A ‘Happy Friday’ story goes to our friends at Pop Plant – hardy succulents that have been housed in hand-made and cast concrete pots. In a cheery selection of colours and plant varietals, Pop Plants are perfect for sunny windowsills or a desk space in need of manageable greenery. Pop Plant also offers hanging string garden varieties, all housed in a 100% recycled poly-felt material. Pop Plants are sold locally at Tokyo Bike and Dagmar Rousset in the Fitzroy / Collingwood area,

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Foolscap are happy to announce our position as a Finalist in the 2013 Belle Interior Design Awards for our installation work at the Clemenger BBDO HQ in Melbourne. We’re very excited to be amongst the top three Australian Interiors for the Corporate Design category, and can’t wait for the announcement on the 11th of May in Sydney. The other winning designers and their works will be published in the August / September issue of Belle, on sale Monday 1st July.

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Tucked away amongst the scrub of Yallingup in Western Australia’s Margaret River, is a unique bakery offering Bio Dynamic Wood-fired Bread. We were lucky enough to visit Yallingup Woodfired Bread on a recent trip to WA, exploring the area for a new Foolscap project not to far off. We were happy to find the remote bakery, with owners Gottard and Marion Bauer taking pride in creating everything by hand. Native yeasts, stone-ground flour and an oven moulded from local volcanic stone

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We always strive to achieve a perfect balance of form and function at Foolscap Studio, and this beautifully designed furniture range by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec ( for Copenhagen based home-wares store HAY ), is a perfect example that the two elements can be achieved through careful consideration. Images via. The Design Ark

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We love lots of things at Foolscap Studio, and this Iwan Iwanoff home in Perth is pretty high on our list. Seeking inspiration for a current project incorporating concrete, texture and form, we were led to the famed Bulgarian expat, Iwan Iwanoff. His extensive work with concrete blocks, and solid exterior’s saw him as a ‘brutalist’ representative in the Australian architectural scene, particularly represented in his 1976 Marsala Home in Dianella. The houses he designed in the periods between 1958

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Yesterday the Foolscap team were greeted by some home-made Vietnamese Banh Mi as we held a very productive meeting fuelled by BBQ chicken, coriander and chilli. Working through lunch-time didn’t seem that bad at all !

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So to round out the week that was the 2013 Milan Salone Internationale del Mobile – known best to designers, buyers, builders and architects as the mecca for new and exciting International trends in furniture – each of the Foolscap members have collated their favourite pieces…and here they are : FOOLSCAP FAVOURITE No#1: Bethan Laura Wood‘s Play Time – Spaghetti Junction tables FOOLSCAP FAVOURITE No#2: Nichetto – Nendo collaborative Paper Ice-Cream Lamps FOOLSCAP FAVOURITE No#3: Nathalie du Pasquier‘s France Rug FOOLSCAP FAVOURITE

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Foolscap Studio is pleased to announce its latest achievement in the shortlist at the Australian Interior Design Awards for the Richmond Weekender project. Being nominated for the Installation Design category, the AIDA have recognised the collaboration with Right Angle Studio to create a functional canteen, cinema and market-place as temporal activation of the warehouse for the developers Lend Lease. The awards are announced on the 31st May 2013, but make sure to have a look through the categories to see some of the nations

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Foolscap have been on-board the sustainability train for a while now, and we have now decided to take the ethos to the bathroom with Who Gives A Crap recycled toilet paper. Simon, Jehan and Danny are the founders behind the campaign, with 50% of the profits going to WaterAid to “build toilets and improve sanitation in the developing world.”  The toilet paper is also 100% recycled, so it saves on water, tree’s and landfill – good for the planet and

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Foolscap collaborative project, Candied Bakery of Spotswood, has been awarded the prestige of the best Hot Cross Buns in Melbourne by The Age’s Epicure. A panel of experts awarded Candied Bakery’s Hot Cross Buns as the best in a blind taste test, alongside some of Melbourne’s other famed boutique bakeries including Phillipa’s, MoVida bakery, Baker D. Chirico, Dench and La Madre. Commercial bakeries and supermarkets were included in the test too, including store bought buns from Bakers Delight, Woolworth’s and Coles. Both the Foolscap

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