Once again Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art has been chosen by interi­ors style bible Elle Dec­or­a­tion to fea­ture in their fab­ulous magazine.

ELLE Dec­or­a­tion, Novem­ber 2010 issue.

ELLE Dec­or­a­tion, Novem­ber 2010 issue.

Elle Dec­or­a­tion chose ‘The Roar of Tree and Crack of Branches’ typo­graphic print from our Winter Trees collection.

We hand make the frame and pan­elled back­board from reclaimed wood. Actu­ally the wood used to be Vic­torian roof tim­bers. How cool is that? We paint the wood and print on top with dis­tressed image and typography.

Each art­work is totally unique. And totally unique to Coulson Macleod.

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Age before beauty is acutally the title of a great art­icle writ­ten by Susie Steiner, Editor of Space, the interi­ors sec­tion of Saturday’s Guard­ian Week­end magazine.

The open­ing para­graph reads, “Shiny and smooth is out. Gnarled and chipped is in. Get with the dis­tressed vibe…”

Well, obvi­ously I was excited at read­ing that. Just how ‘on trend’ are we at Coulson Macleod!

Other sni­pets from the art­icle, which was actu­ally about  dis­tress­ing your own fur­niture, include…

“Our hun­ger for the dis­tressed look…”

Interior of Linnea’s Hage show­ing our ‘Winter Tree’ prints

“…the dis­tressed interior makes a lot of sense: it’s easy to live with (no amount of hard liv­ing can dent its charms), it doesn’t jar against period archi­tec­ture, it can be fem­in­ine or util­it­arian, and, well, it’s cool”.  Yes, we’ll second that.

And as Susie Steiner says, “All hail the dis­tressed interior”. Quite frankly who are we to argue?

Yes, that’s right. Four. An unlucky num­ber if you’re Chinese. But not if you love Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art. Launched 1^st Septem­ber, our four new collections…

‘Wilde Grey’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art on reclaimed wood.

‘Wilde Blue’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art on reclaimed wood.

‘Wilde Red’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art on reclaimed wood.

‘Nap­kin Not Ser­vi­ette’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art.

‘Lunch Not Din­ner’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art.

‘Pud­ding Not Dessert’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art.

‘Hel­vetica’. Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art on Vic­torian roof timbers.

‘Futura’. Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art on Vic­torian roof timbers.

‘Times’. Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art on Vic­torian roof timbers.

‘John Len­non’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made solid oak framed art.

‘Bob Dylan’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made solid oak framed art.

‘Keith Richards’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made solid oak framed art.

Launched today, the Coulson Macleod Gift Pack.

We’ve designed it so it doesn’t look like a last minute pur­chase. Or a ‘I haven’t got a clue what to buy. Oh a voucher will do’.

A Coulson Macleod Gift Pack is more than just a gift voucher. What you’re in fact buy­ing is a little work of art. A Coulson Macleod hand­made work of art. Simple, dis­tressed, typo­graphic… just smal­ler than usual.

We send our Gift Packs in a simple, brown, but utterly gor­geous Coulson Macleod-branded gift box. Made from recycled paper. Of course.

And inside is a unique Coulson Macleod typo­graphic art­work.

• Unique as it’s hand­made from reclaimed Vic­torian roof timbers.
• Unique as it’s white-washed by hand.
• Unique as it’s prin­ted by hand.

Of course, each of these stages brings its own slight variations.

• Each piece of wood has its own knots and cracks.
• Each paint stroke car­ries a dif­fer­ent amount of paint.
• Each hand-inked print is laid on to a dif­fer­ent sur­face tex­ture and a dif­fer­ent amount of pres­sure applied.

Res­ult­ing in a one-off piece of art. Which is what makes own­ing a Coulson Macleod so special.

Then of course we add your Gift Voucher. You can add your own per­sonal message.

Then your spe­cial someone can use their Gift Voucher as pay­ment, or part-payment, for any of the art­work on our website.

Well, that’s your Christ­mas presents sor­ted then!

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Hand­made. Hand painted. Reclaimed wood. Dis­tressed typo­graphy.

So very Coulson Macleod. Unique. By design.

Hand­made. Hand painted. Reclaimed wood. Dis­tressed typo­graphy.

So very Coulson Macleod. Unique. By design.

Hand­made. Hand painted. Reclaimed wood. Dis­tressed typography.

So very Coulson Macleod. Unique. By design.