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Loren, and Sarah
Testing out their own range of sleepwear (which is coming real soon)
Tweaking details at a supplier's workshop - Sarah and Loren are developing a range of wallpapers!
Lunch stop at little vietnamese joint, Try It Out - the girls often order this in if they're working late
(Try It Out? Best English-as-second-language name ever! How good does this look?)
(Try It Out? Best English-as-second-language name ever! How good does this look?)
Back in the studio - time for some emails and phone calls (Oh, and a baben portrait)
Planning the roll-out of the new collection
Wrapping and boxing orders for retailers and customers
Refining patterns for linen house slippers - coming soon!
Penney and Bennett art prints have hand-applied gold leaf
Penney and Bennett sleepwear - coming very, very soon...
End of the day - bread, red wine, good cheese - that's all the food groups.
Sarah Carson and Loren Marks first met at Whitecliffe College of Art & Design, where they collaborated on a few projects that combined their varying fine art practises. They found a shared passion for homeware, fabrics and furnishing, and during breaks between lectures they'd go to cafes and drink tea and talk about how they could turn their designs into beautiful textiles. After graduating, they each went into the workforce for a year, but kept meeting up for those chats over tea. The informal cuppas soon turned into more serious meetings on evenings and weekends, as they began to design and develop what would become Penney and Bennett (btw - their surnames).
Today, Sarah and Loren are both 26 and Penney and Bennett is almost four! And they're about to launch their third collection, Guardian. Inspired by New Zealand's native forest, it's a moody, botanic direction, with a palette of deep greens and autumn shades.
Sarah and Loren live at opposite ends of Auckland, so sometimes before a big work day, they have a sleepover at one of their houses. It's a chance for them to make the most of the day, starting with some early morning exercise get the brain humming. (On this day, they went for a walk around Auckland's Te Atatu Peninsula boardwalk). Days are spent getting orders - of their dreamy printed cushions, bedding, throws and table linen - out to their customers and an expanding fam of retailers, and developing new collection prints and new products. Specifically, on the day Jonny visited them, Sarah and Loren were checking on progress on their new range of wallpaper (that they'll be showcasing for the first time at the interior design fair INEX in Auckland, later this month), testing a new pattern for their linen house slippers, and finalising details of their new sleepwear range - a full range of pyjamas, which will come in plain linen, organic cotton and printed cotton.
Watch out for their new 2017 collection of cushions and throws, Guardian, in-stores very soon.
Aaaaannnnnd... I want to also take a quick moment to myth-bust here. Yes, Sarah and Loren work full-time on Penney and Bennett, but they also each squeeze in some freelance work too. This is just the reality for most growing but independent brands in New Zealand. No one has it all. So, work on your side hustle until it becomes your main hustle.
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