Sergio Herman Surface table collection for Serax

I still regret not having been able to response to the invite of coming to the pre-view and lunch at the Jane Antwerp and must admit I still didn’t manage to have lunch or dinner at the beautiful restaurant of Sergio Herman. Piet Boon who was responsible for the interior made a special tableware line […]

The Karwei Boutique Hotel & Pop-up store

At the vtwonen & design fair Dutch DIY store Karwei presented their collection in a beautiful hotel setting; ‘The Boutique Hotel’. Beautiful decorated with luxury wallpaper by Graham & Brown, all the right colours on the wall and a range of home accessories with a luxury feel in a colour range of intense emerald green […]

Maarten Baas Makes Time | Dutch design week 2016

The good thing of Dutch design week is there is so much to see, but the worst is also knowing when you spend some time at one place you are missing out tons of other places. To be honest I gave up wanting to see everything whenever visiting a design event and just enjoying the […]

Candles by Ester & Erik at Graanmarkt 13

Last week I visited the launch of the new Surface collection by Sergio Herman for Serax in Belgium, more about that later this week. Before catching the train back to the Netherlands we just had enough time to visit Graanmarkt 13 where I found this elegant taper candles by Ester & Erik I had been looking […]

A String Installation and more Sectie C | Dutch design week 2016

Visiting Sectie C during Dutch Design week I also walked into the creative space of Collaboration O, an Eindhoven based collective of 14 Designers that work as a team , supporting one another while following their own individual paths.  Corradino Garofalo is a designer with a background in industrial design, his practice focuses on creating […]

Nacho Carbonell | Sectie C | Dutch Design week 2016

This weekend I visited Eindhoven for Dutch Design week, as the press centre is located at Strijp S my day started in the press room with coffee and picking up my map. This year I decided to go and see Sectie C first, as it is an area in the outskirts of town and quite far away […]

Cool design for kids that adults will love | One duo X Rafa Kids

Due to my part time job I meet lots of small kids every week, I love these little ones and their innocent and sincere behavior. Inherent to my job I am interested in kids furniture and children toys. Wood is such a friendly material for kids toys and furniture and especially parents really like it, […]

A new mattress and and bedroom makeover

This last weekend I was busy with a small makeover at home as I got an email from Emma Mattresses asking if I they could send me one of their products. Emma is an online store selling high quality mattresses and when I had a look at their website I discovered they sell just one […]

PIIPPU ceramic coffee and tea pot by Kaksikko | Habitare 2016

Operating under the name Kaksikko, meaning ‘duo’ in Finnish, Salla Luhtasela, a former confectioner and Wesley Walters, a Japanese interpreter, are in the process of completing their studies at the Aalto University. I met them and got to see their work in the young designers area while visiting Habitare in September. They are also the designers of […]

Lokal Helsinki | Conceptstore and gallery

As part of my designtrip and visit to Habitare and Helsinki design week last month I got to see a few local stores and designers as well. Run by photographer Katja Hagelstam, Lokal is a beautiful concept store and home to independent Finnish art, design and craft. Besides the unique art pieces in the gallery space, there is […]

Kvadrat Raf Simons event

You might wonder what this beautiful Norwegian landscape and the factory in the middle of nowhere has to do with Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons, I got explained at a recent Kvadrat Raf Simons event followed by a wonderful dinner in Amsterdam where senior design coordinator Anne Vilhelmine Ebessen explained how the textile used for the Kvadrat/Raf […]

Radical Reframe | Trendlunch 2017

In a beautiful old industrial building in my neighborhood Bloemen Bureau Holland presented the flower and plants trends for 2017 during a lunch at the Van Gendt Hallen. The huge hall was decorated with long tables dressed in green-yellow flowers and a constructed roof consisting of large leaves of various green plants.  Radical Reframe  Radical Reframe was […]