0 op shopping

I note that I have been lax in my op shopping posts, I think it's because I'm getting more picky. Or maybe because I'm pretty bloody busy right now preparing for bebe, working a big job and trying to keep up my fun creative work. I bought these shelves. I will paint and add tinted perspex (?) and SELL TO YOU! (if you want)

I didn't buy these table bases as I do not need any more tables. If there's anything you ever see me instagram and want me to purch for you ;let me know! Pick up in Sydney only

2 lately

My shiny new scarf arrived from Olive & Clover

I changed up my little DIY chair for Alice who is taking her home to sit at her desk

I became an artist for an afternoon creating something very simple for a new office shoot at my place

and I stumbled across these purple velvet chair at goodwill, is anyone else velvet crazy at the moment? 

0 speaking of triangles

speaking of triangles, i spied this tan leather wassily at goodwill the other day. i feel like i need to become an expert on  how to spot the real from the fake so i did a little research and tis is what i found...

the end of the metal tubes should not have any welding, it should look smooth and continuous, if the ends have caps it's fake. recent models will also have a serial number and breuer's signature stamped on the base. the measurements also have to correspond to the original knoll 

there you have it!

xxx c

2 the golden triangle

you know how i go op shopping all the time sometimes? well i have a name for my favourite haunts, the golden triangle a trio of shops that pretty much always delivers. sometimes when jules asks me where i'm going i say 'triangle' and he knows exactly where i'm at, or he may even ask 'going triangle-ing tomorrow?' such is the frequency of my visits. see, it's the compulsive side of me that really gets fed from this. sometimes i go and there's nada, but that's rare, and even if there isn't anything delicious for me i still love the thrill that maybe there will be. that's the whole point of it for me. people always ask where i go and then they go once themselves give it one 2 second look and when they don't find a vintage hermes tray or an eames chair for $5 they call it quits. you can't be like that if you want to find treasure, you have to go again and again (and again and again) and you have to scour every nook and cranny, every shelf every corner and trust me, you WILL find gold. i could have furnished a house by now (and beautifully) if i had bought everything i had fallen for. 

so the moral of the story is, go find places near you and keep going back, find out when their big deliveries are and keep your peepers fresh and clean. oh, and don't ask me where i go because i'm not telling! (even though i've already told heaps of you!)

so from now on when you hear me say triangle you know what i'm doing

xxx c