At the Friday Late at V&A yesterday.

The theme was: De/Constructing Architecture: Exploring the interplay between architecture and the visual arts. 

By rotating a handle attached to this huge roll, you would pull our the guide to the Heatherwick Studio exhibition, and tear it off! Brilliant idea. 

Saw this house in Portobello Road yesterday - there was something about it that struck me and I had to stop and admire the harmony going on here. Everything about this house feels at peace, the house looks so cosy. The warm purple and the flowers draping on the front, as well as the subtle grey of the front door and windows - all fit perfectly with the symmetrical design of the house. Basically I love this house-front, from colors to architecture!

I can only imagine how beautiful it must be inside… 

The coolest and most original ‘flower pot/vase’ (if you can call this one) I have ever seen! I spotted this today outside a home-ware store near my place here in Stockholm. I had to stop and photograph it as I’d never seen anything like this. A great way to recycle an old + unwanted chair, although it will occupy lots of space if you only have a varanda at home!

A visit to Jacksons Design store

My Dad was visiting last weekend, and as two great admirers of Scandinavian design and furniture, we went to visit the well known Jacksons store on Sibyllegatan 53, in Östermalm. 

They have the most amazing furnitre pieces from some of my favorite furniture designers like Arne Jacobsen and Alvar Aalto. If you are an interior design fanatic like me, you will love this store, with some of the most beautiful Scandinavian classics on show. 

I took these pictures of the two white chairs and table beneath the two lamps at the entrance, as I thought they were very well aesthetically positioned. They also had this old bicycle on the window show front, which I thought was really cool. Some eye candy for now… I hope to one day earn enough money to buy at least one chair / sofa for my own place.  

Recently I came across this beautiful hairdresser shop-front here in Stockholm: UNIK.  I really loved how the old typography & style of the words Frisör (meaning hairdresser in Swedish) stand above the front entrance.

I don’t know if it was already there before UNIK, but either way I was really drawn to the contrast between the old and the new styles. In fact what I saw first was the word Frisör, staring at me as I was crossing the road. I had to stop and take a picture.

Ohhh.. beautiful Stockholm! 

Bookseat : Book + Seat.

Could the idea be more cross functional? Love this, and you don’t have to walk too far to reach a book you are too lazy to get up to get! Let’s hope it is comfortable though. By Fishbol.

jonwithabullet:

Bookseat by Fishbol Atelier

The Bookseat, is a simple bookcase that playfully curves and becomes a seat. The creative design is a response to the advent of multifunctional spaces in today’s urban living.

Beautiful Design Studio from Singapore

I found this awesome studio based in Singapore today, Studio Juju.

“Established in 2009 by Timo Wong and Priscilla Lui, studio juju is a design partnership based in Singapore. The studio possesses keen interest in applying design methods and sensibilities in products, spaces, and art direction.” Their simplicity, elegance, and livelihood translated through projects on their website, is so wonderful.       

Priscilla & Timo.

What Studio Juju does:

• Product Design & Development
• Spaces
• Furniture
• Conceptual & Research

I especially like their AT Lamps, which i’ve spotted before in some interior design blogs, seen below.  

They’ve recently been featured on The Wall Street Journal blog.

Been a while since I posted some interior stuff that I love, feels good to find a company and identity I love again.

Freelancing for COCONG exhibition: Second client meeting

Today was the second meeting with Elise Grosse regarding my designs for their exhibition website. She is one of the architects involved in the COCONG project - a sustainable design exhibition that will be held at Kulturhuset from May - October that I am doing the web design for.

This time it was held at Elise’s company headquarters (see photo) Habibihaus, on Hornsgatan.

Feedback was great, they are quite happy with the way I translated their requests and wishes into a possible design for their website. For my first freelance project of this sort, I was very encouraged, especially as the designers have been great people to collaborate with. After feedback from Elise and some of her co-workers, I now have some changes and tweaks to make until this Friday, when we will show the designs and logo to Kulturhuset, the major supporter of this project, so that shall be exciting!

More info on the designs and exhibition to come soon :) 

Bird Nest Inspired Bed via Woohome

Found this today. Like the concept of a social/playing area for kids. Occupies too much space though!

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Woohomes main mission here on woohome is to inspire you, to showcase the best creative products and designs including mordern furniture. Came across it today on StumbleUpon and really liked it. 

Sustainable design and meeting at Kulturhuset today

Today was my first client meeting at Kulturhuset, the official partner and where the venue will be held for the sustainable design exhibition I am doing the web design/concept for. (More details on the exhibition to follow soon.)

Both Habibihus & Apparat - the interior designers &architects pioneering this exhibition -  were also present at the meeting today. Very interesting to ‘shadow’ and see what a meeting for an exhibition of this scale - running for 5months - includes.

After the meeting me and Elise ran through some of the designs, and we sat down in the ‘Ekoteket’ cafe/restaurant area on the 3rd floor of the Kulturhuset. This is a stunning space that is updated every month with sustainable furniture designs, and where there are weekly talks and discussions about sustainable design. I have to say the color green is evidently predominant in this space, and I love that! It is a very inspirational space to be in, with a beautiful view of Stockholm of course. I include some photos here of my favorite pieces displayed, which coincidentally, some of them I saw displayed at Stockholm Furniture Fair that I posted on here too.

I’m so happy to be feeding my hunger and passion for beautiful interior design exploration, combined with design & strategy with this great freelance opportunity. 

Another Interior Design gem in Stockholm: Vurma Caffé

So, as you may have noticed, I am pretty obsessed at taking pictures of every beautifully decorated establishment/caffe/restaurant/ shop that I find. In Stockholm there are many of these places, as you can imagine. Design here is stunning, and I love the singularity of many of the caffes and restaurants, due to their unique exquisite taste in architecture and interiors.

I think my last recorded interior design find on my Blog, was Saturnus caffé, back in September.

This weekend my friend Giulia took me to Vurma on Birger Jarlsgatan 36, and I thank her for showing me and taking me to all these nice places that I haven’t found yet. I had a super tasty falafel salad.

So here goes some photos I took of the caffe. My favorite part is the vibrant jade colored walls, and the romantic colorful flowered wallpaper. I ♡♡ wallpapers.

The cosy coffee corner

The beautiful wallpaper setting

View to the main table-sitting area & bar once you enter

View from the other sitting area, towards to the bar

One of the toilets at Vurma

Smells like comfy spring in this room. Love the high ceilings, white brick walls, rustic floor, contrasting with the vivid color scheme of the bed linen & lamp.

(via notmybeautifulhome)