The Beat That My Heart Skipped – A blog dedicated to daily design inspirations. By Rohini Wahi.

Finally! Retail Facility makes available the designs of Industrial Facility, some for the first time, and many of which were previously only sold in certain countries.

You may not have recognised their work when you saw it, but Industrial Facility have designed many every day things that may already be a part of your daily life ie. a Muji coffee maker or fan or the giant 10 key calculator. Its founders, Kim Colin and Sam Hecht are dedicated to the principle that things we use on a daily basis should last a lot longer than a day.

Retail Facility is a much anticipated space where all these wonderful, simple, functional object can be found in one place! See all their past work here.

I actually really dislike hotels, breathtaking decor aside it bothers me to stay somewhere that is void of the city you’re visiting’s personality and also the city’s people – because really you don’t find many Londoner’s staying in a London hotel… When I travel, I want to feel like I connect with the city, it’s culture and it’s essence.

El Palauet Barcelona, is by all intents and purposes a hotel – there is a private spa, a massage room and a private attendant! I am willing to forget all that however because the ‘hotel’ in actual fact a collection of 6 apartments each grazing 150m2 and can be found on one of Barcelona’s most emblematic streets, Passeig de Gracia.

All the apartments  have terrace views of the Pompeya Monastery and the Tibidabo Mountain [this is breathtaking, I once merely walked up this street and swooned]. In each room the beautiful details and ornamentation of the building are matched by the high-end designer interiors and furnishings.

This kind of experience is certainly the best of both worlds to me – there is warmth and character and charm and soul inside and outside of  El Paulauet’s windows [and what beautiful windows they are].

Goodmorning everyone! I’m off to Ceramic Art London this morning, so of course I thought I’d begin with some work from one of the speakers there today Natasha Daintry. For this reason I’ll be spreading the posts out a little today, and also I’m finishing early because after all it is Friday.

We have a really warming meatball recipe coming from Louise later today at 1pm, perfect for these wet weekends, and next a holiday home from home in magical Barcelona. Have a great day and a wonderful weekend  – i’ll be back at some point this weekend to do the weekly roundup. Meanwhile, if you get bored, have a browse through our categories at the top – I am feeling particularly smitten with our A Day With feattures of late…

This blunt and baffling but also quite amusing branding for Puccinos Coffee made me smile. I love the sugar packets with contemplative words on them and coffee cups with conversation starting texts.

For me getting my coffee in the morning is such a ritual, and is the moment of the day where I am not quite awake and aware of the world – what a great morning pick me up. [obviously the 'stupid little biscuit is my fav!]

All clever designs from Waldopancake.

Awesome simple ceramic brooches with cool geometric designs and flashes of gold! From Meyer Lavigne.