Alpha Cruxis

Alpha Cruxis is a Berlin-based design project by Australian designer Rebecca Martin. Working with leather, Alpha Cruxis creates sculptural, minimal design objects celebrating material, technique and form.

Using traditional leatherworking techniques, each Alpha Cruxis piece is cut, sewn and finished by hand in our Berlin studio from the highest quality Italian vegetable tanned leather.

The debut 2013 bag collection from Alpha Cruxis ‘GEOMETRY’ takes shape in five striking, minimal designs using 3mm thick black leather and silver hardware.

The Home-Journal

This week on The Home-Journal I share my top 10 gift ideas for Christmas. Most items are from Australian designers and are perfect for anyone who loves Australian made, local home design.

Here it is!

Lumberjack candle holder

Danish designer Simon Legald designed these candle holders after being inspired by the silhouette formed in a tree trunk as lumberjacks slowly chop away to a trees centre. Each set of the Lumberjack candle holders are created from a single cylindrical piece of solid wood. The collection is sold through 

Normann Copenhagen.

The Home-Journal

This week on The Home-Journal I share my top 10 cushions for the end of this year.

They are funky, fun and add so much to a space.

Here's the link.

Chocolate & Chalk

Since rockclimbing two or three times a week for the past few months, I have started looking up more than just interiors in my 'spare' time... I search for photography of fashion on cliffs, and nature photography of climbing places around the world. I watch youtube videos of pro rock-climbers to learn their technique and see where they climb, and I get fascinated by the stalactites and materials which create these wondrous walls which people hang to. So when I stumbled across these photos of the contrast of the textures of chocolate and chalk, I fell in love. 

Chalk is one thing a climber needs a lot of. Since J and I started climbing I've had to buy five more bags of chalk already. The chalk photographed here is from the Chalk Cliffs of Møns Klint in Denmark and were taken by amazing photographer Ulf Svane. Cereal Magazine has compared these images with the three photographs of chocolate in its various forms, taken by blogger Anne Moltke Hansen of Anne Au Chocolat. I could look at those chalk photographs all day... There is just something about the colouring and texture that draws me in.

Broste SS14

Danish Interior Company Broste new Spring/Summer 2014 catalogue has some amazing photographs of both the products for sale and incredible experimental pictures. Styled by wonder-woman Nathalie Schwer and photographed by Line T. Klien the end result in beautiful!

Invisible Helmet

This is a crazy idea, but Swedish design students Anna and Terese have worked on creating an invisible bicycle helmet... Watch and be inspired!

Orla Kiely

The always stylish and desirable Orla Kiely has released her SS14 Resort Collection and boy its cute!

Doors of Malta

Recently found at Cereal Magazine are these photos of Doors in Malta photographed by James Stapleton. I love the colours, shapes and textures that different entrances display... They make you want to walk up and open them!

The Home-Journal

This week on The Home-Journal I share my top 10 go-to shops for furniture and homewares in Sydney. I hope it helps! Read it here.