November 5, 2025 • 29 mins
Bree & Lauren round up their top five for October with colour, craft, and comfort at the centre. From tiled furniture and Tasmanian-inspired rugs to smarter sheers, Ikea edits, and a Milanese armchair, we share what’s worth your money and why it matters.
• Tiled furniture by Matthew Raw as durable statement pieces
• Wild South rug collection and the new book ' A Visual Feast' by Jono Fleming
• Mokum sheers and smarter colour ranges from Warwick
• Ikea walkthrough strategy and notable collabs
• Studiopepe’s Shibari chair and why sculptural seating matters
• Weave Home’s Fabien rug as an everyday base
• Maker & Son x Studio ALM for comfort and joyful textiles
• Ola Mexicola launch and playful homewares
• ManyChat Instagram Summit takeaways for creators
• Lily Allen’s new album 'West End Girl' and creative momentum
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Speaker (00:00):
Welcome to Design Anatomy, the Interior Design
Podcast hosted by friends andfellow designers, me, Bree
Banfield.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
And me, Lauren Li with some amazing guest
appearances along the way.
We're here to break downeverything from current trends
to timeless style.
Speaker (00:14):
With a shared passion for joyful, colour-filled and
lived-in spaces.
We're excited to share ourinsight and inspiration with
you.
And today we thought we wouldstart giving you a bit of a
roundup at the end of eachmonth.
Our top five, which we've beendoing, nice quick little
episodes for you that give yousome great information.
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So we're gonna go through ourtop five for October.
I can't believe October's done,by the way.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I feel the same.
It's just ridiculous, isn't it?
And we are getting intoChristmas mode.
Speaker (00:51):
It's there, isn't it?
It happened so fast this year.
Mariah Carey singing in thebackground already.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Um, okay, so um this month there I've got a few
things I want to share with youguys.
The first one is tiledfurniture.
I really love tiles, and I havenoticed.
You do?
I do love a tile.
I love all the tiles.
I love tiled coffee tables, andI've noticed that Polly designs
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do great tables, coffee tables,plinths, and everything like
that.
And they're based in Melbourne.
But when we went on our triplast year, I stopped over in
London and I came across thisamazing cabinet that was
completely tiled.
And it's been living in my headrent-free ever since.
And I saw it in London.
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It's a place called the NewCraft Maker, and the maker is uh
his name is Matthew Raw, R A W,if you wanted to look him up.
And he's based between Londonand Paris.
So he creates the tiles andalso creates these amazing
pieces.
Oh, so he's creating the tilesas well.
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Yeah, so there's ceramic tiles,they sort of have a zilige sort
of look to them, that beautifulhandmade quality.
Um so I have been coveting atiled coffee table for a while.
So I have to just decide.
Speaker (02:17):
Like, how could you file I almost felt like you were
about to go?
So I ordered one.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I know.
I've been thinking about it,but I I how could I decide?
I don't know, it'spossibilities.
Speaker (02:30):
I don't know.
This isn't um at part of my topfive, but uh Bonnie and Neil
also make, I guess, um, probablya bit more affordable than the
bespoke uh one you saw and not acabinet, a coffee table.
That really some little coffeetable and side table set with a
timber frame and a tile top aswell, which are really cute.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I did see those.
They are so cute.
Um, I love their cushions andstuff as well.
Speaker (02:55):
Yeah, no, beautiful.
Lots of colour, lots of greatpattern.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker (02:59):
Love Bonnie.
Love beautiful people.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
They are.
What about you?
What are you loving?
Speaker (03:05):
Okay, so I have tried to keep mine to new things for
October, which is hard becausewe lose track of everything,
right?
Uh, I think I've managed to doit, let's see, or close to.
Um, so my first one is Jono ,our friend Jono Fleming,
released a new collection withdouble rugs called, I think it's
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called Wild South.
She's as she says, as she checknotes, checks them out.
They are so gorgeous.
They're really beautiful.
Um, I mean, I knew they he'd doa stunning job, but um, I
already specified why didn'tjob.
Have you?
I'm not surprised.
I just didn't told him umbecause they're just the colours
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were just really pretty too.
I specified the um the Tasman,which is it's described as
brown, but it's very red base,it's kind of plummy kind of
tones, you know, sort of brickpattern.
But you know, the story behindit's really beautiful.
Take a you take a minute tojump on the website and and look
it up.
It's called the Wild SouthCollection, and it's all about
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inspiration from Tasmania, whichhe and his husband, they were
recently married there, and theykind of fell in love with
Tasmania.
And so sort of it's got areally it comes from such a
beautiful place.
So yeah, very Australian aswell.
I love that.
So yeah, go and check out JohnOzier collection.
I think pretty affordable too,like in a in a good space.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Um, that is so funny.
Speaker (04:32):
Yeah, have you got that on your list?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
No, I've sp no, I've specified that exact same rug as
well.
It was it was just aconsultation that I did, but I
put that one forward.
Yeah, it's a pinkish browncolour, it's beautiful.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker (04:44):
Isn't that stunning?
Yeah, beautiful.
I'd like to see it in thisspace.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Same.
Oh, I love that.
Yeah, very clever.
And um, we have to obviouslymention John O's amazing book
that's just come out.
I had that too.
Okay, I'll leave that for youto talk about.
Speaker (04:57):
No, no.
Well, you know, it's kind oflike one of the same.
I put Johnno Double Rugs andNew Book.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Amazing.
Speaker (05:04):
So yeah, technically one, technically two of the top,
top five.
Um, but the book is reallystunning too.
I think he's just put a lot ofwork into he's someone that is
all about the detail, um, a verymuch of my ilk, you know, and
doesn't do things by half andworks very hard.
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Um, and the new book kind ofyou can see it, you can see the
detail in the cover and the umthe beautiful printed pages on
the edge.
I don't that I think that has atechnical term when they do
that.
Or on the coffee table withyours.
So yeah, isn't that cool?
And I have friends that writebooks and I've got their books
on my coffee table.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I just got John O's book as well, and I have to sit
down and read it, but it ispacked with value.
Like it's not just a book thatyou're gonna quickly skim
through, like you want to readand you want to dive in.
And I just read the the firstum sort of page where he sort of
acknowledges, does he?
Yeah, he kind of acknowledgeswho's sort of helped with the
book and everything and where itthe whole origin of it.
(06:08):
Um that I'm gonna sit down.
I was literally just at mycomputer pretty practically all
weekend, so I haven't had thechance to have that downtime to
sit down and just read it, butit's beautiful.
Speaker (06:19):
It is stunning.
So is that your number two?
Well, did you know it wasn't?
But I'm so glad that we let'sgo with your number two.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well, my number two is Mochum Fabrics at the moment.
I'm doing some stunning fabricdesigns.
There is a shear that I havespecified, it's called Ronde,
and it's like a colouredwatercolour, kind of cloud-like
shapes.
Speaker (06:42):
I also just borrowed that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's beautiful.
I'm not surprised.
I've seen a few designers, youknow, put it in projects already
and um loving it.
