Famille Summerbelle News

The Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven ended last Sunday. I wanted to share with you some of my highlights. Ophelia and I left early morning by train from Amsterdam to meet with my younger sister Charlotte in Eindhoven. Charlotte studied Product Design at the Design Academy, she knew the town very well and most ex-students exhibiting so we were very...

I have to thanks my mum for my love of hand made plates and dishes. Since I can remember my mother would always serves us beautifully cooked food on hand made plates. Mostly hand made by her or by one of my sisters. A couple of weeks ago she came to visit us in Amsterdam with a luggage full of...

Wildernis in Amsterdam: Stunning embroidery by Sarah Benning: Delightful paintings by Elizabeth Barnett:

Nathalie Lété's showroom featured in Milk Deco, designed by Nathalie Lété and hand crafted by Les ateliers Cardew-Bonniot, a Parisien carpenter wokshop. Oak stools designed by Nathalie Lété and hand made by Cardew-Bonniot: Wooden plates. Designed and hand made by Cardew-Bonniot. Boites à rien' designed and hand crafted by Cardew-Bonniot Their workshop is located on the outskirt of Paris and...

I always had a penchant for painted plants in pots. These beautiful paintings by Australian artist Elizabeth Barnett are truly stunning.

Adeline Klam is a French designer who is passionate about Japan, origami paper and bright colours. She has the most beautiful shop in Paris in the 11th arrondissement where she sells a variety of colourful Japanese papers, fabrics, stationeries and books and also offers workshops to make beautiful paper flowers like these: Make your own paper flowers kit.

For the second year in a row my sister Coralie has been selected to design a fashion collection for the Festival International de Mode de Hyères at the Villa Noailles. Last year she was nominated Prix du Public. You can read my post from last year and see images of her previous collection here. This year was the 30th anniversary...

Beautiful plants studies and large scale paintings by American artist Jonas Wood. I wish we could see more buildings painted like this one on the David Kordansky Gallery in LA: Shelf Still Life, next to the High Line at 18th Street and 10th Avenue, NYC 2014.

Yesterday was a wonderful Sunday full of sunshine, creativity and surprises. All my family met in the South of France, in Hyères to support my sister Coralie, one of the 10 young fashion designers shortlisted at the prestigious Festival of Fashion and Photography of Hyères, organized by the Villa Noailles. We went last night to view the third and final...

I am so proud of my younger sister Coralie Marabelle who has been one of the 10 shortlisted candidates for the final of the Festival de Mode d'Hyères at the Villa Noailles. It is a prestigious fashion (and also photography) event where 10 young fashion designers have been selected (out of 345 candidates) to present their fashion collection to a...

I am so excited to share with you some images of the project I have been working on since last January. I had a fantastic opportunity to work with Outsign architects in Paris to design a unique art piece for the newly refurbish Italie Deux shopping centre in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. The commissioned work was to design a...

Installations by Confetti System. Perfect for the end of year festivity.

If you want to read how busy and exciting my days are at the moment (joke :) then check Rohini's fabulous blog The Beat That My Heart Skipped. You can also follow the days of other designers like Deborah Bowness, Priscilla Carluccio from Few and Far, Minimodern, Bodie and Fou and many more... Thanks Rohini!Check also her website, she's a...

I'll be more organized and tidy...:) Brilliant work by artist Michael Johansson as seen in IDtextile.