From a layered cake to the bold lines of architecture to Parisian fashion, there are few patterns as classic and attractive as stripes. While I love when stripes are used blatantly (on a shirt for example), I find that I especially like when stripe patterns emerge unexpectedly like in stacks of books, twists of pasta, rows of planted fields or corrugated steel on the side of a building. Whatever the form, you can’t really go wrong with timeless stripes. Hope they colour you happy this Friday!

(images via red pepper quilts, katie weller, julien, zoë power, ingrid, megan walker, clatie k, little brown pen, rafael.82ml, andrea kennard, frscspd, kristian ekfors, jean-michekl, marco braun, christine gerhardt, us images, ale ramirez)