Something Fishy!

We are not really sure what these might be useful for but we love them anyway! There's always something charming and interesting about the very ordinary, as long as its not familiar, sardines have never looked so exotic! We always visit foreign supermarkets and vintage fairs when travelling and recommend you do the same, you never know what gems you might stumble upon.

Happy Easter - The Old Fashioned Way!

We love these old fashioned postcards celebrating everything that is lovely about Easter. All the clashing colours, lots of eater eggs and of course the long weekend wouldn't be complete without dancing hares! 

Get me out of the city!

I can't think of anything that could make me want to visit the countryside more than Hockneys paintings of Yorkshire. In glorious technicolor, they really are for adults what Disney is for children, mesmerising! We can wait to use his work as part of our inspiration for the next collection. The show is on at the Royal Academy until the 9th April, tickets are hard to come by but you must go! 
Royal Academy of Arts - www.royalacademy.org.uk

Cafe Chic

I have always loved sitting in Parisian cafes enjoying a drink and a spot of people watching. However on a recent trip I was really attracted to the variety of colours and patterns that are now used on the quintessentially Parisian chic chairs. These are some of our favourites that we will use as part of our next collections design inspiration.

Just Add Stamps

We came across these amazing old stamps while researching the forthcoming MON collection. Far from being a nerdy hobby we think they are beautiful and would love to receive more post and less emails! Oh, and we would like all the stamps to look as good as these ones.

Love Art London

Art in London is amazing at the moment, there's the fantastic Damien Hurst Spot Paintings at the Gagosian Gallery (showing the complete works in all their Galleries around the word), the brilliant (or so we're told, still need to get tickets) new David Hockney show at the Royal Academy and then the intricate early work of Sean Scully. The show is on at the Timothy Taylor Gallery in Mayfair and is comprised of acrylic, ink, graphite, and masking-tape drawings from 1974–75. The colour combinations are wonderful, it's a great way to beat the January blues and will inspire you to create beautiful things.


Sean Scully : Change and Horizontals, 13 January - 11 February


Timothy Taylor Gallery

15 CARLOS PLACE, LONDON, W1K 2EX

Monday to Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 2 pm

Ready Steady 2012

Happy New Year to you all, from MON! We hope it's a good one!