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Friday 8 February 2013
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Favorite Design Blogs
- A Merry Mishap
- AS The Studio
- Absolutely Beautiful Things
- All The Best
- An Aesthete's Lament
- Apartment #34
- catchtag
- Coco + Kelley
- Cool Hunting
- Cote de Texas
- D Pages
- Design Therapy
- Desire To Inspire
- Eclectic Chic
- Elements Of Style
- Grant K Gibson
- Habitually Chic
- House Of Beauty And Culture
- If The Lampshade Fits
- Interiors
- Joy of Little Things
- Katie Did
- Kelly Wearstler - My Vibe My Life
- Life In A Venti Cup
- Made By Girl
- Maison 21
- Maison Luxe
- Mrs. Blandings
- My Little Apartment
- My Notting Hill
- Nick Olsen
- Palazzo Pizzo
- Pink Wallpaper
- Savvy Home
- Share Design
- Shelter
- So Haute
- Style Court
- Style Intel
- Stylebeat
- The Aestate
- The Cool Hunter
- The Coolist
- The Corinthian Column
- The Design Files
- The Paris Apartment
- The Peak of Chic
- The Style Saloniste
- Things That Inspire
- This Is Glamorous
- Vicente Wolf Blog
- Vision of Splendor
- You Have Been Here Sometime
Favorite Fashion & Lifestyle Blogs
- A Glamorous Little Side Project
- Beijing Notebook
- Britt Carpenter
- Bryan Boy
- Chic & Charming
- Cool Travel Guide
- Easy And Elegant Life
- Eclectic-Cool
- Fashion Gone Rogue
- Fashion is Spinach
- From Betsy With Love
- Garance Doré
- Hollister Hovey
- Lady Melbourne
- My Marrakesh
- Sea of Shoes
- Style Sightings
- The City Present
- The Satorialist
- What Is James Wearing?
- Young Sophisticates
Favorite Eco Chic Blogs
Favorite Foodie Blogs
- 101 Cookbooks
- COOKIE + kate
- Eat this food?
- Hong Kong Pantry
- Hungry Girls
- Joy the Baker
- Lottie + Doof
- Manger
- My New Roots
- My friends can cook.
- Nourish Me
- Shmooed Food
- Simmer & Boyle
- Smitten Kitchen
- Sprouted Kitchen
- Sunday Suppers
- Tartelette
- The Foodie Bugle
- The Hungry Mouse
- The year in food
- What Katie Ate
- use real butter
Other great online reads
- AD France
- Adore Magazine
- Anthology Magazine
- Architectural Digest
- Array Magazine
- Balustrade & Bitters
- Broadsheet
- C Magazine
- Candid Magazine
- DeTnk.
- Design Anthology Magazine
- Domaine Home
- Domino Mag
- Editer
- Elle Decor
- Est Magazine
- Gilt Group (Decorati)
- High Gloss Magazine
- Hospitality Design Magazine
- How to spend it (The Financial Times)
- Interiors
- Ivy & Piper
- Lonny Magazine
- Luxury Culture
- Marie Claire Maison
- Matchbook Magazine
- NOWNESS
- NYSD - House
- New York Spaces
- Nomad Chic
- Nuevo Estilo
- Restaurant & Bar Design
- Rue Magazine
- Sleeper Magazine
- Square Foot E-Magazine (HK)
- Standard Magazine
- T Magazine (NY Times)
- Telegraph Luxury
- The Art of Bespoke
- The Selby
- Vogue Homes
- Vogue Living
- WSJ Magazine
- Yatzer
Inspirational Designers
- 6° Architects
- Abraxas Intérieur
- Adam Tihany
- Afroditi Krassa
- Albano Daminato
- Alberto Pinto
- Alessandra Branca
- Alexandra Champalimaud
- Amanda Nisbet
- Amy Lau
- Andrée Putman
- Andy Goldsborough
- Angela Free
- Angie Hranowsky
- Angus ~ Caravelli
- Anna Spiro
- Annabelle Selldorf
- Anne Coyle
- Anouska Hempel
- Anthony Cochrane
- Antoinette Loupe'
- Antonia Hutt
- Antony Todd
- Arent ~ Pyke
- Argent Design
- Arthur Casas
- Ashely Whittaker
- Austin Harrelson
- Autoban
- AvroKO
- Axel Vervoordt
- BAMO
- Barbara Barry
- based upon
- Bassam ~ Fellows
- Beale ~ Lana
- Bear & Bunny
- Benjamin Dhong
- Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz
- Betsy Burnham
- Bijoy Jain
- Bill Bensley
- Blacksheep
- Blainey North
- Brad Ford
- Brian Gluckstein
- Brian J McCarthy
- Brown Design
- Bruce Bierman
- Bruno Borrione
- Bruno de Caumont
- Bunny Williams
- BurdiFilek
- Burley Katon Halliday
- Cameron Woo
- Candy & Candy
- Carden Cunietti
- Carlos Aparicio
- Carrier & Co.
