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JOURNAL

Our travel and design blog for global style inspiration, decorating guides, meet-the-maker tales and sourcing trip travelogues for interiors fans.


Explore global design styles with the Designs By Origin team via our travel and design blog 'Journal'. On holidays and sourcing trips, we unearth the most diverse and covetable textiles, ceramics, prints and quirky home accessories from Morocco to Mexico and everywhere in between. Founder, Annabel Smith, will show you where to find home and lifestyle accessories from a variety of destinations as well as from brilliant brands both abroad and here in the UK. Head here for UK and here for European destinations.

Whether it's creating mood boards for globally-inspired interior schemes, checklists for renovation projects or chatting with the makers and creatives behind exciting new interiors brands, Annabel will share her creative inspirations alongside practical advice to help you plan your own journey into globally inspired style.

The Fascinating Heritage Of Elegant Chinese Indigo

Telescope Style met the founder of Blue Handed, John Abbate, to learn more about heritage,...

The Bangkok Potter

Our sourcing trip to the atmospheric, orchid-draped workshop of a talented, Thai ceramicist in the...

The Well Travelled Wall

Gallery wall been on your 'to do' list for..like..ever? How about going global with some...

A Fresh Take On Elegant Thai And Chinese Pottery

Colour, pattern and heritage looks. A surprisingly successful culture clash for modern spaces...it's all in...

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Love Elegant, Eclectic Rugs? Our Roundup Of ‘Global Floor Stories’

Salute your connection to a country, culture or landscape - globally-inspired rug designs add pattern,...

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Beautiful, Stylish, Greek Islands Of Paxos, Antipaxos & Corfu Old Town Too!

A perfect Greek island idyll, it's quietly glorious neighbour and a stylist's eye shopping trip...