Sweet Dreams

I was the happy recipient of these gorgeous pillowcases from Third Drawer Down this Christmas. The beautiful illustrated image is by Dylan Martorell of Melbourne. The mythological scene extends over the two pillow cases making them a perfect pair and makes for creative dreams.

Fins, Kingscliff

It's not often that we write about food but we couldn't resist reviewing Fins at Salt Village. Up in Kingscliff of Northern NSW you'll find this small but impressive restaurant. You can enjoy a decadent degustation or just posh take away fish and chips to eat on the nearby beach. We did both in the one day and this vegetarian was even turned to soft shell crab (below)...

The fish is line caught locally and the chef, Steven Snow, uses organic produce where possible. The wine menu boasts local and portugese wines, some organic and biodynamic!


Well deserving of its chef's hats accolades, top notch!

Bloody Beautiful Bangalow

Just a few kilometres further south we found Bangalow. The main street - Byron Street - was home to so many beautiful stores and window displays! The Little Booktree book shop with its Babar hot air balloon display and even the local Pharmacy had a beautiful window display of perfume and Missoni beach towels!Island Luxe (above) had a beautiful range of fashion and homewares in neutral colour ways. We especially liked the ceramic vessels (below), these native inspired pieces can be used as a vase or just a sculpture to admire.

Further up the street we came past Wax Jambu (below) with its beautiful striped deck chairs.

Obsession (below) with a great range of summer shoes including the latest Campers.

Aurora (below); "a store full of sustainable products has been able to flourish with emerging environmental consciousness of designers, suppliers, and most importantly, customers."

The precious Little Peach (below) with a beautiful range of Japanese collectables and embossed prints from Tuesday Designs . We've contact the girls from Tuesday Designs and hope to do a posting on their work soon...

And finally Heart of the Home (below) with a great range of Summer 'Sunny' products for the beach and home.

Beautiful Byron

While on the road we ducked down to Northern NSW and drove through the beautiful Byron Bay (and past the BIGGEST Avocado!).

Here we popped in on a Polli stockist Pure Byron (below), they've got every conceivable salt scrub available - no excuse for not exfoliating! - plus new printed eco bags from envirosax. We also checked out Greenhouse around on Fletcher Street who have a great range of giftware, jewellery and homewares.

Found.

We flew north this Christmas to the glorious Gold Coast. While up near Burleigh we stumbled across a great little shop called Found. Found had a great collection of refurbished furniture, cute tees and great wooden toys from Plan Toys.

1395 Gold Coast Hwy, Palm Beach T. 07 5576 3739

News Watch

Polli Red Gloss Earrings are shown in the current issue of Home Beautiful magazine (above), we've got a great colletion of limited edition coloured pieces coming soon... stay tunned...

Mad Hatters

We went mad at the Helen Kaminski hat sale this morning.
Get in quick, sale ends tomorrow!
49 George Street, Redfern

Why Knott

The beautifully detailed and botanically inspired work of David Knott has been admired by Polli for several years now. The Lotus light (above) has a 'combination of traditional ornamentation with modern materials and processes...what some would term Technoramanticism'.

These designs, such as the new Dracaena light above, are so adaptable they are equally at home in a large commercial installation or hanging over a residential dining room table for an intimate meal. What's Knott to love?

Surry Hills Sample Sale

Polli and Mushu are having a combined seconds, samples and discontinued sale this Friday 5 Dec (8am til 6pm) and Saturday 6 Dec (10am til 5pm). Huge discounts just in time for Christmas!
419 Crown St, Surry Hills (NSW)

News Watch

Polli's Deco Pendant was listed as one of Stylist Dee Prestons must haves is this month's issue of Vouge Australia (above).

Thursday's issue of SMH's Essential lift out featured the Polli Love Doves and Red Wreath (above).

The 'All I want for Christmas...' gift guide (above) has a great collection of gift ideas including Polli's Red Leaf Coasters, Stainless Steel Mobile and White Wreath.

News Watch

Anna spotted our Gum Tree jewellery stand in the latest issue of House&Garden. We also love the Bholu 'Mavis the Monkey' rug featured on page 48.

Halcyon Sale

Get frocked for the holiday season at Halcyon's sale tomorrow! Prices starting from $60 for beautiful dresses! We snuck in early for a sneak peak this morning (= five dresses and two shrugs later!) and it's defiantely worth a visit.

