Stan Gatan - the old city

Someones letter box - how cute is this! 

A cafe under the street, I didnt know what to expect from Stockholm, what a surprise the Old City was, beautiful old cobblestone streets and laneways - you can imagine a Vicking on a horse rounding the corner and ducking his head! Stan Gatan was just gorgeous, little shops, bars and cafes at every corner, with amazing colours used on the shop fronts and it was light until 11pm. 

N.K department store Stockholm

N.K department store in Stockholm was founded by Josef Sachs in 1902, with the ambition of bringing together the finest product the world has to offer - and what an amazing store! As well as the huge size of the store - I was overwelmed by the space in the furniture department, thus all the images - the store has beautiful large dedicated room settings that I have never seen before within a department store, as well as some of the best homewares brands in the world - a very inspiring visit. I hope I can go back soon!! 

Welcome to Stockholm

Finally at the airport in Stockholm, and I was welcomed by a cut out mirrored Deer - not sure how I felt about it.....but I have to agree the fur is lovely...

Lovely Uk Media visits

I was very lucky to visit with the lovely UK Media including, Living Etc, Homes and Gardens and Ideal Home - who were all in this very glamorous building, The Blue Fin building - I found it amazing that they all sat very closely together on one floor working harmoniously - and I also met the wonderful team at Elle Decoration - thanks everyone for your time - it was very appreciated. 

Anthropologie London

I was really looking forward to visiting the Regent St Anthropologie and I wasn't disappointed - the store was amazing - 3 floors of Anthropologie cool - I love the living wall - yes 3 floors of it! And the recycled chandelier of plastic bottles - It was slightly $$ though compared to Zara so lets see....I have looked at rent in Melbourne and was shocked so I cant image the rent for 3 floors in Regent st!! 

At last London! And the lovely Bentalls Department store

I have arrived in London and was lucky enough to go out to meet the wonderful people at Bentalls Department Store in Kingston, who are a huge supporter of AURA - look at our beautiful Sienna on the bed. Bentalls is a great store and AURA looked fabulous thanks to Andrew and his team, it was wonderful to meet you all, and thank you for your support for AURA - we are very proud to be stocked in Bentalls in the UK. Above is Andrew from Bentalls with the lovely Laura from Linen House UK who looked after me and got me out to Kingston and back! 

And look what else we found in Kingston! These traditional UK telephone boxes - this is actually art I didnt push them - as someone asked me when I showed them the shot!.

Anthropologie NYC

Heres a few photos of the Anthropologie - Rockefeller Center store - just gorgeous, I went to many stores in NYC but I went to 3 Anthropologies just to see how they looked as they are so inspiring - and make everything else (except the fabulous ABC Store) pale into insignificance..!