TRAVEL | INK hotel Amsterdam

Last weeks I visited the INK Hotel, one of Amsterdams latest lifestyle hotels. The architects of Concrete Amsterdam took us on a tour through the hotel, located in the former headquarters of the Dutch newspaper De Tijd. Themes such as ‘Stories, Ink & Time’ play a big role in the new story of INK Hotel Amsterdam […]

Blog birthday presents & a Dyson press event

Last month the ladies at fonQ invited me to an event organised by Dyson, as they wanted to give me one of their latest models as a blog birthday present. Now I’m not usually one to talk about electronic equipment or gadgets… But when I heard the Dyson V6 Fluffy is a cordless vacuum cleaner […]

NLXL Wallpaper styled by Paola Navone

NLXL won this years prestigious Elle Deco International Design Award in the wall covering category for “Archives by Studio Job” Making extraordinary wallpaper in collaboration with some amazing designers is what NLXL does best. In a previous post I showed you this years collection Addiction X Obsession in cooperation with Paola Navone and Daniel Rozensztroch. The collection was presented on […]

Back to Black with Hans Blomquist

I recently showed you the work of photograper Johan Sellen in a former post about this amazing Raw industrial apartment in Sweden For this home he teamed up with Swedish stylist and author Hans Blomquist while styling and shooting a home that is up for sale. Est magazine showed several versions of the same home […]

A long time love affair | Just the two of us

If you love music as much as I do, I am pretty sure you will know the feeling of getting totally lost in music. Music makes me happy and it revokes all kinds of emotions in me. I have a long time love affair with Placebo, and I really enjoy listening to their songs. Listening to […]

Old friends and new shoes at Eindhoven

Last weekend I was at Eindhoven, I love this creative city with their rich industrial past but it is not a city I come very often besides when visiting Dutch design week.  This weekend however I was invited by Intreza to take part in their gambling game during the Schoenen 6 daagse downtown. And I thought it […]

Spring Monochromes | HOPE SS2015

When Swedish fashion brand HOPE opened it doors last year in Amsterdam I was invited to be at the opening along some of the best Dutch influencers and to be honest I couldn’t be happier with the big warm Poppy coat in my wardrobe when travelling to Iceland in March this year. It happened to be […]

Ventura Projects press tour | Milan design week 2015 | Fuorisalone

Lambrata Ventura started in 2009 by two Dutch woman and an Italian who discovered this raw area and thought it was the perfect area to build a whole new design district for Milan design week, in this Ventura projects storybook you can find more about the history and see what happened in the area over the last […]

A wonderful summer home in the Hamptons | VIPP modules in white

Today I would love to take you to the Hamptons and have a peek in the Summer residence of Marcus Wainwright and his family… If this is their Summer residence I can only dream on how their ‘real’ home looks like. Marcus is the owner of American fashion label ‘Rag & Bone’ and fell in […]

GATHERING X Edelkoort | Milan design week 2015 | Fuorisalone

On my last day in Milan I visited Ventura Lambrata and after 4 days walking and exploring all Milan design week has to offer I was really happy with the shuttle service between the main locations, after a small tour organised by Dutch interior magazine Elle decoration on which more later, I took the shuttle to Via Cletto Arrighi where this […]

Fritz Hansen 7™chair | Weekly Design deals by CUIP

When it comes to buying small home accessories, I don’t usually have problems making a choice. My taste is pretty much established, I know exactly what kind of materials I like, and I know how to make everything blend in to my already existing interior. It’s not hard to build up a black iron cast […]

Laundry Industry Flagship store Amsterdam

I have always loved Dutch fashion label Laundry Industrie because of their strong black and white appearance and often popped in at their former store at Rokin. They recently opened a 550 sqm flagship store in the former society and landmark building ‘Concordia’ and I just posted some pictures off the store on my other blog and thought this store […]