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

Finally I can share one of my favourite shops in London - Mint! I say finally because Mint has moved location from it’s original Marylebone spot to a new one in South Kensington  – right around the corner from my other favorite Few and Far. Although equally beautiful, the old space was quite dark and atmospheric, not great for taking pictures, but yesterday while propping I stepped into the new store for the first time and was ecstatic at the lovely new light filled space!

Mint stocks and sources the most unusual and innovative contemporary homewares, I literally don’t tire of looking around when I visit – they always have beautiful ceramics by contemporary artists such as Hella Jongerius and Kathy Dalwood, the most unusual furniture – side tables that look like icebergs with tiny polar bears crawling over them, and tablelamps made fused toy soldiers. from Their stock is ever changing – yesterday I discovered giant yo-yo lights, oversized necklaces, music playing bears and real dandelions embedded with LEDs!

Their website is just as insane and curious – check it out here.

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I am currently obsessed with relatively new online design shop Bouf’s original range of quirky products made accessible through their site.

In my opinion any retailer that has an entire section dedicated to Ostrich print, bedlinen, throws and wallpapers is a winner! Do check out all of their other products however, you will find some gems!

Have you seen Rob Ryan’s new website?? Its so new and exciting, just because it’s so new…and exciting [how shallow am I]! It features all the Rob Ryan stuff you could want all in one place – I know most websites do this, but Rob had a few different sites and blogs running simoultaneously for a while and now it’s all nice and tidy : )

You can browse archives of all his wonderful work over the years, and read his blog and see what’s going on at Ryantown [his bricks and mortar shop] and buy from his Etsy Shop - all wonderfully accompanied by a lovely web design featuring funny birds, colourful bells, fluttering leaves and the occasional key, all courtesy of Mr Rob!

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.

Snug Studio is part showroom, part office and part workspace and is a collaboration between Interior Designer Kerstin Reilemann from Domestic Candy [who we featured last year] and architect Berit Luedecke that recently in Hanover.

They shared images of their wonderful studio in progress before its opening. You can see all the love and imagination that went into their space, I love the decorative touches in the simple area, like the garland of paper plates inspired by vintage plates.

In the studio you will be able to buy existing products from Domestic Candy and new products from Snug, like ceramic candle holders inspired by traditional cake molds, pendant lights created from vintage porcelain coffee filters, and wooden benches made using recycled chair backs.

If you like the look of their sweet studio, you can visit their online shop which opens in March.