tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41142964719420719542024-03-28T20:29:07.521+11:00flourish and blumeTwo chicks who love chairs.flourish and blumehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17884140459693374508noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114296471942071954.post-67202813219941862152012-07-28T11:29:00.001+10:002012-07-28T11:31:30.585+10:00Happy Birthday Florence!We are nothing if not die-hard fans of Florence Broadhurst. 113 years ago today, Florence Maude Broadhurst arrived on the planet to blow our little minds and continues to do so long after her passing.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>To honour our favourite designer on her birthday, we've restored this 1950's Parker Knoll with Florence's 'Japanese Floral' design, produced exclusively by <a href="http://www.signatureprints.com.au/">Signature Prints</a> and now adorning handbags, shoes, dresses, jewellery and a bus (!), courtesy of New York fashion designer <a href="http://www.katespade.com/blog/blog-february-is-all-about-the-japanese-floral,default,pg.html">Kate Spade</a>.<br />
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The 'Japanese Floral' fabric is from the <a href="http://www.signatureprints.com.au/products/fabrics/home-collection/japanese-floral-fbf-h35/">Signature Prints 'Home' Collection</a>, fabric is 100% cotton 'Tan Union', colour: 'Bley'. We've combined Florence's design with a 100% Australian wool eco-felt in red.<br />
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Flourish and Blume just love going with the Flo.<br />
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Last year, late one night, we heard some very loud crashing and banging on our front stairs that sounded a tad ominous. We sat shaking in our Ugg boots and then the loud knocking came. It was Max, our heavily pregnant friend who never sits still, who had just lugged a chair she'd found down an alleyway (ask no questions) and hauled it up our front stairs and over the gate. The girl could do chin-ups over door frames with a full grown baby in her belly, I kid you not.<br />
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The next day in the daylight, to our delight, we beheld a Fler SC55, designed by Fred Lowen in 1955 and produced up until 1959. An example of this chair now lives in the permanent collection of the Sydney Powerhouse Museum. The chair is manufactured with Queensland maple and a metal frame which supports the floating arms and spring base for the cushions.<br />
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We took our inspiration from the autumn leaves of our backyard maple trees and the ever present grey skies that can bugger off now thank you.<br />
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The frame beautifully sanded to a superfine finish...<br />
And the Grand Finale... ta da!!<br />
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This piece of Australian design history could be yours for $1200. For enquiries contact us or visit our store on <a href="http://www.downthatlittlelane.com.au/flourish-and-blume/product/11306-fler-sc55-orange-pop-chair">Down That Little Lane.</a>flourish and blumehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17884140459693374508noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114296471942071954.post-91203839995883241672012-02-29T17:34:00.000+11:002012-02-29T17:34:09.222+11:00Happy Mardi Gras!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9X_v5AXCxhDypTWrq-5oMEfJPdAKwp1Yf-yuRe3INnytAjCjuqd32o62GSuyD9UtvILRht490b0Iwxv_tqSC9XZy3qA9SIRl_uz1MiAgAUJq3G7wu6hkvdMlppD_eDMZ5kjYp3ebaBP0/s1600/rainbow1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9X_v5AXCxhDypTWrq-5oMEfJPdAKwp1Yf-yuRe3INnytAjCjuqd32o62GSuyD9UtvILRht490b0Iwxv_tqSC9XZy3qA9SIRl_uz1MiAgAUJq3G7wu6hkvdMlppD_eDMZ5kjYp3ebaBP0/s640/rainbow1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
Up here in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, we have the largest LGBT community in any regional area of Australia. Tropical Fruits is a Lismore based LGBT social group that has been running for (almost) 25 years and this year they're off to Sydney Mardi Gras to join in the parade. To honour our beautiful community and wish you all a Happy Mardi Gras, we've done what we do best... chairs!<br />
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Here's the Tropical Fruits Pride march through Lismore CBD. That's our gorgeous Alesha Nicole up top and our beautiful friend and Bundjalung Queen, Destiny Haz Arrived on the bonnet of the car (she's is leading the Mardi Gras Parade again this year with the First Australians Float).<br />
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A remedy for bland old mouldy vinyl chairs x 6, hmmm, no problem darling!<br />
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They're 'Elite' dining chairs, solid teak, fully sanded and Danish oiled, new foam and re-upholstered in Sustainable Living Fabrics 'eco-wool' (100% wool). $1800.<br />