There's also one calledAssemblage, which is like an
unconventional take on like acollage where these um
embroidery stitching andfringing kind of overlap in a
stripe sort of pattern on like alinen background.
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It's beautiful.
And another one, quadrata,which is like a really large
check.
Speaker (07:11):
So it's like love that one.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I really want to specify that one.
It's like translucent andtextural sort of geometric shear
because I love a shear.
We all love a shear, butsometimes we're like, what else
is there?
Speaker (07:28):
Yeah, especially those texture ones.
That one's one of my favorites.
I've got that like literally onmy desk to go into a project as
well.
Because, yeah, because of thatexact reason.
Like it's like I want this justto have a little more elevation
and there's you know a wholewall of shears.
So if you can kind of, I don'tknow, make it a little more
interesting.
I like it.
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I like I think this is where alot of this the shears are
going, you know.
With I still love a plain shearas long as it's got some
beautiful texture and I don'tspecify white shears very often.
So it also it's really trickyto find ranges that have a good
range of colours, don't have tobe bright colours, but I like a
bit of nuance in the colour.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Agree.
Speaker (08:07):
Um, which, you know, Laconia Air used to be one of my
favorites.
Have you specified that before?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh, it's a big colour.
Speaker (08:14):
And they've just reviewed the they've just
reviewed the colours and theytook out like there was that
ballet colour that's was soft,warm um pink.
Oh but like in a good pink thatkind of worked with all the
terracotta's and um clay coloursthat we seem to be using a lot
of or have been, and they'vetaken it out.
So like I was really like, oh,that's probably one of the best
colours.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Oh, but I'm not surprised because they must just
sell white and cream all daylong.
Speaker (08:40):
I know exactly, and that's why it's hard to once I
find a good range.
Um, actually, Warwick have onenow, and I want to say it's
called Shiloh off the top of myhead.
I only just kind of discoveredit, and it does have a really
good range of colours.
It's not as high-end as theLaconia Air, which like that was
a pure linen, it's more I thinkit's a linen mix, so it doesn't
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quite have that weight of it,but like sometimes you just need
bright colour and you justbeautiful.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
They're doing great things.
Speaker (09:11):
Like them.
I hazard my number two is umIKEA.
I did it, I did an IKEA walkthe other day.
So I don't do them very often.
If I order stuff from IKEA, Igo in through the back and I go
directly to what I need becauseI am a tragic IKEA shopper that
would go to get one thing andcome out with 20.
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That's where they get veryinfluenced.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It's not your fault.
That's the way they plan it.
Speaker (09:38):
It doesn't cost much, and I feel like I could use
this.
And so uh I was actuallypicking something up with um my
youngest, who's such a lovelyboy and will, you know, just
kind of come around come alongfor the for the walk, although
he was definitely rolling hiseyes at the end.
But I said, let's just do awalkthrough.
I haven't done a walkthrough ina while.
We've got time.
(09:58):
We've got time wasn't actuallya lie because I thought it might
have taken us like half anhour, and I think we were there
for like an hour and a halfbecause I just thought, I just
haven't, you know, sometimes Ihave a look and like I use IKEA,
I guess, sparingly in even inprojects where like we just need
a couple of good, like there'sa couple of great chairs or
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whatever it is.
We don't have the budget, it'sin the study or it's in the kids
area.
You know, I own a bit of IKEAbecause again, like there's just
been some great pieces and Iknow what works.
And also there's a lot ofordinary stuff.
But it's good to go through itand have a look and go, okay,
actually, this this is way nicerthan I thought uh that I saw
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online or something that Ihaven't seen and didn't pay
attention to.
I've got a really good sofa atthe moment.
I can't think of the name ofthat one, but um, but anyway, so
I was hoping there might havebeen some just random pieces
less left of the um GustavWestman uh collab, which
literally there were peoplelining up, you know, probably in
sleeping bags or whatever toget that.
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And I think it just sold outthe morning it was released.
So I'm hoping they will releasesome more things.
Um there's a couple of greatlamps and things in that range.
I always love it when they do agreat collab.
They usually pick some amazingum people who also love colour
usually.
So there's always some greatpieces.
Um, but yeah, so loving thatcollab, if you can you can
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probably, I don't know, do a bitof an eBay slash, I don't know,
Etsy slash something wherethey're probably reselling it
for far more than it actuallycosts if you're desperate to
find some.
I know some people that gotsome multiple pieces, but they
did have to line up and be therethat morning.
And then they got whatever waskind of given to them, allocated
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to them.
So it was a whole big thing.
Um, but yeah, anyway, I just Idid see some cool stuff in IKEA.
I did buy more than I should.
I went, I did need to buy amirror and I did buy a really
great, it's just a white framemirror, which I'm gonna paint.
Uh, because I I really need afull-length mirror.
All the ones that I want aretoo expensive.
Mirrors are really expensive.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Oh, over a thousand dollars, easy.
Yeah.
Speaker (12:03):
Um, so that's not happening at the moment.
I don't have the the the sparefunds for like uh the ones that
I actually want.
So I thought, what have IKEAgot?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
But what a great place to save.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
I think I know the mirror thatit's a really fine white frame.
Speaker (12:18):
Yeah, it's just it's like simple soup.
Yeah, just a simple one.
The inside's on a slight angle,and I'll just tape it and um
I've got paint already frompainting some other stuff, like
property.
Of course you do that, youknow.
Yeah.
So I'll paint that and just putit in the room.
And I might do, I might do somestraps.
I'll see how it that trips.
Ah, you know, mask some, youknow, anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Stay tuned, love it.
Um, I think that, yeah, IKEA,if you can go in there
strategically and like you wantto avoid the the lack shelf, the
thick, floating shelf.
Oh, yes.
There's things that you justwould not touch.
They're so done.
I'm putting together a bit of areel, actually.
You know, you see those reelssometimes on Instagram, the top
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kicks.
So I've been kind of goingthrough what I think is good as
well.
But yeah, we we went a fewweeks ago, and of course, you
know, the girls think it's justthe ultimate in fine dining to
go to the IKEA restaurant.
Not fine dining.
But what is it about puttingfood on a tray that is so
appealing?
They love that.
So, anyway, we did that, but Ithink IKEA very clever.
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My third pick is our favoritegirl, our favorite gals in
Milan, Studio Pepe.
Speaker (13:31):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I saw that they just showed an armchair at Artisima,
which is an art fair that Ithink is happening now or soon.
It's called the Shibariarmchair, and it's got this
really clever twisted backdetail.
Yeah.
And I just love everything thatthey do.
Speaker (13:49):
Um, yeah, no, that's so true.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
They're so talented, aren't they?
They're so clever, they're suchgreat designers, they're so
talented at creating thatexperience.
You know, being able toexperience their installations
in Milan is just one of myfavorite highlights.
And actually, um, when I firstwent to Milan, I think it was
2017.
I um somehow a brand gave me anopportunity to visit one of
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their apartments uh on the pressday, I think it was.
And I met them.
I met them, Brie.
As if they were ever.
I don't know.
Speaker (14:21):
You already told me, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I'll probably I'll just drop it into conversation
as well.
