Inspired by winter and the feeling it brings to them, April and May used a combination of materials and dark colours with a touch of dark blue to create a special curated version in color and composition of the Vision & Boxes collection by Pastoe. The special Vision combination will be available in selected stores […]
Triple Pink is the brainchild of Stella Maye, a label for the sophisticated and ambitious woman with her high heels’ firmly on the ground. A label for the woman who is not afraid to create its own identity. She describes herself as a woman who knows what she wants, which is to design an easy-to-wear […]
Today I love you to show the home of Per Olav, It was such a pleasure to meet him again in Bergen two months ago having dinner at this great restaurant. His family home looks all ready for Christmas, and I especially love that bunch of tiny trees. Merry Christmas to all of you! pictures […]
I just love this time of the year when everything and everyone seem to slow down, it is such a nice feeling with Christmas around the corner, time to sleep in and startup days slowly. I also love to have some more time to look after my home, re-organizing, throwing things away, and re-decorate some corners […]
Longing for the ‘dark’ days before Christmas I found inspiration by the woods and decorated my home with dark tones and lots of fairy lights. Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and lots of love and peace whether you celebrate or not and wherever you may be.… light some candles, enjoy some company and be kind to […]
With a grand opening and a 20% discount on everything! till december 27th, Bolia opened it’s first store in Amsterdam and the Netherlands. You have to believe me if I say the team build up the store in only two weeks and the result is pretty amazing! Two floors of affordable Scandinavian design and a […]
Mandalight by Michou van Gennep Remember when I posted about my new Qazqa lamp and asked you to join in or nominate a designer for the Qazqa quest 2016? Have a look here if you missed it and to see the pictures I made at home. Since then a lot of Dutch and international designers have […]
For this giveaway I teamed up with Functionals, a company with a collection that really fits my idea of elegant simplicity! I am pretty sure you will know a few of the well known products that were especially designed for them, and I guess their Lloyd tables or Wendela Chairs are two of the many […]
I really love the white and the concrete walls at my home, but some years ago the long wall in my living used to be grey, something I really loved by then. I used to have several pictures and artworks hanging on the wall and the two besta cabinets that I still use today to display […]
With less then 20 days left of 2015 it’s almost time to look back, it has been a good year and I enjoyed ‘almost’ every minute of it. One of the things I really loved and am really thankful for were the opportunities I got to travel to different countries. I am still dreaming of […]
Bokrijk is an open-air museum in the Flemish Limburg region and with over 100 historical houses it offers a sneak peek into the lifes people used to live in the past. For many years, the museum supported the development of skills related to handicrafts, techniques and their applications. In the museum and under the name […]
Last year Thonet opened it’s first Concept Gallery in Amsterdam and when meeting Peter Thonet, a fith generation family member of the Thonet family, I asked him about his favourite piece of the collection. He told me he still loves the bentwood chairs and showed me his favourite, the Thonet 209 armchair. Some weeks ago I had […]