NEWS ZIPPER: Enter this week's giveaway: A weekend getaway (fully paid trip) to the Museum of Science and Industry's Smart Home: Green + Wired exhibit (in Chicago)!

If you love European design and interiors like I do, then you'll like this find: a blog and an online store by the super cute sisters, Elodie & Karine Kong. Shooting apartments this week, I was tipped off to the sisters by my photographer, Jim Franco. He's got a great eye.

Bodie and Fou is originally a business, an online store featuring "some of the most stylish, contemporary European designs for the home and some of the World's finest luxury gift ideas," but then Elodie and Karine added a blog which they call their "little black book". It's here that they share all the "places, photos, architects and designers that inspire us to be more creative and adventurous."

As with all blogs sprung from stores, there's the inevitable focus on products they're selling, but not too much. The sisters enthusiasm for connecting people to great resources comes through and you get the feeling that their store benefits from this spirit.

They don't post every day, but their stuff is totally fresh (even though a few pics are of Brooklyn!). I urge you to check them out (and urge them to post more ;-)).

> > BodieandFou.blogspot.com

> > BodieandFou.com (their online store)

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> > Los Angeles Sales & Design Events

THIS WEEK • EKLA Home 25% off Sale • Design Public 40-60% Offi Sale • Mercado Spring Sale • Miracle Mile Art Walk • Francois & Co. Showroom Opening • Giant Robot Silver Lake's Closing Sale • George Smith Furniture and Fabrics Semi-Annual Sale

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> > New York Sales & Design Events

THIS WEEK • Mike Perry at Giant Robot • Classic Rug Collection Moving Sale • Clodagh Showroom Sale • Fashioning Felt • George Smith Sample Sale • Ligne Roset Upholstery Sale • Greenjeans Closing Webshop Sale • Stark Warehouse Sale • Karim Rashid SHOP Spring Clearance • Bobby Berk Home Anniversary Sale • Tufenkian Artisan Carpets • nestliving Anniversary Sale

COMING UP
• Architectural Digest Home Show
• BKLYN Desgins

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> > Chicago Sales & Design Events!

THIS WEEK • Merchandise Mart Sample Sale • Pauline Grace • Tufenkian • Johnathon • Aaron Overstreet Art • Tabula Tua • United Feather and Down • Morlen Sinoway Annual Sample Sale • Design Within Reach • Smart Home: Green + Wired • Jill Dryer at Avec • Worms & Wine at A Cooler Planet

LAST WEEK HERE

> > San Francisco Sales & Design Events

THIS WEEK • Design Within Reach • Branch Home • Free Plant Exchange • The Tufenkian Archive • Elliot Anderson at Gallery 16 • The Wooden Duck • Amy Ruppel at Zinc Details

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