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HAPPY MARDI GRAS!!<br />
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Seeing as this chair is currently featured in Home Beautiful magazine's 'Design Profile' (thank you Home Beautiful and the lovely Bronwyn McNulty who was good enough to tell me to adjust my skirt for the profile picture!) we thought we better tell you its make-over story.<br />
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Remember back <a href="http://www.flourishandblume.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/don-rex-looks-hot-in-kilt.html">here</a> when we pulled two chairs out of a skip? Well this was one of them, the other one had special undergarments attached, this one had cockroach eggs and hellish dirt.<br />
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The curse of polyurethane varnish had to be dealt with - paint stripper - we use Citristrip which is biodegradable and non-toxic, but it's a hell of a job.<br />
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Sanding complete and layers of Danish Oil applied. We kept the original Don Rex label and reapplied it to the new base cover.<br />
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With the left over wool from the recycled kilt, we piped and buttoned and then styled with our own thistle cushion which was bought by Fiona for her 96 year old mum who spotted it in the magazine.<br />
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Why the Scottish theme you ask? Well, my clan motto is 'we will Flourish again' hence Flourish and Blume. Needless to say, my poor ancestors were pretty well hammered by the invading forces from the south and their landowning puppets. And it irks me to see all these Union Jacks all over the place as 'British Imperial' style becomes everyones favourite as if it was a period in history we should be celebrating. Not that I'm saying an English man or woman shouldn't proudly wave their flag but I find it strange and a tad obscene that Australians are sporting the Union Jack all over their furniture and homewares at the moment especially considering the British Imperial era of this country. The flag cushion being the most popular, we've taken a stand and printed the Saltire cushion and here it sits proudly on the Rod Stewart.<br />
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This is the first and only Don Rex rocking chair we've ever come across. It's constructed with beautiful Queensland maple. SOLD!flourish and blumehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17884140459693374508noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114296471942071954.post-54610702383201399502012-02-17T10:48:00.000+11:002012-02-17T10:48:24.487+11:00An Interview with an Interiors AddictThe extremely prolific blogger Jen Bishop of Interiors Addict did an interview with us the other day...<br />
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You can read it <a href="http://theinteriorsaddict.com/post/17287516527/flourish-blume-chairs">HERE</a><br />
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Jen has also been a very diligent reporter on the Herman Miller vs. Matt Blatt court case and the design reproductions debate. She has great interviews from both sides of the debate and I highly recommend<br />
<a href="http://theinteriorsaddict.com/post/12824909099/kylie-tyrrell-replica-furniture">http://theinteriorsaddict.com/post/12824909099/kylie-tyrrell-replica-furniture</a> and make sure you read the comments - brutal!<br />
And<a href="http://theinteriorsaddict.com/post/12863899936/anne-maree-sargeant-replica-furniture"> http://theinteriorsaddict.com/post/12863899936/anne-maree-sargeant-replica-furniture</a> a passionate advocate of original designs and intellectual property rights of designers.<br />
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No prizes for guessing whose side we're on!flourish and blumehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17884140459693374508noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114296471942071954.post-91027181399144284502012-02-05T21:15:00.000+11:002012-02-05T21:15:32.560+11:00"the best seat in the house"<br />
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Bec Duff from <a href="http://www.kambamboo.com/">Kambamboo</a> approached us about upholstering a chair in her hand screen-printed upholstery fabric. We had 'the best seat in the house' for her and combined her teal coloured 'Whale Tail' design with an acid yellow eco-wool felt from <a href="http://www.instyle.com.au/">Instyle fabrics</a>.<br />
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We picked up this little beauty, a 1960's Wrightbilt Australian 'T.V. chair' from our favourite (secret) seaside town, it was covered in a floral tapestry which we valued so much, we left the seat cushion on the roof as we drove off. I thought that all the headlight flashes were warning me of imminent danger - snake on the road, police, etc but no, we realised an hour later down the road...<br />
