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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.
Weekly recipes and meal ideas from our favourite cooks, authors and foodies.
Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand.
I have such an immense girl crush on the fabulous and slightly insane girls from THE FLOWER DRUM! I believe them to be the cutest, cleverest and funniest girls in Sydney. Their blog is so laugh-out-loud hilarious I defy any of you to check it out without smiling. I mean really. It's just one massive petal pushing giggle fest over there. (You may remember we featured The Flower Drum girls way back in Feb 2011 - worth re-visiting for a LOVE BOMB refresher course! It was actually one of my favourite posts of last year. So so cute and so so funny).
Anyway would you BELIEVE that on this fleeting and rather spontaneous jaunt to Sydney, I just HAPPEN to have found myself here on the same week that Chief Flower Drummettes Holly Hipwell and Mylee Grace have launched their first ever pop-up shop on Sydney's Northern Beaches!? C'est encroyable, no?!
SO of course this sweet project was just destined for a spot on The Design Files! The pop-up itself is in fact a shop within a shop - it's part of The Sugarmill Fine Surf Emporium - combining floral frivolity with custom surfboards, excellent coffee, clothing, not-for-profit fundraising and a great number of tanned and generally good looking Sydneysiders.
For their opening week (ie THIS WEEK!) The Flower Drum Pop-Up is open daily until this Saturday 7th Jan. THEN they're open every Saturday after that - possibly forever :) Do pop in and support the madness that is The Flower Drum!
The Flower Drum first ever Semi Permanent Pop-Up
The Sugarmill Fine Surf Emporium
1329 Pittwater Rd
Narrabeen NSW
Ph.02 9913 3332
PS - Flower Drum groupies will be pleased to know we're roping chief flower enthusiast Holly Hipwell in again for some more flower-loving antics next month on TDF - watch this space!
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