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Shayle Flesser is a practicing fine artist, known for her bright and bold contemporary abstract paintings. Shayle hand paints all of her artworks on-site in her Brisbane-based studio and Gallery. Shayle’s exhibition ‘Act of Love’ can be viewed at Forty Five Downstairs from 13th June – 24th June. fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders lane Melbourne 3000
Fireside
The winter months are a great time to cosy everything up in your home and better still, if you have an open fireplace or slow combustion fireplace. There is nothing nicer than unrolling your fireside rug from its summer hibernation, pulling armchairs closer, adding a few more cushions and throws, and bringing out needlework or…
Radar Two-Pack Coating
As much as I love sourcing mid-century furniture for my clients I know some have been reluctant to purchase dining tables. This is largely due to their tendency to mark so easily, due to ‘water staining’, created from wet glasses or dinner plates. It was terrific to learn from Paul Ternent last week, owner of…
Essential questions before taking the plunge into downsizing
When downsizing, and beginning the search for your ideal apartment or townhouse, what starts out being an exciting exercise often ends up being confusing and demoralising. This potentially difficult and emotional time can be further exacerbated if you’re not clear about what your expectations are and what will be the deal breakers for you. For…
Creating the essential ‘luxury feeling’ of a main bedroom
With many of our downsizing clients they relish the opportunity to finally clear out the clutter in their lives, and to identify which of their belongings are truly important. The next step then is to create the home of their dreams minus the constraints imposed from having children or elderly parents living with them. Clients…
Lucie Rie pottery
Lucie Rie was an Austrian-born British potter, born in 1902. Rie moved to London to flee Nazi Austria. Best remembered for her brightly coloured, delicate vase, bottle and bowl Modernist forms. Key developments in Rie’s career, include creating glazes with flowing or volcanic textures, as well as combining coloured clays before throwing to produce upward…