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Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.
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Oh my goodness! Friday already! Once again I am so sad to see this week's guest blogger leave the nest! :( Luckily you can still get your daily fix of all things Japanese and/or papery on Justine's own gorgeous blog here! (SO GOOD!) Huge thanks to Justine for her incredible and very extensive posts this week! ...and now onto the paper show! - Lucy x
Oh my, Friday already and my last guest post. I know, I know, we were just getting to know one another! I have loved it here at TDF, and Lucy has been so wonderful to allow me to go on and on for 5 whole days about all my favourite things and obsessions too – paper, design and Tokyo to name a few. Thanks so much Lucy and thanks to everyone who left lovely comments and showed support. But now it’s time to talk jaw-dropping kind of brilliance of the paper kind!
Our little shop of paper and folds came to be because I kept on finding amazing paper goods online that were only available for purchase in Japan – very upsetting I tell you! So I decided my mission would be to change that, if only for selfish reasons. I really had to have and hold those awesome paper creations I kept finding. So, the search began and after many, many months of emailing, I finally started getting a response and slowly but surely Upon A Fold was born!
Today, so many of my all time favourite paper finds are in the shop for all to access and enjoy – mission complete! Many of them have never been available outside of Japan before, and the 10 products seen here are all first timers to Australia too. They all have 3 things in common – they are designed in Japan, made in Japan, using only Japanese materials. Oh and that’s right, they are all absolutely beautiful too.
Enjoy the paper show people and thanks again for having me Lucy, it has been so much fun!
A perfect little paper bicycle model – Michaux 1864 designed by Shinichi Iwami.
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