Famille Summerbelle News

We just spent a fantastic weekend in Lille, celebrating our wedding anniversary and visiting the Braderie de Lille. For those that don't know, the Braderie is an enormous flea market festival dating back to the 12th Century that takes over the entire city. It's the largest in Europe. It is a fabulous mix of antique furniture, objet d'art, bric a...

I spent a part of the summer holidays, in our family home in the South West of France, discovering old boxes full of precious family collections. While rifling through an old wooden box I found a stunning collection of old Paris Match magazines dating between 1950 and 1970! I found this wonderful illustration from the 1960s which gently mocks the...

We're enjoying a lovely time with the family in the South West of France. The cousins are happy playing together and I'm delighted to switch off from my computer! I'll be back soon with lots of exciting new product images: wallpaper, tea towels and the new map of San Francisco...

So the last couple of weeks have been a mix of holiday and working. We've tried to keep the morning time for work (for which we take turns) and then some good ol' family time in the afternoon. Most of my work is really not worth sharing (although some of my time has been working on a new website for...

Marika Giacinti is launching her eponymous pillow label from Paris. They are manufactured in a traditional French home linen factory. Each pillow is beautifully crafted with pompom, fringe and screen printed patterns. Her online shop will open around September/October time.

It's been a ritual in Paris over the past 20 years or so, thousands of people all dressed in their best white outfit arrive at the same time to have a posh picnic in a prestigious Parisian location. You only get invited by friends and the location remains a secret until the last minute (you get told once you are...

I wanted to get this little rabbit from Miko Design for a long time and now I've done it. I bought it this morning for Ophelia's 5th birthday in a few weeks time. I look forward to make it with her over the Summer and I think it will go nicely alongside Apoline à Paris Rabbit that is hanging in...

We'll go for lunch with friends on Saturday and a long bike ride on Sunday. What are you up to? Not really a safe way to carry a little baby but I'm sure he's loving it! Photo by Dominique Poiret. Seen on Liberation.

I'm making several paper garlands to decorate our stand at Pulse show in London next weekend. Come over to see our new products if you're around (sorry it's only for trade and press). I'll give one away after the show so check the blog!

Rather excited to have the New York City map on the front cover of the magazine. Thanks to Amanda from Brown Paper Packages, Australia.

Edition Paumes are doing an exhibition of artworks made by French artists in response to the 11th March events. More than 100 unique drawings, collages and messages will be sold in Galerie Doux Dimanche shop in Tokyo from today until 17th April. The money raised will be donated to the Red Cross Japan for those who have been most effected...

All my thoughts go to the people of Japan. Photograph of the ceiling of Sensoji Temple taken in September 2008 in Tokyo.

Vanessa Boz, her husband and their 2 young children decided to leave behind their comfortable life in London to travel the World for 5 months. They started in Brazil at the end of last year, followed by South East Asia (Singapore, Burma, North Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam). Now they are enjoying the sun and beach life in Australia before heading...

featured in Elle Deco Thailand in the March issue.

The new Love Bugs prints are now available on Famille Summerbelle website. The prints come in 2 colours (Red heart/dusty pink background & Blue heart/ warm stone background) and are based on my original paper cut. This idea of a love heart with bugs and butterflies hiding in leaves came to me after my daughter Ophelia went on a school...

Ophelia has been talking from an early age and she loves it! It's non stop from the moment she wakes up until she goes to bed. When we went travelling Ophelia was 2 years old. I didn't have anything to record her voice so I decided to sketch what was coming out of her mouth... This was a pretend telephone...

Over the next few days I will post about things I liked at Maison & Objet. I went last Friday for few hours so I didn't manage to see it all (the show is massive!). Funny glass collection from Fabrica (the communication research centre finance by Benetton) for Secondome (a design gallery in the heart of Rome).

I loved the colours used in the Ferm Living collection. From the top left: Wine bottle candleholders, Remix Yellow cushion, Molecule Building Set, Copenhagen tea towel. Danish designs from Hay. from the top left: Plopp stool by Oskar Zieta, Display Me Box, Nobody chairs for adult and child by Komplot Design, Fold Unfold table cloth by Margrete Odgaard.