Author Archives: Malin Miller

  • Wabi -Sabi

    No I’m not talking Sushi and you haven’t clicked on a food blog;  this is a Japanese term for a decorating  style that is becoming more and more popular between interior designers. It stands for beauty in imperfection. Wabi means rustic simpleness, purity and low key elegance, Sabi is the beauty of the patina an …

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  • Design week Vienna

    I happened to be in Vienna, when their annual Vienna design Week was going on last week. I grabbed a program and tried to find some spare time between my meetings. One of the events I went to was at the dynasty Lobmeyr’s shop a glasscompany established in Vienna since the beginning of the 19th …

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  • Button 1

    You were many who liked this wonderful chair “Button” at the Design Days.  The name comes from the fact that the inspiration of the chair is the end of a man’s shirt with a cufflink! It gives it an unique look and you who sat in it knows how incredible comfortable it is! It gets …

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  • Design Days 2012 Lausanne

    A big thanks to everyone who passed by the PopUpStore at the Design Days, DesignMaliN was a great success thanks to you all. Hope to see you next year at the Design Days version in Geneva.

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  • Follow the arrow!

    I think we can all agree that it’s always a trick to get some great hangers. This great design by Gustaf Hallen, becomes a graphic pattern on your wall when you’re not using it! That’s when design is at it’s best functional and great looking! Did you realize you have 3 hanging places on the …

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  • I’m singing in the rain……….

    Yes it’s poring down today. So I chose the perfect object from my Pop Up store With much humour the umbrella stand is called Mary P!  The designer Eva Schildt has created a very artful and a beautiful object as an umbrella stand. The idea with the sponge sucking up the water is just brilliant …

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  • DesignDays 2012 in Lausanne

    DesignDays is beginning next week on the 27th of September. It’s 4 days of buzzing design. I will be there among other exhibitors of great design and great speakers as for example Piero Lissoni on the 26th of September and Giulio Cappellini on the 28th of September, not to miss! This week on my blog …

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  • I don’t know if it is autum coming up or what! But I am really  into the plumb color right now! It’s such a deep and wonderful hue. I am actually suggesting it in a customer’s home, where they have a lot of white, and to use the plumb color as an accent color is …

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  • The other day  I went to ECAL in Lausanne (Lausanne’s design academy) to see the space I’m gonna be using to put up a Pop Up design store in September during the designdays in Lausanne. It’s a cool building a little bit Mondriani inspired! Walking around in the building I stumble over these wonderful lamps …

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  • It’s In to be Out!

    Yes I suppose the summer is here and I think that one of the wonderful things we associate with summer is to sit outside; the breakfast tastes so much better  and to see the sunset  in the evening what a wonderful way to finish the day. But despite the fact that it’s great to sit …

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  • Between 3 walls…

    Wallpaper  is very high fashion right now. However, I know from different clients when I’m proposing it they get pretty nervous.  It can be a bold step to take depending of the graphic and color you’re choosing and wallpaper still have this word hanging onto it “grandma”.  But there is one place in your home …

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  • Make a Tweet

    No I don’t have a tweet account where you could tweet me, I am actually making an allusion to the real tweet, i.e. the sound of a bird!  The great sound of  spring. I wish I would have taken in more of my father’s knowledge of recognising all the different birds only by their sound. …

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  • Dirty Laundry

    When did you use a laundry pin the last time? I bet it was in  1970 something……… Actually I haven’t eaven seen one in a while you know the wooden ones with a spring on it. Yes like the one Claes Oldenburg made for the town of Philadelphia in 1976. As they have been outconcurred …

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  • B,B,C

    as in Brass, Bronze and Copper is the hottest trend this spring.  The first question that comes into my mind when thinking about these 3 different? materials is what is the difference? Curious as I am I had to look it up. So here comes a quick lesson in chemistry! Brass is an alloy of …

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  • P as in Pastel and Pale!

    After having attended the Stockholm’s furniture fair in February I spotted a few trends and one of them is that  pastel is back in town! It’s an easy color to live with as it is just a hint of color! And as spring is on its’ way it is easy to fall into it too! …

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  • Atelier Oï in Geneva

    Last night I went to the opening of the Oi-Phorique exhibition at Teo Jacob in Geneva. The famous Swiss trio of designers called Atelier Oi had done one of their installations. It’s an installation made in 3 parts, the movement, the effects of reflection and music. photo:NordicRooms The interesting part doing this kind of movement …

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  • The Lady of Lace

    One of my  readers sent me some pictures of Cal Lane’s work and I fell in love with it at first sight. What an incredible work! So I wanted to share her work with you. Cal Lane a Canadian native sculptor and welder artist. She turns the most banal daily objects into pure beauty by …

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  • Estelle is her name……..

    and her is the Swedish princess born yesterday. She is the daughter of the Swedish Crown princess Victoria. All the bakeries in Sweden were selling like crazy the traditional Swedish “princess cake” you see on the picture, seeing it I quite long for one, with marzipan on top and sponge cake with marmalade in between …

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  • Happy Valentine’s Day!

    I just came home from a wonderful week of skiing and had put this post on publish for Valentine’s Day, but at my disappointment I just realized that the system for some reason hadn’t recorded it! So here it comes a few days later but hay shouldn’t it be Valentine’s day everyday??? Perhaps the most …

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  • Let’s stay in bed!

    Siberia has taken over Switzerland at the moment. It’s freeezzzing cold (but beautiful). This morning the temperature said -12C i.e. 10F for my American friends. So it’s the perfect excuse to stay in bed with a good book! But when you think about it it’s always nicer to go into a bed that’s inviting. So …

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