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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Happy (Mid) Summer
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Mirror Mirror upon the wall tell me who is the best Interior Designor! Part II
Petra Blaisse is a Dutch designer who investigates in new and ambitious ways for interior design. Her company Inside Outside specializes in spatial, light filtering or acoustic objects such as curtains. Go to her website to see her beautiful projects insideoutside. Especially check out the Mercedes Benz museum she did textured walls very unique and …
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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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Cut it Out!
I do not really know why but I have always had an attraction towards cut outs in paper. Due to the incredible techniques we can use today this ancient art form goes beyond the paper. Rob Ryan is a wonderful English artist who stays true to his art form but with his humour gives it …
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280 Boulevard Michelet,Marseille, France
If you ask a taxi driver to take you to this adress in Marseille this summer he will take you to the Radiant City designed by the architect Le Courbusier built between 19545-1952. Between 15 July-15 August you can see these pieces designed by the marvelous French design duo the Bouroullec Brothers exhibited in an appartment. …
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Rocking in New Orleans………..
If you wondered where I’ve gone I disappeared down south for a week and visited the gorgeous New Orleans, in the following pictures you can admire some incredible buildings from this town. All these houses just make you feel like rocking on a porch. Here comes some modern versions of the ever so loved Rocking Chair. …
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Before and After
We who are all passionate about interior design we all love Before and After projects. I will come up with some now and then. This is a wonderful little house quite unpretentious from the beginning but in the good hands of this young couple it turned into a little jewel. Check it out! Ok what …
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Louise Bourgeois
Don’t we all have some kind of list back in our heads of famous persons whom we would like to sit down with and really meet? Well on my list Louise Bourgeois was one of them. She passed away this week 98 years old so I suppose it will never happen! This French-American artist and …
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Summer, kids, summer, kids
Well I suppose the official day of summer according the calendar is something around the 20th of June. But for me it is really this week the weather is hot and the kids are out from school in 2 days. Summer for me when it comes to interior design is really bringing nature closer to …
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Kiss me! and I’ll become your designer Prince
As we all know Scandinavia is a heaven for design and the design fever has eaven gone up all the way to the royalties! In Sweden our Prince Carl Philip is trying to show his artistic sides not only in photography but also in design. I have a feeling of deja vu though seeing this …
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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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Wall, if only you could talk…………..
I love poetry. And now with the trend of stickers as wall decors you can have your favourite phrases, expressions, poems etc. directly on your wall. The famous hotel Puerta de America erected in 2005 in Madrid by the French architect Jean Nouvel took it even further. It is a very intriguing building not only due …
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Go Lego Go!
Listening to the radio this morning they said that the Danish company LEGO had gone up 60% in sales this year I wonder if it is due to these guys…….The company LEGO has certified, for the moment, 9 LEGO professionals around the world. And right now there is an exhibition of one of them here …
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Olé! It’s summer
I hope you have summer too, here it is in its90’s (30’s Celsius) and sooooooo humid. So let’s go to the beach and cool off…….. Now you can get those wonderful flamenco evenings right on your porch! The designer is the owner of Santa Barbara Designs Fred Gayward, who specializes in umbrellas. www.sbumbrella.comI just love …
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The Farnsworth House
Today the champagne is popping in the Miller’s house as I just became an official Docent of the Farnsworth House! I’ll give you the definition of a docent as many people have asked me what is that? A person who is a knowledgeable guide, esp. one who conducts visitors through a museum and delivers a commentary on …
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Powerful photographies
The other day I went through old pictures and I landed on a few taken from a photo exhibition in Madrid a few years ago. I remember coming out from the exhibition completely numbed. The huge size of the pictures, black and white, with these bodies telling you their life stories via their tattoos were …
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Love is in the air!
May, June are wedding months aren’t they? Actually, me and my husband looked at eachother yesterday and realised – “isn’t it our wedding anniversary today”! well too late we were too tired after the kids soccer, ballet etc for whatever celebration, so the champagne is still in the fridge! Anyway if you are heading for …
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Furnitures or collectible art pieces?
I suppose as a furniture designer at the end of the day you get kind of bored making another new sofa, chair or whatever on the market. You want to challenge yourself and your public and I would say that these pieces certainly have. They are pushing the limit, is it a piece of furniture …
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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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