Friday 2 December 2011
Have you sent your Christmas cards?
Christmas is approaching and we all know how mad things start to get. And all starts with the Christmas cards. Have you sent yours yet? Do not be too late, find beautiful handmade greeting cards to wish Merry Christmas in style. From glittery deers, royal rabbits and lions with crowns, find the perfect Christmas card from our fabulous collections.
Thursday 1 December 2011
2012 Diaries and Calendars
Imaginative, sophisticated and stylish, our 2012 collection of Diaries and Calendars has arrived with a wonderful selection of teNeues diaries and calendars by artists Hanna Werning, Dan Bennett and Vogue photography. And Lady Tartan's favourite, the Little Prince magneto diary
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Tuesday 11 October 2011
ACAPULCO ROCKING CHAIR IN GOOD HOMES MAGAZINE
Our Acapulco Rocking Chair in black frame and turquoise cord featured in November's issue of Good Homes Magazine
Tuesday 26 July 2011
WE LOVE HANDMADE THINGS
Beautiful and unique. Delicate and stylish. Useful and decorative. They are handmade, hand finished with a personal touch to each piece. None is the same, and that is what makes them so special.
We love handmade things and we hope you too! Browse our collection of boxes, wooden mannequins, fine stationery and original art. Totally handmade unique pieces beautifully finished for you!
We love handmade things and we hope you too! Browse our collection of boxes, wooden mannequins, fine stationery and original art. Totally handmade unique pieces beautifully finished for you!
Friday 22 July 2011
HANDMADE PEN IN COBRA SKIN
A unique, luxurious and beautiful pen handmade with precision by expert craftsmen.
Made using genuine cobra skin and rhodium plated details this full twist pen is a state of the art piece that any pen collector will treasure for life.
Thursday 21 July 2011
FAMOUS FACES BOOK BY TAKKODA
After the successful greeting cards, this book of masquerading animals is the ideal gift for all animal lovers. The Famous Faces Takkoda book by teNeues has finally arrived.
Which is your favorite? There are so many quirky characters, you’ll find it hard to choose. One thing is certain, this whimsical collection is sure to make you smile.
Saturday 16 July 2011
LIKE US ON FACEBOOK AND GET A STYLISH GIFT
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This month a Diamond Mini Wonder Globe for one lucky winner!
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This month a Diamond Mini Wonder Globe for one lucky winner!
Wednesday 13 July 2011
ACAPULCO CHAIRS COLLECTION
We invite you to discover the Acapulco Chairs Collection,
a 1950's chair in a selection of cheerful colours and styles.
An iconic range of chairs that complements our timeless and contemporary collections
of furniture by Hanjel Mobilier, Athezza Decoration and Authentic Models.
View the collection online.
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a 1950's chair in a selection of cheerful colours and styles.
An iconic range of chairs that complements our timeless and contemporary collections
of furniture by Hanjel Mobilier, Athezza Decoration and Authentic Models.
View the collection online.
Monday 11 July 2011
SUMMER SPECIAL SALE
We invite you to our special sale with discounts up to 50%
on all our collections of lifestyle and etiquette.
And only for 2 weeks we are offering a 10% discount on any product.
Happy shopping!
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on all our collections of lifestyle and etiquette.
And only for 2 weeks we are offering a 10% discount on any product.
Happy shopping!
Friday 10 June 2011
Stylish and original gifts for Father's Day
Father's Day on Sunday 19th June
Shop online from our selection of extraordinary gifts and greeting cards
Timeless contemporary furniture collections
Discover our stylish furniture collections by Hanjel Mobilier, Athezza Decoration and AM Furniture,
Timeless and contemporary pieces by French and Dutch suppliers.
Order online from our website or request a catalogue
Saturday 14 May 2011
The new lifestyle and etiquette collections
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A party in the country
My dearest readers,
My apologies for not writing to you for such a long time. I have been very busy and I hope you can forgive me. In order to get quickly connected Miss Zebra wants me to buy the Blackberry thing but I think it is not the appropriate gadget for a lady who lunches. Computers and technology are so into PA world, you know. Well, I might be wrong, last season Vuitton had a lovely little pochette for the Blackberry in Epi Leather which actually could go very well with my city bags range. I will see.