Um, so yes, they have thisreally cool armchair.
So I'm loving that at themoment too.
Speaker (14:30):
Very good.
Okay, so my next one is also alike a recent release.
Oh, rugs again.
Gosh, I'm on I'm on the rugs.
There's so many good ones.
Um, and that's Weave Home, whodo really beautiful homewares.
They're like a subsidiary ofQuark Fabrics, um, great
cushions, really good go-tocushions.
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Okay.
And they also do rugs, andthey've just released a new one
called Um Fabian, which is justa really beautiful, um, kind of
fairly natural colour range, andit has that sort of sizal look,
but with like the littlefringed edges on either side.
Okay.
And I'm kind of loving thesubtle, or kind of complex but
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subtle, earthy tones thatthey've got because I think
they'll work so well with somany different spaces, even if
you've got kind of brightercolour, they're a really good
base.
So, yeah, I would check outcheck out their rugs.
I think they're quite goodquality too for a great price.
Also, they're well always aboutthat, you know, good
affordability too.
I think that's important.
Yeah.
Um, so not patterned, like kindof quite different to the
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double look, but yeah, stillreally, still really lovely.
And you know, if you're lookingkind of for a refresh, I think
a rug is a good option to kindof change the whole feel of a
space.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, and I'm sure we can all appreciate what a
$20,000 rug is.
Like we can appreciate thatthat's been handcrafted by
somebody who's just literallysat there with that rug for six
months.
Yeah.
But if you have pets, if youhave a family, and if you don't
want to walk on eggshells, thenyou you can kind of, you know,
there's definitely a a place fora rug that is in a more
(16:07):
affordable bracket, but stilllooks gorgeous.
So can you just buy a rug fromthe Warwick website or is it
trade only, or how does it work?
Speaker (16:15):
No, so uh yeah, you can go straight onto the Weave Home
website.
I think they they also havebeen doing a little bit of work
with them and they do have alike an AR function so you can
like see the rug in your space,you know, take a photo and put
the rug in there.
So that's what's a little playshow.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Cool.
Um, my number four is the Makerand Sun and Studio Elm
collaboration.
So I I went up to Sydney a fewweeks ago, and I the first thing
I did when I got there was tocheck out those amazing
armchairs.
So make it and sun is thepinnacle of comfort.
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If you're looking for anextremely comfortable sofa, so
comfort is your number one, andthey are aesthetic as well.
I think they look great, theyare a plump sort of sink into
feather cushions, that type ofthing.
This was a really clevercollaboration.
So they partnered with StudioElm, who are based in Sydney,
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and they distribute India Madaviand a few brands.
It's it's really actually quiteplayful, colourful, joyful,
which is kind of our vibe,right, Brie.
Speaker (17:23):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
And the fabrics that they chose are really different.
I know I was chatting to thelovely guy.
Oh, I'm gonna have to remember.
So Make It and Sun are nowdistributed by Oh, yeah, you're
right.
Speaker (17:38):
Uh, because I went into the little pop-up in Richmond
and saw they had the um actuallyhad the studio Elm pieces in
the window there too.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Okay.
So Make It and Sun is now underthe crafted furniture brand
umbrella.
So you can go into the craftedshowroom and you can see Maker
and Sun.
So that's great because Makerand Sun previously didn't have a
showroom.
You had to, it was a reallycute concept with a mobile kind
of service where they would havea van and you could, I don't
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know if they still do thatanymore.
But anyway, the fabrics they'vechosen are really colourful and
playful.
They're made in places likeSenegal.
They use these Swedish beachblankets, which I didn't even
know were a thing.
And the fabric is designed bydifferent talented people from
all around the world, so it'svery individual and it's it
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ticks the comfort, theaesthetic, the colour, like it's
ticking all the boxes.
Speaker (18:34):
Yeah.
Except it's really highquality.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah.
Speaker (18:38):
Yeah, yeah.
So obviously, with all of thatcome, you know, comes a price
tag.
But you know, if you reallywant to invest in something,
they're definitely pieces thatare going to last an extremely
long time.
They're like, you know, yourfuture heirloom chair that gets
re-upholstered by thegrandchildren or something.
So true.
Um, and you can see thequality.
They do have the pop-up in inChurch Street in Richmond, which
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I don't know how long permanentthat is, but I think they're
still there at the moment.
And they did have a couple ofthe studio elm pieces in the
window, which is what actually Iwas sort of in the area doing
something else, and I went, Oh,it's that in there because of
the colour.
unknown (19:13):
Yeah.
Speaker (19:14):
And then realized it was them.
So yeah, and then you can kindof see the quality and and
everything in there.
But yeah, no, I agree.
Great, great softs.
And a lot, and a lot of theirstuff is all removable covers as
well, which people kind of lovethe idea of.
So depending on the fabric andthings, you can actually remove
the covers or change the coversor have them cleaned, etc.
So I guess there's there's apracticality element there,
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isn't there?
True.
Uh, okay, so um was reallyfortunate to attend the launch
of Venton and Venting's NewRange, which is I keep wanting
to say it's called Mexicola,which is close.
It's called Ola Mexicola, whichis kind of cute, but just
really colourful, fun pieces.
I really loved their um plateset, so they had like cute
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little motifs in there.
They've also even got like ajersey, kind of like a um soccer
jersey, which I thought wasreally cute, and shorts, which I
kind of want that outfit.
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
They sold clothing.
Speaker (20:10):
Yeah, they did a actually did a collab, and I'm
gonna check who it was with.
Sounds super cute.
R Sport, R Dot Sport.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Okay.
Speaker (20:20):
Um, so they're local, Melbourne local makers of like
um, I guess sportwear.
Sure.
And they did a little um collabwith them, and it's so cute.
So at the event there was a lotof both men and women rocking
that outfit, and it made me go,I want, I want to do that.
But it's really cute.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I love it.
Oh, we can't wait to see.
Speaker (20:41):
Yeah, so that was a really, I don't know, just just
something a bit left of centre,but the range is quite big.
It's all super colourful,there's beautiful tablecloths
and dinner wear and bags andyeah, lots of things that
they're kind of grouped togetherthat work in the Ola Mexicola.
Um, but I just I think they'rethey're doing really well.
Gosh, another company who'skind of, you know, was in
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trouble and and had done reallywell since somebody else stepped
in to help them out.
And I think they're kind of, Idon't know, doing really nice
stuff.
So let's go and have a look attheir Ola Mexicola range.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I will.
Speaker (21:15):
And they always do look, I think we've talked about
gosh, I think I talked aboutFinch and Pinchin last time on
the when we were talking aboutart, because they do really have
such a great range of, youknow, some affordable, some a
bit more artworks as well.
Such a great good go-to forthat.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
For sure.
Um, my last one is a bitnon-design related, but it's
been so good.
And I have been learning aboutall of the changes about
Instagram.
So apparently there's like awhole lot lot of new things that
they're launching and changing,which I know people get a bit
upset about because they'relike, no one sees my stuff
anymore.
It was this um Instagram Summitby ManyChat.
Speaker (21:53):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
It was it was live.