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It's first portrait after first stage wood and upholstery stripping (above). That's the original footstool which we modified to suit the chair.<br />
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And a very special introduction to my siren...<br />
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I know this is an 'ad-free blog' but adverts from the 60's seem a whole lot less offensive than their contemporary counterparts, and you'll love this and have the added bonus of a catchy tune in your head for the rest of your fun-filled day. It's featuring this very chair..<br />
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Here she is posing for her portrait before she left home.<br />
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One of the best things about living in a small country town is the great stuff you can find for bargain basement prices. But don't be thinking you can all move to downtown Lismore with us as we also have the threat of floods (presently imminent), the off-the-scale unemployment, the junkies, the shortage of housing, homelessness and there's only room for a couple of bargain hunters.. have I put you off yet?!<br />
We do love our town though (honest) and every second sunday there's a car boot market in the carpark of the hideous monument to capitalism - the Lismore Square shopping centre (upstairs - the two corporate giant supermarkets and every franchise of 'Made in China' you can think of while downstairs there's locally grown, chemical-free produce and all things wonderfully old and collectable) and that's where our friend Ali found us a couple of Parker Knoll 'fireside' chairs both with their stamped and dated labels (1954).<br />
Katie's enthusiasm for stripping them back as soon as something special comes in the gate means that I don't always manage to get the 'before' photo.<br />
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The wood wasn't in a great state but we'd seen worse and the fabric was a nasty 70's refurb of synthetic bird-poo yellow stripes. Parker Knoll were the first to develop the coiled spring (tension and suspension) seating system, the company still produces furniture including re-issues of heritage styles like their famous wingback chairs. Here's a couple of process shots..<br />
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The wood glows once more.<br />
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The original labels reattached after the upholstered backs are completed. We've used charcoal eco-wool from <a href="http://www.greenliving.com.au/">Sustainable Living Fabrics</a> and yellow felt ("Sense extra") from <a href="http://www.instyle.com.au/">Instyle fabrics</a> also 100% eco-wool.<br />
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Currently in residence at <a href="http://www.evokeyarnandfabric.com.au/">Evoke</a> in Lismore and priced at $950 each. Don't hesitate to contact us for more information.flourish and blumehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17884140459693374508noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114296471942071954.post-22028139048126631442011-11-28T15:11:00.002+11:002012-06-27T12:48:26.944+10:00Don a Frock and Smash a Machine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJlaacD-CC6sj9TBzzkkxhOMxzZBbXUGNKABB5RJEpZ0JFvWDYEVxCJwraPKHezMmJK66X4oNsbrSZJI9wfk2suLpLp9i8xN6uQZWPimj8dmKHB3sePa4N1L1U3DJ1kNm1sung8Eai8Xk/s1600/white+duck+applique.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJlaacD-CC6sj9TBzzkkxhOMxzZBbXUGNKABB5RJEpZ0JFvWDYEVxCJwraPKHezMmJK66X4oNsbrSZJI9wfk2suLpLp9i8xN6uQZWPimj8dmKHB3sePa4N1L1U3DJ1kNm1sung8Eai8Xk/s640/white+duck+applique.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
Flourish and Blume have been venturing into the hardcore DIY scene, yep, we're screen-printing. We've become regular Luddites - you know those funny fellas from the early 1800's, the <i>original</i> hardcore DIYers who wore frocks and smashed the new (at the time) textile looms that did away with the necessity for their skilled labour? Well I tried to write a whole postgrad thesis on this shit, how the relatively recent romance with 'Handmade' had all those associations with socialist ideology from way back - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">the rights of workers to meaningful labour, the production of local economies and the survival of craft skills in the face of all consuming technology... Am I boring you? Well imagine the horror of trying to fill in the blanks with another 40 000 words? Hence, no letters after my name.</span><br />
