Month: July 2008

Great review in EASY LIVING

We have a great review in Easy Living this month… ‘It’s three years since French sisters Karine and Elodie set up online boutique BODIE and FOU. An Easy Living favourite, its cyber shelves are filled with the most covetable items, from pretty framed prints to elegant practical items, such as this silver ceramic vase.’ Sadly the silver vase is now sold out but the Aqua vase is still available and of course the striking Grass vases (below) by Normann Copenhagen which are still flying off the shelves… http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/UxVs

Our French home in Grand Designs magazine, July 2008 www.karinecandicekong.com

Our French home in Grand Designs magazine

Flying back from France yesterday, I picked up a copy of Grand Designs magazine at the airport and there it was, running on 7 pages, the Grand Designs Master feature featuring our holiday home in France. We are all very happy and proud mothers I can tell you and it is such a great coverage for our little business, I can’t thank enough the team at Grand Designs, Nonie Niesewant for her wonderful article and Chris Tubbs for his amazing pictures, kindness and generosity so here are the article. SISTER ACT Karine Köng and her sister are real connoisseurs of chic, so their interiors website BODIE and FOU is an essential stop-off for style lovers everywhere. ‘Chic‘ is a tricky concept: hard to define but easy to spot. It’s less assertive than the wow factor and it’s certainly not bling – more the new Mrs Sarkozy meeting the Queen. Though it’s openly flaunted on the catwalk in France, chic is equally at home behind closed doors in fashionable interiors. So when thirtysomething French sisters Elodie and …