Just stumbled across this gor­geous Nor­we­gian blog. Jill lives in Ber­gen, and although she’s not an interior designer, her home, like her blog, is so beau­ti­fully styled. And Jill’s lovely hus­band gave her one of our ‘Winter Tree’ prints for Christ­mas. Doesn’t it look happy in its new home?

The vintage-style print is ‘Thick Blows My Frosty Breath Abroad’ (pic­tured below)…

And just check out Jill’s New Year’s Eve table…

Can you spot (and name) the Coulson Macleod typo­graphic prints?

All pho­tos cour­tesy of the gor­geous interi­ors shop, Chez Nous, in Trond­heim, Norway.

Related art­icles:

• Tusen Takk Trondheim
• Coulson Macleod’s 4^th Nor­we­gian Stockist
• Ja, Vi Elsker Dette Landet
• Coulson Macleod Sells To New Shop

A long time ago, in a dim and dis­tant past (last Novem­ber to be pre­cise), we were con­tac­ted by Rock­port Pub­lish­ers.

“We’re fans of the work you pro­duce and would like the oppor­tun­ity to include it for pub­lic­a­tion in a new Rock­port book, entitled 1,000 More Greet­ings.  We found your Love col­lec­tion on design*sponge and thought it would fit well in the book.”

And now the book is out. And four of our Love prints are in it.

The blurb says, “Greet­ings often provide designer with the chance to truly stretch their cre­at­ive wings. 1000 More Greet­ings fea­tures examples by design­ers who are enjoy­ing the lux­ury of per­sonal expres­sion through cre­at­ive free­dom, without the need to sat­isfy a client.

The 1000 inspir­a­tional examples of invit­a­tions, announce­ments, greet­ings, and self pro­mo­tions are cre­ated using unique mater­i­als and express­ive treat­ments. With cor­res­pond­ence for every occa­sion, this book is a must have resource for design­ers who are look­ing for inspir­a­tion from an unpre­ced­en­ted col­lec­tion of work by an inter­na­tional group of designers.”

The author is Aes­thetic Move­ment, who are described as ‘a think tank for smart, cre­at­ive collaborations’.

Other great names included in the book are…

• Graphic designer and blog­ger Joy Deang­deel­ert Cho, who’s blog Oh Joy! is one of our favour­ites (see our We Love Blogs).
• Nor­we­gian design­ers and illus­trat­ors Darling Clem­entine, whose sta­tion­ery is also sold in Chez Nous, a shop in Trond­heim that sells our typo­graphic art.
• Washington-based Brown Sugar Design, run by Jonathan and Whit­ney Speir who design delect­able wed­ding stationery
• The bril­liantly named Bob’s Your Uncle, a Boston-based greet­ing card com­pany whose fant­astic cre­ations we’ve had the pleas­ure of owning.

You can buy 1,000 More Greet­ings from Amazon or Tesco (if you’re in the UK). Our copy is await­ing deliv­ery. How very, very exciting.

Related art­icles:

• 1,000 More Greetings
• Tusen Takk Trondheim

Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art is in the Christ­mas issue of Nor­we­gian magazine Elle Interior.

As you can see Elle Interior has fea­tured a print from our Winter Trees collection.

Coulson Macleod’s hand­made frame and pan­elled back­board made from reclaimed wood and prin­ted with dis­tressed image and typography

Coulson Macleod’s hand­made frame and pan­elled back­board made from reclaimed wood and prin­ted with dis­tressed image and typography

Our hand­made Winter Tree prints are made from reclaimed wood (the tim­ber star­ted out life as Vic­torian roof tim­bers to be pre­cise). We then white­wash the wood and over-print with a dis­tressed image and dis­tressed typo­graphy. Well it wouldn’t be a Coulson Macleod without some dis­tressed typo­graphy would it?

Related art­icles:

• See Coulson Macleod In ‘The Home Issue’
• Elle Dec­or­a­tion Loves Typo­graphic Art
• Coulson Macleod In Coun­try & Town House

Thank you Trondheim. Yes, we have another Nor­we­gian stock­ist. Let me intro­duce you to…

the latest shop to stock Coulson Macleod typo­graphic art.

Trond­heim is right at the top of Nor­way. So we pretty much have the whole of Nor­way covered with our five stockists.

The shop is due to open on 15^th Octo­ber and we’ll tell you more about it then. But this is the out­side, pre-makeover…

Chez Nous will also be stock­ing the most delight­ful sta­tion­ery from fel­low Nor­we­gian com­pany Darling Clem­entine

And cush­ions and wall­pa­per from Dan­ish com­pany Ferm Liv­ing…

This is the second shop in Trond­heim for the own­ers of Chez Nous. Their first is Cor­ne­lias Hus. As ever, stocked with the most gor­geous products.

Related art­icles:

• Coulson Macleod’s 4^th Nor­we­gian Stockist
• Ja, Vi Elsker Dette Landet
• Coulson Macleod Sell to New Shop

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?

Wel­come to Coulson Macleod’s latest stockist…

in Gjøvik, Nor­way.

This gor­geous concept store/café opened on Septem­ber 1^st.

Gjovik is a small enorm­ously pretty town with obvi­ously fab­ulous shop­ping. And is right on Lake Mjosa, the biggest lake in Norway.

Our hearts long for Norway.

Ja, vi elsker dette landet? It’s Nor­we­gian. It trans­lates as, Yes, we love this coun­try. This is the title of their national anthem. And this is how Coulson Macleod feels about Norway.

Why do we love Norway?

Actu­ally the ques­tion should be, why does Nor­way love Coulson Macleod?

We’ve just taken an order from our fourth stock­ist there. Coulson and I are think­ing a trip to Nor­way is in order. We can visit our gorgeous-looking stock­ists in Oslo, Ber­gen, Gjøvik, and Nit­te­dal (pictured)…

and this gor­geous look­ing country…

Related art­icles: Tusen Takk Trondheim

Very pleased to announce that Coulson Macleod is being sold in a new shop…

Ber­thas Olde­barn in Ber­gen, Norway.

Well, well, well… Coulson Macleod is on a roll.

We now have our second stock­ist on board.

The divine-looking Bolina in Oslo, Nor­way. Unfor­tu­nately I can’t tell you much about the shop as the web­site is in Nor­we­gian, apart from it was set up twenty years ago by two female friends, Cath­rine and Hanne, and is one of the trend­i­est shops in Oslo, which the styl­ists visit every week for inspiration.

The pho­tos of the products speak for them­selves and it totally looks like a place that we’d quite hap­pily spend hours brows­ing and buying.

Bolina now stocks Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion typo­graphic art prints

Oooh, I’ve just thought, maybe Coulson Macleod should start vis­it­ing our stock­ists (yes I can say that word now in the plural) to say hello properly.