Category: Profiles

Introducing … Daniela Castelbranco

Introducing … Daniela Castelbranco

Sometimes meeting someone seems serendipitous. That’s what it felt like to meet Daniela Castelbranco, an Angolan architect, crafter and textile designer who’s now based in Amsterdam. Our paths crossed earlier this year at the African Options! opening where I admired … Continue reading

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The story behind … Skinny laMinx

The story behind … Skinny laMinx

We’re thrilled to have an interview with Heather Moore of Skinny laMinx. Many of our readers might already know her: she’s one of South Africa’s most well-known and loved contemporary textile designers – and bloggers! – at home as well … Continue reading

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The story behind … Missibaba

The story behind … Missibaba

While we were in Cape Town for the Indaba we took the chance to visit the Missibaba studio again. It is such a pleasure to be there, not only because of all the beautiful things hanging around – literally – … Continue reading

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Amaridian Gallery NY

Amaridian Gallery NY

As regular readers may (or may not) have noticed, blogging has been on the backburner somewhat recently for me. It’s summer here in Europe and that means everything winds down a notch. Lovely. Now if we could just get the … Continue reading

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Spring jaunts and jaunty creatures

Spring jaunts and jaunty creatures

Firstly thanks for all the feedback on last week’s post – it’s really great to get comments from actual readers, otherwise I can slip into thinking the blog view count is generated by bored teenagers looking for pictures of Beyoncé … Continue reading

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