Addiction X Obsession | Paola Navone & Daniel Rozensztroch

Dutch wallpaper company NLXL launched 2 new collections today in Milan “Addiction” by Paola Navone and “Obsession” by Daniel Rozensztroch, art director of Merci in Paris. The collection is based on Rozensztroch’s Obsession with collecting everyday objects and Navone’s Addiction to the color blue, especially a vibrant indigo shade. Rozensztroch has been obsessed for many years with everyday, […]

How to create a light and serene Spring home with Couleur Locale

craft paper bags and happy lights It seems like a match made in heaven…. when your favourite stylist and friend, and a really loyal blog sponsor team up together to photograph the collection of one of your favourite brands, Love Warriors. Some time ago I showed you Couleur Locale’s new autumn collection in this post |Inspiration […]

Vinyl records and modern record players | Let’s talk about music

Let’s talk about music… and vinyl! I still got nearly all my vinyl records, maybe even more cd’s and of course music on my phone for on the go! I believe our records tell us who we are and where we stand for, I grew up with Pink Floyd and me and my best friend […]

Shopping downtown Reykjavik | DesignMarch 2015

Between exhibitions and openings there was some time to discover some of Reykjaviks best fashion and concept stores downtown. I found the Eyland flagshipstore, after seeing a catalog at Suit. In case you did not read my former Iceland post |Reykjavik Fashion Festival 2015 | Cocktail dresses & white sneakers| the main inspiration for Eyland […]

TIIPOI and The super normal

While in London I visited Tiipoi, a London based lifestyle brand founded 2 years ago by Spandana Gopal. The brand believes in a common sense attitude to consumption; an all encompassing design ethos of the Indian subcontinent – where nothing is wasted and where innovation and improvisation come from the lack of something rather than an […]

INNSIDES launches Milan

How do you like these pictures! Some time ago Studiopepe worked with Ivano Redaelli to interpret their brand image by creating evocative visuals and product images for a catalogue that explored various types of style and the different worlds associated with them.  I selected this project from the many designers & projects shown in the new Milan section on […]

A warm touch to a black & white room with a feltballrug

I got myself something new for the bedroom…It is black and the softest little rug ever! This beautiful rug is handmade by female artisans from Kathmandu, Nepal for Felt ball rug. I first spotted the rugs at the library near my home, where a really large and colourful rug makes a cozy play and reading corner […]

OrriFinn | Tools a performance

Saturday morning in Reykjavik, I plannend to visit some of the black beaches together with some other bloggers and journalists, but during the night the weather became that bad, that in the morning everyone was advised to not go outside… so we stayed in the hotel, I had a long breakfast and plannend in some […]

Reykjavik Fashion Festival 2015 | Cocktail dresses & white sneakers

In my first blogpost about Iceland and my my visit to DesignMarch 2015 |read it here if you missed it| I talked about on how Sari and Birta organised things for us and I really loved all the effort they took in personalising the tour for all journalists from different countries. It is so much easier if people who […]

Shopping online for new pillows | Spring solutions

Like I mentioned before, the Icelandic Natura hotel was a real treat and inspired me to set myself a new goal for Spring: shop for new bed linen, pillows and maybe even a new bed! It was time to put those words into action and I decided to start by buying some new bed pillows. […]

Music on Portobello road | New B&O Play headphones

London has always been one of my favourite cities, and being back in town after many years brought back so many memories of early 2000 meetings with friends, seeing new bands in little concert venues, and long nights at Saturday night rockclub Decadence in Dean Street. When having a few hours off, Linda and me took […]

An afternoon at LIBERTY London

An afternoon with Head of Design of Liberty Art fabrics Emma Mawston, her colleague, delicious scones, my first ones ever!, and coffee and tea. They gave us an insight into the inspiration and symbolism of their Secret Garden collection, named after the classic novel, and the process of creating it. Meeting the designers and seeing how they design and hand colour […]