I would have written to you yesterday but unexpectedly my friend Lavinia called me, ‘my dear, Georgie and I want you to come for dinner tonight, we are terribly sorry for such a short notice but you must join us my darling, you know you are always our best guest’. I said yes even though I knew they wanted me because this dinner party was going to be full of bores. Who better than Lady Tartan to brighten up the night? My beloved friends, do not think I agreed to this arrangement just because my friendship to Lavinia. She may be a very good friend of mine but I do not stress myself to go to a dinner in the country full of bores. The only reason I accepted the invitation is because Lavinia and Georgie are so well connected that I thought about some little help for my charity event. They got so excited about the whole idea, you know. Lavinia’s daughter, who works in PR, is getting Tatler and Harpers to picture everything. I think it is going to be fab! So my visit was worth it in the end but next time I am invited to a boring dinner party I will ask someone funny to be my companion and come with me, just to avoid getting bored and depressed which in the countryside is always terrible as there are no places to hang around, just grass and old farmers, bores too. Perhaps I could invite my new neighbour, did I tell you about him? He is such a charming man, mid forties I would say and painfully handsome. I just asked Miss Zebra to find out from her friend Belinda at Buckingham’s Press Office to carefully check the Gotha Almanac. My heart tells me he is definitely more than charming and painfully handsome.
I need your opinion and help. Yesterday I went to the Royal Festival Hall to purchase some tickets to see pianist Maurizio Pollini who is playing Chopin. I am so into romantics, once I had a kind of orgasm with Liszt, it was not better than the four-handed massage thing though, but very touching. The thing is Miss Zebra received the leaflets very late (I hate Royal Mail) and the performance is this Sunday, so no time to order anything through the net. You won’t believe what! No seats in the amphitheatre, only rear seats on first level. I could not believe it. Obviously I went to see the manager. Apparently everything was taken. I gave my name which did not work. Few more names, hopeless. Apparently lots of children charities in the amphitheatre. Of course I was not in any of them, I do not do kids you know. What do children charities have to do with romantics? The problem is I have to go to the concert; Maurizio Pollini is such a great performer, like Barenboim or Pires, can not be missed. So now I do not know if I should go dressed in an ‘incognito’ look or just be myself and behave in a normal way. Of course I will dress smart but no ostentation, those days classical concerts have gone so high street. I only hope noone important will be there.
Sorry to bother you with my troubled existence but I do need help. And then people say the upper-classes do not have problems to worry about. Common people are so insensitive sometimes.
Wishing you all a lovely weekend.
Love,
Lady Tartan
My apologies for not writing to you for such a long time. I have been very busy and I hope you can forgive me. In order to get quickly connected Miss Zebra wants me to buy the Blackberry thing but I think it is not the appropriate gadget for a lady who lunches. Computers and technology are so into PA world, you know. Well, I might be wrong, last season Vuitton had a lovely little pochette for the Blackberry in Epi Leather which actually could go very well with my city bags range. I will see.
I would have written to you yesterday but unexpectedly my friend Lavinia called me, ‘my dear, Georgie and I want you to come for dinner tonight, we are terribly sorry for such a short notice but you must join us my darling, you know you are always our best guest’. I said yes even though I knew they wanted me because this dinner party was going to be full of bores. Who better than Lady Tartan to brighten up the night? My beloved friends, do not think I agreed to this arrangement just because my friendship to Lavinia. She may be a very good friend of mine but I do not stress myself to go to a dinner in the country full of bores. The only reason I accepted the invitation is because Lavinia and Georgie are so well connected that I thought about some little help for my charity event. They got so excited about the whole idea, you know. Lavinia’s daughter, who works in PR, is getting Tatler and Harpers to picture everything. I think it is going to be fab! So my visit was worth it in the end but next time I am invited to a boring dinner party I will ask someone funny to be my companion and come with me, just to avoid getting bored and depressed which in the countryside is always terrible as there are no places to hang around, just grass and old farmers, bores too. Perhaps I could invite my new neighbour, did I tell you about him? He is such a charming man, mid forties I would say and painfully handsome. I just asked Miss Zebra to find out from her friend Belinda at Buckingham’s Press Office to carefully check the Gotha Almanac. My heart tells me he is definitely more than charming and painfully handsome.
