Sarah Ord Interiors: 2010

Xmas Cushions!

SQUASHY SCATTER CUSHIONS

2 for the price of 1... get 'em while they are HOT!

Assorted sizes and colours with lovely down inners for R300 a pair!

Great for Xmas pressies...

...to sprinkle on your sofa...

...or hug in the night!

Going...

...going...

Stock has got to GO so email me if you are interested?

sarah@sarahord.com

Lula Fabrics launch

Such gorgeous new florals and geometrics in fabulous colours and on great base cloths. Well done Melissa and the team!

Coming soon on their website... www.lulafabrics.co.za

Sarah Ord Interiors featured on VISI Website

Check it out! A sneak peek into our homes...

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Christmas Market

Ho Ho Ho...it is that time of the year again.

Shari's annual Fernwood Xmas Market

will be happening on Friday 15th October at

24 Fernwood Drive, Fernwood, Cape Town.

The Xmas Market supports Colleen's Place of Hope for AIDS Children

So bring your friends and SPEND!

SHARI: 0824906317 / sharid@iafrica.com

All about COLOUR

What colour do you dream in? Skipping through marmalade orange and surreal aquamarine moonscapes or sepia nightmares with long passages of locked doors?

Colour is not just a light refraction, it has soul, we eat, breathe, live and dream it. Hues resonate. They can HUM with their saturation or nudge your senses with their pastel tint.

Some experts will insist grey, grey and more grey is THE very shade with which you need to be surrounding yourself and your personality. Newsflash... We NEED colour in our lives. When the future looks most colourless people have always felt more inclined towards the greener grass on the other side, the rose-tinted outlook, High Definition Technitone, sunset orange and, well, platinum blondes (!!??).

Do try this at home.

To read the rest of our August Newsletter, please click here!

Donald Greig Sculpture

What an incredibly clever addition to the West Quay road en route to the Cape Grace Hotel... Donald Greig (of Charles Greig Jewellers fame) has opened a working foundry for his bronze sculptures. Ideal pressies but a must for any visiting guests who absolutely have to have a bit of Africa to take home with them.

www.donaldgreig.com

St Leger & Viney Open Day

Just spent a fabulous morning with the Cape Town St Leger & Viney team at their indent Open Day. The girls all sporting Sanderson fabric french aprons; delicious catering by 'Kitchen' and inspiration in abundance.

Well done all!

Fly your Colours!

OOOHH I just adore colour. Be bold! Be daring! Take nature's most saturated and inject it into your home's very veins!

Amazing example by Jeffrey Bilhuber - "kumquat, indigo, pumpkin and claret".

Coming soon... our August Newsletter will be ALL about COLOUR!

MAKING YOUR MARK

Sandy Chaitowitz, a well-known painter and teacher is holding a Watercolours course, hosted by Louise Hennigs in Cape Town on the 17th and 18th July. Not to be missed, contact Sandy on 072 314 2602 to book your spot!

Sensation for the year...

There is just no excuse for NOT trying ENMASSE new massage concept in Cape Town. Words cannot describe...http://www.enmasse.co.za/

Thought for today...

“Hidden talent counts for nothing” NERO

Arabian Nights

We thought the lure of far off places may put you in the mood to book the next holiday? Add to that, the appeal of the Middle East as a neck of the woods sorely needing a trip down memory lane, and we have our desert-and-dates theme for this month. Mongols, Persians, Ottomans or Turks - cavorting beneath spangled canopies, waited on hand and foot by nubile, young, almond-oiled serfs and hissing out sinister plots for brethren beheadings and alchemic warfare against those poor long-suffering Greeks. Apart from all that, nice folk, really, if you can cop a prostrate pose at speed. But nothing beats a jewel-encrusted sword or some nice pointy slippers, so gather your gold, samaritans...

• For the most sensational gilded garret this side of Samarkand, fabrics to be had are Whatnot’s metallic sheers, Hertex’ Neon and St Leger’s Kashan and Warwick Burlesque. Drape with gay abandon over curtain rods or four poster beds, twined with bronzed tassels and incense smoke.

• Ortigia, darling, if you don’t want to smell like Genghis Khan when he was cross, you have never yet sampled such delicious soaps and fragrances made from pomegranate, almond, passiflora, lime and patchouli. Their product is silver edged and reminiscent of Salomé’s scented veils, we have no doubt. www.ortigian-srl.com

• Petal the floors with sensational rose-patterned kilims (available from Gonsenhausers) - fuschia flowers on a black background with a couple of pouffes thrown about...very Hanging Gardens and hand maidens.

• That erstwhile Alex the Great was fond of a festive meal of an eve. Set his table with gold cutlery; silver ice buckets overflowing with green and red bunches of grapes; rose hip in the champers; lackeys to wash your hands in petalled finger bowls; gold leaf in the soup and maybe even a leopard or two on a diamond leash for your guests to take home?

• Waft about in hand-tooled leather slippers and a sparkly kaftan from the Oriental Plaza while listening to Falcon mating calls and Deepak-Chopra reciting The Alchemist. Sure to get you in the mood for the Dance of the 7 Veils?

Myrrh? Who brings Myrrh as a gift? Perhaps that Balthassar was not so silly a wise man since Myrrh is a resin used today in the production of Fernet-Branca, a perfectly disgusting Milanese digestivo for frightening off menstrual ailments and embalming housewives. Myrrh on the rocks, for you sweetheart?

Salaams all round till next time...

SARAH, SUSIE & ANT

Cosy Up

With our first few cold snaps already under the belt, it seems the time to start cosying up. Chuck the mothballs, pack away the flip flops and drag out the electric blankies. In my opinion, few do ‘COSY’ better than the countrified Brits – tea and toast in front of the fire, hounds at the hearth and all that. Fear not, doing “cottage” need not be all dog hair and ropey tapestry... here be inspiration for even those townies who long for a life more pastoral (note: possibly not quite the thing for the minimalist at heart).

Drag all those old pashminas out of hiding. Since we all own a few of the ‘non- Kashmir’ variety, why not have them made up into big scatter cushions, fringe and all? Fill them with down cushion inners and, “voila!” your bed or sofa becomes soft and colourful.

Hit the flea markets before it gets too nippy and collect new bits and pieces for an eclectic tea set – sturdy round tea tray, mismatching cups and saucers, sugar bowl and milk jug with teaspoons all a-clatter. Perhaps a wee vase for your garden-picked (or stall purchased) posy? What would autumn be without a good tea flurry?!

Stay cosy!

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