Wash and brush up, Italian style

Phew. This has been quite the barmy few weeks, wrangling everything from styling gigs for romance novel covers, to working on super cool celeb filled projects for the Toronto International Film Festival. So, let's make it a quick one the, shall we?

I first saw Falper at the Cersaie bathroom-a-palooza trade show last year in Bologna, Italy, and totally fell for their whole look. So, once I got my hot little hands on their catalogue I thought I should definitely share a few fave shots. These just happen to be all black and white interiors - though as you know I have nothing against colour - and everything, right down to that last styling detail, is mah-vellous!

It's pronounced chair-sigh

Yesterday morning we hit Bologna, as part of our mini tour of the world of tiles with Savoia. The destination was Cersaie (pronounced chair-sigh), possibly the world's most ginormous bath and tile trade show. Apart from feeling kinda under dressed in my usual comfy trade show garb of jeans and sneakers (everyone there was rocking sharply tailored suits) I just didn't know where to begin.

Highlights were checking out all the tile trends (colour, texture and lotsa gold), as well as working my way through some seriously stunning bathroom fixtures and cabinetry. My two new fave firms on that front are Moab 80 (industrial and edgy with unexpected colour) and Falper (white, witty and sophisticated). On the smarty-pants side of things Fiandre, who own Savoia, launched Active, a major breakthrough in tile technology that is both anti-bacterial and able to purify the air. V. cool... On the, ahem, so-bad-it's-bad front Versace Home presented a line that managed to be gaudy, dull and old fashioned all at the same time. Moving swiftly along, check out Marcel Wander's latest, Aqua Jewels faucets for Bonomi, which appears to be going for a Flava Flav kinda vibe.