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It does sound Utopian though doesn't it - all that handmade labour, and we've had such a great time making this Home Decor and you know you need another cushion for Christmas!<br />
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The flying duck design is based on Katie's Nanna's ducks on our wall (chipped wing and head glued on). It's my own drawing and the best thing about technology is that you only need one drawing then you just shrink it down twice on the photocopier and voila, you have three differently scaled, perfectly replicated flying ducks (no machine smashing today). The design was originally called 'Quick Before They Shoot' but then when I stuffed them with 100% duck feather inserts, I realised the implications of the poor wee things not having made it and wondered what kind of sick mind came up with that. The design is now called 'Pillow Stuffers'.<br />
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The pig's head design is called 'Who's Your Dirty Pigman' which goes out to all those women who have to live with one.<br />
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<a href="http://www.anneleon.com/">Anne Leon</a> has been incredible with her expert tutelage and assistance and we've had so much fun working at her fabulous studio in Byron Bay. Thank you Anne!<br />
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Colour-ways are as follows: white ducks or charcoal ducks on natural linen (100% european linens all from <a href="http://www.thea-sami.com.au/">Thea and Sami</a>); white or charcoal on sage green linen; charcoal pigman on natural or dusky pink linen. Measurements are 60 x 40cm (give or take a couple of cms) for ducks and 40 x 40cm (same) for pigs. Visit our shop at <a href="http://www.downthatlittlelane.com.au/sellers/flourish-and-blume/products#sort_by=ord+A">Down That Little Lane.</a><br />
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I'm starting with the finished item this time so that if you're inclined to share this on Facebook, you aren't posting an ugly thumbnail of a dead chair... always thinking of your reputation and style kudos.<br />
Yes, it has been a while hasn't it? Well just think of all the amazing things we have to catch up on!<br />
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I wasn't totally sold on these Parker Dining chairs, there's a couple of Parker Dining chair styles that I just can't stand but Katie insisted I put my visualisation cap on and see '<i>the potential</i>'! The potential could easily outdo the purposefully pilling, special-shades-of-green fabric that was covering them.<br />
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Absolutely stunning sanded teak.<br />
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The backs are finished in 100% Natural European Linen from <a href="http://www.thea-sami.com.au/">Thea and Sami</a> and the buttons and seats (super-comfy, webbed) are in 100% eco-wool from <a href="http://www.greenliving.com.au/">Sustainable Living Fabrics</a>, it's our favourite 'Poppy' again! SOLD!!flourish and blumehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17884140459693374508noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114296471942071954.post-51624060369875898202011-08-09T14:39:00.000+10:002011-08-09T14:39:59.590+10:00DIY your mouldy old chairs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1T3oIU1iQlLDS_WzbslYvEjV5G9vMIKFvWqKQ4gqgv8Puqo4mg_Q0zSTZxnoD9ulgKlaeM5_qTu3HvyJoVnKuGx-yGsSd6_0sg5m1kCnbP1rY0Uum6Acr24gIHLok8-9LA5itdFXe3J8/s1600/tvchair2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1T3oIU1iQlLDS_WzbslYvEjV5G9vMIKFvWqKQ4gqgv8Puqo4mg_Q0zSTZxnoD9ulgKlaeM5_qTu3HvyJoVnKuGx-yGsSd6_0sg5m1kCnbP1rY0Uum6Acr24gIHLok8-9LA5itdFXe3J8/s320/tvchair2.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />
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Now here's a project any of you keen DIYers could take on. TV chairs are possibly the easiest of 'retro' chairs to come by, we've found them on the side of the road, in dumpsters, charity shops, donations on our front verandah and on ebay. All that's needed is your elbows - sleeves pulled up and grease applied (and your expert sewing skills of course). TV chairs are distinguished by their metal frames and shaped foam backs and (usually) beautiful wooden arms. These two belong to <a href="http://theaandsami.blogspot.com/">Thea and Sami</a> and were looking very sad..<br />
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See that mould, well sand paper is its number one enemy and if you start with a 120 grade (80 is too rough and leaves scratches that take longer to sand out) and work your way up to 600 grade, you'll have wooden arms that sing to you when you obsessively and proudly stroke their smooth finish. Most of these chairs from the 60's and 70's have beautiful wood under their tacky varnish (if the varnish is thick, you may have to paintstrip it first), most are teak, Queensland maple or, as in these, Tasmanian blackwood. Finish it off with a couple of coats of Danish Oil. Try to get one with its cushion covers and base cover in tact then you can make a pattern from the pieces.<br />