- Carter ~ Tyberghein
- Celeste Dell'Anna
- Chahan Minassian
- Charles Tassin
- Charles Zana
- Charlotte Macaux Perelman
- Charlotte Moss
- Chris Connell
- Christian Grevstad
- Christian Liaigre
- Christian Lyon
- Christophe Pillet
- Christopher Chanond
- Christopher Maya
- Christopher Noto
- Collett ~ Zarzycki
- Commune
- Coop
- Coorengel & Calvagrac
- Courtney Giles
- Craig Spencer
- Croma Design
- Curiosity
- Cy Peys
- Damien Langlois-Meurinne
- Daniel & Michel Bismut
- Daniel Pafford
- Darren Henault
- Darryl Carter
- David Carter
- David Collins
- David Easton
- David H Mitchell
- David Hicks
- David Jimenez
- David Kleinberg
- David Lawrence
- David Mann
- David Netto
- David Rockwell
- David Scott
- Decoration Empire
- Delphine Krakoff
- Deniz Tunç
- Denniston
- Diana Kellogg
- Diana Viñoly
- Didier Benderli
- Didier Gomez
- Dimore Studio
- Dmitry Velikovsky
- Dodd Mitchell
- Dreamtime
- Edward Lobrano
- Eileen Katherine Boyd
- Elizabeth Sullivan
- Emily Todhunter
- Emma Jane Pilkington
- Ensemble & Associés
- Eric Cohler
- Eric Kuster
- Eric Prokesh
- Ernest De La Torre
- Estefanía Carrero
- Esther Gutmer
- Eve Robinson
- Fairfax ~ Sammons
- Fernando Santangelo
- Fiona Barratt
- Fisher ~ Weisman
- Fox ~ Nahem
- Frances Pons
- Francis D'Haene
- Francis Sultana
- Frank de Biasi
- Frank Roop
- Franz Potisek
- François Champsaur
- François-Joseph Graf
- Frédéric Sicard
- Garde
- Garrow Kedigian
- George Terbovich
- Gilles & Boissier
- Gilles de Meulemeester
- Glamorous
- Glenn Gissler
- Glenn Sestig
- Goodman ~ Charlton
- Grant Gibson
- Greg Natale
- Gregga Jordan Smieszny
- Gunkelman - Flesher
- Hanrahan ~ Meyers
- Harry Heissmann
- Hashimoto Yukio
- Haynes ~ Roberts
- Healing ~ Barsanti
- Hecker Guthrie
- Helen Green
- Ian Smith
- IIBYIV
- Ilse Crawford
- India Mahdavi
- Intarya
- Iria Degen
- Irvine ~ Fleming
- Isabel López-Quesada
- Isay Weinfeld
- J Randall Powers
- Jackson ~ Aaron
- James Andrew
- James Mohn
- James Radin
- Jamie Drake
- Jan Showers
- Javier Castilla
- Javier Muñoz
- Jay Jeffers
- Jaya Ibrahim
- Jean-Louis Deniot
- Jed Johnson
- Jeff Andrews
- Jeffrey Alan Marks
- Jeffrey Beers
- Jeffrey Bilhuber
- Jeffrey Elliott
- Jennifer Post
- Jiun Ho
- Joan Lao
- Joe Nye
- John Jacob Zwiegelaar
- John Minshaw
- John Saladino
- John Stefanidis
- Jorge Aguado