You could attend live, but itwas all recorded.
So you can just tune in.
And I think it's available tillthe last week of November.
But um, if you want to learnabout Instagram, like I would
highly recommend it.
There's a whole lot of amazingum speakers in there on
different topics aboutInstagram.
But it's been reallyinteresting learning about, you
(22:14):
know, how to create content thatis going to attract new people
or how do you nurture yourexisting sort of audience?
Little tips, entertaining, Iguess they're kind of like
tutorials in a way, and you cankind of grab a little bit of
information from everyone.
And I was just at my computerdoing some documentation and I
just had it playing on in thebackground.
(22:34):
So if you are curious, it'scalled many chat.
So many chat's that thing, it'slike an automating thing.
I don't know if you follow meon Instagram, comment the word,
blah, blah, blah, and you getthe DM.
That's many chat, but they havethis really great summit.
So that's what my non-designrelated tip would be for the
past month.
Speaker (22:54):
Well, I have a non-related non-design related,
which I was trying to make itslightly design related, and I
think you'll be well on boardwith this one, and that is Lily
Allen's new album and fineobsession.
Obsessed, obsessed.
You know, the way I can tiethat into interiors is you know,
you remember they did the AD,you know, the classic AD
(23:17):
walkthrough.
And now that you know, ifyou've been following this and
you know a little bit more aboutDavid and you watch that again,
it's kind of creepy.
Kind of creepy, especially andtrue.
It's funny.
I think just watching theirdynamic is so funny because I I
really didn't pick up on itbefore because I think Denis,
I'm a Stranger Things fan, andhis character in Stranger
(23:38):
Things, I'm a huge fan of.
And I think that you I I maybeprojected that a little bit onto
him, knowing nothing about himat all as an actual person.
So I just and I love Lily Allenand have we both love Lily
Allen.
Definitely and have for areally long time.
So just for me, she seemed likeshe was really happy.
And I was like, oh my god,they're so cute together, blah,
(23:59):
blah, blah, blah.
Anyway, flash forward and uh Ithink it's two, two or three
years since they were married.
That has now, I guess it wasquite public.
But the album that she justlike launched without kind of
without warning, and I think sherecorded it in about two and a
half weeks.
If you want to, if you'reinterested in her, go read about
it because it's quiteinteresting.
But the album's actuallyamazing, but it is very scathing
(24:21):
and quite detailed in terms ofthe breakdown of the marriage
and the things that happened.
Um, but in a very, verytypical, very, very clever Lily
Allen way.
Um, yeah.
So if you want to get obsessedabout something for you know, if
you've got time to do somerabbit hole digging, which is
kind of what happened with me.
And I think you too, Lauren.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
My algorithm is just feeding me all of it.
Speaker (24:47):
Um anyway, so that's my that's my other not, that's my
non-design related.
Yes, semi, semi-slightly designadjacent.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Well, I mean, the her podcast Miss Me with Mikita
Oliver, like I'm a huge fan ofthat podcast.
And you would see her talkingin that house in the backdrop.
She had this like tiger printchair and it looks amazing.
Like the house is so cool andeverything.
Speaker (25:09):
The house is very cool.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
But then a few weeks ago, Lily Allen said that she
wasn't going to be able to joinMiss Me, and she'd had a few
little breaks and stuff, andpeople were sort of wondering,
oh, is she creating new music?
And she'd she'd talk about itevery now and then, creating new
music.
Speaker (25:24):
So I was hoping that it's seven years or something
since she'd released anything,right?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, yeah.
I remember she did this reallygreat cover of uh Licky Lee's
song, like the Swedish artist,on the Laca version, and I just
love that.
It's cool deep end that song.
Anyway, um, so anyway, I'm afan of Lily Allen and that I'm
so excited for her success andjust the recognition and
(25:49):
everything, right?
Because that her last album waslike a major flop, which was
sad.
So yeah, I think that's agreat, it's it's occupying a lot
of my brain.
So yes.
Speaker (25:59):
I think it's kind of very key that I mean, she that
it is an excellent album.
It's not just a great albumbecause it's like, ooh, gossipy,
and like, oh my god, I can'tbelieve he did that.
So true.
Um, it's actually uh like thereare some absolute bangers on
there, like an absolutelyslapped.
So I feel like she's she'sreally come into her own in
(26:19):
terms of I think she's mostshe's out of her best creatively
when she has something to say.
And I felt like that's what shejust all poured out of her, and
it's kind of, I think maybeeven some of her best work, to
be honest.
But we'll see what's justspace.
But it's been great watchingher Instagram and you know, the
whole, I guess, the big not aglow up because she's always
been stunning, but more justlike being out and about and
(26:42):
looking frigging fabulous.
And then the Halloween, becauseyou know, we just have everyone
doing the Halloween stuff whenshe trust up this Madeline.
If you know the song, that wasfor me, that was like, oh my
god, it was like genius, toogood.
Yeah, too good.
Yeah, oh that's oh, and whenshe she posted about going to
buy the bag at Bergdoff, did yousee that?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I didn't see that one.
The expensive bag.
Oh, I love it.
No, I did see that.
I did now you remember, yeah, Iremember.
Speaker (27:12):
Sorry, sorry.
I know we're probably beingmaybe slightly niche now.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
But you know what?
Speaker (27:17):
If you know, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I think that you know, my girls, they're 11 and
nearly 13, they listen toobviously Taylor Swift.
I mean, I I I can lean intothat.
I wouldn't probably choose toplay it.
They love Sabrina Carpenter,who I'm not a huge fan of.
Um, but for our age, Bree, wehave Lily Allen, and it's so
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awesome that you know we'vegrown up with her in a way, and
now she's getting her, you know,this amazing recognition.
And there's yeah, there's uhmusic that's kind of created for
our tar because I know that alot of my friends in the past
recent few years have comethrough a marriage, come through
the other side of divorce.
(28:00):
So it's a very relatable story,unfortunately, for a lot of our
recognition, our era.
So I just think that's justreally cool.
Speaker (28:11):
Yes, she is, she's awesome.
Yeah, um, that's our wrap-upfor October.
We'll give you another one inNovember.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
But yeah, yeah, we'll have an exciting episode next
week, don't we, Bree?
So stay tuned for that one.
Speaker (28:23):
We've got lots of exciting ones coming up.
I know um you've been listeningto a lot of us lately, but it's
because we're building uh likea ridiculous amount of great
guests in the background thatare coming up.
So hopefully you're still likelistening to us anyway.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yes.
Well, did you know that ourpodcast was number five the
other day in the design shop?
Crazy, I know.
So we were number seven andthen we jumped up to five.
And I mean, it's something Idon't check on the daily, but I
was like, oh gee, that's prettycool.
Like we're up in some big ones,Bree.
Yeah.
Thanks for listening.
Speaker (28:58):
We love you guys.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Oh, we do.
All right, thanks.
Have a good week, Brie.
Talk soon.
You too.
Bye.
We've got the utmost respectfor the Wurundjeri people of the
Kulin Nation.
