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Saturday, August 28th, 2010Handmade. 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.
Handmade. Hand painted. Reclaimed wood. Distressed typography.
So very Coulson Macleod. Unique. By design.
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…




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.
Today is a good day. Why? I hear you cry.
Well folks, we have beaten our sales record. We have sold more prints in August than in any other month in the entire history of Coulson Macleod. And we’ve been up and running for almost eighteen months.
We have a whiteboard on our office wall. Every time we make a sale we wipe off the old number and write up the new one. I say we, but actually I usually do this, partly because my handwriting is neater, but mainly because it gives me a huge amount of pleasure. Every month we write down how many we’ve sold, whether they’ve been sold via Not On The High Street or through shops or if they’re bespoke and how many came via one of our adverts in Elle Decoration or Livingetc.
We love our whiteboard. We quite often catch each other staring at it fondly. Because every month the figures go up. And that is super exciting.
And this month, only half way through August I might point out, we’ve notched up the biggest number since our records began. To let you into a secret, we only started recording this on the board since November, which was when we started selling in serious numbers and the idea of a whiteboard sprang into our heads.
So ladies and gentlemen, tonight we may clink our glasses and say a little toast to our little booming business that we love so much.
As well as designing very cool typographic art collections, we, that’s Couslon Macleod, can also create personalized art just for you.
Just to show you some examples of our bespoke art…
This one, using our ‘Winter Trees’ as a base, was created for one of our customers…
… who then wrote us this amazing testimonial,
“I’d been interested in Coulson Macleod’s work after seeing it in the press, and having discovered via their website that they also do bespoke work, I suggested an alternative wording. We discussed a treatment, I was sent an image for pre approval and five days later a fantastic and unique piece is now hanging in our home. I could not be more delighted with the finished piece of work whilst the service offered was nothing short of brilliant.”
Isn’t that nice?
Our bespoke personalization service can also be based on our rough-sawn solid oak-framed ‘Love’ prints, like this one…
All you have to do is pick a similar number of words and sentences that you want to incorporate, and we do the rest.
So if you’d love to own a one-off piece of art that has been created just for you, or you need to find a truly unique gift, then just click on Coulson Macleod. Simple.
Today we had an order from a customer who said that she’d seen our ‘What Is Love?’ art print in a café.
She had taken a photo of the print and tracked us down.
And this is the café…
It’s called The Laden Table and is in Boroughbridge in North Yorkshire. Isn’t it lovely? If you ever happen to be in the area, do pop in and say hello to Nicola who runs it.
They run creative writing courses, as well as serving up mouth-watering cakes like this one…
And this is our ‘What Is Love?’ print that is hanging on the wall at The Laden Table…
Our latest collection, ‘Winter Trees’ is now online to buy at Coulson Macleod
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.
Coulson Macleod is on a global hunt. We’re looking for shops that want to stock our art.
Do you know any cool shops? If so, Coulson Macleod would love to hear from you.
We get heaps of enquiries from around the world. In particular from lovely people in America and Australia who obviously have huge amounts of good taste.
How nice it would be to say to our customers, “Don’t worry about the cost of shipping, you can simply pop along to your local interior/design shop and there you shall find a Coulson Macleod for you to buy and take home with you.”
As you know we already have shops selling Coulson Macleod art in the UK and Norway. Can you help us with our global shop hunt?