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This week on Cohabitaire...

{wallpaper} Summer frangipanis

Cohabitaire, frangipani, flowers, photography, nature, blue sky, summer, Australia, East Coast, South West Rocks, NSW, tropical

A few years back some bright spark thought it’d be a gorgeous idea make frangipani stickers for cars which caught on as an annoying fad for bogans and totally ruined their appeal (the flowers, not the bogans). Do you remember? Yeah, it was a pet hate of mine too.

But thankfully now the phase has passed (and those lame ‘My family’ stickers have taken over), sweet frangipanis have a fresh new alure that was lost on me for a while there.

Frangis can grow a little spindly if conditions aren’t quite right, but this tree outside our holiday joint in South West Rocks was so magnificent and perfectly lit against the bright blue sky, it’s perfect blooms unfurling in the summer sunshine…. sweet colour palette for a desktop dontchathink?

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Bêtes de mode {Fashion Animals} by HELMO

Bêtes de mode, HELMO, Fashion animals, installation, art, photography, France, Europe

I just can’t go past a good  tricky light installation lately (as you might have seen in last week’s Carnovsky post). Would you check out this insanely brilliant exhibit by French photography team Helmo – Bêtes de mode or ’Fashion Animals’.

FULL STORY & MORE PHOTOS…

Darren Martin Photography

Darren Martin Photography, Australia, Indonesia, USA, creative, design, sydney, beach, waves, surf, travel

Sometimes you have no idea how cool your other half is until they introduce you to a super-talented Photographer, Creative Director and all-round nice guy such as Darren Martin, and in my attempts to be cool by association, I’m pretty pleased to be reworking that introduction to all you keen readers out there. With a portfolio of stop-you-in-your-tracks portraiture, vintage-esq landscapes and overseas scenes – it’s such a pleasure to share Darren’s incredible work with a little Q&A here on Cohabitaire…

FULL INTERVIEW & PHOTO SERIES…

El Mar, Mi Alma } The Sea, my soul

El Mar, Mi Alma, Ocean, sea, Chile, South America, surfing, activism, environmentalism, environment, conservation, waves, Dave Rastovich

“The sea is the richest thing, you have to respect the sea”

So I’m probably a little late on the train for this one but have just been so moved watching the previews below, with my heart strings singing from the sounds of Chilean folk artist Manuel Garcia and incredible scenes from Chile, that I reckon you guys will want to see the full El Mar, Mi Alma  film as much as I want to.

FULL STORY & PREVIEW CLIPS…

Carnovsky } life in RGB

Carnovsky, art, installation, RGB, wallpaper, design, layer, Berlin, Milan, London

Carnovsky‘s RGB exhibit is everything I love visually in one place: Bright, layered colour. Hidden images. Tricks with light.

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