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We've used <a href="http://theaandsami.blogspot.com/">Thea and Sami's</a> 'Dotty About Roses' and 'Hydrangea' as the main fabric and 'French Stripe' for the borders and feather-filled lumber pads. It's a deep red printed on a beautiful natural linen. That's my restored Chiswell dining table that is now my conveniently extendable cutting table. Just sew, sew, sew...<br />
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The moulded foam backs are still available from most foam supply stores and fit perfectly and give lumber support and neck support for when you doze off in front of the telly.<br />
Thea's taken some lovely photos of these and you can see them on her blog <a href="http://theaandsami.blogspot.com/2011/08/cinderella-chair-story.html">here</a>.<br />
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Go on, give it a go!flourish and blumehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17884140459693374508noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114296471942071954.post-31509005671493204562011-06-28T22:52:00.001+10:002011-06-30T09:07:34.752+10:00Don Rex Looks Hot in a Kilt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>A few weeks back, Flourish and Blume had a jaunt to our favourite seaside spot where our trusty traveling companion lives when she's not on the move. We were on our way to the pub in the dark through the pouring rain and parked in front of a skip that had some interesting legs sticking out the top of it. The next day when the sky cleared...<br />
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One rocker and one TV chair, same arms, same construction, one label - Don Rex (the best things in life are free). I inherited a kilt a couple of years ago that is never going to fit me so I'm keeping the rocker and it's going to wear a kilt (one day soon).<br />
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A short time after the few weeks back, we dropped that Cintique lounge suite off and detoured off to Bellingen (my first visit, Katie's first visit goes six generations back) and I spotted this vintage ankle length kilt flouncing its pleats at me. In my opinion, the kilt is the perfect object - it seamlessly combines culture, fine craft work and brilliant design.<br />
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The chair was truly stripped this time, the piece of old rag that was tied around the front of the frame was a pair of knickers. A very old pair of knickers... for comfort... maybe not such a perfect object.<br />
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Don Rex wears a kilt, buckles and all.<br />
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We weren't quite ready to leave our new chair when we'd only just finished it, so it took all the boot and one seat in the back and came with us. Now sitting in <a href="http://www.reversegarbage.org.au/">Reverse Garbage</a>, hanging with the cool stuff, in Taylor Square waiting for a kilt lover.<br />
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Only a little bit of pollution, only a slight nip in the air, everyone on their iPhones and a hell of an adventure for a couple of country chicks with a chair (I'll get to that later, this is the segue). The best bits: -Graffiti, stencils and a bit of needle craft on a wall in Newtown (I'm sure your iPhone will know which wall). No artist credits I'm sorry, if you hear of who did them get them to tag themselves on Facebook on their iPhone.<br />
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-How cool are these? Helacool. They are by Helen Proctor, she was selling them too cheap in Newtown in the bit where they have a little market, right near that wall. You can contact her at this email address: helacool@tpg.com.au<br />
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Best of all was the lovely chicks we met up with who offered everything from their beds to their electric blankets - the kind of hospitality that restores a chick's faith in human kindness. We <3 Sydney and the bit just north of it where this house can only go one way...<br />
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Here we are, featuring the chair covered in <a href="http://www.umbrellaprints.com.au/">Umbrella Prints </a>fabric - Grand Hearts in Kimono Red.<br />
We're sorry about that ugly Facebook button on the right, they went and changed it on us and we don't know how to fix it! Give us another week and we may have sorted it out!<br />