- Joseph Dirand
- Juan Montoya
- Juan Pablo Molyneux
- Julie Hillman
- Kara Mann
- Kate Hume
- Katharine Pooley
- Katie Denham
- Katie Ridder
- Katon Redgen Mathieson
- Kay Kollar
- Kelly Hoppen
- Kelly Wearstler
- Ken Fulk
- Kendall Wilkinson
- Kerry Joyce
- Kerry Phelan
- Klein ~ Dytham
- Klein ~ Haller
- Krista Ewart
- Larry Laslo
- Laura Kirar
- Laurent Bourgois
- Laurent Buttazzoni
- Layan Design Studio
- Lazaro Rosa-Violán
- Leonie Brown
- Lichten ~ Craig
- Lisa Sternfeld
- Lorenzo Castillo
- Louise Bradley
- Luis Puerta
- Madeline Stuart
- Mancini ~ Duffy
- Marcio Kogan
- Marco Meneguzzi
- Mariette Himes-Gomez
- Mark Cunningham
- Mark Epstein
- Markham Roberts
- Martin Brudnizki
- Mary McDonald
- Mary McGee
- Matteo Thun
- Matthew Leverone
- Matthew Patrick Smyth
- McGill Design
- Meg Braff
- Melissa Rufty
- Messsana ~ O'Rorke
- Michael Berman
- Michael Reeves
- Michael Richman
- Michael S Smith
- Michele Bönan
- Miles Redd
- mim design
- Ministry of Design
- Mlinaric, Henry & Zervudachi
- MR Architecture
- Munge - Leung
- Muriel Brandolini
- Nancy Corzine
- Nate Berkus
- Nathan ~ Egan
- Neri & Hu
- Nexus
- Nicolas Aubagnac
- Nitzan Design
- Noel Jeffrey
- Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance
- Nye Basham
- Oitoemponto
- Olivia Song
- Olivier Berni
- Olivier Lempereur
- Ondine Karady
- Ong & Ong
- Orla Collins
- Oshima ~ Stanislas
- Palmer Weiss
- Pappas ~ Mirron
- Parlour Design
- Pascal Van Der Kelen
- Pascua Ortega
- Patricia Gray
- Patrick Jouin
- Patrick Lönn
- Paul Corrie
- Paul Davies
- Paul Fortune
- Paul Lavoie
- Penny Drue Baird
- Peter Marino
- Philip Gorrivan
- Piero Lissoni
- Pierre Yovanovitch
- Pierre-Yves Rochon
- Piet Boon
- Pinakin Patel
- Playground
- Project Orange
- Puresang
- Rabih Hage
- Raji Radhakrishnan
- Ramon Garcia Jurado & Paco Pocovi
- Raymond Boozer
- Redmond Aldrich
- Rees Roberts
- Rena Dumas
- Richard Adams
- Richmond International
- Robert Brown
- Robert Couturier
- Robert Kaner
- Robert Passal
- Robert Stilin
- Robyn Karp
- Rodolfo Dordoni
- Roman & Williams
- Ron Marvin
- Rose Uniacke
- Ruthie Sommers
- Ryan Korban
- S Russell Groves
- Sandra Nunnerley
- Sara Bengur
- Sara Story
- Sarah Davison
- Scott Laslie
- Shamir Shah
- Sharon Simonaire
- Shawn Henderson
- Sheila Bridges
- Shelton Mindel & Assoc.
