Gifts

What better gift to give than one that gives back? Show your love for a friend, colleague
Yourself or Mother Earth with these little life givers. You chose between our 2kg Starter Pack or the 1kg Baby Pack, each available in either White, Green or Brown Hessian covers. Each of our twelve indigenous trees is as unique as anyone you could give one to.

Get a tree!

Now here is a gift for all you earth cadets, not only is it going to help you with your carbon credit, it is home grown, lots of fun, and you can grow it at home. I love what this young man is aiming to achieve.

Fire Design Fire Extinguishers

Look, cool type on a fire extinguisher. What’s not to like? So far they are only being sold in two stores in Paris: Cadeau Store and Boutique Fire. Let’s hope they make it across the Atlantic soon.

I'll start a fire just to be able to use one of these. I want them all.

Monday, August 3, 2009

cushion sale

duck egg eep and duiker cushions

as an opening special for my new shop in stanford, i have discounted my down cushions by skinny laminx, to only R190 per down cushion with cover and R140 per cushion cover only. i am extending this to my blog readers, friends and their friends for a limited time. they are flying out so please be quick and let me know if you'd like to get your paws on some, via the blog or email :) beatnikbazaar@gmail.com
designs include:
weeping willows in green or red
red buck on a turquoise background or a beige background
a bird in red sitting on a branch on a beige background
red herds on a beige background
duck egg blue birds on a beige background
orla pattern in green

take a look at the designs on the skinny laminx etsy shop here

blue duiker cushion

green orla cushions

red bird on branch

red herds

Posted by beatnik at Monday, August 03, 2009

beatnik bazaar ~ a shop in stanford, cape town, selling kooky, quirky and whimsical locally crafted designer goods and decor, retro trinkets and furniture ~ address: stanford village courtyard, stanford hotel, stanford, overberg. beatnikbazaar@gmail.com. join the beatnik facebook group.

Designed by Vadim Kibardin this design called “White Rhinoceros” ( very suggestive and clever name) is a ceramic tile with a hook, that is just awesome for any bathroom. It would be a pain in the neck to retrofit, but cool as heck if you were about to re-tile your bathroom or kitchen. Right now Vadim Kibardin is looking to get this design manufactured, so it’s not available yet. – Via – Core77

Another homegrown products. Funky gonna order me some.

I searched for stove pipe pants and found this very funny article.

Bottle Cap Baroque

Artist  Rick Ladd makes items of furniture with the help of a local bar: he uses hundreds and hundreds of discarded bottletops to build up these fantastically sculptural pieces.

This is what Ladd says about his work: “I have found inspiration in many things, including folk and outsider art, grottos and sculptural environments, and Burmese temples. I am drawn to forms that I would describe as obsessive, accumulative, whimsical, and overly ornamental”.

You like this? Now take a look at a whole restaurant in bottle tops!

This is so funky!