Object of the day: Eduardo Barba prints

Some different examples of Eduardo Barba's striking geometric prints have featured here before. 

The Seville-based artist, a trained architect whose schooling seeps into his work, has created designs with a sharp 50s feel but without cliche.

 Geometric Exercise 3

A Rum Fellow, whose incredible Peruvian chairs I wrote about last week, seem to be the only UK shop to stock his work, and they have picked out some beautiful pieces to sell – and for just £25 a-piece for an A3 print.

What do you think?

The Braille alphabet

Geometric Exercise 2

Find these prints and more at A Rum Fellow

Post by Kate

The Friday edit: the week's best bookmarks

I'm dabbling with making this a regular Friday regular: a round-up of some of my favourite stories from around the web, the homes and design-y things I've bookmarked in the last week or so. 

Let's give it a go.

Clockwise from top left

1. Donna Wilson has designed the interior for the remote Fogo Island Inn, off the coast of Newfoundland. There's a lovely story behind it and the building is incredible. Check it out at Donna's blog, Leaves and Twigs.

2. Close-up images of skyscrapers blur the lines between graphic design and photography. See more of Alexandre Jacques's architectural photographs at PSFK.

3. This print (designed by Marcus Eriksson) appealed because, just like Anna Dorfman, book cover designer and author of the excellent (and also newly discovered) blog, Door Sixteen, I'm going to Sweden too – for the wedding of some friends of my boyfriend in June. Never met them. Never been to Sweden. Love this poster because it made me even more excited about it. And made me laugh.

4. A very 70s Californian beach house – featured on Apartment Therapy, it is the real deal, pile carpets and pine kitchen cupboards and all. Loved it.

5. Peruvian textiles meet mid-century Danish design at A Rum Fellow with their new chair collection. Prices aren't small (£325-£950) so if you, too, can't stretch to the chair check out their colourful Peruvian tape (£7 in the sale) and trim one you already own. Read more about them here.

6. Painted wooden spoons! So simple, yet so pleasing. These ones are from Canadian Etsy shop Storiebrooke.

Good weekend all. What you up to in this grim weather? I'm looking forward to seeing Bill Callahan...



...and other than that, staying at home out of the rain eating cosy food, seeing the lovely Jill and Terence who live in this amazing house, watching Shane Meadows' Stone Roses film with them on the sofa and employing the dog as a hot water bottle.

Post by Kate. Images: Fogo Island Inn; Alexandre Jacques; Marcus Eriksson; Apartment Therapy; A Rum Fellow; Jessica Helwick

Lovely new shop: A Rum Fellow

A Rum Fellow is a new online shop with a bricks and mortar HQ in east London and an unusual angle on interiors style – sort of the Pitt Rivers Museum, as if curated by Elle Decoration.

The couple behind the store are Caroline Lindsell and Dylan O’Shea whose backgrounds are in fashion design and charity work, interests they aim to combine in the stuff they sell. Along with the context of the shop's name, which they hope reflects "the idea of the quintessential British explorer of past glory who returns from global adventures with a rich bounty of unusual items". Have a look...

I mentioned a pair of their beautiful chairs last week, and above is another: folding chair reupholstered in bright Bolivian fabric, £85. They sell old and new stuff, and there are prices for all shopping moods. Double handle vase, £32, Old decanters, £28 (small) and £35.

But what I have fallen for are some of the prints and textiles they have found. Like these, below, by Eduardo Barba, who applies his architectural training to produce graphic pieces that combine maths and simple geometric shapes.

Geometric Issue, Eduardo Barba, A2 size, £28

Hemispherical Neighbourhood, Eduardo Barba, £28

They have a few lovely French composition decorative posters too; from 1960s French classrooms, these were used to help children to use colour more imaginatively in their artwork, £24 each.

And these cushions are made in Peru and each of the bright designs can take up to a month to make. This one is the Tetrus Jungle Bolster cushion and costs £95. Prices go up from there for the textiles range, but you should have a window shop because they are beautiful. Read more about the provenance of these fabrics on the Rum Fellow blog and see more textile designs here.

These unusual Katsina dolls are a luxury purchase too, at £115 a-piece. But each doll represents a Katsinam, the spirit messengers of the universe according to Hopi American Indian beliefs. Each doll is unique, carved by hand from the root of a cottonwood tree and hand painted. The dolls measure 14.5cm and have a hanging loop at the back.