Domino Magazine has a piece on their website featuring 16 international design bloggers. And quess what? The Style Files is mentioned in this list!! I am very honored to be part of it and to mentioned together with these great blogs. The article is written by the lovely Holly. You might know Holly from her [...]

Welcome to all Aussie visitors! I was very happy to hear that the style files is mentioned in this month’s issue of Australian magazine Belle. I was already wondering were all those Australian visitors came from. Click here if you’d like to read the article. I am very honored to be mentioned with all these [...]

Not only the weather temperature is rising here in The Netherlands but my body temperature is rising (to a boiling point) as well. Why can’t companies do their job anymore? FedEx managed to loose a package that I sent to the UK some days ago. They can’t provide a tracking number (how the hell can [...]

Today I will be visiting the Dutch Design Week 2007 in Eindhoven. I am really looking forward to see new, talented designers, just graduated from the Design Academy, showing their work. But there is much more to see! During Dutch Design Week (DDW), virtually all design disciplines ranging from product design, graphic design, and spatial [...]

I am off to Paris for a few days! In this beautiful city I will be visiting the well known Maison et Objet trade show. Of course I will be doing a little shopping as well. Next Monday I am back with the latest news!
PS: the gorgeous lamp with the equally gorgeous name ‘Lampe [...]

Don’t forget to send in your entry for the Little Fashion Gallery quiz. Today is the last day that you can send in your correct answers and have a change to win a €150 gift voucher! Read more about the contest here.

I am so happy to have another contest at the style files! The great people from Little Fashion Gallery are giving away some fabulous prices. All you have to do is answering the two questions below (you can find the answers on Little Fashion Gallery’s website):
1. What is name of the boy who’s Little Fashion [...]

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) [...]

Little Fashion Gallery is now offering a 30% (!!) discount on some of their current clothing collections. You might know Little Fashion Gallery from the Nest chair or the Sirch children’s toys that were featured here on the style files. If you don’t know them, then go to their website to see their fab children’s [...]

It’s weekend! And with Monday being a national holiday it is a long weekend in this part of the world. Enjoy it!
With this cool site Spell with flickr you can create words, like the word weekend above, by using Flickr photos of letters. Isn’t this cool?!
By the way, next week the style files will be [...]

I am back from my one-month trip to beautiful California. We had a fantastic time and I would like to thank everyone for all the wonderful suggestions you gave me. Thanks to you we ate in great little restaurants, shopped at the coolest shops (and maxed out my credit card..) and found some great places [...]

Have a great Easter weekend!

After my hosting service Dreamhost decided to transfer the style files to a different server in order to make their hosting experience more pleasant (these are their own words!) my site was down for over 24 hours. They sure have a strange definition of the word pleasant. I am very sorry if you were not [...]

I would like to wish you all the best for this new year. Hopefully 2007 will bring you nothing but wonderful things. Make it a great year!
I would like to take the opportunity to thank you all for visiting the style files in 2006. From the day I started posting (1 November 2006) I have [...]

Merry Christmas! Wishing you all a very happy holiday. I will be around for a post every now and then but will resume regular posting on 2nd January.

Click here to see a very sweet & stylish holiday greeting from UK design firm One Point Oh.
(via Oh Joy!)

Almost every blog has it’s own gift guide and of course The Style Files can not stay behind. Today I will post some Gift Ideas for Friends (€ 0 - 50). If you would like to spend more on gifts, check out the Gift Ideas for GOOD Friends (€ 50 - 100) which will be [...]

I would like to wish all US readers a happy thanksgiving! I hope you have a wonderful day with your family and friends.

Welcome at The Style Files! After weeks of preparation, I am excited that today I can finally publish my first post. The first topic is my visit to the Dutch Design Week 2006 where hot, young designers were presenting their innovative designs. The coming days I will post more about my impressions of this [...]

The Style Files, a daily weblog about design and (life) style, will be launched on the 1st of November. The Style Files is dedicated to search the globe for inspirational finds. Observations and ideas related to design, interiors, art and other life enhancing subjects are posted daily. This is a place to absorb new ideas, [...]