Online design magazine Designspotter and design shop design3000 are organising a wall-sticker design competition. Get your creative juices flowing and submit your wallsticker design! Click here to read more about this competition and here to register and upload your entry. You have to hurry up as November 23 is the closing date. Good luck! Above [...]

To celebrate the upcoming weekend I would like to show these inspiring images from IJm. Frank Visser (The Netherlands) is the founder of IJm studio. Frank considers himself a story teller. His inspiration resides in the work around him. This can be scenes from classic movies, photographs, furniture, designer clothing but also simple flea market [...]

CHOW.com, a great website for food lovers, has a feature called “upgrade your rags” in which they show the most gorgeous teatowels from eight top designers. I was very happy to see that the designs from Skinny Laminx (image above) were included in this list of the prettiest tea towels on the market! Her gorgeous [...]

With the Natural Wave, designed Byung-seok You, you can warm up coffee, tea and snacks without needing an outlet. The Natural Wave is not only functional but is also aesthetically attractive. The ceramic plate fits over an old school radiator. The heated plate keeps your drinks and snacks warm without having to use additional [...]

I am very proud and excited to announce the opening of my online shop Le Souk. I have a love for beautiful things and with my blog The Style Files I have been able to share my finds with you. With Le Souk I am not only able to show beautiful products but also provide [...]

Chris Kabel is a Dutch designer who graduated for the famous Design Academy in 2001. Since they he is responsible for many great designs. Like the 1totree lamp featured above. This beautiful lamp is made up from similar elements. The design is extendable from simple lighting to an enormous chandelier by adding more elements. Isn’t [...]

Victoria has a new regular post called ‘Unexpected Guests’ every Monday on her blog sfgirlbybay. It’s a behind the scenes look at the homes and studios of artists, crafters, bloggers and designers we all like to learn more about, kind of a ‘close-up-and-personal’ view. I want to share this with you as it is a [...]

I love these decorative drain grates from Iron Age Designs! This company does not only provides drain grates, but also decorative tree grates and other architectural castings, both standard and custom, for public and residential use. Their standard decorative trench grates fit the most widely used drain bodies and trench drain channels made by major [...]

Emma recently featured Swedish design studio TAF on her blog Emmas designblogg. Gabriella Gustafson and Mattias Ståhlbom are two architects from Stockholm working together as TAF. I was immediately drawn to their typical Scandinavion style: minimalistic and simple with lots of natural materials and basic colors.

Above and below you can see some of their project [...]

These beautiful porcelain and ceramic objects are from DMK, which is part of the Italian company Gruppo Sintesi. This brand from Milan has been recently re-launched, adding four new collections besides their Classic Collection. New shapes and materials characterize the new collections created by various young, Italian designers.

Visit their website for more information and to [...]

I recently brought back a stack of Swedish interior magazines from Stockholm. In one of the magazines I noticed the work of Kirsten Hinder. Kirsten, a photographer from Sweden, shoots the most gorgeous interior, product, people and food photos. Above and below you can find a sample of her beautiful work.

Visit Kirsten’s website to see [...]

Edward Fields was known as the carpet designer to stars like Princess Grace of Monaco and Mary Tyler Moore from the 1950s to the 1970s. The company of this late designer, who considered his rugs art for the floor, was purchased by Tai Ping carpets two years ago. With the opening of a new showroom [...]

I love the paintings of So Yeun Lee!. This talented artist was born in South Korea in 1971 but is now living and working in Dusseldorf, Germany. Her paintings are mainly self-portraits. According to So Yeun Lee, she gets to know herself better by creating self-portraits.

So Yeun Lee’s work can be admired at Gallery Conrads [...]

An affordable luxury hotel will be opened at Schiphol Amsterdam airport early 2008. Hotel CitizenM offers luxury and design at 14m2 only. CitizenM – short for citizen mobile – has reflected on and learnt from the needs of a new type of traveller, the mobile citizens. These travellers know what they like in a good [...]

These great (and inexspensive!) fabrics are designed by Swedish designer Nina Jobs for IKEA. HEDVIG is available in 5 different designs for €4.99 per meter.

More beautiful bathtubs from Agape: Spoon XL - VAS916 (top image) and EXLINE - VAS927/932.

I love this shower (Chiocciola)! For more information and to find a retailer, you can visit Agape’s website.

The cluster light from British designer Kathleen Hills is one of my favorite lamps. I have blogged about Kathleen’s beautiful designs before but I want to share these images taken by photographer Alun Callender for online shop Bodie & Fou (where this gorgeous lamp can be purchased!).

If you want to give your kid’s room a unique quality, why not add some vintage furniture to the room? Vintage furniture for kids is aesthetically pleasing an will perfectly complement your own interior design style, as well as stimulating your children’s imagination and appreciation of style.

Online kids store Little Fashion Gallery has a great [...]

I like Agape’s Woodline range, designed by Benedini Associati from Italy, as the baths are different than the usual bath tubs. The bathtub pictured above (VAS900) is made from plywood, available in light, medium or dark stained oak finish. The ergonomic interior section is modelled as a chaise longue. Because of the clean [...]

With winter approaching, it will soon be time to feed the birds again. Make friends with your winged neighbors, and invite them for a meal with this cute bread stand designed by Reddish Studio from Israel. After dining, place the bread stand ‘bird bread’ on the window ledge so birds can feast on the crumbs. [...]