SUITE 11, 1-7 ALBION PLACE, (NEXT TO GEORGE ST CINEMAS), phone 9264 6695.

Materialistic

Today we caught up with Angie from Materialistic, I've now fallen in love with Scrappy, not only is he handsome and cuddly he is very very well behaved... hand made in Australia with love.

Autumn in Summer

Flicking through InsideOUT we came across some great new lights - Metal Petal - by Australian company Autumn Products. This clever product was awarded Best Lighting at the Melbourne Fringe this year. Nice work!

Breast Cancer Fundraising

Polli teamed up with Mallesons Stephen Jaques recently to help raise money for Breast Cancer Research. It's really easy to donate online, you can make a general donation, donate as a gift or as a memorial.

Lovely Logitech

We're sitting much straighter at Polli after investing in a couple of Logitech's new X shaped monitor stands. Not only are they really really good looking but they are practical too. They suspend your laptop at a comfortable height above your desk and are covered in loads of USB points making them a kind of docking station and monitor stand in one!

News Watch

It was great to see our new Wreaths getting some love in InsideOUT's Christmas Edition (see above). The Wreaths are also available in white and can be personalised with different ribbons or flowers. This issue also has a great 'Happy Hour' guide...

News Watch

The new Polli Tea Light Shades have been the talk of the town lately, they are featured in Home Beautiful Magazine's December issue (above) and were also reviewed on Design*Sponge's current lighting write up.

Busy Bees

We've been busy bees getting our jewellery ready for the next round of limited edition colours for release in February 2009, stay tunned...

We're Hooked

We are in LOVE with our new Muuto wall hooks! We've finally put them up in the studio. The timber polka-dots are fun 'cause there is a variety of sizes and you can choose how they're arranged. They so beautifully finished it's almost a shame to cover them up with your coat!

Beautiful Planet

Planet Furniture is showing an exhibition of Ernest Fratczak work. This features scenes from Tokyo and Kyoto capturing portraiture, streetscapes, architecture and contemporary culture. Also at Planet Furniture you’ll find other beautiful art work and well considered sustainable furniture.
The Crab and Green car is Tess’s favourite (second image)

We love the way the image continues over the 2 plates.

Opening night, Ross knows how to put on a party!

Meeting with Japan running October 29th to November 26th at planet 114 commonwealth st surry hills.

PS you’ll also find 20% off at Planet's Crown St Store

Danks St Design Market

The Danks Street Festival was buzzing today as was the first Designers Market at Pyd (Cnr Young and Phillip St, Waterloo). Their car park was transformed into a bustling showcase of local design; wall art (stretched fabric, vinyl graphics, lino prints), fashion (jewellery, accessories and mini-me-style liberty print kids clothes) and furniture (vintage and Zaishu seats below).

Mr Rose

Based in Paddington (Sydney) Mr Rose creates beautiful Australian Made shirts specifically tailored for women - finally! Carefully crafted to compliment your curves they boast a perfect fit with no gape! If you get the opportunity to visit the store you'll meet the divine Sasha and see her delicate, hand-crafted fabric flowers. We love this image below; the quirky illustration reveals the alter-ego of the model.

Monet and the Impressionists

We got out and about on Friday for some inspiration for the new range. We visited the Art Gallery of NSW and checked out the new Monet and the Impressionists exhibition, well worth a visit.

If you get along to the gallery check out the gallery shop it's got a great mix of products including Apple & Bee bathroom bags, Only Midge handbags and a great show case of Polli!

Sculpture by the sea

Sculpture by the sea is currently on along the Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk from 16 October - 2 November. This is a free event with over 100 sculptures from around the world to capture the imagination of all ages. We went to check it out on Saturday, the sun was shining and the people were out. Below are a few of the high lights.

Interactive fun for the kids in this whale come helicopter.

This pair of mechanical wings move with beautiful balance, you could watch them for hours.

You have to keep close eye on the surroundings as some of the most beautiful sculptures become part of the environment.

This Tree/Boat is stunning, it sits in the perfect position on the point looking out to sea.

The concept that started in Bondi in 1997 has now spread to Cottesloe Beach in Perth (5-24 March 2009) and Aarhus in Denmark (2-28 June 2009) check out Sculptures by the Sea for more info.