Embracing Ageing | Birgitta de Vos at Raw Materials

Inspired by the Japanese Mono-ha and Wabi Sabi, and as a counter reaction to a cultural and social environment of more and more visual and digital daily input, Birgitta de Vos made these weathered, worn and rusted works. I couldn’t think of a better store to exhibit her work then Raw Materials in at the […]

A raw and industrial apartment in Copenhagen

I would love you to have a look at this raw and industrial apartment in Copenhagen, the home of Inge-Hanne Draw Anderson and her husband who bought this apartment in the modernized shipyard building Torpedohallen at Holmen 6 years ago. I can imagine they love it as it has everything I like, from the open […]

Rick Owens New York City store

Being a huge admirer of the Milan store of Rick Owens I love to share some pictures of the new New York Store at 30 Howard Street that recently opened it’s doors. Just like in Milan we see lots of concrete and even more minimalistic white, which is also my favourite combination. The New York […]

How to make a picture frame with an industrial look | DIY

I got some questions about the object on my wall when showing the aluminium poster I got made by Profotonet the other day: A holiday memorie printed by Profotonet The ‘picture frame’ hanging next to it is made from a metal tray I bought at a Sissy Boy market some time ago and used to burn candles in during […]

An industrial home by architect Johan Israelson

It’s nearly 5 years ago I wrote a blogpost about the home of Johan Israelson, I am a huge fan of his style and the first home I blogged about had some amazing rooms. I am pretty sure that if you love a brut concrete and industrial vibe you must have seen the pictures, as […]

A raw and concrete family home in Denmark

When Gitte and her husband asked architect Sebastian Schroers to design their family dream home, most of all they wanted it to have an unique character. The home build out of concrete, wood and glass is a beautiful raw base for their furniture and ever changing collection of home accessories collected from their own store, […]

Drift by Fernando Mastrangelo

One of the moments I can think of how cool it would be to have a really big home… I would certainly have space for this beautiful raw bench made out of cement by Brooklyn based Fernando Mastrangelo, more at Wallpaper magazine about this and other heavy pieces shown at Art Gèneve by Paris design […]

An industrial dream home X a steel room divider by vtwonen & a DIY

If you are a regular reader of Vosgesparis you might have seen me talking about Dutch interiors magazine vtwonen before, in Holland we do not only have the magazine but also a makeover show on television made by the stylists of the magazine together with a tv presenter. I love to watch the program and thought I’d […]

A contemporary loft in an old sugar refinery | Standard Studio

Situated on Bloemgracht one of the beautiful canals at the Amsterdam Jordaan area this canal house which dates from 1752, and used to be a sugar refinery two and a half centuries ago is renovated into a contemporary loft by Standard Studio. Standard Studio, an architecture and interior design firm from Amsterdam, did the full renovation […]

Industrial minimalism | pictures from my home

From the minute I used this table for my Christmas decorations, I knew I loved to keep it a bit longer in the living. It’s a relative simple metal table I bought in the sale some time ago for my home office, proving all things simple and minimalistic always work for me! Actually I wish […]

Raw Spartan | The industrial home of a Rick Owens fan

When looking at the 140 m2 apartment in the middle of Copenhagen of Swedish stylist Ingeborg Wolf and Claus Larsen many people say it has a New York style, Ingeborg herself is more inspired by the Raw romance of some Parisian apartments. Although I do not own anything designed by Rick Owens, simply because I […]

Be Bold | Matthijs Wateler Art at AnoukB

Matthijs Wateler created some iconic wall pieces using a mix innovative materials and traditional craft techniques. These pictures are made at AnoukB in Haarlem, more about Matthijs and his work at his website Matthijs Wateler pictures ©Anouk De Kleermaeker | portret picture by AnoukB