Christmas magic inspirations



So this is Christmas and what have you done,
Another year over, a new one just begun.
And so this is Christmas, I hope you have fun,
The near and the dear ones, the old and the young.

A very merry Christmas and a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one without any fears.
And so this is Christmas for weak and for strong,
The rich and the poor ones, the road is so long.

And so happy Christmas for black and for white
For the yellow and red ones let's stop all the fights.
A very merry Christmas and a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one without any fear.

[John Lennon]

I WISH YOU ALL A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Home & Delicious: interiors and lifestyle in Iceland


New issue of Islandic Interior and lifestyle magazine Home and Delicious is now out. Interesting reading with lots of tips, an interview of Dutch designer  AnoukB and some gnummy recipe for the upcoming holidays!


 Via

Vintage jewellery from Barcelona


Last weekend the independent designer fair took place in Barcelona, El Festivalet. There are some great designers out there, believe me. These necklaces are an example: they belong to Aprés Sky, the line of accessories of Lucia Vergara, a designer based in Barcelona. Après Ski is a brand that identifies with the vintage aesthetic, original, special and unique look, and so most of her pieces are actually born of old materials, from the 40s to 80s. Golden brass and resin pieces, beads or antique fabrics found in Europe and intervened for their design and hand-glazed, all with craftsmanship, offering a look between the naive and romantic, casual and modern, always in limited editions.You can have a look of Lucia's work here and, if you have fallen in love as much as I did, here is the link were you can go for shopping!




Our minimal Xmas decorations

We are so late with our Xmas decorations I feel I'll manage to get them done and it will be the 24th of December already!  I've been a fan of Chistmas projects since I was a child, so the idea to make a diy Xmas came out quite easily: I decided for minimal paper decor and here they are my first stars! It was meant to be an experiment by re-using the black paper I had at home but I like it so much ... I'm such a black and white addict ...
Here it is the link for the tutorial I used to make the paper stars.

Picture via my Instagram.

Inspired: Petra Bindel's Christmas



I've just spotted these beautiful pictures taken by Swedish photographer Petra Bindel for Elle Interior Sweden. The image above is like my ideal Xmas room ..



Living in a old factory in Denmark


   


The lead designer of Vipp, Morten Bo Jensen,  lives in this former factory of the pencil brand « Viking » in Denmark with his partner Kristina. I love the wooden floor and the basic colour scheme they used.

 





Design: An everlasting love story at Moma


Would you ever believe that behind the most iconic rubbish bin there's actually a love story? I was very surprise to read the story behind Vipp, selected not once but twice by MoMA in New York, both in its original version from 1939, as well as the updated version which is on the market today. 

The Vipp story begins one spring Sunday in 1931 when 17-year-old Holger Nielsen wins a car in a lottery at the local football stadium. Holger loves cars but has no driving licence, and he therefore decides to sell the car and invest in a metal lathe. This marks the beginning of Holger’s metal factory where, a few years later, he creates a product that will become famous around the world: the Vipp pedal bin.

The year is 1939 - Holger Nielsen and Marie Axelsen have just married. A trained hairdresser, Marie decides to open her own salon. Money is tight so Marie asks her husband to help furnish the salon with, among other things, a practical rubbish bin. After spending many days labouring in his workshop, Holger is ready to show Marie his Vipp pedal bin – and she is delighted with the result. Originally, the Vipp bin was intended for Marie only. However, many wives of doctors and dentists have their hair done at Marie’s salon and find the Vipp bin perfect for their husbands’ clinics, particularly in light of its practical and sturdy design. Thus the pedal bin soon becomes a permanent feature of Danish clinics.

The Vipp pedal bin has been only marginally improved since 1939 and it's nowadays a must-have for any lover of the Scandinavian style. You can see here both the iconic version as well as the new one.


Source Vipp.

Living in a Gallery in Barcelona




My first post after 5 weeks needed to be a special one and this why I chose to show this very peculiar space in Barcelona: half-way between a home and a gallery, the atmosphere that comes out from this house is full of energy and light.
The Openhouse Project -  that's how it's called - started with the idea of Mari luz Vidal and Andrew Trotter to open their home to show and share their photographic and gastronomic projects in a way which is more personal and intimate. Openhouse Project Magazine is meant as a common space for all the people who share the same ideas. Isn't it a great idea?