Note: never say no to his business card, it has many hours of laughs.

Although I love the immediacy & ease of modern travel, in my mind I am exploring the world sometime around 1900, give or take some on either side. A time of slow travel: steamships, trunks & the all-important porter. The tags that would link you with your possessions, plus the name of your destination in order to minimise confusion upon your arrival!

When time was not measured by hours, but months & piles of correspondence, outposts & seaports. Here are a few examples of today’s version that can get you in the mood for your gallivanting, whether it be camel caravanning to the ancient oasis city of Samarkand, sailing down the Nile by Felucca, visiting the berbers in a bedouin tent in the Atlas Mountains, treehouse-sitting whilst on safari, horseracing on the Mongolian plains, combing the shores of the Black Sea for amber after a storm, dogsledding to a fur lined igloo in Iceland – ah the endless list of possibilities.

To get the look & feel, check out Steamline’s diplomat series. If you are feeling a more rugged look, get Filson’s canvas & leather bags or go for the classic Globetrotter. I’m loving safari and limited edition, Mohsin Ali. Don’t forget to pack the ultimate campaign camera to record all your adventures, the Leica limited edition Hermes leather M7 series.

TUESDAY 22 MAY, 3-6PM

Spend three hours with Sibella as your personal tour guide, taking you to each of her favourite spots in Sydney and providing an insight into how they came to be. The group will hit El Loco, Beresford courtyard & Upstairs, The Fish Shop and MsG’s as she talks through the ins and outs of concept and design for each of the spaces. This will be a super fun workshop! Get in before the crowds, with interior stylist extraordinaire, grab some drinks to quench your thirst as you go and don’t forget to wear your walking shoes! Travelling between the venues will be on foot. Very limited positions (only 15 spots!), this one will be small and personal – get in quick. Tickets for sale here.

Non-refundable; One time offer; Tickets available online only

Meet point: 3PM @ El Loco, 64 Foveaux St, Surry Hills 2010

2. Interior Colour: coming up with your palette

TUESDAY 26 JUNE, 6.3o-8.30PM

I believe that every person has their own colour palette. It can be found by looking carefully at the things you surround yourself with: your clothes, the invitations & ephemera you keep, patterns you buy, jewellery you wear, even your teacups & plates! If you put your favourite things together you notice the same colours are repeated again & again. From this you can discover the colours that make you happy, how they can sit together & be applied into your interiors.

In this workshop I will build an entire set based on a colour palette, demonstrating how you translate colour on a large scale. We’ll chat about how you come up with your own palette and the applying it into your own home or space. Watch me as I start with a box of my favourite things and end with an interior space that reflects the colour palette in real life. Lots of Q&A! Buy tickets here.

Non-refundable; Tickets available online only

@ Sun Studios, 42 Maddox St, Alexandria 2017

The Marine Archaeology Museum in Bodrum is a wealth of information and understanding of the coast of Turkey. The fort of Bodrum is all turrets, knights, winding roads to trick pirates and forts. There is rumour of a village that cannot be seen from water, where the villagers would flee to when ferocious pirates came to town. Now a ghost town, although I did not get to see, it sounds intriguing & steeped in the history of the area.

Various shipwrecks have revealed many a treasure of copper, glass, posts, ceramics, golds, seals, beads & boats!

Regardless, these are some of the super cool ones I saw at Salone (Milan Furniture Fair) by Maarten Baas, Nacho Carbonell as well as Bertjan Pot’s ‘downstairs’ carnival light, upside down ladder. Although these design ones rock, I am just as fond of the Putnam rolling library ladder I have at the shop, or even a good old fashioned wooden step.

As you can imagine, from a 20 year career as a stylist and globetrotter I have quite the collection of oddities & curiosities. Each and every piece was painstakingly wrapped and shipped when I moved my studio & storage from NY to Sydney. The time has finally come to say farewell to many of my objets, props, fabric by-the-yard, plates, cutlery, clothing, shoes, doors, souvenirs & bits n’ bobs. We are clearing out the cupboards & attic (or rather make room for next collections).

Myself and two lovely assistants, Hannah & Leah will be on hand to tell you what’s what and explain how the blue striped turban made it from the cameleer’s head to The Society inc. & other wonderful objet histories. Come and discover a 3D timeline of my travels and life and take a piece home with you!

From 9am – 5pm.

For those of you who are not familiar with tyvek, it is a material used in construction often to line a building during works. An interesting choice for Paola Navone outdoor furniture range showcased at Parisian Merci’s pop-up store Aspasi, in Milan’s centro, who embraced this material as well, and has manipulated it with digital print, pre-washing and stitching it.

