Coulson Macleod and our typo­graphic art was invited to be part of the very cool online lux­ury lifestlye magazine Hot Brands, Cool Places.

Hot Brands, Cool Places is a col­lec­tion of, as the name sug­gests, the hot­test brands and coolest places and a very cool life­style magazine. Bit like a styl­ish Sunday sup­ple­ment, but one that you can look at and read daily. As well as show­cas­ing estab­lished brands, Hot Brands, Cool Places has become a launch pad for new brands and their cre­at­ors. That’s us! They also take care not to over­fill the Dir­ect­ory. They have grown organ­ic­ally (again just like us) select­ing com­pan­ies that they think are dif­fer­ent and interesting.

Boutique & lux­ury hotel spe­cial­ists Mr & Mrs Smith ran a great inter­view about Hot Brands Cool Places. They said, “ As people with impec­cable taste (for hotels espe­cially, but not exclus­ively), we at Smith are often on the lookout for fel­low style insiders to impart their top tips. Over at Hot Brands, Cool Places, Kaye Thorne is doing just that – hand-picking brands and places she loves then spread­ing the word…”

Other mega names on the site include Van Cleef & Arpels, Fort­num & Mason, J H Trousseau, Biondi, Blakes, Heal’s, Lola Rose, Lin­ley, Astley Clarke, Luigi’s, Sum­mer­ill & Bishop, my ward­robe & The Wolse­ley. And some names that you may not have heard of include Melin Treg­wynt (Welsh design), & Charlie Whin­ney (art of steam-bending wood).

If it’s good enough for them, then it’s good enough for us.

Hot Brands, Cool Places say, “Hot brands become objects of desire; we are pas­sion­ate in our search for them and once found we often build long-term rela­tion­ships with them. It may be because of their iconic design, or the emo­tional attach­ment that we form with them. We are pas­sion­ate in our loy­alty to them, we feel lost without them. They become an essen­tial part of who we are; they are some­thing we love to own.”

So here’s to Coulson Macleod typo­graphic art being objects of desire.

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Coulson Macleod is now on Sheer­Luxe, the lux­ury shop­ping directory.

Sheer­Luxe, who say they are the defin­it­ive guide to lux­ury online shop­ping (and we agree), fea­ture such estab­lished and cool new brands as Liberty, Space NK, Astley Clarke, and Browns. And Sheer­Luxe invited us to join. How hon­oured are we?

One of the fea­tures of Sheer­Luxe is that mem­bers can cre­ate a Lust List. Back in May, we saw that we’d been added to Laura Colonnese’s Lust List. Laura, who is the Brand Man­ager at Eng­lish lux­ury goods brand Thomas Lyte, had also added Louis Vuit­ton, Solange Azagury-Partridge, and Jimmy Choo onto her Lust List. Now that’s my kind of shop­ping spree.

Then in August Sheer­Luxe sent out one of their Luxe Mails to all their mem­bers. The email news­let­ter, called Home is Where the Heart is, was only about Coulson Macleod.

We’re abso­lutely delighted to be part of SheerLuxe.