Instagram find - kid's store Tea and Kate

“ .....I would like to think of Tea and Kate as a small emporium selling the best stuff! I have sourced collections from around the world, many of whom manufacture their goods in the traditional way and to their original designs. The products i source are often a little bit eccentric, sometimes indulgent and always charming but mostly inspirational.(....) Tea and Kate will continually strive to bring you new and exciting products some totally new to the market for you our customers to enjoy! ..."

This weekend I’m into kids’ shops on Instagram and today I would like to show you a very personal and cosy place - Tea and Kate based in UK. When I discovered this Instagram feed, I had the feeling that someone just invited me to her home and would like to show me all this beautiful little items she has in her store. Maybe that’s the secret of  this store Instagram success, since she reached 50.000 followers! 

Tea and Kate is a very cute, warm and cosy place,  filled with unique designs, and so well curated and shown. Instagram seems to me, such a direct place and being personal looks like natural part of it. 

Pols Potten take a bath tea set

Cup of tea with an undressed girl? I have this pleasure every day ;-) 

This funny and sexy ceramic is coming from Pols Potten with illustration of Esther Horchner. 

Real treat. 

I wish you a nice end of the week.  

Books on my wish list..

Do you know any summer sale in the bookshop department? 

I would like to get this two fantastic books at some special price ;-) 

Hella Jongerius " Misfit" is already a bit old monograph about work of Dutch product designer. Hella often works between different fields: manufacturing and craft, high quality products with low tech, also mixing materials like ceramic with soft cotton and so on…. She has an amazing talent.  The book "Color Hunting" is about " How the color Influence What We Buy, Make and Feel". Sounds and looks like Interesting theme to me. Made by Dutch FRAME. I would be happy to study this subject more….

I hope you are enjoying your weekend and have other nice books to read ;-) 

Arne Jacobsens ABC for kids

Since a long time I have the Arne Jacobsens porcelain caps with letters on my wish list. I like them so much! What a nice surplice to see a new ABC series for kids, made out of melamine. The cup and plate with the beautiful letters from 1937. The typography is originally drawn by Arne Jacobsen for Aarhus City Hall in Denmark. Yes, I want them all ;-) via: Design Letters

Hand made ceramics - Bailey Doesn’t Bark

Did I ever told you that I finished art high school with a ceramic profile? Yes, 5 years of making my hands dirty, with a lot of joy though. Some time I regret that I didn't let this part of me grow more - but thats a long story. Today just some beautiful hand made ceramics from Bailey Doesn’t Bark - New York - which trigered some memories.

via  baileydoesntbark