There is something that is really annoying in interior design and that is all the electrical cords we need to deal with. It’s long and ugly and when shooting photos you really need to be careful to get them out of the picture. If only we could go cordless as the Internet! Well for the …
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Cut the cords!
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Shouldn’t it be Earth Day every day?!
I must admit I wasn’t really aware that we had an “Earth Day” I got reminded about it by my daughter who had seen the commercial of Walt Disney’s latest movie “Cats in Africa” coming out on Earth Day and she wanted to go and see it! Well seems like Peoria is not on the …
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A Guiness please!
I don’t think there is a national day in the world that is celebrated so much between different nationalities as the St. Patricks day! Where ever I have lived the 17th of March is celebrated with a guiness in all the bars and pubs you can found. I thought I make a selection of some …
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Maison & Objet Paris 2011
Ill. Summerbelle Maison & Objet is the yearly Interior Design fair in Paris here are some picks from the years’ fair in January. The world famous porcelain maker firm Lladro from Spain, Valencia updated themselves via this new collection called Metropolis. They have actually created a new department called Lladro atelier with the Spanish designer …
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Hollywood Glamour Part III
Guess which actress lives in this house in Santa Monica, California? She won an Oscar for her performance in “Prizzi’s Honor” 1985. OK another clue, was married to the famous American sculptor Robert Graham yes got it? OK I’ll give it to you it’s Anjelica Huston! This very interesting house was designed by her husband for …
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Let it Rock’n Roll
This week Nordic Rooms is getting Glamorous a la Hollywood as the Oscars are on their way this upcoming Sunday. And who wouldn’t be more suitable to start out with than the most sexy and glamorous of them all Lenny Kravitz. He is a real artist in the sense that he is breaking his own …
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Pleat that Pleat!
Origami (Japanese Kami-paper and Ori-fold) as we all know this beautiful Japanese art of folding paper started out in the 17th century. You can do what you want with the paper but there is one rule No glue allowed! It has come back lately and in every kid store you can buy some beautiful papers to …
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The weather here has been crazy, last night we had a hit of the sever snow blizzard with thunder and lightning how crazy isn’t that! As I can’t go to work today everything is closed down schools etc. I have taken time to read my fellow bloggers. On trendenser I found an interesting sight to some …
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The coolest cookies ever!
Between bloggers we all have our favourite blogsites and one of mine is DesignSponge. Recently she blogged about the coolest cookies ever made by Kim Neill a freelance graphic designer. Inspired by her collection of Pantone chips she went ahead and made some Royal icing in all the colors. And with an edible pen marked …
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Keep that fire going
I think we all have in mind that after Christmas spring is coming. But it doesn’t matter how hard we wish for it, it still will take some time until we will hear twittering and see some green. And with minus still going on in the temperatures we sure need to keep that fire going. …
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I wish you all out there the very best for the new year 2011. Let’s hope it will be an interesting design year, the Formex Fair end January in Stockholm is a good one with some great designs always coming out of it. I will report about that soon. My greetings are coming to you from Mexico …
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Give me that sCrap!
These tools should be a normal daily use for a furniture designer but I am not sure it is any more in the computerized world of design we are living in today. But for the Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek it sure is. I think he would be completely lost without them. Working with waste …
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Happy (Mid) Summer
Don’t worry I have not abandoned my blog but am going to Sweden for the summer so will be back on my blog within a week. Talk to ya all then /Malin
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Mirror Mirror upon the wall tell me who is the best Interior Designor!
For some reason we all love those top 10 lists, best dressed, best looking, worst looking, the architect of the year etc. I stumbled over a list of the best Interior Designers and picked these guys whom I find have a wow factor and very different styles and way of working between them. If you …
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IKEA etc……….
I think we all have some love and hate relationship to the famous IKEA store. Is there any one out there that doesn’t have anything from IKEA ? It might not be a furniture, perhaps a plant, bulb a candle! How many times haven’t I said to myself especially living abroad OK I’ll go to IKEA and by …
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Eat It!
Don’t you just want to cut your knife into these cushions? No one likes breadcrumbs in your bed but with these I think you are pretty safe! This remarkable lamp “Less lamp” by a Spanish designer Jordi Canudas Faura needs your intervention to actually become a lamp……….. It comes with this special designed hammer and …
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Stockholm Design House in Chicago
Stockholm Design House is a great “melting pot” of designers. This Swedish company is always on the look for something new in contemporary design with a Scandinavian look. They now have more than 60 designers working independently for them. They started out in 1992 and have come out with some iconic design pieces …
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