Restaurant de Tropen | Piet Boon design Studio

If you are a regular reader of my other blog Amsterdam Next you might have seen Amsterdam Oost’s latest hotspot Restaurant ‘De Tropen’ at one of Europe’s leading ethnographic museums ‘Het Tropenmuseum’. The interior of ‘De Tropen‘ is designed by Studio Piet Boon, designer of restaurant ‘The Jane’ in Antwerp, I still regret I couldn’t accept the […]

VT Wonen Home | vtwonen & Design beurs 2015

Like many previous years the home made by the stylists and editor of vtwonen magazine dominated one of the halls at the vtwonen & Designfair (previously called woonbeurs) This home is always one of my favourites and I loved the industrial character on the ground floor with a huge industrial iron facade, the dark wood […]

Heal’s London | A big thank you!

This year has been a lot about travelling and discovering design around Europe with trips to Iceland, Paris and Milan, a Spanish design tour *wish I could travel back in time* and of course one of the blogtours earlier this year with our team that brought me back to London after many years. I am […]

Chic Boutiquers at Home | A new book by Ellie Tenant

Did you ever noticed the ‘Media‘ section on my blog, it is a summery of some publications and some books my blog or home was featured in over the last years. It is a great way for me to remember all these beautiful mentions and to show some of the things I worked on with […]

PROJECTS | Villa Arena Storefront styling

Being on the look for a big kitchen table for ages it was love at first sight when I discovered this beauty at Villa ArenA. Last month I showed you my moodboard and a sneak peek of the items I selected for the window display I designed, and today I can finally show you the result. No […]

TRAVEL | Music Essentials by Bolia X And a Weekend bag by HOPE

When travelling I always try to have a short break after a busy day just before dinner, a comfortable hotel room of course is really important but I am not at all into televisions and hardly never put them on, instead I love to listen to some music, read some mails or do some writing in advance. […]

Paris design week | Visiting Mad et Len

Being a huge Mad et Len fan for some time, visiting their temporary showroom during Paris Designweek was one of the only wishes I had while traveling to Paris last month… looking at the one or two products I can find in Amsterdam and writing a blogpost about Mad et Len with some borrowed product […]

MEDIA | Libelle magazine | Minimalism isn’t boring

In the Netherlands, October is know as the ‘Woonmaand’ it’s the month of the vtwonen & Design fair, and magazines are paying lots of attention to the home and home decoration in general. Many stores launch extra catalogues with cozy autumn homes and the first Christmas mails are hitting my mailbox already. Libelle magazine is the […]

Multifunctional wall desk in black | Norm Architects for MENU

I came across this multifunctional wall desk by Norm Architects for Menu, a great example of a small piece of furniture that can be used for different occasions, I like this tiny hallway concept in the picture above but it can also be used as a small desk to work on. I think there might […]

Minimal Magazine rack | AD Design

Instagram is such a great medium don’t you think, I love to discover new people to follow and when new followers turn out to be great photographers, or designers or simply inspire me with their style. When Alvaro liked one of my pictures and started following me I discovered his work and had a look […]

vtwonen & design fair 2015

Good evening! It has been a busy week, I plannend to make some blogs about the vtwonen & design fair, but actually I didn’t find any free time to write anything at all. With three halls this years fair was just big enough, I had a look at the design hall with the huge stand […]