Here at Vosgesparis ‘we’ are still in a Summer vibe …. with the patio connected to my living, the room feels twice as big and the fence I finally made and painted white is the best thing ever…. it allows me to open up my curtains, let the light flow in and enjoy some privacy […]
This last friday I was invited at the opening of The Loft, a beautiful evening with an intimate private dinner and party afterwards at Prinsengracht. This is the third edition, and ‘the apartment’ is fully decorated with Mr. Benjamin in mind…Mr. Benjamin is a fictive person and wandering through his home you can discover more about him… […]
When working on an article about my city guide for the vt wonen love blogs magazine, I wrote about yesterday, I decided to stay a bit closer to home instead of going downtown. The area close to the Eastern docklands where I live, is welcoming many young entrepreneurs lately. One of them are the owners of Ashes […]
With finishing almost all my blogposts about Spain last week I love to take you to my hometown this week as I have to share some great projects with you! Lets start with something I worked on almost six months ago and finally can show you this week! If you have a subscription to vtwonen […]
The good thing about our Spanish blogtour, not to mention it was one big great Sunny adventure! was that we did not only got to see showrooms of the brands that wanted to meet up with us, but many also gave us a look behind the scenes in their factories. By seeing the process before […]
Two years ago I had an interview with Spain based fashion blogger Macarena Gea, one of Spain’s most influential bloggers on fashion and architecture, at that time she was the face of the Silestone by Cosentino campagne, a brand I met in New York by then. Last month we met up again, and this time in […]
While visiting Barcelona I stayed a few nights in the beautiful Praktik Garden hotel, you might remember that amazing balconies view from the garden! Praktik hotels is a chain of beautiful design hotels all located in the city centre of Barcelona and Madrid, and on my last 2 days in Barcelona I stayed at the […]
my styling using one of the nanaimarquina carpets and a few props A bike with a colourful pile of small carpets welcomed us at the doorstep of Nani Marquina, who welcomed us for breakfast in her showroom in Barcelona. Nani daughter of Rafael Marquina, one of the pioneers of Spanish design and the creator of the […]
Just before leaving for Spain I received an email from Tivoli if I wanted to try the new Tivoli Audio MSY3+ or maybe even take it with me on vacation. I have to admit I have always been a fan of the beautiful design of the Tivoli radio and music systems, I have spot them in magazines and […]
Danish Norm Architects have teamed up with Reform, a new Danish furniture company to design a kitchen that is raw, natural and with unique materials that will patinate beautifully. Partly build out of Ikea kitchen components this will give everyone the opportunity to buy a high-end design at a reasonable price. To construct the kitchen, […]
Earlier today, and in my first blogpost about Spanish design, I shared some pictures of the atelier of Xavier Mañosa and his family. I really loved this industrial building, the raw environment, the concrete and the different ceramic and made lots of pictures. I could share a few, but decided to just share them all. Apparatu is a design studio, pottery workshop and […]
On our first day in Spain we visited Apparatu… In a huge industrial building we were welcomed by Xavier Mañosa, in the atelier he works, together with his family, on several collections for different Spanish design companies and his own collection. He explained us the ceramic process of several lamps and I was especially interested in the process […]