious illustrations are further brought to life in this animated trailer for the book. Simply divine.
We couldn’t resist. And it takes pride of place both on-show and in our hearts here at Social nesting HQ.
