Vidal Sassoon The Movie - check out this lovely homage to the cult snipper who changed the face of hairdressing as we know it – sadly  no longer with us.

Buy this incredible, wonderful set of desktop accessories from Plant & Moss.

We are not easily spooked here at Livingetc, but the Phantomenal III Lamp created by French design studio Guesner sent a collective chill up our spines.

Giving the illusion it is floating through the air, the light is in fact fixed by a metal stand fashioned to look like a flex.

Eerie……

Nic, Picture Editor

We love this stunning collection of prints by Still Life Stylist Sonia Rentsch with photography by Scott Newett entitled ‘Dinner Etiquette’. If these characters walked off the page, I can imagine exactly what their personalities would be. Do you think they would want to be friends with me? I hope so.

Lucy, Style Assistant x

Beautiful collages by the brilliant designer, Sophie Duran. And we’ve always loved those vegetables-styled-up-as-creatures images.

Mo, acting news ed.

You may remember we blogged about Melbourne based artist Liesl Pfeffer last year and her beautiful mountain range art works collaged from photographs. Her latest works are just as covetable; giant semi precious stones and gems in all their faceted glory, collaged together from bits of sky, water and surfaces. We love her delicate, feminine colour palettes (utterly on trend) and graphic touch. What girl wouldn’t want a rock like this?

Kate, Editorial Assistant

Like brilliant Expressionist paintings, these prints strip back the Olympic games to mere geometry. Life.Style.etc really loves.

Mo, acting news editor.

This edible lasagne cookbook is brilliant – simply layer your filling between its pages. Food for thought from It’s Nice That. Mo.x

Pont Max Juvenal, Aix en Provence (Patrick Blanc)

Quai Branly museum, Paris (Patrick Blanc)

We’ve been inspired recently by the ultimate urban gardening – living walls. More like artworks than the grassy roofs we’ve seen on libraries and the like, they add colour, pattern and movement to buildings, and don’t take up any floor space – a bonus in a busy city. Leading the way in ambitious designs is French botanist-artist Patrick Blanc, some of whose beautiful work is posted here. Layers of PVC and felt on a metal frame with an integrated, automated watering system, create an easy-care support for the plants, which is a boon, as we wouldn’t fancy the weeding much…

Pershing Hall hotel, Paris (Patrick Blanc)

Rue d’Alsace, Paris (Patrick Blanc)

It goes without saying that here at Livingetc we’ve a passion for all things furniture related, and it’s no secret that as soon as the clock chimes 3 (okay, sometimes before) we’re more than partial to a spot of tea and cake too. So we couldn’t believe our eyes when we chanced upon these marvellous miniatures on Moco Loco, all golden brown and baked to perfection. Created by designers Ryosuke Fukusada and Rui Pereira, the concept was born “of a reflection about the velocity of the contemporary furniture industry, and how consumers are unable to digest the large number of new products companies launch into the market every year.”  The idea with these small wonders is that you can bake an edible living room, decorate your furniture cakes with your favourite icing and toppings, then just eat them all up and start again. Amazing! If only you could do that with a regular sideboard. We can’t wait for the kettle to boil.