New Polli Blog

How much is that doggy...

You might be wondering who that handsome dog is on the back of the new Tandem necklace. Duffy Lloyd is two year old cattle kelpie cross, posh breed = Kettle Dog! Duff comes to work every day in the Polli studio with his brother Alfie and is always keen to greet visitors.

Good Oman

They're a good breed the Oman women. Young Hannah who works with us is the queen of cupcakes. She's been baking for us for wedding celebrations, births and birthdays! Even catering to our bizarre dietary requirements - see dairy free dark chocolate and raspberry cakes above. Cheryl baked us homemade coconut bread this week and Kathleen helped us select our new red studio chairs. Thanks Oman ladies - we love you!

We Can Do It!

Polli was proud to offer our Export Advice on Design*Sponge's Biz Ladies section. It's a great resource for all kinds of business advice including marketing, PR and HR.

Kate visits Phily

Kate visited beautiful Philadelphia a few weeks back and popped in on a few of our local stores. Including Hello World (above) and Open House (below).We're also excited to be stocking Bus Stop, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Lost+Found on North Third Street.

Earth Hour Competition

Tell us how you celebrate Earth Hour this weekend for a chance to win a Polli Tea Light Shade of your choice. We're looking for the most creative ways to spend an hour without electricity! The winning entry will be posted on the Polli blog next week. The competition is open to people worldwide and finishes Thursday 2 April, at midnight (AEST).

Email your stories and photos to info@polli.com.au

Get behind Earth Hour, 8.30pm local time this Saturday night.

Hey Susy

Polli's new Woven range has just been featured on the great blog - HeySusy! The posting - Leave it to Weaver requests cuffs with embroidery... we'll see what we can do Susy. Susy makes her own gorgeous stationery under the name SusyJack including these gorgeous calendars which are all made locally in the USA from 100% post consumer waste paper.

News Watch

Polli has been getting some love in the media recently with our SS Bamboo Earrings and Pendant featured in QLD Brides Magazine (above) and our SS Magnolia Necklace featured in Virgin Blue Magazine (below).

Moody Friday

We've only just launched a new collection and we're already thinking about the next one! We keep a collection of images we collect on the pin boards in the studio for inspiration... they've even some photos of two cute kids we know - Ruby and Illa!

Earth Day - Today!

Happy Earth Day! Here at Polli we’re celebrating Mother Earth by doing our best to preserve it. It’s the little things you do that make a difference – like preparing a communal lunch to save on packaging or catching public transport to work. We’re lucky enough to have the talented Sherri Hilario cooking our lunch each day. Sherri has started a herb garden here at the Polli studio, she buys our food at the local co op and even carries our compost waste home... on the bus!

Polli aims to be a carbon neutral company which is socially responsible, reducing our environmental foot print wherever possible. Check out our progress on the Polli website.

Material Girls

We're so proud of our fellow Sydney designers - Dandi - who are getting some awesome media coverage for their beautiful homewares line. Dandi have been creating beautiful napery and homewares for serveral years. We love our Dandi ironing board covers - thanks girls! x

Knott Again!

Our stunning David Knott Dracaena lights are up in the studio! They look fantastic and to celebrate their arrival we've changed our front window graphics to a shrine of all things Knott. Floating like beautiful sea creatures from the timber ceiling they greet us as we enter each day. Thanks Dave! xx

Coolmompicks.com

We were thrilled to have our Black Anodized Rose Bud Pendant featured on Coolmompicks.com this week. They feature some great products including the beautifully colourful Danish Rosenberg bags which we spied Asger&Mum importing into Australia last month!

MMMMMieke

The postman arrived this morning with a special parcel -a box of chocolates! - from our new favourite store Mieke (above) in Belgium! Mieke is a gorgeous store with a great range of vintage style dresses, jewellery and gifts. Ahhh... the way to our hearts is certainly through cocoa! Thanks Mieke! xxx

Polli mums at work

As requested here is a photo of the Polli mums, Pia and Sue, working hard on Polli woven production. Keep up the great work mums. Thanks xx

Earth Hour

We got a parcel in the post today which informed us about Earth Hour. "This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming...In 2009, Earth Hour is being taken to the next level, with the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of a global vote." Be part of it...8.30PM, Saturday 28 March 2009.

We Heart Tivi

This is a very belated thank you to Paul (of Tivi) and this wonderful wife, Dori, for showing us around Chicago last month. It was great to see the Tivi HQ, meet local celebrities (Eric!), head to their local (complete with old school photobooth) and taste the many culinary extremes the city has to offer! We were lost without these guys!

Tea Time

Polli put the kettle on... to top off tea time at Polli Barbara Sargent has knitted us two custom designed tea cosies! They are THE CUTEST things we have ever seen - one even features the umbrellas from our logo! So talented - we're trying to encourage Barbara to get an Etsy site to share her work so stay tuned!
PS. Our house blend of tea is T2; 3 parts Mont Pear with 2 parts Girlie Grey.