- Simeone Deary Design Group
- Siskin ~ Valls
- SJB Interiors
- Stephanie La Porte
- Stephen Knollenberg
- Stephen Miller Siegel
- Stephen Sills
- Stern McCafferty
- Steve Leung
- Steven Gambrel
- Steven Sclaroff
- Steven Volpe
- Studio KO
- Studio Linea
- Super Potato
- Suzanne Kasler
- Suzy Hoodless
- T.K. Chu
- Takenouchi - Webb
- Tamzin Greenhill
- Taylor Howes
- Thad Hayes
- Thierry Despont
- Thierry Lemaire
- Thom Filicia
- Thomas Bendel
- Thomas Hamel
- Thomas Jayne
- Thomas O'Brien
- Thomas Pheasant
- Thomas Urquijo
- Timothy Whealon
- Todd Alexander Romano
- Todd Klein
- Todd Yoggy
- Tokujin Yoshioka
- Tom Scheerer
- Tommaso Ziffer
- Tony Chi
- Tori Golub
- Tracey Butler
- Tristan Auer
- Tsao & McKown
- United Designers
- Universal Design Studio
- UXUS Design
- Veere Grenney
- Vicente Wolf
- Victoria Hagan
- Vincent van Duysen
- Virgile & Stone
- William McIntosh
- William Sofield
- Windsor Smith
- Wonderwall
- YabuPushelberg
- Yan Descamps
- Zeff Design
- Zeynep Fadillioğlu
Hong Kong Shopping
- Altfield - great range of classic furniture, asian antiques, lamps & homewares
- Aluminium - licensed reproduction designer furniture
- Amelie and tulips - in the POHO area, great mix of vintage and modern designer furniture & lighting
- Andante - carries contemporary European collections, including Minotti
- Armani Casa - the Armani home collection, in the Lee Gardens area of Causeway Bay
- Attic Lifestyle - a range of cute, fun and young homewares mostly by Sth African artists, in a wonderful old industrial building
- Authentiques - 18th & 19th C antiques from Europe in a studio in Sheung Wan
- BALS Tokyo - modern japanese furniture & homewares design
- Baker Furniture - high end American designer furniture, lighting & accessories
- Basheer Books - good range of design books and magazines
- Bed n Bath - sells what their name suggests...high end range of beddidng and bathware and other accessories
- Bolier & Co. - high end American designer furniture
- Bowerbird - a warehouse full of furniture and home furnishings
- Casa Capriz - large warehouse space in Chai Wan full of vintage goodies!
- Chen Mi Ji - a selection of vintage goods in a very charming area
- Colors - Modern kids concept store: furniture, clothing & accessories
- Come In Living - mega store of modern design
- DeeM - vintage and custom furniture,lighting, homewares and rugs as well as artwork. On the far end of Hollywood Road.
- Dentro - high end european design including Modenature, Paola Lenti, Maxalto and Ingo Maurer
- Design Link - imprted european designer label furniture homewares
- Eclectic Cool - treasure trove in the lovely PoHo neighbourhood (& stockist of Studio Annetta lighting)
- Esme Parish Silver - as the name suggests, silverware! Specialising in Chinese and Japanese export silverware
- Exclusivités - high end imported table ware and accessories for the home
- Farrington Interiors - Stockists of Christopher Guy, Hughes Chevalier, R&Y Augousti and Mis en Demeure
- Flea + Cents - Vintage goods
- Flos - contemporary designer lighting
- Forbidden City - tradtional chinese furniture designs updated with modern materials in a contemporary way
- Fort Street Studio - HK founded luxurious carpet company, with a brand new showroom in One Island South
- Franc Franc - japanese retailer of hip homewares
- G.O.D. - (goods of desire)
- Gallery 88 - From London, Paris and Antwerp to Hong Kong. A beautiful gallery space specialising in rare 20th Century pieces, including Hong Kong furniture line 'Kam Tin'
- General Store - interesting mix of mid 20th century and industrial chic furniture and bits n pieces, run by a cool New Yorker and Japanese guy
- Greenfingers - as the name suggests, all things green. Fantastic florist for events, and they run a floristry course too!
