This corner of the living room in Heather Moore’s Cape Town apartment features a linocut, “The Same but Different,” by her husband, South African artist Paul Edmunds (pauledmunds.co.za). (Edmunds also made the Lego-based artworks, “Image” and “Snake,” on the wall- mounted shelf.) The sideboard was purchased from local vintage dealer Space for Life (spaceforlife.co.za), and the round ceramic vessel is one of Moore’s limited-edition “Oddjects.” Moore stitched the cushion covers herself, too, using appliquéd linen.
The kitchen cabinetry by Gibb Cabinet Works (gibbcabinetworks.co.za) is finished in a precise shade of green: Pantone 578C. The items hanging on the vintage rack are (from left) a vintage tea towel, a Skinny laMinx tea towel made from the brand’s Breeze print in Petrol, a Skinny laMinx branded tote bag, and a Skinny laMinx Pebble tea towel (skinnylaminx.com). The mugs and teapots on the shelves include vintage pieces and a Stem mug by Orla Kiely (orlakiely.com).
In Heather Moore’s Cape Town apartment, which she shares with her husband, South African artist Paul Edmunds (pauledmunds.co.za), a vintage copy of an Ercol day bed is adorned with cushions in vintage Mid-Century Modern Dutch fabrics as well as a Skinny laMinx Colour Pop pillow (far left; just seen) and a cushion cover in the Skinny print called Brancusi Stripe (in the colorway Cocoa; far right). The wall-mounted lamps are from House Doctor (housedoctor.dk). Above the day bed is a pencil drawing named “Tent” by Edmunds; the rug is from Tirmah Interiors (tirmahinteriors.com) and the vintage workbasket belongs to Moore.
In 2006, when Moore created her Skinny laMinx blog (still active today) and launched her Etsy store selling vinyl cutouts made into fridge magnets and one-off screen prints, her ‘day job’ was writing for an ongoing series of South African comics. But as a lifelong “maker of things” in general, Moore says, “the [arrival of the] Internet made me very frustrated because I could see into everyone’s studios, where they were making [and selling] things, and I had such a strong urge to do the same.” Between 2006 and 2008, Moore began to focus on creating screen-printed tea towels, which she sold on Saturday mornings at the Neighbourgoods market in Woodstock, Cape Town, and which she also marketed internationally via her Etsy storefront. Quite quickly, those international orders became regular ones.
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