They're the OG custodians ofthis unceded land and its
waters, where we set up shop,create, and call home and come
to you from this podcast today.
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A big shout out to all of theamazing elders who have walked
before us, those leading the wayin the present, and the
emerging leaders who will carrythe torch into the future.
We're just lucky to be on thisjourney together.
Welcome to Design Anatomy, the Interior Design
Podcast hosted by friends andfellow designers, me, Bree
Banfield.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
And me, Lauren Li with some amazing guest
appearances along the way.
We're here to break downeverything from current trends
to timeless style.
Speaker (00:14):
With a shared passion for joyful, colour-filled and
lived-in spaces.
We're excited to share ourinsight and inspiration with
you.
And today we thought we wouldstart giving you a bit of a
roundup at the end of eachmonth.
Our top five, which we've beendoing, nice quick little
episodes for you that give yousome great information.
(00:36):
So we're gonna go through ourtop five for October.
I can't believe October's done,by the way.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I feel the same.
It's just ridiculous, isn't it?
And we are getting intoChristmas mode.
Speaker (00:51):
It's there, isn't it?
It happened so fast this year.
Mariah Carey singing in thebackground already.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Um, okay, so um this month there I've got a few
things I want to share with youguys.
The first one is tiledfurniture.
I really love tiles, and I havenoticed.
You do?
I do love a tile.
I love all the tiles.
I love tiled coffee tables, andI've noticed that Polly designs
(01:21):
do great tables, coffee tables,plinths, and everything like
that.
And they're based in Melbourne.
But when we went on our triplast year, I stopped over in
London and I came across thisamazing cabinet that was
completely tiled.
And it's been living in my headrent-free ever since.
And I saw it in London.
(01:42):
It's a place called the NewCraft Maker, and the maker is uh
his name is Matthew Raw, R A W,if you wanted to look him up.
And he's based between Londonand Paris.
So he creates the tiles andalso creates these amazing
pieces.
Oh, so he's creating the tilesas well.
(02:02):
Yeah, so there's ceramic tiles,they sort of have a zilige sort
of look to them, that beautifulhandmade quality.
Um so I have been coveting atiled coffee table for a while.
So I have to just decide.
Speaker (02:17):
Like, how could you file I almost felt like you were
about to go?
So I ordered one.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I know.
I've been thinking about it,but I I how could I decide?
I don't know, it'spossibilities.
Speaker (02:30):
I don't know.
This isn't um at part of my topfive, but uh Bonnie and Neil
also make, I guess, um, probablya bit more affordable than the
bespoke uh one you saw and not acabinet, a coffee table.
That really some little coffeetable and side table set with a
timber frame and a tile top aswell, which are really cute.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I did see those.
They are so cute.
Um, I love their cushions andstuff as well.
Speaker (02:55):
Yeah, no, beautiful.
Lots of colour, lots of greatpattern.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker (02:59):
Love Bonnie.
Love beautiful people.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
They are.
What about you?
What are you loving?
Speaker (03:05):
Okay, so I have tried to keep mine to new things for
October, which is hard becausewe lose track of everything,
right?
Uh, I think I've managed to doit, let's see, or close to.
Um, so my first one is Jono ,our friend Jono Fleming,
released a new collection withdouble rugs called, I think it's
(03:27):
called Wild South.
She's as she says, as she checknotes, checks them out.
They are so gorgeous.
They're really beautiful.
Um, I mean, I knew they he'd doa stunning job, but um, I
already specified why didn'tjob.
Have you?
I'm not surprised.
I just didn't told him umbecause they're just the colours
(03:48):
were just really pretty too.
I specified the um the Tasman,which is it's described as
brown, but it's very red base,it's kind of plummy kind of
tones, you know, sort of brickpattern.
But you know, the story behindit's really beautiful.
Take a you take a minute tojump on the website and and look
it up.
It's called the Wild SouthCollection, and it's all about
(04:09):
inspiration from Tasmania, whichhe and his husband, they were
recently married there, and theykind of fell in love with
Tasmania.
And so sort of it's got areally it comes from such a
beautiful place.
So yeah, very Australian aswell.
I love that.
So yeah, go and check out JohnOzier collection.
I think pretty affordable too,like in a in a good space.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Um, that is so funny.
Speaker (04:32):
Yeah, have you got that on your list?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
No, I've sp no, I've specified that exact same rug as
well.
It was it was just aconsultation that I did, but I
put that one forward.
Yeah, it's a pinkish browncolour, it's beautiful.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker (04:44):
Isn't that stunning?
Yeah, beautiful.
I'd like to see it in thisspace.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Same.
Oh, I love that.
Yeah, very clever.
And um, we have to obviouslymention John O's amazing book
that's just come out.
I had that too.
Okay, I'll leave that for youto talk about.
Speaker (04:57):
No, no.
Well, you know, it's kind oflike one of the same.
I put Johnno Double Rugs andNew Book.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Amazing.
Speaker (05:04):
So yeah, technically one, technically two of the top,
top five.
Um, but the book is reallystunning too.
I think he's just put a lot ofwork into he's someone that is
all about the detail, um, a verymuch of my ilk, you know, and
doesn't do things by half andworks very hard.
(05:25):
Um, and the new book kind ofyou can see it, you can see the
detail in the cover and the umthe beautiful printed pages on
the edge.
I don't that I think that has atechnical term when they do
that.
Or on the coffee table withyours.
So yeah, isn't that cool?
And I have friends that writebooks and I've got their books
on my coffee table.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I just got John O's book as well, and I have to sit
down and read it, but it ispacked with value.
Like it's not just a book thatyou're gonna quickly skim
through, like you want to readand you want to dive in.
And I just read the the firstum sort of page where he sort of
acknowledges, does he?
Yeah, he kind of acknowledgeswho's sort of helped with the
book and everything and where itthe whole origin of it.
(06:08):
Um that I'm gonna sit down.
I was literally just at mycomputer pretty practically all
weekend, so I haven't had thechance to have that downtime to
sit down and just read it, butit's beautiful.
Speaker (06:19):
It is stunning.
So is that your number two?
Well, did you know it wasn't?
But I'm so glad that we let'sgo with your number two.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well, my number two is Mochum Fabrics at the moment.
I'm doing some stunning fabricdesigns.
There is a shear that I havespecified, it's called Ronde,
and it's like a colouredwatercolour, kind of cloud-like
shapes.
Speaker (06:42):
I also just borrowed that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's beautiful.
I'm not surprised.
I've seen a few designers, youknow, put it in projects already
and um loving it.
There's also one calledAssemblage, which is like an
unconventional take on like acollage where these um
embroidery stitching andfringing kind of overlap in a
stripe sort of pattern on like alinen background.
(07:06):
It's beautiful.
And another one, quadrata,which is like a really large
check.
Speaker (07:11):
So it's like love that one.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I really want to specify that one.
It's like translucent andtextural sort of geometric shear
because I love a shear.
We all love a shear, butsometimes we're like, what else
is there?
Speaker (07:28):
Yeah, especially those texture ones.
That one's one of my favorites.
I've got that like literally onmy desk to go into a project as
well.
