Happy days are here again

It’s that time of year again, when all sensible people are overloading on carbs and wearing fashion-defying beanie hats, and the design world is gearing up for the celebration of frivolity and sheer ludicrousness that is the design season. It started this week with Maison & Objet  in Paris and will continue until Salone di Mobile in Milan in the spring. There will be a brief pause before the madness of the fashion weeks and interior design weeks from summer to autumn.

Obviously you all base your yearly calendars around these events, and life would have no meaning if they were cancelled. Yes, you’re right; I only sneer as a defence mechanism. I love all the shiny new stuff that arrives with the shows. As entrepreneurs from the CEO of IKEA to Orla Kiely have been busily telling us off for buying new stuff, apparently on some suicide mission to destroy their businesses (Ratners, anyone?), could we at AlaraApothecary please strongly reiterate that we wish you to buy as much of our products as you can afford without having to file for bankruptcy. Until 7 billion people have worked out a way to barter hemp bags for eggs etc, we are going to stick with the system we have if that’s OK.

So, gorgeous shiny new things for you to stare at before you go and do something useful like re-grouting the bathroom. In case you didn’t know, the final picture shows the Pantone colours which have been chosen for 2016. They rejoice under the names of Rose Quartz and Serenity. I love the design world, I really do. And the Bugatti Type 51 Dubos Coupé? That’s just eye candy that I couldn’t resist because, oh my, what a beautiful car. I could almost believe that if I had that car, I would be a better person….almost. I wouldn’t actually drive it, you understand. I would just stroke it and sing to it and occasionally sleep in it. Idolatry, you say? Pah! I knew there was something wrong with that scenario 🙂 Have a lovely week.

(Pin and lace sculpture by Aurelie Wozniak; Glassware by Sophie Villepigue)