It became known as The Golden Horn when Zeus transformed his young pregnant lover Lo, into a white heifer to protect her from the wrath of his furious wife, Hera. Lo gave birth to daughter, Ceroessa on the banks of The Golden Horn, who was then reared into womanhood by water sprite, Semestra. Ceroessa hooked up with Poseidon, god of the seas, and had a baby boy, Byzas. He was raised by spring fairy, Bysias. Byzas became the founder of the Byzantium.

Who doesn’t love a story about gods, fairies, sprites & nymphs! And a little adultery for spice. Although the lands that edge The Golden Horn are no longer grassy hills perfect for grazing, they do show off some spectacular housing, perched precariously on its edge.

Scout’s Honor Co.

Giles & Brother

As a youngster, I would go on holidays to Kangaroo Valley with my family. My favourite activity was archery with the leather arm guard, wooden bow, bulls eye target & of course, the feathered arrows. If you have not yet seen the latest Louis Vuitton windows in every country, try & check them out. Here is a peek of what fun to expect.

The bar is located in a brick vaulted basement that would have been constructed around the 1850s. On a visit to the Caroline Simpson Library to see librarians, Michael & Matt, I was shown Henry Percy Dove’s ‘Plans of Sydney’ which revealed the businesses, workshops, housing & building that existed at the time. Oyster saloons, taverns, yards, tinkers, smiths, merchants & traders, lawyers, surveyors, milliners and other old fashioned trades are listed & sited.

I have written about Mr G Rice before, but another shop on Pitt St, called Mrs Palmer & co., taxidermist & furrier holds just as much curios.

I have named this new bar, Palmer & co. and lined its walls with photographs of the small time crooks, petty thieves & peoples of interest found at the Police & Justice Museum (often very well dressed & quite good looking):

Pickpockets, confidence tricksters, peeping toms, midnight rovers, rogues, vagabonds, professional shape-shifters, fly-by-merchants, fraudster, hooligans, brawlers, cardsharpers, ruffians & troublemakers.

If this is as fascinating to you as it is to me, the below have provided me endless enjoyment and information:

Crooks Like Us by Peter Doyle – an archive of mug shots from the Justice & Police Museum outlining all the mischief the crooks got up to.

Small Trades by Irving Penn – a book of portraits by the amazing Irving Penn, capturing people who practice small trades. This book is beautiful.

Caroline Simpson Library - it is so resource rich I know that CSL will have something for me irrelevant of whether I’m hunting for seaweed albums for my next book, Bowerbird or pictures of Mrs Palmer’s husband.

Macleay Museum – I cannot count the number of hours I have spent here wandering and inspecting whatever is on show. This is where I found a tag, attached to a taxidermied animal foot inscribed with ‘Mrs Palmer & co’ and what started my knowledge hunt.

A favourite product of mine. I never tire of rope in any of its incarnations. I was pleased to see others feel the same. You can often see my stamp through the entanglement of rope hanging through beams and holding up mirrors, in my shop or commercial interiors, props swing through the space, ships sail from the bannisters and you may even come across a couch hanging mid-air.

Although it is by no means a new fad, with the likes of The Ace installation in Palm Springs and the range by Christien Meindertsma for Thomas Eyck, it still rocks my world.

These are some new rope-y products hitting the scene ready to make your pirate ship or lighthouse keepers quarters all the more authentic! Some of my favs are: Missoni lights & rug, Christine Rackel ‘big bond’ rope light,  Tafarkitektkontor version of a fishermans float and Lindsey Adelman’s knotty bubble.

After a hard day of driving & shopping, the reward at the end was my very good friends beach shack to stay at for the night. His thriving fruit & vegetable patch rewarded us with tomatoes, basil, parsley, figs, passionfruit, cucumber and peppers.

The shack is the perfect combo of casual laid back sand-on-your-feet attitude, and sink-yourself-into lounges, put-your-feet-up furniture, pull-the-indoors-out style. Wicker, linen, oversized knits, shells, stripe-y terry towelling, coir, cane, painted wood and easy sweep wooden floors made for the most enjoyable stay- Thanks JH.

Look out  for my nautical fish-y props at The Fish Shop & Amateur Fishing Club at 22 Challis Ave Potts Point.

For my brief stop (less than 24 hours ) in London en route to the Milan Furniture Fair, I was guest at the gorgeous Haymarket Hotel.

In signature Kit style, the colours are bold & the fabrics are in print, surrounded by craft meets art, naïve, sculpture & contemporary art. She mixes the natural (driftwood, stones, faux bois, palm tree stumps), textiles of ikat, suzani, paisley, vintage & new furniture, incredible light fittings and overscaled & subtle art pieces both wallmounted & sculptural, with a sense of humour.

If you love interiors, she is at the forefront of fabrics, finishes, art & furniture. This is interior consideration, knowledge & comfort at its best. Thanks Kit & Craig!

N.B. Don’t miss the shooting gallery covered in De Gournay wallpaper mural or the underground indoor pool and surrounds.