I need your opinion and help. Yesterday I went to the Royal Festival Hall to purchase some tickets to see pianist Maurizio Pollini who is playing Chopin. I am so into romantics, once I had a kind of orgasm with Liszt, it was not better than the four-handed massage thing though, but very touching. The thing is Miss Zebra received the leaflets very late (I hate Royal Mail) and the performance is this Sunday, so no time to order anything through the net. You won’t believe what! No seats in the amphitheatre, only rear seats on first level. I could not believe it. Obviously I went to see the manager. Apparently everything was taken. I gave my name which did not work. Few more names, hopeless. Apparently lots of children charities in the amphitheatre. Of course I was not in any of them, I do not do kids you know. What do children charities have to do with romantics? The problem is I have to go to the concert; Maurizio Pollini is such a great performer, like Barenboim or Pires, can not be missed. So now I do not know if I should go dressed in an ‘incognito’ look or just be myself and behave in a normal way. Of course I will dress smart but no ostentation, those days classical concerts have gone so high street. I only hope noone important will be there.
Sorry to bother you with my troubled existence but I do need help. And then people say the upper-classes do not have problems to worry about. Common people are so insensitive sometimes.
Wishing you all a lovely weekend.
Love,
Lady Tartan
Tuesday 22 February 2011
Stationery Deluxe Handmade in England
What an inspiring collection. And how extraordinary! Discover the Stationery Deluxe charming products. A unique world beautifully pesented to you with a fine selection of handmade greeting cards, correspondence cards, party invitations, thank you notelets and decorative prints. Timeless and luxurious stationery, handmade in England mixing savoir faire with a vintage accent and aristocratic charm.
A new job
Dearest readers,
I am just having my coffee and biscuits and look at the time. Oh My Goodness! I can not believe it! I have gone working class! Do you think I should say that? You can work but still be high society, can’t you? It is an attitude after all. It is not my fault if papa just left me money and not property. Fine, it was a great amount and I could have invested it but I was not into banking and economy those days and I had not met my lawyer Mr Pearson yet. I have always been into fashion and beauty, that is all. I did not think money could possibly go away so quickly, life is busy enough to have to worry about financial securities and these horrible things that, in a normal situation, a husband arranges for you. But that is the other problem of my life, no husband, no love, no money, no nothing. Just bills and more bills. The only thing which is mine is my title of Lady which opens some doors, not doors to money though but at Annabel’s and VIPs waiting areas in airports. Something at least.
My dear, I just want to warn you that if you see some spelling mistakes or something that does not make sense it is Miss Zebra’s fault, alright? What happens is that I have woken up at 7:45 because of this stupid alarm. Miraculously this morning I did not have trouble sleeping and I would have slept until 10 but work is calling Lady Tartan. So not used to having a job, you see. I am just lying on the couch with some cucumber on my eyes to help revitalise my face and Miss Zebra is typing what I am saying, so my apologies in advance.
How bad I did not see any of you last Saturday. I enjoyed my little get together with some good friends. Everyone had a nice time but I have to say the service and the food were not good at all. Having to wait 50 minutes to get a starter was rather annoying, but 50 minutes to get something you would not know how to start with was disturbing. I was enraged and decided to make a complaint but an unknown weakness flourished from me as I was talking (and checking at the same time) the rude and amazingly sexy Brazilian restaurant manager. Do you think this sudden attraction to a waiter may be a sign that I am becoming working class? I am not too sure now. Today my head is exploding. I have not assimilated the reality of my new working life yet. But at least I am finally working, because two weeks ago I got really scared when Svetlana from HR called me. Apparently they new editor in chief rescheduled my start day and they would let me know the following week. I feared that these people at the magazine had found out about my background and upbringing and had given the job to someone else. Wouldn’t that be discrimination? If so I was ready to sue them. Oh God! I was thinking of all the arrengements I had to do, first of all get Mr. Pearson ASAP and get ready to go to the tribunals. What a stressful life, this would mean more money to spend, more beauty treatments to attend and more designer dresses for the trial to wear. Damn! Why me and not Martha Stewart again, she was so used to all this! Finally nothing of these happened and now I am happily writing about everything beautiful for beautiful people. A beautiful job really.