Happy winter/summer solstice, may it be auspicious for you too!flourish and blumehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17884140459693374508noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114296471942071954.post-90275617170001124472011-06-13T11:48:00.001+10:002011-06-13T11:55:06.289+10:00'Sitting is Believing'!These 1970's Cintique chairs have been sitting on our verandah for the last year at the perfect height for us to be seated and undetected by passersby and pop up like meerkats when a car pulled up. As attached as we were to them, we knew that one day they'd transform and leave our little furniture orphanage we call home.<br />
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The poor old girls weren't in great shape, nasty dark stain that had gone patchy and even mouldy in places, holes in the rattan and loose legs.<br />
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We were unsure if the sanding would ever be finished and the three seater couch went up and down our stairs so many times according to the weather that we developed manly biceps. After many many hours of electric and hand sanding, we finally had that beautiful bare bones structure.<br />
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The polishing we love so much, would you look at that grain. And then the rattan... o lordy, what a job but one must be true to the original.<br />
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And then a wee jaunt down the motorway to deliver our babies to our dream clients who even had afternoon tea laid out for us, bless. The cintique looked beautiful in their newly refurbished apartment overlooking the ocean.<br />
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Here's some more photos of the two chairs from the last post using Thea and Sami's 'Marguerite' print on her Dusky Pink linen. SOLD!!<br />
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Here she is getting her first fitting. And below, the final result.<br />
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We didn't think the yellow tones of Danish Oil on teak would have blended so well with the pink so we lime-washed the wood and then Danish Oiled it and were very happy with the result. We've used neutral linen for the piping, borders of the cushion and back of the chair and nickel tack detailing for a bit of bling. Stay tuned for more photos to come in Elissa's shop, <a href="http://www.evokeyarnandfabric.com.au/">Evoke</a>.flourish and blumehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17884140459693374508noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114296471942071954.post-24691461944797660012011-04-16T11:11:00.002+10:002011-04-16T13:47:49.366+10:00Florence, the Original Style QueenI mentioned in the last post how this whole upholstery venture started over a conversation about Florence Broadhurst.<br />
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Last year while in Sydney for Mardi Gras, we visited <a href="http://www.vamptvintagedesign.com/">Vampt Vintage Design</a> and our eyes boggled out of our heads at their two levels of incredible mid-century furniture. We also noticed a sample folder of Florence Broadhurst fabrics and probably squealed and dribbled. Well, the lovely Dave at Vampt actually offered to give us a lift to <a href="http://www.signatureprints.com.au/">Signature Prints</a>, the custodians of Florence's designs, where they still print (by hand) from her original designs. We were given a tour of the warehouse and it was the absolute highlight of our Sydney trip.<br />
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Florence was born in 1899 and her life story is an incredible read - a cross-dressing, banjolele playing vaudeville stage star in Shanghai, a couturier in London, a self-proclaimed 'best Australian artist', a trucking company owner and an innovative designer of wallpaper. She started screen-printing wallpaper in the early sixties and was tragically murdered in 1977. Owners of <a href="http://www.signatureprints.com.au/">Signature Prints</a>, Helen and David Lennie revived and catalogued Florence's design legacy and have brought her flamboyant prints to international attention.<br />
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It seemed appropriate that the first chair I ever bought from the Tender Centre for $10 (and the only chair I owned for a while whilst going through a monastic phase and living in a 7 x 3m shed with an outside cold water tap) had to have a Florence makeover...<br />
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In the shed with Zebedee, RIP my big shadow. The poor old chair had a pillow to make the protruding springs bearable and a sari tied around it to improve on its appearance...slightly.<br />
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We use a paint stripper called 'Citrostrip' it's non-toxic and biodegradable.<br />
And here's the finished Florence makeover in our lounge-room, needless to say she's for keeps.<br />