Because, yeah, because of thatexact reason.
Like it's like I want this justto have a little more elevation
and there's you know a wholewall of shears.
So if you can kind of, I don'tknow, make it a little more
interesting.
I like it.
(07:48):
I like I think this is where alot of this the shears are
going, you know.
With I still love a plain shearas long as it's got some
beautiful texture and I don'tspecify white shears very often.
So it also it's really trickyto find ranges that have a good
range of colours, don't have tobe bright colours, but I like a
bit of nuance in the colour.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Agree.
Speaker (08:07):
Um, which, you know, Laconia Air used to be one of my
favorites.
Have you specified that before?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Oh, it's a big colour.
Speaker (08:14):
And they've just reviewed the they've just
reviewed the colours and theytook out like there was that
ballet colour that's was soft,warm um pink.
Oh but like in a good pink thatkind of worked with all the
terracotta's and um clay coloursthat we seem to be using a lot
of or have been, and they'vetaken it out.
So like I was really like, oh,that's probably one of the best
colours.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Oh, but I'm not surprised because they must just
sell white and cream all daylong.
Speaker (08:40):
I know exactly, and that's why it's hard to once I
find a good range.
Um, actually, Warwick have onenow, and I want to say it's
called Shiloh off the top of myhead.
I only just kind of discoveredit, and it does have a really
good range of colours.
It's not as high-end as theLaconia Air, which like that was
a pure linen, it's more I thinkit's a linen mix, so it doesn't
(09:01):
quite have that weight of it,but like sometimes you just need
bright colour and you justbeautiful.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
They're doing great things.
Speaker (09:11):
Like them.
I hazard my number two is umIKEA.
I did it, I did an IKEA walkthe other day.
So I don't do them very often.
If I order stuff from IKEA, Igo in through the back and I go
directly to what I need becauseI am a tragic IKEA shopper that
would go to get one thing andcome out with 20.
(09:32):
That's where they get veryinfluenced.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
It's not your fault.
That's the way they plan it.
Speaker (09:38):
It doesn't cost much, and I feel like I could use
this.
And so uh I was actuallypicking something up with um my
youngest, who's such a lovelyboy and will, you know, just
kind of come around come alongfor the for the walk, although
he was definitely rolling hiseyes at the end.
But I said, let's just do awalkthrough.
I haven't done a walkthrough ina while.
We've got time.
(09:58):
We've got time wasn't actuallya lie because I thought it might
have taken us like half anhour, and I think we were there
for like an hour and a halfbecause I just thought, I just
haven't, you know, sometimes Ihave a look and like I use IKEA,
I guess, sparingly in even inprojects where like we just need
a couple of good, like there'sa couple of great chairs or
(10:18):
whatever it is.
We don't have the budget, it'sin the study or it's in the kids
area.
You know, I own a bit of IKEAbecause again, like there's just
been some great pieces and Iknow what works.
And also there's a lot ofordinary stuff.
But it's good to go through itand have a look and go, okay,
actually, this this is way nicerthan I thought uh that I saw
(10:39):
online or something that Ihaven't seen and didn't pay
attention to.
I've got a really good sofa atthe moment.
I can't think of the name ofthat one, but um, but anyway, so
I was hoping there might havebeen some just random pieces
less left of the um GustavWestman uh collab, which
literally there were peoplelining up, you know, probably in
sleeping bags or whatever toget that.
(11:00):
And I think it just sold outthe morning it was released.
So I'm hoping they will releasesome more things.
Um there's a couple of greatlamps and things in that range.
I always love it when they do agreat collab.
They usually pick some amazingum people who also love colour
usually.
So there's always some greatpieces.
Um, but yeah, so loving thatcollab, if you can you can
(11:21):
probably, I don't know, do a bitof an eBay slash, I don't know,
Etsy slash something wherethey're probably reselling it
for far more than it actuallycosts if you're desperate to
find some.
I know some people that gotsome multiple pieces, but they
did have to line up and be therethat morning.
And then they got whatever waskind of given to them, allocated
(11:41):
to them.
So it was a whole big thing.
Um, but yeah, anyway, I just Idid see some cool stuff in IKEA.
I did buy more than I should.
I went, I did need to buy amirror and I did buy a really
great, it's just a white framemirror, which I'm gonna paint.
Uh, because I I really need afull-length mirror.
All the ones that I want aretoo expensive.
Mirrors are really expensive.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Oh, over a thousand dollars, easy.
Yeah.
Speaker (12:03):
Um, so that's not happening at the moment.
I don't have the the the sparefunds for like uh the ones that
I actually want.
So I thought, what have IKEAgot?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
But what a great place to save.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
I think I know the mirror thatit's a really fine white frame.
Speaker (12:18):
Yeah, it's just it's like simple soup.
Yeah, just a simple one.
The inside's on a slight angle,and I'll just tape it and um
I've got paint already frompainting some other stuff, like
property.
Of course you do that, youknow.
Yeah.
So I'll paint that and just putit in the room.
And I might do, I might do somestraps.
I'll see how it that trips.
Ah, you know, mask some, youknow, anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Stay tuned, love it.
Um, I think that, yeah, IKEA,if you can go in there
strategically and like you wantto avoid the the lack shelf, the
thick, floating shelf.
Oh, yes.
There's things that you justwould not touch.
They're so done.
I'm putting together a bit of areel, actually.
You know, you see those reelssometimes on Instagram, the top
(13:01):
kicks.
So I've been kind of goingthrough what I think is good as
well.
But yeah, we we went a fewweeks ago, and of course, you
know, the girls think it's justthe ultimate in fine dining to
go to the IKEA restaurant.
Not fine dining.
But what is it about puttingfood on a tray that is so
appealing?
They love that.
So, anyway, we did that, but Ithink IKEA very clever.
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My third pick is our favoritegirl, our favorite gals in
Milan, Studio Pepe.
Speaker (13:31):
Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I saw that they just showed an armchair at Artisima,
which is an art fair that Ithink is happening now or soon.
It's called the Shibariarmchair, and it's got this
really clever twisted backdetail.
Yeah.
And I just love everything thatthey do.
Speaker (13:49):
Um, yeah, no, that's so true.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
They're so talented, aren't they?
They're so clever, they're suchgreat designers, they're so
talented at creating thatexperience.
You know, being able toexperience their installations
in Milan is just one of myfavorite highlights.
And actually, um, when I firstwent to Milan, I think it was
2017.
I um somehow a brand gave me anopportunity to visit one of
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their apartments uh on the pressday, I think it was.
And I met them.
I met them, Brie.
As if they were ever.
I don't know.
Speaker (14:21):
You already told me, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I'll probably I'll just drop it into conversation
as well.
Um, so yes, they have thisreally cool armchair.
So I'm loving that at themoment too.
Speaker (14:30):
Very good.
Okay, so my next one is also alike a recent release.
Oh, rugs again.
Gosh, I'm on I'm on the rugs.
There's so many good ones.
Um, and that's Weave Home, whodo really beautiful homewares.
They're like a subsidiary ofQuark Fabrics, um, great
cushions, really good go-tocushions.
