Happy Esther!

Instead of letting your friends overdose on chocolate this Easter, give them a gorgeous Esther Diamond tea towel instead.

All images supplied by Esther Diamond. March 2009.

It's a beautiful range that includes designs by well known Hawke's Bay artists Martin Poppelwell, Dick Frizzell and Leanne Culy. I gave a friend an Esther Diamond tea towel recently and she's declared it 'far too lovely to dry dishes with' and it's about to meet the framer. That's typical of just about everything in the Esther Diamond range - and you can check out the products by clicking on http://www.estherdiamond.com/ I've also written about them several times previously and you only need to click on any of the index labels in the line below this post to read those.

Table Art

Esther Diamond napkins. June 2008. Ajr.

Staying here at Esther's Place in Napier I am surrounded by stunning products from the Esther Diamond Collection. These are some of the table napkin range - with designs by top New Zealand artists like Dick Frizzell and Martin Poppelwell. http://www.esthersplace.co.nz/ http://www.estherdiamond.co.nz/

To Sleep Perchance To Dream

Esther's Place, Napier. June 2008. Ajr

This is the gorgeous bed I am going to sleep in in Napier tonight!

At the very divine Esther's Place, a waterfront apartment stylishly put together by the Napier design company Esther Diamond, Millar Road, Napier providers of seriously stylish accommodation and Eon Design Store, Auckland.

Sleeping among these divine little rabbits - created by Napier artist, Martin Poppelwell for Esther Diamond - is something I'm very much looking forward to. www.esthersplace. www.millarroad.co.nz www.estherdiamond.co.nz www.eon.co.nz

Three Times the Talent

I think collaboration is one of the most exciting words in the English language and putting a group of multi-disciplinary talents in one room and letting them brainstorm has to be one of the most exciting things any creative person can be a part of. Esther’s Place in Napier is the brainchild of one such group – it’s a stylish modern apartment over-flowing with the best of New Zealand art and design and it’s there for us all to enjoy as holiday accommodation. The Collinge family had already established a divine vineyard retreat, Millar Road, in nearby Tuki Tuki Valley. Esther Diamond is a seriously stylish Napier design company founded by Sandi Reefman, which produces bed linens, lamps and cushions, featuring original artworks by some of New Zealand’s leading artists. And Eon Design Centre is a leading New Zealand design outlet based in Auckland’s Britomart Precinct. When these three entities put their heads together they came up with Esther’s Place, a gorgeous waterfront hideaway in Napier’s quirky, historic suburb of Ahuriri.
This shot of the apartment’s main living area features red cushions from Esther Diamond’s “Fall 2007” range; a painting (right) “Study for We All Need a Lie Down”” by Napier artist, Martin Poppelwell; “White Jugs” (left) a photograph by Napier's Brian Culy; the fruit bowl is “Bol” from Eon; the sofa is “Chester” from Eon; The table, chairs and sideboard are from the “Dom” range from Eon; the lamp and base are new from Esther Diamond. And the above photograph itself is by Brian Culy.
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