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Designers Furniture Homewares

Design yourself a custom piece with highly skilled makers

Connecting with the right designer to create a one-off custom piece can be time-consuming and frustrating! So much so, that you may find yourself going for the cheaper, ‘good enough’, mass-produced option to save yourself both money and heartache. But, do so no more!

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New online marketplace, Makers Lane aims to make collaborating easy. With a community of award-winning craftspeople and artisans on call (such as Lee Gratton and Emma Clark of Gratton Design and Emma Veiga-Malta of My Bespoke Chair), they are skilled in the creation of bespoke furniture, jewellery, metalwork, polished concrete pieces and unique lighting fixtures.

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But how does it work? Well, it’s actually pretty simple. To start the process search the vast array of maker portfolios and bespoke items in the database for ideas and inspiration. Then, either reach out to a specific maker or post your proposal to the broader maker community, and in a matter of hours you will receive a number of proposals from interested artisans. Once you’ve picked your artisan, the design and creation process begins and soon you’ll have a beautiful piece that reflects your individual taste, desire and character!

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Makers Lane’s community of makers is expanding daily, with the artisans from around Australia all bringing with them a range of diverse and refined talents. You’re bound to find exactly what you want!

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Furniture

I Love My Chair: a new lease of life for your tired chairs

After winning a pitch contest, Emma Veiga-Malta was flown to Silicon Valley to talk about expanding her successful online design-it-yourself chair business, My Bespoke Chair, to the US.

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However, while she thoroughly enjoyed the experience, what she realised was that by expanding her business she’d lose the core element of what she loved to do, and that was create beautiful things. “By expanding my business, all of sudden I would lose touch with my clients, I wouldn’t be creating fabrics myself or doing my chairs myself and that all made me quite sad,” explains Emma. “So I thought, no! I need to use everything I learnt in Silicon Valley and pivot my business so that I’m adding services that I love to give my clients. And I know that my clients need.”

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So began Emma’s new venture, I Love My Chair, which with six different services, offers custom fabric design, fabric sourcing, chair sourcing, chair repairs, ready-to-buy chairs (designed by Emma herself), and design-it-yourself chairs under the umbrella of My Bespoke Chair. “While working on My Bespoke Chair, I realised a lot of people actually already owned chairs they wanted to have redesigned rather than buying new. Customers were coming to me asking if I could help with their redesign; so I thought hang on, there’s a real business here! Now My Bespoke Chair has become one of the services I offer, instead of being the only service.”

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Based in Sydney, I Love My Chair is very much a collaborative process between designer and customer, with Emma seeing herself as a style advisor. “People come to me and we work together to get their chair looking beautiful again. I’m really a style advisor for their chairs. So instead of being an online business, it’s a collaborative business. People have that one-on-one with me and that’s what gets me really excited!”

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With a degree in fashion and textiles and having worked as an artist and designer for the last 16 years, Emma is very familiar with the creative industries. Whether it be painting and designing fabrics, or giving a new lease of life to that heirloom chair, Emma’s main drive is transforming something you hid in the garage into a piece that is worthy of centre stage. “The creative process is what gets me really excited. I just love what I do and I think you can really tell that through my work.”

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Bedrooms Homewares Kids Rooms

10 great finds for kids rooms you can buy online

I love the personalised name pillowcases from Little Louli. Hand screenprinted and $35 each.

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Fromage La Rue’s new, smaller letter lights, Petite Vegas, are not quite available yet but you can get your name on the waiting list for your little person’s letter (or indeed your own initial!). They’re about 30cm high and with safe, low voltage LED lights, perfect for a night light. They’ll be $150 with free shipping.

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The new Cotton On Kids bed linen is fun, very affordable and available to buy online.

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Shop at Sydney’s My Bespoke Chair for a custom chair (and even coordinating cushion) for your little prince or princess. You can even design it yourself online with their clever tool. From  $850 with free delivery.

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If I had a child, they’d have one of these Incy Interiors beds. I just love the rose gold version as it’ll go with most colour schemes and I mean really, what kid wouldn’t want a gold bed?! From $649 for a single, it’s a great update of a classic shape.

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I’ve been a big fan of Aura linen for a long time, so I was happy to see they now do all their quilt covers in kid-friendly single size too. The brand does mix and match so well, you’re bound to find a cool combo for your kid! PERFECT for tweens and teens too.

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These gold foiled prints from Papier d’Amour would look great in a child’s bedroom. $30 unframed or $80 framed. Buy online.

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little-miss-sunshine-pinkArmadillo & Co are pretty much Aussie rug royalty and if you’ve got money to spend, you should definitely consider something from their Junior Collection. They’re not too childish so they could easily take a child from toddler to teen years. From $255.

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These colourful wire baskets from Lilly & Lolly are brilliant for chucking toys or laundry into and come in a variety of colours and sizes. From $22.

The Booksee is a great way to display kids books, making reading appealing and adding colour and interest to their walls. $199 for a set of two from Ubabub.

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What are your favourite places to shop for kids rooms? I’d love to hear about them.

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New cushions from My Bespoke Chair

Emma Veiga-Malta, the woman behind My Bespoke Chair, has launched a range of equally customisable, made-to-order cushions.

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This means you can now mix ‘n match your dream chair (or any chair, bed or sofa you already have) with the perfect cushion! And who doesn’t love a good cushion (most men, actually, but still!)?

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Online 3D chair designer launches today

My Bespoke Chair claims to be the world’s first 3D online chair design studio.

British/Dutch artist Emma Veiga‐Malta, who has a studio in Sydney’s Mosman, founded My Bespoke Chair as a natural progression from the parent company Bespoke Art. While creating tailor‐made art and fabrics, she had many clients request specific and unusual fabric combinations for their upholstery. With the internet streamlining business, and the increasing upholstery work at Bespoke Art, Emma put two and two together and created My Bespoke Chair.

“It captures the zeitgeist of social, online shopping and mobile, smart technologies. We have developed an online “point and click” tool which gives the customer total design freedom,” says Emma. “All our fabric designs start life as hand painted art, designed in‐house. The fabrics are exclusively ours, printed in limited runs, ensuring that every chair is a work of art.”

The customer chooses a chair style, then scrolls through the collection of fabrics and selects all the chair’s upholstered elements in any combination. They can spin the chair 360 degrees to view their design from every angle.

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