interiors

colours mixed with white. Also i love the fabric chandelier!! i put the bottom image on as i like the Mark Rothko/Simple strip painting in the background, simple art, beautiful colours could be a winner as we would sell them as originals, but still at an affordable price!!
daisy

mary portas giving shop

i like the way the clothes are organised in colours together, we could do this with all our stock. and the chalk board back ground is quite a quirky sweet way of communicating to the customers when we get a pop up shop/stall.
daisy x

The Lollipop Shoppe

I discovered this store when I was in Brighton the other week. I had seen it before but never popped in! I think it would have been safer had I not! I want everything in here! The Ceramic design is by Marimekko and the Eames chair designed by Charles and Ray Eames.

Emma

Lush Designs

I stumbled across this gorgeous little shop in Greenwich market on New Years Eve and ended up speaking to one of the owners who does a lot of the illustration, her works really lovely! The shop was filled with all their own product which was fab. They stock everything from cushion covers to cool prints, cards to cups! www.lushlampshades.co.uk ...I think they have a studio at cockpit arts!

Emma

Jewellery

Charlotte as a fellow chunky jewellery lover you may well love Marion Vidals work …check it out! I wish I bought one of her necklaces when I saw it a couple of years! I love them! www.marionvidal.com

Emma

A brief brainstorm

sorry this post is a bit long listed, but it is related to the Mary Portas thing, and the life style shop idea.

Where we can source stuff to up-cyle our selves, re-vamping, customise, combine with our new products…

Recycling centre
Auctions/ house centre
Free Cycle
Charity shops
Ebay
Gumtree
Free adds – newsagents, pinboards, shops etc
Textile recycling centre
Clothing banks
Junk shops/ Junk yards
Rag shops (Buy clothing by weight)
Angels sample sales

Rough Prices Products
CASH COW – low value
CORE – medium/high value
USP – high value

Things we can sell
Furniture
Textiles
Fashion
Jewellery
Books
Magazines
Cd’s
Gifts
Framed print
Wallpaper
Cards, wrapping paper
Customised frames
Fascinators/ accessories

We need to collect images for our inital…
Customer board
Moodboard
Product Board

Focus Group
We need to have a Focus Group with out target audience.
Yummy mummys,
What we would need to find out…
Names they like
Our ethos
Where they shop
What would make thier life easier?
Price point
What they do in there spare time
What their names are even, husbands names. (Jenny, Fiona, Phill, Peter etc)


- Daisy n Em

Mary Portas – 28th June 2010

This episode was especially inspiring!!!...
I love love love Mary Portas - Mary Queen of shops, and thanks BBC for BBC iplayer, we love you too.

Mary Portas – 28^th June 2010

Notes from the show…

Abigail Ahern – Interior Designer. Imaginative style.

Quirky and distinct but commercial and in demand.

Mish Mash of style.

Vintage mixed with modern. ‘Odd Ball’

It’s not one particular style but it is held together with this tongue in cheek twist on revamping bits of old junk into making them super sexy.

But fundamentally it is eclectic.

Elle Decoration

Calm, comforting – blues, greens, turquoise.

Wood is key, underling ecological theme.

Dip dye cushion, something you could do but just would never have the time. – hints of nostalgia.

Old and New – Heritage and heirloom items, it is about balancing the fashionable and the forever.

Nostalgia trend.

Old finds mixed with new – Juxtaposition them – it is something new/ something different.

Liberties

As well as Nostagia some retailers upcycle – this is reworking some of these old and new finds, a lick of paint here or there, deciding to leave some bits as is, but with a beautiful yellow vase on it.

The accessible prices, something different from the highstreet but not madly different designer price tags. Something different from Habitat, Heals etc.

Ardingly the antiques fair in West Sussex. Martin Hanas

love Daisy