(14:51):
Okay.
And they also do rugs, andthey've just released a new one
called Um Fabian, which is justa really beautiful, um, kind of
fairly natural colour range, andit has that sort of sizal look,
but with like the littlefringed edges on either side.
Okay.
And I'm kind of loving thesubtle, or kind of complex but
(15:12):
subtle, earthy tones thatthey've got because I think
they'll work so well with somany different spaces, even if
you've got kind of brightercolour, they're a really good
base.
So, yeah, I would check outcheck out their rugs.
I think they're quite goodquality too for a great price.
Also, they're well always aboutthat, you know, good
affordability too.
I think that's important.
Yeah.
Um, so not patterned, like kindof quite different to the
(15:34):
double look, but yeah, stillreally, still really lovely.
And you know, if you're lookingkind of for a refresh, I think
a rug is a good option to kindof change the whole feel of a
space.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, and I'm sure we can all appreciate what a
$20,000 rug is.
Like we can appreciate thatthat's been handcrafted by
somebody who's just literallysat there with that rug for six
months.
Yeah.
But if you have pets, if youhave a family, and if you don't
want to walk on eggshells, thenyou you can kind of, you know,
there's definitely a a place fora rug that is in a more
(16:07):
affordable bracket, but stilllooks gorgeous.
So can you just buy a rug fromthe Warwick website or is it
trade only, or how does it work?
Speaker (16:15):
No, so uh yeah, you can go straight onto the Weave Home
website.
I think they they also havebeen doing a little bit of work
with them and they do have alike an AR function so you can
like see the rug in your space,you know, take a photo and put
the rug in there.
So that's what's a little playshow.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Cool.
Um, my number four is the Makerand Sun and Studio Elm
collaboration.
So I I went up to Sydney a fewweeks ago, and I the first thing
I did when I got there was tocheck out those amazing
armchairs.
So make it and sun is thepinnacle of comfort.
(16:52):
If you're looking for anextremely comfortable sofa, so
comfort is your number one, andthey are aesthetic as well.
I think they look great, theyare a plump sort of sink into
feather cushions, that type ofthing.
This was a really clevercollaboration.
So they partnered with StudioElm, who are based in Sydney,
(17:13):
and they distribute India Madaviand a few brands.
It's it's really actually quiteplayful, colourful, joyful,
which is kind of our vibe,right, Brie.
Speaker (17:23):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
And the fabrics that they chose are really different.
I know I was chatting to thelovely guy.
Oh, I'm gonna have to remember.
So Make It and Sun are nowdistributed by Oh, yeah, you're
right.
Speaker (17:38):
Uh, because I went into the little pop-up in Richmond
and saw they had the um actuallyhad the studio Elm pieces in
the window there too.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Okay.
So Make It and Sun is now underthe crafted furniture brand
umbrella.
So you can go into the craftedshowroom and you can see Maker
and Sun.
So that's great because Makerand Sun previously didn't have a
showroom.
You had to, it was a reallycute concept with a mobile kind
of service where they would havea van and you could, I don't
(18:09):
know if they still do thatanymore.
But anyway, the fabrics they'vechosen are really colourful and
playful.
They're made in places likeSenegal.
They use these Swedish beachblankets, which I didn't even
know were a thing.
And the fabric is designed bydifferent talented people from
all around the world, so it'svery individual and it's it
(18:29):
ticks the comfort, theaesthetic, the colour, like it's
ticking all the boxes.
Speaker (18:34):
Yeah.
Except it's really highquality.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah.
Speaker (18:38):
Yeah, yeah.
So obviously, with all of thatcome, you know, comes a price
tag.
But you know, if you reallywant to invest in something,
they're definitely pieces thatare going to last an extremely
long time.
They're like, you know, yourfuture heirloom chair that gets
re-upholstered by thegrandchildren or something.
So true.
Um, and you can see thequality.
They do have the pop-up in inChurch Street in Richmond, which
(19:00):
I don't know how long permanentthat is, but I think they're
still there at the moment.
And they did have a couple ofthe studio elm pieces in the
window, which is what actually Iwas sort of in the area doing
something else, and I went, Oh,it's that in there because of
the colour.
unknown (19:13):
Yeah.
Speaker (19:14):
And then realized it was them.
So yeah, and then you can kindof see the quality and and
everything in there.
But yeah, no, I agree.
Great, great softs.
And a lot, and a lot of theirstuff is all removable covers as
well, which people kind of lovethe idea of.
So depending on the fabric andthings, you can actually remove
the covers or change the coversor have them cleaned, etc.
So I guess there's there's apracticality element there,
(19:37):
isn't there?
True.
Uh, okay, so um was reallyfortunate to attend the launch
of Venton and Venting's NewRange, which is I keep wanting
to say it's called Mexicola,which is close.
It's called Ola Mexicola, whichis kind of cute, but just
really colourful, fun pieces.
I really loved their um plateset, so they had like cute
(20:00):
little motifs in there.
They've also even got like ajersey, kind of like a um soccer
jersey, which I thought wasreally cute, and shorts, which I
kind of want that outfit.
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
They sold clothing.
Speaker (20:10):
Yeah, they did a actually did a collab, and I'm
gonna check who it was with.
Sounds super cute.
R Sport, R Dot Sport.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Okay.
Speaker (20:20):
Um, so they're local, Melbourne local makers of like
um, I guess sportwear.
Sure.
And they did a little um collabwith them, and it's so cute.
So at the event there was a lotof both men and women rocking
that outfit, and it made me go,I want, I want to do that.
But it's really cute.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I love it.
Oh, we can't wait to see.
Speaker (20:41):
Yeah, so that was a really, I don't know, just just
something a bit left of centre,but the range is quite big.
It's all super colourful,there's beautiful tablecloths
and dinner wear and bags andyeah, lots of things that
they're kind of grouped togetherthat work in the Ola Mexicola.
Um, but I just I think they'rethey're doing really well.
Gosh, another company who'skind of, you know, was in
(21:03):
trouble and and had done reallywell since somebody else stepped
in to help them out.
And I think they're kind of, Idon't know, doing really nice
stuff.
So let's go and have a look attheir Ola Mexicola range.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I will.
Speaker (21:15):
And they always do look, I think we've talked about
gosh, I think I talked aboutFinch and Pinchin last time on
the when we were talking aboutart, because they do really have
such a great range of, youknow, some affordable, some a
bit more artworks as well.
Such a great good go-to forthat.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
For sure.
Um, my last one is a bitnon-design related, but it's
been so good.
And I have been learning aboutall of the changes about
Instagram.
So apparently there's like awhole lot lot of new things that
they're launching and changing,which I know people get a bit
upset about because they'relike, no one sees my stuff
anymore.
It was this um Instagram Summitby ManyChat.
Speaker (21:53):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
It was it was live.
You could attend live, but itwas all recorded.
So you can just tune in.
And I think it's available tillthe last week of November.
But um, if you want to learnabout Instagram, like I would
highly recommend it.
There's a whole lot of amazingum speakers in there on
different topics aboutInstagram.
