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

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We all have a favourite food, and for Ruth Mitchener (nee Sumner), the maker and creator of Heirloom De-sign, hers is honey, so why not have these indulgences as something tangible and soft to snuggle into?

The inspiration for the cushions 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 pure NZ wool, filled with 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.

Idealog Magazine, issue 41

Clever Bastards Online Store2009.

Ministry of Art & Design ExhibitionSeptember 2009.

Dish magazine, issue 30.

Workroom Design37 Main (Papakura/Clevedon Road) Clevedon

Urbis Magazine, issue 58

Her Business MagazineIssue November 2010

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

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

The Dominion Post IndulgenceJune 2009.

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