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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We have been styling, photographing, knitting (even the boys gave it a try!) making terrariums, using our phones to tweet and Instagram and wrote numerous blogposts last month… this is how we work. Travelling together, sharing one big apartment, meeting up with brands and visiting amazing designers is what I love most about being part of Design Bloggers […]
While visiting Milan earlier this month I was invited at the home of Paola Navone for a private party to celebrate the launch of the new wallpaper collection she and Daniel Rozensztroch’s (art director of Merci) designed in cooperation with NLXL. Have a look at this previous blogpost to get a sneak peek of the collection. During design week Paola […]
Aesthetes with a sense for the small details will love Stropp, a minimalistic leather strap strap that makes storage a bit more beautiful. I love how in the picture above different coloured straps are combined with new copper mirror ‘view’. With it’s 5mm frame and matte surface this mirror is another minimalistic item of the […]
With this last blogpost I am closing my Iceland trip, I fell in love with this country and hope to come back for next year’s DesignMarch or maybe even earlier and experience this magical country during Summer! To find out more about Iceland design and designers, you can find all blogposts under the hashtag #designmarch After […]
The rest of the week will be pretty much all about travelling, I have seen so many nice projects in Milan that I can’t even decide what to show or not on the blog…..but first I still got some things to share with you in two blogposts today, from my trip to Iceland, where I […]
Inspiration from the Minimalist home, daily objects photographed in a minimal setting… gotta love this, check out the blog for more pictures. pictures © The Minimalist