heirloom design media book

H E I R L O O M D E S I G NDelicious Cushions & Quilts

Media Book

P R O F I L E

We all have a favourite food, and for Ruth Sumner, the maker and creator of Heirloom Design, hers is honey, so why not have these indulgences as something tangi-ble and soft to snuggle into?

The inspiration for the cushions first came into fruition when the first of many sisters was heavily pregnant in the midst of a rip-roaring cherry season in Marlbor-ough; Thus a combination of filling (and ultimately rapidly emptying) many buckets of cherries and a sister needing something to ‘prop-her-up’ on the couch, the fruity cushions were born.

Using up-cycled classic NZ wool blankets, coupled with pure new wool, feather-down inners, nickel-free zippers and buckets of dedication and love, Ruth aims to explore and recapture recollections from the past, reinventing them with a modernist twist to give them purpose and beauty.

The Dominion Post IndulgenceJune 2009.

Cranfields Homewares Store.cnr Lambton Quay & Johnston Street, Wellington25 Teed Street, Newmarket, Auckland

Kina NZ Design & Art Space101 Devon St West, New Plymouth

Ministry of Art & Design ExhibitionSeptember 2009.

Clever Bastards Online Store2009.

Dish magazine, issue 30.

Workroom Design37 Main (Papakura/Clevedon Road) Clevedon

Urbis Magazine, issue 58

Her Business MagazineIssue November 2010

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