The Near Future

We had the pleasure of visiting The Near Future at Mosman Markets on the weekend. The talented Nicky Law and Julia Lee (soon to be Skinner) have been cooking up some beautiful screen printed tea towels. All designed and made locally they have a beautiful hand crafted feeling. If you can't make it to the markets you can now purchase online... perfect for Mother's day.

Hable Construction

While in the states recently we met Susan of Hable Construction. We feel in love instantly with her Texan accent and soon learnt of her beautiful work. The sisters, Susan and Katherine, named their business after their family construction company. It fits perfectly as the collection of personal and home accessories (designed and made in the US) are so well made and considered - they're built to last! The bold, graphic style of the prints come to life with vibrant colours on thick canvas.

New Collection Launched - Sydney

Polli's new collection was launched at the Life in Style trade show over the weekend. We got a great response to our new designs, colours and hand woven pieces (stitched by the Polli mum's). The new pieces will be available online or at a Polli stockist near you soon!

The new 'Tandem' necklace design - a bicycle built for two - was very popular, complete with a bottle of vino and a baguette in the front basket and Duffy the dog along for the ride in the back!

Polli is also the proud Australia distributor of Tivi, exhibiting their range of clutches, rings, cuffs and belts for the first time. The Hips clutch generated a lot of interest.

The trade show also saw great new colletions from our favourites Mushu and High Tea with Mrs Woo, as well as many others.

Julia Rothman - Brooklyn

We have been fans of Julia Rothman's ever since we first saw her work being featured on Design*Sponge. When we were in NY we were very lucky to meet Julia where she hand delivered a print which had been lost in the post for 5 months. It’s a well travelled print USA to Australia twice. I really appreciate the personal service Julia gave me. Thanks Julia!

Vegas Baby!

We will be showing our new collection at the Pool Trade Show, Las Vegas, this week. This is a trade only event running from 17 til 19 February at the LVCC. If you can make it stop by booth 1704 and say hi to Kate... she has a bounty of Australian candy!

Milk&Honey Cafe, Chicago

Not to harp on about food but we feasted on a delicious breakfast at Milk&Honey – I’m talking orange brioche French toast... need I say more.

Milk&Honey - 1920 W Division St, Chicago

Willow, Chicago

We were swept away with Willow, Chicago. It's got an enchanting mix of ceramics, decorations, stationery, puppetry and irresistible wooden gorillas!

Willow - 908 N Damen Ave, Chicago

Avec Tapas, Chicago

The Wallpaper city guide boasts Avec as one of their favourite restaurants in the world so we had to try it! Fourteen dishes later we concur! The chorizo-stuffed madjool dates are a must.

Avec - 615 W Randolph, Chicago

The Silver Room, Chicago

The Silver Room, also in Chicago, boasts some great work by our favourites Tivi and Haji. Eric the owner (above right) is the local celebrity and hosts parties in the back of the store. We were lucky enough to have Paul from Tivi (above left) as our local tour guide! Thanks Paul :)

The Silver Room - 1442 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago

MCA, Chicago

While on the road we visited Chicago for the first time. The locals called it a 'warm' -5 degree day! We popped into the Museum of Contemporary Art, they were in between exhibitions but we got to check out the amazing stairs and impressive two level store! It's a really international store featuring products from around the globe and great Kid Robot collection.

MCA - 220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago

Loom, Brooklyn

While out and about we also popped in to visit Susan at Loom in Park Slope - she's got a beautiful mix of fashion, stationery and toys for the little ones...

Loom - 115 7th Ave, Brooklyn

Exit 9, Brooklyn

Exit 9 is a great store in Brooklyn with an extensive range of gifts for all ages. We love the vintage fridge display, tree house books and cute cuddly friends. The new Polli range will be in store soon.

Exit 9 - 127 Smith Street, Brooklyn + 64 Avenue A, Manhattan

Diner, Brooklyn

While in Williamsburg Brooklyn we visited the unassuming Diner. Hard to find it was worth braving the cold for the old school carriage style interior and delicious burgers!

Diner - 85 Broadway Brooklyn NY

New York International Gift Show

Polli's new range was launched at the New York International Gift Show last week. It was great to catch up with some of our US customers and work alongside our new team member, Kate Williams, who is now based in New York. We also got a chance to meet our biggest fan (and potential stalker) - Roger. ;)

Definitely Knott

They have landed! Polli is now the proud home to three Dracaena lights by David Knott!
We can't wait to install them! Stay tunned...

Tuesday Designs

We have fallen in love with the beautiful work of Taryn and Elise at Tuesday Designs. Their works on paper use embossing to create detailed 'white on white' imagery which sets the scene for their vintage fabric characters. The vibrant colour of the fabric stands out against the subtle white background as if a spotlight is bringing one section to life. The texture of the fabric and paper is so tactile you'll be pawing at your screen!

Each illustration is unique through the variety and individuality of the fabrics selected. Works start at $410 measuring 340 x 430mm