Famille Summerbelle News

We are so happy to have our paper cut City maps featured in the new Gestalten book A Map of the World - The World Seen by Illustrators and Storytellers A Map of the World is a compelling collection of work by a new generation of original and sought-after designers, illustrators, and mapmakers. This work showcases specific regions, characterizes local...

Looking back, 2012 has been an amazing year. We've launched 2 new collections The Perfomers and Morning in Manhattan, a book, paper cut maps, screen prints and I enjoyed working with Issey Miyake on the World Map collection. We also had plenty of relaxing holidays in France, Copenhagen and Japan. Ophelia learnt to read and write in Franglais (French &...

This is another fun side project I've been working on lately at my mum's ceramic studio in Paris. I have also made a series of little houses, mushrooms and a snail which I will show you very soon...Vive Noël!

This year we decided to make the decoration to go on the Christmas tree. The children and I started about a month ago to make stars from clay, it became our favourite activity of rainy Sundays! Ophelia helped to shape the stars and Lucien to paint them afterwards. We added a little bit of pink and glitter, just because we...

Last night while the children were asleep I was setting up their advent calendar I secretly made over the past few days. I got some little things like crayons, hair clips, Kinder chocolates, some Playmobiles toys and other silly things. I used a gold crepon paper to make the little houses and pinned them to the wall in the shape...

Three is the magic number, Yes it is, it's the magic number...

It's another one of those wet Autumn days today. We started the day very slowly with that French staple of croissants and confiture! On days like this we often pay a visit to Les Fermes de Gally. Gally is a farm on the edge of the Versailles estate and it's very close to where we live. It has a long...

"He adored New York City. He idolised it all out of proportion….no, make that: he - he romanticised it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin" Woody Allen, Manhattan 1979 I seem to always...

I started my day in Merci meeting up with the lovely Emilie from Lait Fraise chatting about work, children and the difficult task of replaceing a home in the East side of Paris! Afterwards I had a little look around Merci, Bonton next door and few shops in the charming rue de Bretagne. This cane and leather chair is on...

Here is my selection of some of my favorite places to shop, visit, see and eat in Tokyo. I wish I had extra days to discover more hidden places as Tokyo is so vast. If you would like to add to the list please leave me a comment! CIBONE Magnificent interior design store located on the basement floor of Bell...

Kappabashi street is a 800 meter long street devoted to kitchenware. You will replace anything you need to open a restaurant, from rice cooker, crockery, knives, disposable chopsticks to plastic food (realistic-looking plastic models of dishes that are displayed in many restaurant windows in Japan). Subway stop: the Ginza Line’s Tawaramachi station. You are welcome by The Chef and on...

The exhibition (and the book launch) of Famille Summerbelle and Terre et Montagne opened yesterday at Doux Dimanche (Aoyama area). We had a wonderful evening organized by the girls at the gallery. It was such a pleasure to meet many lovely people who knew about my work. My mum was also delighted to show her work for the first time...

I first visited Tokyo four years ago during our world tour travels with Simon and Ophelia (do you remember this post?!) I fell in love with this vibrant City and how welcoming Japanese people are. Four years later I come back to the same area we stayed last time (Aoyama) and to my surprised nothing has changed much. Today Coco...

This morning we woke up in a cloudy and rainy Tokyo so we decided to visit Kyoto for a couple of days before we return to Tokyo on Tuesday for the exhibition. With the bullet train Shinkanzen, Kyoto is only 2h30 away from Tokyo. This train ride is very pleasant. It is fascinating to look out the window and observe...

Kon nichi wa, hello! I am in Tokyo and very much looking forward to my week in Japan! I am traveling with my mum while Simon is at home having fun with the children (thank you Simon!). We are over to launch our latest book Be Creative with Famille Summerbelle with Edition Paumes . They have invited us to do...

Sorry for not being very active on the blog at the moment. The beginning of the month has been pretty busy with the rentrée des classes (back to school) for the children and the trade show at Maison et Objet last week. We had a great time showing all our products and our new collection. A big thank you to...

The smell of the greasepaint, the roar of the crowd....finally after a good six months drawing, cutting, designing, sampling and starting all over again (!)....we very proudly introduce our new collection. The Performers. Colourful, resplendent and ever so slightly mysterious we introduce you to Maximilien le magicien, Ludo le lapin and Boom le clown. A motley crew of traveling performers....