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easter letters

This year I will send at least 3 easter letters.
Here is a collection of different templates for inspiration

learn about architecture

Some time ago I received a book about architecture. Build, draw and learn - a book where you explore the great ways of architecture for you and together with your family.
A great book for those of us that would like to know more about architecture or would like to be a architect, this is a great book to start with.

The book takes you though existing architectural masterpieces and architects work. You are introduced to a wide scale of product that architects uses in their every day modeling and you are challenged to make your own architectural exercises.

You can find more informatione at:ABC forlag.

tamed nature - a wreath for the outdoor and for christmas

Every year so many wreath are made to welcome your guest at the door steps. Wreath take so many forms, colors and designs. These wreath are made about 7 years ago, still looking good - if made today the styling might have been different and the wreath less symetrik.

1+2 (larch branches with cones and colored eukokalupus) 3+4 (larch branches, atlasceder and moss) 5+6 (larch branches with cones, ligustrum berries, colored eukokalupus and moss)

(Photo: Sofie Helsted)

arrange your ice cream

A whole lot of years back Sofie (the photographer) and I had the opportunity to style and inspire parents to make playful ice cream decoration for birthdays or friday "candy" for a danish kids magazine. A timeless idea, where you need ice cream of various flavours and one or more of the following ingredients: sprinkles, candy, desiccated coconut with colour, ice cream cones and fruits. (Photo: Sofie Helsted) 

inspiration for the kids room

Go etnic or wild with designs by Anatology, here from Maison & Object fall 2014. choose new colors for the kids room - love the dark teal seen at BonTon in Paris.

glimse from the "hay talent award"

When I arrived at Formland this summer – I had a pleasant surprise when I entered the hall where the essence of Hay talent award was situated.
33 talented designers were displaying their design, in a different and very inspiring way. Each design had its own house. The house had two sections, one where the design was displayed, and in the other end a sleeping and work area.  Each plywood house came with a bed, desk, duvet covers, lamp, chair, hanger and a shelf  (all HAY design)
How the designer and in some case designers, wanted to display and style their house was up to them. The result was apart of amazing new designs, also a great way of styling a small home and small workspaces.
During the 4 days long fair the designers lived at the fair in “their houses”.

1. example of the house, 2-3. Charlotte Kristine Kristiansen, 4. great desk space, 5. Stine Keinicke Jensen, 6-7. Studio Fem, 8-10. Renaud Defransesco & Cyrill Verdon 11-15. One of the winners: Hannah Waldron, for her woven tapestry: Hand in Cloud 16. the other winner: Joel Hoff, for his industrial Switch Light.

mobile simplicity

Well - it has been quiet at the blog - sorry for that. Now it is summer and I hope that I will been back in september with new post and energy.

For the love of simplicity - happy summer with these beautiful wooden mobiles from Fort Makers.

 

father's day ideas

Such a great idea - download the file here and see more of the great work of Mrprintables. (via:Handmade charlotte) (If you need a "FAR" - danish word for dad - for your glasses download: Far_brille)A very personal gift for father's day. And if one child, three signs and three pictures will make it unforgettable as well.

Mini kids at work with dad. source: Oh happy day.

retro furniture for playing

Sweet retro furniture for playing. Kitchen, washing machine, shelves and desk all designed and made by Macarena Bilbao. Inspired by the 1950s look and feel she started out with a kitchen for her kids - and from there it has grown into a shop. Take a closer look at the shop.

london inspiration

Albion cafe - Shoreditch, London. 
Shoreditch - gate to pop up food: freebirdburritos and Yalla-yalla amongst others.





Conran - Michelin House - Bibendum

Daylesford for lunch and inspiration. Notthing hill.Rich cheesecake from Ottolenghi



Glimpse from walking the streets of London.

a furniture for mess

Boidem is a furniture for mess and a pretty one. When I saw it in Frankfurt in the beginning of the year I must admit that I fell in love with the idea. I guess it is not a new idea to raise a basket or similar up to the ceiling, but with simple and aesthetic design it is easy to use it in a modern home with kids. Great design from the cotten rope to the wooden knob where you attach the rope.

See more of Boidem here.

team hawaii

Lovely newsletter collage "happy easter" from team Hawaii - see more of their great work

spring cleaning

The picture is lost and the blog link does not work any more :)

The last couple of days it has been all about spring cleaning at the office and in my stock. So there is empty cardboard boxes all over the place, that I until now just wanted to take to recycling. But then I visited this blog and saw these great cardboard box projects at this super blog. So I will save boxes for the easter holiday and then we can create castle out of them. Pictures from Wildflowers blog

hilma af klint

Just amasing is what I think of the svedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) a mix of colours, symbols, geometri, spiritual space, huge formats and more.
Read more about her.

(foto:lånt af louisiana.dk)

ikea ps 2014

     

IKEAs PS collection is alway something to wait for and soon there will be several news from IKEA PS 2014 near you. (In Denmark the 25 april.) Above you see some of my favorites - a balance bench I have to have for the garden for all the balancing kids. The bench immediately gave me a feeling of something I knew, it was the back of the chair, same design as the handle of a kick sledge, which is an ancient Scandinavian means of transport. :)
The garden table I would love to have, it is easy to fold and I will use it inside and outside, when guest are around.

IKEA sees this collection for people and homes in motion