• Painting

    Affordable Luxury: Shop at Quince

    A few weeks ago the nice folks at Quince home reached out to me to introduce their products – specifically for the home (obviously) but they also have clothing for all ages and sizes (which I love), holiday gifts and more. (Please note: this post includes affiliate links which means that a small commission is paid on any purchased made via the links provided. This helps support this blog. Also, Quince offered me a complimentary set of sheets of my choosing to review. All opinions and selections are my own.) If you aren’t familiar with Quince, their mission is “to democratize…

  • Home Décor

    Keiji Ashizawa designs “home-like” The Conran Shop in Hillside Terrace

    Designer Keiji Ashizawa has devised the interiors of The Conran Shop Daikanyama in Tokyo, which is located inside a building by architect Fumihiko Maki and spotlights products from Japan and Asia. The latest outpost from British retailer The Conran Shop is located in the modernist Hillside Terrace in Daikanyama, a quiet area close to the Tokyo city centre. The complex was designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Maki and constructed between 1967 and 1992. The Conran Shop Daikanyama was designed to resemble someone’s home Ashizawa aimed to take the existing architecture of the two-storey building into consideration when designing the interior of…