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We thought we'd enter an interior design competition recently run by InsideOut magazine. We didn't win but we did feature on their website with this chair as one of the 12 standout entries. We didn't want the paint prize anyway! You can see it <a href="http://www.homelife.com.au/home+ideas/galleries/inside+outs+interior+design+competition+,11823?pos=6#top">here</a>.flourish and blumehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17884140459693374508noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114296471942071954.post-28322460184353834352011-04-13T10:25:00.001+10:002011-04-16T09:15:59.680+10:00A Nod to the Old BlokeFirst up, we'd like to say a big thank you to Design*Sponge for featuring us on their '<a href="http://www.designspongeonline.com/2011/02/before-after-katie-and-lauras-chair-saras-office.html">before and after</a>' page. We thought the computer was having a malfunction when we saw the spike in visitors. Hence I think I've had a touch of stage fright.<br />
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We've had lots of emails asking us where we learnt our skills and I thought this an opportune time to introduce you the old bloke, Alan, just in case you thought we'd been studying online DIY tutorials or similar. Katie is Alan's gene recipient (family members are reluctant to use the 'f' word, it was the 70's, it was strict catholicism, it was a small country town, etc). Katie and I were chatting about the awesome <a href="http://www.signatureprints.com.au/">Florence Broadhurs</a>t one day and the subject of upholstery came up, I said I'd love to learn, Katie said her f#*^er was an upholsterer although she hadn't laid eyes on him in 13 years. So she spoke to her cousin who spoke to her mum who spoke to her brother which was Alan and we received a call for the go ahead to visit him just as the two rivers met in the middle of the road outside Katie's house during the last Lismore flood. We took it as an auspicious sign.<br />
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Alan is now in his seventies and has been incredible with imparting his knowledge, sharing his workshop and tools and being on hand to answer all our questions and also do a lot of our sewing. Two years on and the rest is history as they say... in the tradition of gene holder to gene recipient.<br />
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Our very first chair, that Alan mostly did, we got it for $3 from the tip, it turned out to be a TH Brown chair, made in Adelaide and a very popular mid-century collectable.flourish and blumehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17884140459693374508noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114296471942071954.post-56439766978721290342011-02-25T15:26:00.000+11:002011-02-25T15:26:36.474+11:00Ruby's Royal Red ChairLittle Ruby. the jack russell was the only living being who could sit comfortably in this grand old chair that belonged her great grandfather (on the human side of the family tree).<br />
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It's most recent refurb seemed to be from the 70's - striped poo-gold velvet. But the stuffing, oh lordy, it was like a bio-hazard ready to unleash the plague on us. Katie put her hand in that (hell) hole and pulled out spring after spring after spring...<br />
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I call this a frustrating, dust-filled tedious task, Katie, the Stripper, calls it a meditation on layering, a scrutiny of the previous upholsterer's skill (or lack thereof), an appreciation of design and construction and a bonding/getting to know you time for caretaker and forlorn object.<br />
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Now, I should clarify, I don't mean 'special', I mean truly special and it's a real privilege to have done these chairs for our lovely friend Sal, who has been one of our biggest supporters since we embarked on the Flourish and Blume journey. We always look forward to an invite to one of Sal's famous parties (our personal favourite being the Sagittarian party, of course) where we get to sit on the verandah of her family beach-house overlooking the ocean (secret, undisclosed location!) and eat locally caught seafood 'til the prawn tails fill the table. We've met some wonderful and interesting women at Sal's and I love it when she instructs them all to feel up the chairs so they get to experience our OCD sanding and polishing.<br />
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These chairs have been in Sal's family since the 1950's they are early Parker and solid teak. It seemed to be the style back then to coat the wood in a brown opaque varnish that concealed the beautiful grain or perhaps that was a 70's refurb. Nasty stuff to get off but well worth the effort. They have been recovered in a Prussian blue vinyl.<br />