But it's been reallyinteresting learning about, you
(22:14):
know, how to create content thatis going to attract new people
or how do you nurture yourexisting sort of audience?
Little tips, entertaining, Iguess they're kind of like
tutorials in a way, and you cankind of grab a little bit of
information from everyone.
And I was just at my computerdoing some documentation and I
just had it playing on in thebackground.
(22:34):
So if you are curious, it'scalled many chat.
So many chat's that thing, it'slike an automating thing.
I don't know if you follow meon Instagram, comment the word,
blah, blah, blah, and you getthe DM.
That's many chat, but they havethis really great summit.
So that's what my non-designrelated tip would be for the
past month.
Speaker (22:54):
Well, I have a non-related non-design related,
which I was trying to make itslightly design related, and I
think you'll be well on boardwith this one, and that is Lily
Allen's new album and fineobsession.
Obsessed, obsessed.
You know, the way I can tiethat into interiors is you know,
you remember they did the AD,you know, the classic AD
(23:17):
walkthrough.
And now that you know, ifyou've been following this and
you know a little bit more aboutDavid and you watch that again,
it's kind of creepy.
Kind of creepy, especially andtrue.
It's funny.
I think just watching theirdynamic is so funny because I I
really didn't pick up on itbefore because I think Denis,
I'm a Stranger Things fan, andhis character in Stranger
(23:38):
Things, I'm a huge fan of.
And I think that you I I maybeprojected that a little bit onto
him, knowing nothing about himat all as an actual person.
So I just and I love Lily Allenand have we both love Lily
Allen.
Definitely and have for areally long time.
So just for me, she seemed likeshe was really happy.
And I was like, oh my god,they're so cute together, blah,
(23:59):
blah, blah, blah.
Anyway, flash forward and uh Ithink it's two, two or three
years since they were married.
That has now, I guess it wasquite public.
But the album that she justlike launched without kind of
without warning, and I think sherecorded it in about two and a
half weeks.
If you want to, if you'reinterested in her, go read about
it because it's quiteinteresting.
But the album's actuallyamazing, but it is very scathing
(24:21):
and quite detailed in terms ofthe breakdown of the marriage
and the things that happened.
Um, but in a very, verytypical, very, very clever Lily
Allen way.
Um, yeah.
So if you want to get obsessedabout something for you know, if
you've got time to do somerabbit hole digging, which is
kind of what happened with me.
And I think you too, Lauren.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
My algorithm is just feeding me all of it.
Speaker (24:47):
Um anyway, so that's my that's my other not, that's my
non-design related.
Yes, semi, semi-slightly designadjacent.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Well, I mean, the her podcast Miss Me with Mikita
Oliver, like I'm a huge fan ofthat podcast.
And you would see her talkingin that house in the backdrop.
She had this like tiger printchair and it looks amazing.
Like the house is so cool andeverything.
Speaker (25:09):
The house is very cool.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
But then a few weeks ago, Lily Allen said that she
wasn't going to be able to joinMiss Me, and she'd had a few
little breaks and stuff, andpeople were sort of wondering,
oh, is she creating new music?
And she'd she'd talk about itevery now and then, creating new
music.
Speaker (25:24):
So I was hoping that it's seven years or something
since she'd released anything,right?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, yeah.
I remember she did this reallygreat cover of uh Licky Lee's
song, like the Swedish artist,on the Laca version, and I just
love that.
It's cool deep end that song.
Anyway, um, so anyway, I'm afan of Lily Allen and that I'm
so excited for her success andjust the recognition and
(25:49):
everything, right?
Because that her last album waslike a major flop, which was
sad.
So yeah, I think that's agreat, it's it's occupying a lot
of my brain.
So yes.
Speaker (25:59):
I think it's kind of very key that I mean, she that
it is an excellent album.
It's not just a great albumbecause it's like, ooh, gossipy,
and like, oh my god, I can'tbelieve he did that.
So true.
Um, it's actually uh like thereare some absolute bangers on
there, like an absolutelyslapped.
So I feel like she's she'sreally come into her own in
(26:19):
terms of I think she's mostshe's out of her best creatively
when she has something to say.
And I felt like that's what shejust all poured out of her, and
it's kind of, I think maybeeven some of her best work, to
be honest.
But we'll see what's justspace.
But it's been great watchingher Instagram and you know, the
whole, I guess, the big not aglow up because she's always
been stunning, but more justlike being out and about and
(26:42):
looking frigging fabulous.
And then the Halloween, becauseyou know, we just have everyone
doing the Halloween stuff whenshe trust up this Madeline.
If you know the song, that wasfor me, that was like, oh my
god, it was like genius, toogood.
Yeah, too good.
Yeah, oh that's oh, and whenshe she posted about going to
buy the bag at Bergdoff, did yousee that?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I didn't see that one.
The expensive bag.
Oh, I love it.
No, I did see that.
I did now you remember, yeah, Iremember.
Speaker (27:12):
Sorry, sorry.
I know we're probably beingmaybe slightly niche now.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
But you know what?
Speaker (27:17):
If you know, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I think that you know, my girls, they're 11 and
nearly 13, they listen toobviously Taylor Swift.
I mean, I I I can lean intothat.
I wouldn't probably choose toplay it.
They love Sabrina Carpenter,who I'm not a huge fan of.
Um, but for our age, Bree, wehave Lily Allen, and it's so
(27:40):
awesome that you know we'vegrown up with her in a way, and
now she's getting her, you know,this amazing recognition.
And there's yeah, there's uhmusic that's kind of created for
our tar because I know that alot of my friends in the past
recent few years have comethrough a marriage, come through
the other side of divorce.
(28:00):
So it's a very relatable story,unfortunately, for a lot of our
recognition, our era.
So I just think that's justreally cool.
Speaker (28:11):
Yes, she is, she's awesome.
Yeah, um, that's our wrap-upfor October.
We'll give you another one inNovember.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
But yeah, yeah, we'll have an exciting episode next
week, don't we, Bree?
So stay tuned for that one.
Speaker (28:23):
We've got lots of exciting ones coming up.
I know um you've been listeningto a lot of us lately, but it's
because we're building uh likea ridiculous amount of great
guests in the background thatare coming up.
So hopefully you're still likelistening to us anyway.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yes.
Well, did you know that ourpodcast was number five the
other day in the design shop?
Crazy, I know.
So we were number seven andthen we jumped up to five.
And I mean, it's something Idon't check on the daily, but I
was like, oh gee, that's prettycool.
Like we're up in some big ones,Bree.
Yeah.
Thanks for listening.
Speaker (28:58):
We love you guys.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Oh, we do.
All right, thanks.
Have a good week, Brie.
Talk soon.
You too.
Bye.
We've got the utmost respectfor the Wurundjeri people of the
Kulin Nation.
They're the OG custodians ofthis unceded land and its
waters, where we set up shop,create, and call home and come
to you from this podcast today.
(29:21):
A big shout out to all of theamazing elders who have walked
before us, those leading the wayin the present, and the
emerging leaders who will carrythe torch into the future.
We're just lucky to be on thisjourney together.
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