Long time readers of this blog will know I’m a huge fan of Australian illustrator Megan Hess so I was very excited when she shared her first homewares piece – a fine porcelain vase – with me.
The limited edition piece features illustrations from her Black Feather collection on both sides and as it’s black and white, it’ll go with any interior colour scheme, or indeed flower choice!
Just when I thought I really had conquered my cushion habit, along comes Miss Lou Lou, a collaboration between designer Keren Brown of The Brown Trading Co, and fashion illustrator Kerrie Hess.
Talented Kerrie counts Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Louis Vuitton, Kate Spade, Vogue and Collette Dinnigan among her clients and yes, she’s the sister of fellow illustrator Megan Hess, whose beautiful home you may have seen on this blog before!
Miss Lou Lou jets off to four of Keren’s favourite cities – London (V&A Museum), Paris (Bon Marche), New York (Tiffany & Co.) and Rome (riding a Vespa) in the limited edition, 100% silk cushions with gold plated zippers. Suitable to be framed as art if you wish, they come exquisitely boxed with a numbered, limited edition gift card. Cushions just got fancy!
Today I’m very excited to share with you the gorgeous home of Megan Hess, the stylish illustrator of the Sex and the City book cover and much more.
Illustrating for brands like Tiffany & Co, Chanel, Dior and Laduree, Megan is living her dream. She lives (and works) here, in the roof of a church, with her architect husband Craig Yelland and two young children. There is nothing usual about this four-bedroom home, which is one of the things she loves the most.
“I initially thought the space was completely crazy,” she said. “It was the entire roof of an 18th century church! The location was perfect and it was enormous BUT it was a roof. Craig took photos, scanned them into the computer and started to show me where we would put walls and how it would work (the perks of being married to an architect!). As soon as I saw that I knew it would be perfect.”
They have transformed it into their dream home and have been living there for three years. “Every single inch of it is built around how we like to live and the things we love.” The kids have their own area where they can play, make mess and hang out, and the “parents’ area” is a retreat from it all. “I feel like my pulse goes down the second I walk into that space,” says Megan.