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BRIGHT BAZAAR BY WILL TAYLOR | INSPIRING BOOKS

We are off to France tomorrow afternoon.A part of me is super excited because my sister and best-friend are both coming down to spend a few days with us at the beach (+ Côté Ouest magazine is coming to shoot the house). The other part is disappointed that I will not be able to attend Will’s book launch of Bright Bazaar.I know it’s going to be packed and I really wish I could be there so this is for Will and to show him I’m thinking of him. A METEORITE IN MOTION… I started reading Bright Bazaar around 2011 and while Will’s posts, his home and tastes are waaay more colourful than mine, I’ve always loved the sense of positivity and happiness they have but more than anything I love the guy behind Bright Bazaar.Back then, Will was only 24 years old and I say only because you could see from his posts, that there were already a huge amount of talent brewing there already. I felt he was like a meteorite in motion in the blogosphere and …

“Design Bloggers at Home” by Ellie Tennant

Published by BODIE and FOU Style Blog

The lovely Ellie Tennant has released a new book Design Bloggers at Home: Fresh interiors inspiration from leading online trend-setters which features our home in London. Ellie’s debut title published by Ryland Peters & Small is one close to my heart, not because my home is in it, but because I feel that recently, things have finally shifted for bloggers (especially in Europe) and Ellie’s fabulous book is a testimonial to the amazing, creative online community of interiors bloggers out there and their very unique voice and style. In her book, Design Bloggers at Home, Ellie met up with fifteen bloggers from around the world and put together in-depth case studies to cover a very diverse and inspiring range of cutting-edge blogger’s spaces. I don’t include myself in this “cutting-edge” category because as much as I love our home, I’ve seen it enough and I feel a lot more inspired by looking at other people’s spaces. Ellie has covered some pretty amazing spaces from a pared-back monochrome cabin in Scandinavia to a colour-filled apartment in California (the front …