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I'd say these are from the 60's, they have that beautiful Scandinavian-influenced shape to the arms that is very typical of Parker and Fler at that time, no identifiable manufacturers marks though. That very funky bag made out of cowhide on the table there is made by Rachel Ayland, a local bespoke leather bag and shoemaker of jaw-dropping skill.<br />
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</a></div>flourish and blumehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17884140459693374508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114296471942071954.post-43245094336436772782011-01-23T20:47:00.001+11:002011-01-24T10:18:37.256+11:00Send them to the Colonies...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Just over a year ago, I had a space in the Lismore Regional Art Gallery to do a collaborative work with Liz Stops, the fabulous ceramic artist whose work you'll find in just about any Australian Vogue Living or Inside Out magazine or at <a href="http://www.planetfurniture.com.au/">Planet</a> and <a href="http://www.brendamaygallery.com.au/pages/artists_works.php?artistID=100">Brenda May Gallery</a> in Sydney. By the time it came around to thinking about the work, I was well and truly romantically involved with chairs, so the initial proposal and its necessary clay fondling took a back seat and something quite different evolved. Liz and I installed in separate windows of the gallery but shared a title and rationale that went something like this: 'using the language of plants and the landscape to discuss issues of colonisation.' It was called 'The Colonisers'.<br />
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</div>flourish and blumehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17884140459693374508noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114296471942071954.post-39994650431121992302011-01-21T20:06:00.002+11:002011-02-25T11:14:54.910+11:00Swing it back<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>We've done a few of these swing back chairs from the 40's. Doesn't look like much, does it? It was the first matching pair we'd found, I think this is one of them...<br />
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Not much prettier at this stage, but could double as a commode. Silky oak frame (sacrilege) and teak arms...<br />
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the kitchen table workshop, hammering into the wee hours, how our neighbours love us.<br />
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The finished result in Elissa's shop <a href="http://www.evokeyarnandfabric.com.au/">Evoke</a> (if you're near Lismore you can see them in the window next door to Caddies Coffee shop) who provided the handprinted 'hearts and flowers' fabric by <a href="http://www.sproutdesign.net.au/">Sprout Design</a>. They're only little, don't think many people were 'big boned' in those days but they sure are cute.<br />
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These photos taken by Elissa, you can see more images of them on her blog <a href="http://evokeyarnandfabric.com.au/blog/?p=288">here </a>and <a href="http://evokeyarnandfabric.com.au/blog/?p=367">here</a>.<br />
ps. these chairs are still for sale in <a href="http://www.evokeyarnandfabric.com.au/">Evoke</a>, contact us for price and delivery quotes Australia wide.flourish and blumehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17884140459693374508noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114296471942071954.post-9149374016407312452011-01-21T15:20:00.002+11:002011-01-21T15:28:00.712+11:00This one's for keeps<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Another Tender Centre gem. This couch looked like it had been through a Lismore flood or two - water damaged wood and rotting vinyl although it doesn't look too bad in this photo...<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">then the fun bit...(the very chunky, solid frame is rough sawn silky oak, a tad different to what's hidden beneath contemporary furniture's upholstery - chipboard and staples and not a single spring).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>The finished result in our lounge-room, covered in charcoal ecowool from <a href="http://www.livingfabrics.com.au/slf/">Sustainable Living Fabrics</a>, a company that has very impressive ecological credentials that you can read about <a href="http://www.australiancarbontrust.com.au/media-release/carbon-neutral-farm-furniture-%E2%80%93-sustainable-living-fabrics-accelerates-australias-move">here</a>. The wood has had a couple of coats of Danish Oil and a final polish with beeswax. Those wee porcelain birds in the background are by ceramic artist Mel Robson, if you appreciate amazing craftwomanship, you should see her blog <a href="http://www.feffakookan.blogspot.com/">(here)</a>.<br />
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We loved it and kept it.flourish and blumehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17884140459693374508noreply@blogger.com2