My dear friends, I have to leave you now, the car is waiting for me outside. I just thought it would be better to get there in a black cab instead of a chauffeur driven Mercedes. I think I have to give up a little bit of sophistication these days and be simplistic, don’t you? That is why yesterday night I watched ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’, to say goodbye to ostentation, no more diamond brooches and memorabilia in my life. Oh my friends, how sad is that? Perhaps I should at least keep my little topaz star brooche. Everyone can afford topaz nowadays, so it would be alright I guess. It belonged to my great grandmamma and it was given to her by the Russian Imperial Family when she hold a ball in honour of their visit to England before the First World War. I am thinking I could take all my diamond brooches and jewellery and organize an auction to get some money for my contagious diseases fundraising. What do you think my dear? And by the way, I think horrible Camilla is not interested on my charity thing so I thought because of one of my friends’ connections in the UNO and the American government, I could get Condoleezza Rice to help me a little bit. Everyone is talking about her and she has definitely something.
My readers, have a lovely day. I am going to be brave and strong in my first day thinking of my motto all the time: ‘Do not work hard for a living, work smart for a lifestyle’.
I am just having my coffee and biscuits and look at the time. Oh My Goodness! I can not believe it! I have gone working class! Do you think I should say that? You can work but still be high society, can’t you? It is an attitude after all. It is not my fault if papa just left me money and not property. Fine, it was a great amount and I could have invested it but I was not into banking and economy those days and I had not met my lawyer Mr Pearson yet. I have always been into fashion and beauty, that is all. I did not think money could possibly go away so quickly, life is busy enough to have to worry about financial securities and these horrible things that, in a normal situation, a husband arranges for you. But that is the other problem of my life, no husband, no love, no money, no nothing. Just bills and more bills. The only thing which is mine is my title of Lady which opens some doors, not doors to money though but at Annabel’s and VIPs waiting areas in airports. Something at least.
My dear, I just want to warn you that if you see some spelling mistakes or something that does not make sense it is Miss Zebra’s fault, alright? What happens is that I have woken up at 7:45 because of this stupid alarm. Miraculously this morning I did not have trouble sleeping and I would have slept until 10 but work is calling Lady Tartan. So not used to having a job, you see. I am just lying on the couch with some cucumber on my eyes to help revitalise my face and Miss Zebra is typing what I am saying, so my apologies in advance.
How bad I did not see any of you last Saturday. I enjoyed my little get together with some good friends. Everyone had a nice time but I have to say the service and the food were not good at all. Having to wait 50 minutes to get a starter was rather annoying, but 50 minutes to get something you would not know how to start with was disturbing. I was enraged and decided to make a complaint but an unknown weakness flourished from me as I was talking (and checking at the same time) the rude and amazingly sexy Brazilian restaurant manager. Do you think this sudden attraction to a waiter may be a sign that I am becoming working class? I am not too sure now. Today my head is exploding. I have not assimilated the reality of my new working life yet. But at least I am finally working, because two weeks ago I got really scared when Svetlana from HR called me. Apparently they new editor in chief rescheduled my start day and they would let me know the following week. I feared that these people at the magazine had found out about my background and upbringing and had given the job to someone else. Wouldn’t that be discrimination? If so I was ready to sue them. Oh God! I was thinking of all the arrengements I had to do, first of all get Mr. Pearson ASAP and get ready to go to the tribunals. What a stressful life, this would mean more money to spend, more beauty treatments to attend and more designer dresses for the trial to wear. Damn! Why me and not Martha Stewart again, she was so used to all this! Finally nothing of these happened and now I am happily writing about everything beautiful for beautiful people. A beautiful job really.
My dear friends, I have to leave you now, the car is waiting for me outside. I just thought it would be better to get there in a black cab instead of a chauffeur driven Mercedes. I think I have to give up a little bit of sophistication these days and be simplistic, don’t you? That is why yesterday night I watched ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’, to say goodbye to ostentation, no more diamond brooches and memorabilia in my life. Oh my friends, how sad is that? Perhaps I should at least keep my little topaz star brooche. Everyone can afford topaz nowadays, so it would be alright I guess. It belonged to my great grandmamma and it was given to her by the Russian Imperial Family when she hold a ball in honour of their visit to England before the First World War. I am thinking I could take all my diamond brooches and jewellery and organize an auction to get some money for my contagious diseases fundraising. What do you think my dear? And by the way, I think horrible Camilla is not interested on my charity thing so I thought because of one of my friends’ connections in the UNO and the American government, I could get Condoleezza Rice to help me a little bit. Everyone is talking about her and she has definitely something.
My readers, have a lovely day. I am going to be brave and strong in my first day thinking of my motto all the time: ‘Do not work hard for a living, work smart for a lifestyle’.
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