Things I love : Palms

Posted on 12/05/2015 by the curious home

Ever since we lived in Miami, and before then actually, I’ve always been drawn to the majestic palm tree with it’s fanfare of fronds, it’s iconic shape and infinite variety of style. Palms add grand architecture to skylines, a verdant greenery to hot climates and help shape their tropical landscapes, both in forest environments and in sweltering cities where they provide much needed shade. I often admired their form and billowy gracefulness during my time in Florida where they pepper the roadsides like proud sentinels.

As a reward for working myself stupid the past few weeks I thought I’d treat myself to a bit of reading material in the form of Martius. The Book of Palms by H Walter Lack. I came across this book, in giant tome form, in Selfridges last week and searched for an affordable version online.

How beautiful is this book?! These photos don’t do the images justice (they look better on Instagram!).

*sigh*

More palm-inspired favourites:

: palm leaf iPhone cover $40 – Sarah Richardson Design

: palm leaf jumpsuit £42 – Topshop

: palm cake toppers £4.50 – Postbox Party

: reiko palm leaf clutch £48 – Anthropologie

: palm bikini £210 – Mara Hoffman

: palmeral linen wallpaper £148 per roll – House of Hackney

Spring edit : French Connection Home

Posted on 10/04/2015 by the curious home

French Connection has being doing homewares for a couple of years now and they have slowly been increasing their offering and expanding their furniture and lighting collections as well as home accessories.

Here are my favourites from their latest collection:

: T back bar stool £150

: Vintage King rug £125

: Zinc pewter jug £35

: Spot the Dog cotton cushion £40

: Dining chair £220

: Natural magazine basket £25

: Slatted chair £550

: Walled arm light £95

: Blown glass table light £145

: Marble wheel pendant light £75

Hello weekend!

Posted on 06/03/2015 by the curious home

This week has taken ages to get to this point! How long has this week been?!

Here is what I shall be doing this weekend:

Holiday planning – other than 4 days in October at Centre Parcs we haven’t had a holiday for 7 months! Massively feeling the burn. So a little planning, very unlike us, is required.

Thinking about a few Spring purchases:

Zara dungaree dress

Zara blush lace ups

Making roast beef and apple crumble for our family Sunday Supper:

Starting to plan our Spring planting and watching the new series of Gardeners World on BBC2:

Monty Don

Reading about how to bring up my favourite girl:

Have a great weekend readers.

Cxx

Christmas 2014 : Gifts for Dads

Posted on 17/11/2014 by the curious home

Next up for the present list is Dads. These are some suggestions that i think my hubby would be very chuffed to receive:

Living Room: New sofa!

Posted on 25/02/2014 by the curious home

After lusting after Graham and Greene’s deep dream sofas for nearly a decade we finally own our own (bought in the sale) in beautiful, rich mink velvet.

Today it finally arrived.

No peeking!

Website| Moorea Seal

Posted on 21/11/2013 by the curious home

Beautiful wall hangings, terrariums, ceramics, stationary and jewellery company Moorea Seal.

Shopping: HM Home

Posted on 18/09/2013 by the curious home

Following on from my tealight obsession here i am already a fan of H&M’s black unscented candle (top) and, to fuel my monochrome obsession, here are a few other choice bits from their new Autumn range.

H&M Home

Tealight holders

Posted on 14/09/2013 by the curious home

I’m having a bit of a moment with tealight holders again. Having just disposed of the ugly ikea ones i bought 8 years ago and some i had accumulated over my career as a knick-knack buyer i’m now looking only for holders that are beautiful with or without lights. John Lewis have some lovely ones.

Here are my favourites: