house within a house

another disused industrial building turned into a cool living space - this old foundry in the south of france has a wooden house built inside it and a beautiful lush indoor garden. the owners wanted the house to feel like a cocoon but also to keep the vast space of the foundry's white walls & huge glass windows.

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march '08 issue {elle decoration}
photography by Birgitta Wolfgang Drejer {website}

our easter open studio

hope you all had a lovely weekend. it was a bit rainy and grey here for us so not very fun at all but then we saw that david had done a little post about us on his wonderful blog you have been here sometime which totally cheered us up. it's another of our favourite blogs and he said some very kind words about us - thankyou david, we are flattered.

we are missing those sunny weekends we had a couple of weeks back and we are crossing our fingers for nice weather this weekend too. we are opening our studio for 3 days over easter - saturday 3rd, sunday 4th & monday 5th april (10.30am to 4pm each day) - so wish us a little sunshine please.





we hope you can come along and visit us - we will have some furniture for sale & a selection of accessories (mirrors, clocks, lamps, chopping boards, lanterns) and a few discounted items too.
to find our studio simply follow the signs from the A39 at Welcombe Cross and to find Welcombe click here for a map.
If you haven't been to our studio before - we live & work on the coast at the border of North Devon & North Cornwall, in the lovely little hamlet of Welcombe. It has a stunning beach, beautiful coastal walks and a lovely old thatched pub serving yummy home cooked food - perfect for an easter visit.

hope to see you this weekend.


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pachadesign {website}
all images: pachadesign easter 2010 open studio copyright © pachadesign 2010

currently loving & have a nice weekend

this week seems to have flown by for us. as well as packaging up orders and delivering new tables, we have been working on a sideboard commission, adding things to our website and (finally!) emailing our mailing list with our spring '10 newsletter {here}. hope you have all had a productive week too.

we'll leave you this week with our latest little collection of things we are currently loving {links & info below} and wish you all a lovely weekend.





the national trust treasure hunt blog - a wonderful source of information about the historic & beautiful places that the national trust looks after, written eloquently by Emile de Bruijn. {blog} {image copyright©NTPL/Andrew Butler}
fairy tail card - by studio tord boontje {website} for artecnica {website}
tanya goodwin - uk stylist represented by re:fresh agency {website} ... we found this stunning image on deborah's lovely tumblr page {here}
flora grubb - beautiful garden shop in san francisco's bayview district ... we are totally smitten with the vertical wall gardens {website}

alice anderson's time reversal

alice anderson's latest exhibition 'time reversal', at the riflemaker gallery in soho, consists of thousands of metres of hair as part of her installation 'rapunzel' which threads it's way outside of the gallery via a window above the entrance, back in through a window on the first floor and down a chimney to form a circular loop over the two floors.
as well as 'rapunzel', the exhibition includes films, sculptures & photographs based on alice's fictional childhood memories.
read more about alice's stunning work, her background & influences on riflemaker's website and on her own website. {links below}

'time reversal' opened on the 1st march '10 and runs until 24th april '10 at riflemaker, 79 beak street, london w1.



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alice anderson {website}
riflemaker gallery {website}
time reversal exhibition details {here}

thankyou

a huge thankyou to jennifer from field & sea for featuring us on her "collection of loveliness" - it's one of our favourite blogs, full of little snippets of beautiful things that she has discovered as well as images of her own lovely handmade paper goods & art (remember her beautiful script beads from our last currently loving collection). so we are thrilled to be included (and on the same page as jennifer's entry about artist claire basler who's stunning home & studio we featured too). thankyou jennifer.



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field & sea {collection of loveliness} {etsy shop} {website}

our new sj coffee table

sorry for not posting anything yesterday - after our few days away we came back to a few website orders that we had to package & post off and we also delivered a new coffee table (now on the furniture page on our website).




we designed the sj coffee table as a commission for our friend sarah, who organises the contemporary craft fair at bovey tracey. sarah wanted a new coffee table for her living room, a little smaller than her previous one, and with drawers for magazines, ect. we decided to design a square table for her, giving her loads more space in the room, and having the drawer fronts in blackened oak to contrast with the natural oak. the table has 2 wide drawers, one either side and was made from sustainably sourced cornish oak, finished with an eco hard wax oil.




for all the details of the table click here


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sj coffee table by pachadesign {website}
all images: sj coffee table by pachadesign copyright © pachadesign 2010

our little giveaway winners

a little later than anticipated, but we have finally done the draw for our little leaf lantern giveaway. thankyou to everyone that took part - it's lovely to hear your feedback about our furniture & accessories so we really appreciate you taking the time to look at our website and comment.
for those of you that are new to our little blog and found us via the giveaway, we hope you'll continue to follow us here and if you didn't win this time, I'm sure we will be hosting more giveaways in the future.

we decided to give 3 lanterns away and the names that glenn picked out from all the little brown bits of paper are:

syeira
deborah at kickan & conkers blog
liza at postcards from colorado blog




well done to you 3 - we'll be emailing you for your postal addresses very soon and then posting off your leaf lantern. we hope you like them. sorry to everyone else and thankyou so much for taking part.


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images: leaf lantern giveaway winners copyright © pachadesign 2010

tomorrow

hope you all had a lovely weekend. we have been away for a few days so a bit of a late post for us today and unfortunately we haven't managed to draw for our little giveaway yet either - we will do it tomorrow, we promise.

thanks for your lovely comments about our new mirrors - we will be adding a new coffee table to the furniture page this week, so it would be lovely to hear what you think about that too.

and thankyou to unpolished life blog for the little feature about our work.

giveaway winners tomorrow!


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image: blue sunshine copyright © pachadesign 2010

new mirrors on our website

we have just added 4 new mirrors to the accessories page on our website - they are all fairly large sculptural mirrors, 3 in reclaimed cornish slate & 1 made with lots of lovely oak off-cuts.
the details for each mirror are on our website - do have a look and tell us what you think.




our square off-set mirror has a beautiful piece of reclaimed cornish slate covering two thirds, with a long strip of mirror to one side. this piece (when not in stock) can be made to order, and at different sizes depending on the slate we can get - and, as every piece of the slate is different, each mirror will be unique. {more details here}





we first made our full-length oak off-cuts mirrors last year for a summer show and they sold straight away. the oak off-cuts are all different widths & heights, with some being slightly darker in colour than others. again, with the off-set design that we use often, the full-length piece of mirror sits to one side. {more details here}





{left} this is one of our favourite new designs probably because it's so striking as it's over 2 metres long. we have exhibited a couple of these mirrors now in beautiful white spaces and they have sold instantly. pieces of reclaimed cornish slate this size are becoming harder to find but we do have a few pieces in stock to make commissions like this. {more details here}
{right} this mirror was originally made as a commission for a couple in london to go over their fireplace. they needed a really large mirror and the reclaimed cornish slate that we use is impossible to find in the sizes they needed, so we came up with the 2 piece frame. we thought it worked really well and they loved it. {more details here}


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pachadesign {website}
all images: sculptural mirrors by pachadesign copyright © pachadesign 2010

our weekend

as promised, a few pictures from the walk we did last weekend with some friends. We have walked on Bodmin Moor before and to the top of Rough Tor but never to the highest point of Cornwall (Brown Willy), so this was a first for us. It was another beautiful sunny day, stunning blue skies with the Moor looking almost golden in places.




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all images: bodmin moor walk set copyright © pachadesign 2010

little india apartment

we thought we'd share with you another favourite interior of ours from elle decoration magazine, this time from the november '09 issue & beautifully photographed by Richard Powers. the apartment, owned by Joy & Colin Seah of Ministry of Design, has a perfect mix of industrial and ethnic: cool grey concrete floors & walls, dark coloured wood, tatami mats, bamboo screens & sheer curtains and paper shades & exposed bulbs on endless lengths of black cord that zig-zag across the ceilings.
these dramatic colours and materials contrast each other beautifully, with little touches here and there of fallen trees and brightly coloured orchids.





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november '09 issue {elle decoration}
ministry of design {website}
photgraphy by Richard Powers {website}

coming soon

we are going to be adding a few new pieces to our website soon .... a few big sculptural mirrors on the accessories page and a new coffee table on the furniture page. the pages are built so we should be putting the mirrors on this week and the table will be added next week.




we'll let you know when they are online.


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all images: accessories & furniture by pachadesign copyright © pachadesign 2010