Couple of pieces of rather nice press Coulson Macleod has recently received for our much loved typo­graphic art…

Coun­try Homes & Interi­ors (Octo­ber 2011 issue) fea­tur­ing our ‘Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind’ hand­made print. The pan­elled back­board is made from reclaimed wood, which is then hand-painted and over-printed with dis­tressed image and typography.

Hitched (Autumn 2011 issue) fea­tur­ing our ‘I Love You’ hand­made print with a solid oak frame and ‘Solid Like A Rock’ print on solid limestone.

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Nat­ural reclaimed mater­i­als. Check. Typo­graphy. Check. Hand­made. Check. Vin­tage feel. Check. Oh, so very Coulson Macleod.

Intro­du­cing Coulson Macleod’s Curio Col­lec­tion, inspired by old phar­ma­ceut­ical adverts.

For this new vin­tage art col­lec­tion, we’ve used hes­sian, a coarse woven fab­ric made from the veget­able fibre, jute. We’ve wrapped the hes­sian around a block meas­ur­ing 35cm x 35cm just so you know and prin­ted the art­work onto the fab­ric. Then we’ve moun­ted this hes­sian print onto a hand­made frame made from gor­geous reclaimed wood (Vic­torian roof tim­bers to be exact). The inside of the frame is hand-painted white.

This art­work has an unlim­ited print quantity.

We’ve attached a hanging mech­an­ism to the rear of the frame so it’s ready for you to hang on your wall.

And just in case you were think­ing that the wood looked a bit, well, vin­tage. Yep! That’s the way we like it. We pur­pose­fully retain any defects in the tim­ber to add to the charm and char­ac­ter of the piece. These can include knot holes, nail holes, warps and water marks, so each art­work is totally unique.

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Intro­du­cing our latest cre­ations and six per­fect little gifts. Guess what we’ve called this collection?

The Gift Col­lec­tion. Obviously!

A solid square of gor­geous reclaimed wood. Hand-painted white. Then over-printed with dis­tressed typo­graphy. The art­work is packed in a nat­ural jute hes­sian mater­ial and presen­ted in a Coulson Macleod–branded gift box made from recycled cardboard.

The art­work dimen­sions are 21cm x 21cm x 2cm and the Gift Box meas­ures 26cm x 26cm x 3.5cm.

The reclaimed wood is cut and sanded by hand before being painted. We retain any defects in the salvaged tim­ber to add to the charm and char­ac­ter of the piece. And they are full of char­ac­ter. These can include knot holes, nail holes, warps and water marks, so each art­work is totally unique.

Now you never need worry about what to buy someone.

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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…

We’ve just been approached by Design Refuge to see if we’d be inter­ested in giv­ing one of our typo­graphic prints as a first prize in their com­pet­i­tion. Of course we’re interested!

This is a huge hon­our. Design Refuge is the largest meet­ing place online for interior design blog­gers. Their mem­bers com­prise the very best blog­gers in the design world. The super­stars of design blo­g­dom. Our heros. Mem­bers include {this is glam­our­ous}, coco&kelley, Bright.Bazaar, Lob­ster and Swan, Made by Girl, Nick Olsen, and sfgirlby­bay.

To win a Coulson Macleod print, Design Refuge mem­bers have been given the chal­lenge to describe their style aesthetic.

Mem­bers of Design Refuge come from all over the world includ­ing Greece, Nor­way, USA, Canada, Rus­sia, Sweden, UK, Aus­tralia, Montenegro, Fin­land, Ser­bia, Bel­gium, Neth­er­lands, Malay­sia, France, Thai­l­and, Ire­land, Den­mark, Israel, and Spain.

We’ll let you know who wins and what typo­graphic print they choose.

Intro­du­cing our latest typo­graphic art collection…

From Coulson Macleod’s Rust Collection

From Coulson Macleod’s Rust Collection

We had a lot of fun cre­at­ing this col­lec­tion. The steel sheets are nat­ur­ally weather-rusted. Basic­ally we left them out­side. And watched them turn a gor­geous rust brown. As said so beau­ti­fully by Doves “My god. It takes an ocean of trust. In the King­dom of Rust.”

The metal is then over-printed with relief-printed typo­graphy and then moun­ted into a hand­made reclaimed wood frame. Once again we use antique Vic­torian roof timbers.

By using reclaimed wood and rus­ted metal (the rust­ing on the steel is com­pletely unpre­dict­able) means each art­work is totally unique.

Now this looks like some­thing you’d find in a junk shop. And covet.

Our latest typo­graphic col­lec­tion ‘Words’ is now avail­able to buy online at Coulson Macleod.

Coulson Macleod’s oak-framed typo­graphic art. £125

Coulson Macleod’s oak-framed typo­graphic art. £125

Coulson Macleod’s oak-framed typo­graphic art. £125

Our ‘Words’ col­lec­tion is made in the exactly same way as our hugely pop­u­lar ‘Love’ col­lec­tion. Gor­geous chunky hand­made prints. But only half the size, just 29cm x 29cm x 8cm.

We’ve kept the lovely vintage-style, with a rough-sawn solid oak frame sur­round­ing a white-washed oak panel prin­ted with dis­tressed typo­graphy. All hand­made with love in the UK.

Our ‘Words’ col­lec­tion is unlim­ited in print quantity.

For any­one inter­ested in know­ing just what goes into a Coulson Macleod wooden art piece… the oak panel is cut and sanded by hand before being covered with a coat of diluted white lac­quer wash to fill the grain, and then sanded and re-washed with the lac­quer a second time. The panel is then over-printed with UV ink. The mitred frame is hand­made using rough-sawn solid oak with a shadow rebate on the groove. We pur­pose­fully retain any defects in the oak to add to the charm and char­ac­ter of the piece. These can include knot holes, warps and water marks, so each frame is totally unique. The prin­ted panel is then encased into the frame which is then glued and pinned, ready for hanging.

Inspired by a cus­tomer who wanted a ‘Love’ print, but just half the size. And we loved it so much, we just had to cre­ate some more. Let us know if you like them!

Our latest col­lec­tion, ‘Winter Trees’ is now online to buy at Coulson Macleod

‘Thick Blows My Frosty Breath Abroad’

‘Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind’

‘The Roar of Trees and Crack of Branches’

‘Freeze, Freeze Thou Bit­ter Sky’

We’ve hand­made the frame and pan­elled back­board from reclaimed antique Vic­torian roof tim­bers, the same tim­bers that we use for our ‘Zodiac’ frames, because they are just so gor­geous. The planks all vary in size, so no piece is identical.

We then hand paint the boards and over-print it with dis­tressed image and typography.

‘Winter Trees’ is unlim­ited in print quantity.

Very excited over our new pur­chase and thought I’d share it with you.  We were rum­ma­ging in a junk shop yes­ter­day and came across this vin­tage bottle crate…

This bottle crate is from Arnold, Per­rett & Co. Ltd, a brew­ery in Gloucester­shire that was foun­ded in 1820. Arnold, Per­rett & Co. ceased brew­ing in 1924. The site is now used by Wick­war Brew­ery.

Not sure how old this crate is, but it doesn’t date to any earlier than 1887 (that’s when the com­pany changed its name to the ver­sion on the crate).

The best thing about our new crate is that the super­mar­ket plastic herb pots fit exactly into the bottle slots. I’m off to buy 11 more tubs of mint for a fant­astic win­dow planter.