- Gresham's - HK's first mid market auction house, located in a 6,000ft2 space in Ap Lei Chau.
- Hamptons Furniture - european style furniture
- Harvey Nichols - high-end fashion and accessories, in two convenient locations
- Heather & March - luxury homewares & accessories
- Helis & Tang - Fine European Antiques
- Homeless - funky homewares & accessories
- Hua Bu - extensive range of chinese, japanese and european antique furniture
- In My House - online store for furniture and home wares
- Indigo Living - broad range of furniture & homewares (also available for rental)
- Innermost - contemporary british design comes to HK!
- Inside - a collection of pure and simple items for the home
- Jelly Bean - cute kids stuff
- Joyce - High end fashion & accessories
- Kapok - a store, or two stores in fact, in the charming Star Street neighbourhood that stock a range of unique finds from fashion to homewares
- Kartel - a few convenient store locations
- Kelly & Walsh - small but good bookshop in Pacific Place
- L'sWhere - former David Collins employee opened a lovely store on On Wo Lane, just off Gough Street (a favorite of mine)
- La Deux - a designer showroom (by appointment only) in the upcoming Aberdeen neighbourhood...brimming with stylish carpets, furniture, lighting & accessories
- La La Curio - the latest addition to Wan Chai's super cute Sau Wa Fong neighbourhood
- Lane Crawford - designer fashion, furniture & accessories
- Le Cadre Gallery - high end European furniture, including B&B Italia, Moroso & Zanotta
- Louvre Gallery - contemporary European furniture collections, including Cappellini & Minotti
- Magazzini Vivace - stockists of Promemoria, J.Robert Scott & John Hutton furniture & textiles
- Manks - 20th Century Scandinavian decorative arts
- Marc James Design - furniture & homewares
- Melaine - a charming shop with a great range of 'asian fusion' homewares, fashion, furniture and accessories.
- Mirth - cute, fun and young homewares and kids stuff in an old factory on the south side of the island
- Monocle - the office/shop of our favorite news magazine, stocks a range of fashion, accessories and small furniture in the charming Star Street neighbourhood
- Mooi shop - not related to the European brand Mooi, instead a vertitable trove of vintage treasures
- Moustache - a lovely shop run by friends, retro inspired menswear, plus a brilliant tailoring service.
- Mr Blacksmith - two locations, a great mix of industrial inspired pieces
- OVO - modern asian designer furniture & homewares
- OVO Garden - this is the place to pick up beautiful flower arrangements and plants
- OVO Studio - the younger, hipper version of OVO
- Organic Modernism - 20th c classics are the inspiration behind the hand made quality furniture at this new shop in the POHO neighbourhood
- Out of Stock - small shop packed with character in one of the loveliest streets in HK
- Page One - great range of books
- Petit Bazaar - so much cute kids stuff - if you don't already have them you'll want them after visiting this place!
- Picture This - The best framers in town, and a great selection of art and vintage posters & photos
- Shanghai Tang - designer asian fashion & homewares
- TangTangTangTang - Sir David Tang's new retail venture in the city
- The Georgian Dealer - fine European and Asian antiques
- The Red Cabinet - a warehouse full of chinese and european antiques and reproduction furniture
- The World Beyond - Ross Urwin's latest venture - a curated selection of vintage goods
- Zara Home - the famous spanish retailer finally brings their home collection to HK!
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2 comments:
Hmmm. A mirror covered in that snake would be amazing. Happy New Year to you!!
Mary
that photo is creepy cool.
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