Through Homebug I found out about these Orla Kiely ‘design packages’. British company Luxe Interior offer these packages to individuals, developers, investors and hoteliers in Dubai.

I am not too fond of the idea of standardising interiors with design packages. It leaves little room for individuality and creativity and every interior will look very similar. […]

Check out the beautiful work from Jorine Oosterhoff! This Dutch designer mainly works with porcelain and ceramics for her own label JORINE. She lets her products become characters, like individual things that seem to live their own life. They have their own identity and personality. Sometimes they seem to come from a fairytale-world.
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FTF Design Studio is the furniture line of Roseann Repetti and her husband, architect West Chin. This New York based couple has designed and decorated many celebrities’ homes. Reacting to the overall enthusiasm they received from their clients and peers, West and Roseann decided to launch a home line created for their private clients to […]

The MoMA store is one of my favourite stores to browse trough. They have such a great collection of classic modern and cutting edge design products for adults and kids. With their convenient gift ideas section you can always find a perfect gift for any occasion. Above and below you can see some of my […]

Darrin Wilson, one of the founders of Beearo, sent me an email about their latest product. Beearo has fused art and engineering to create removable, self-adhesive real-wood veneers which enable homeowners to design highly-resolved, dramatic environments quickly and efficiently. With these wall sculptures you can instantly transform the look of a room.

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The Concrete Light is made of partially transparent concrete. It is this unique combination of concrete and light that inspired Dutch designer Marieke Rongen to design this lampshade. By turning on the light, little spots of light appear in the concrete. The shape of the lampshade descends from traditional lampshades, but in combination with these […]

I love, love, LOVE this design! There are a lot of people who haven’t got smoke detectors in their homes because these devices are so ugly. The Chick-a-Dee is anything but ugly! This smoke detector, designed by Louise van der Veld, is disguised as an adorable bird that starts squeaking when sensing smoke. […]

For some weekend inspiration, I want to share with you these images of this gorgeous house in Sussex, United Kingdom. I remember seeing this house in a British magazine a while ago. I saved the article as I especially loved the kitchen. And of course those classic Saarinen tulip chairs… I also love the idea […]

The Windowseat Lounge, designed by Mike & Maaike, is suitable for both public and private spaces. It is designed as a comfortable refuge from the hustle and bustle of lobbies, airports or busy home environments. By taking architectural elements (walls and ceiling) and applying them to a chair, the San Fransisco designers have explored the […]

I received lots of entries in reaction to the Naketano contest that I organised last week. I asked you to tell me who had designed the chair featured in the post. The chair was the Butterfly Chair, also called the B.K.F. Chair, designed by the “Grupo Austral” (designers Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy, Antonio Bonet and Juan Kurchan) […]

Today is the first day of summer (in this part of the world)! I hope you all have a wonderful summer time. Here are some images to get in the mood. Those gorgeous ’summery’ colours cerntainly work for me!
The cotton fabric is Habanera from Designers Guild (top left image). The ceramic plates are from Brigitte […]

Marcel Wanders has designed some couches for Dutch design label moooi. I especially like the fabric of Moooi Boutique sofa, New York (top image). The red couch is Moooi Boutique sofa, Diary.

This gorgeous tablecloth, LET’S TALK, is designed by Karijn Otjes from The Netherlands. The heavy fabric has a 18th century feel but the abstract pattern is modern. On the tablecloth you can find questions (in Dutch) about friendship, love and life in general. By reading or pointing out these questions, interesting discussions can be initiated […]

Designers from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland, showed their perception of a hotel at the Milan Design Week 2007. This interesting exhibition named helsinki hotel is exploring contemporary living, hotel environment and Finnish culture through space, objects and events. Besides being an exhibition it also serves as a social meeting place. […]

I love the multifunctional aspect of the itbox. This practical transformable piece of furniture can be modified to suit the needs of any user or any room. It is available in a range of eleven different sizes and seven different colors that can be freely combined, to suit home or office, in any number of […]

The scandinavian style pattern gives a vintage feel to these storage tins from IKEA. TRIPP is available as a set of 3 tins for 2.95 euro.

5,084,000,000 people 5,360 pages 3,700 years 243 countries 7 books 1 shelf. Shelf JUXTAPOSED: Religion brings the world’s most influential religious texts together and presents on the same level, their coexistence acknowledged and celebrated. This work of art, the first in a series of Juxtaposed curated bookshelves for blankblank, is created by San Francisco designers […]

I had not heard from Leif. design park before but I am glad to have found them. Their designs are just amazing! Leif. design park is a design team based in Japan, consisting of Takashi Ueno and Mamoru Naito and Keizaburo Honda. Their main work is widely ranged from interior design to art and industrial […]

Also on display at the Milan Furniture Fair 2007 were these ‘jewellery drawers’ and ‘jewellery lamp’ by Swedish designer Malin Lundmark. The designs are part of the project ”As if fantasy was reality”; a project which consists of products where fantasy has become reality. Malin lives in Stockholm, Sweden, where she works with functional design, […]

By (happy!) accident I found Karin’s Etsy shop, Stiksel. Karin is a graphic designer from Rotterdam, The Netherlands, who loves to create all kind of things, photographs, textiles, collages etc. She likes to surround herself with beautiful supplies and start creating, inspired by the material and the textures. All items in her beautiful Etsy shop […]