X X X BERLIN | Black Fashion Multi-Label store

3 small x’es on a wall in the back of a courtyard in Berlin…. was all that indicated this amazing fashion world I visited last May when Emma and I did a little shopping tour through Berlin. Taking a look at the pictures I guess you can imagine how much we both liked this store… x […]

Intratuin challenge | Join us at an unique pre Christmas event

Scroll naar beneden voor de nederlandse vertaling Wanna join me and other bloggers April&May, Interiorator and Yvestown at an unique and small pre-Christmas event with a friend? Then join this challenge and toast with us to open the Festive season at Intratuin, Zevenhuizen on November 19 from 5am!  Here is what you have to do:  1| […]

Inspiration for your home | Organizing your hallway

With winter on it’s way our hallways will soon become the place again where all shoes, hats, thick coats and other stuff will end up first. So time to think about how to organize and maybe get some new ideas for your hallway. The reason why I am showing the picture above are the knobs […]

HISTOR 101 Karakters | Painting at Piet Hein Eek

Today I spent all day at the workshop of Piet Hein Eek in Eindhoven, where all winners came together with Histor specialists to paint their 101 Karakters cupboard. With an opening word and a personal tour through his shop, later that day, Piet Hein Eek started the day. It was great to see all cupboards […]

HISTOR 101 karakters | My little black cupboard

This last weekend I finished working on my Piet Hein Eek cupboard. My main inspiration was a black box with a little leather handle, yes! inspiration can really be found in everything! Black being my favorite color, I used black Histor perfect finish on the outside. And still being in love with the combination of […]

A Raw industrial apartment in Sweden

While looking around on Pinterest I noticed this amazing picture of an apartment with a raw industrial style and I had to find out more! This is exactly the style that I love next to the clean contemporary and white Swedish apartments and style I show a lot on my blog. Oh joy when I found out […]

This + That | Some favorites + Our new website

This last month I was asked to choose some favorites for both DaWanda and Dutch Warehouse ‘De Bijenkorf’. Online Design Marketplace DaWanda is an place for unique and mostly handmade items. You can see my favorites for the upcoming festival season here on the site. Lots of really nice things in my selection for ‘De […]

Bodie and Fou | A/W 2013 lookbook

With a beautiful lookbook by London based conceptstore Bodie and Fou, my friend Karine is kicking of the festive season with lots of Black! I am loving the Nelson Sepulveda ceramics in combination with the industrial table with wooden tabletop and the Ay Illuminate lamp! Please just ship everything over to my kitchen asap as […]

GIVEAWAY | HABITAT Black and Copper Light Shade

With autumn falling in and days getting darker, you cant have enough cozy corners at home to curl up comfortably with a book or your laptop. And some good light points are essential to read or work with! Good news as today you can enter the competition to have a chance to win a Grande […]

Piet Hein Eek | Histor challenge update

Today I posted this picture on Instagram, my Piet Hein Eek cupboard is nearly finished! A few more things to do and I can finally show the result. There were so many colors to choose from, but I think it is always best to stay close to yourself so I choose Black, tin and a […]

Ceramics in Black and White | Andrei Davidoff

I instantly fell in love with these black and white ceramics by Australian ceramist Andrei Davidoff. Beautiful handmade shapes, different forms and calligraphic brush strokes. All pieces are wheel-thrown and are made from local clay in Andrei’s Melbourne studio. Do you love them as much as I do? Images copyright Clare Plueckhahn | with thanks  

Out of the Blue conceptstore | Dutch Design week

Last week I was in Eindhoven for Dutch Design Week. Instead of running from one part to the other side of town we decided to just go with the flow. It was such an amazing nice and sunny day that we didn’t even used the Mini’s that were availible for transportation as we prefered to […]