April

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Lotta Agaton's Home

Some amazing photos from Swedish interior stylist Lotta Agaton's home, taken by Petral Bindel for Åhlens Magazine. 

My favourite is the first one...how beautiful is that space,  so simply styled in black and white, tones of grey and light wood.

photography: Petra Bindel

images source: Lotta Agaton

Daniella Witte | styling Spring for IKEA

As I have mentioned before, I love the photography and styling of Daniella Witte, and follow her blog (which recently moved to here) religiously. 

So thought you might like to see her Spring photos for Ikea's Livet Hemma blog. 

If you follow the link you can find more photos, where not only you can get inspired by her beautiful photographs, but also find the identification of all IKEA's products that she used to style them.

I, myself, have been contemplating the idea of buying a small tree to have at home. Either a lemon or an olive tree... the fact that I tend to kill all of my plants (at an alarming speed!) is holding me back though.

photography and styling: Daniella Witte

source: IKEA Livet Hemma

wall pocket | DESIGN CRUSH

I have a confession to make. I absolutely love pockets. I know it's not the most glamorous thing to do, walk around with my hands in my pockets, but I can't help it. If I had the faintest idea of what to do with a needle and thread I would add pockets to all my clothes...I'm not joking. 

I also have a weird eccentric relation with my winter jackets' pockets. I tend to use them to keep an assortment of little things I collect from many different places. A button that fell off my shirt, little folded papers, a small pebble I picked up on the street and, my absolute favourites, hard candy, caramels or lollipops someone gives me for whatever reason. I keep them there because I inevitably forget about them, and every time I put on that jacket and put my hands back in those pockets I rediscover what they are hiding. It's like I'm tricking my brain to be surprised over and over again with these simple everyday things. And I love that!

So, how happy do you think I was when I discovered this wall pocket... a pocket for my home! It's like taking my little quirks to a whole different level. Designed by Copenhagen based design studio Herman Cph,  with the wonderful simplicity characteristic of Scandinavian living, the wall pocket is a practical solution for small spaces or a wonderful poetic one for any space.

images source: Herman Cph

nude tones | SNAPSHOTS

Lately, I've been very much into nude tones combined with greys, black and white. 

And I noticed, that without really planning it, part of my kitchen has become a display of ceramics and ingredients in those same tones. 

So I grabbed a few of those things and took some quick shots.

I'm thinking of framing one of them and have it in the kitchen now!

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VASE SELECTION | in the mood for Spring

With Spring almost here, I'm feeling the urge to bring inside some greeneries and flowers.

I especially like little vases where you can put a single flower or twig. 

It looks beautiful in a minimalistic way, and demands a lot less maintenance. 

Hope you like my small selection...

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March

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Daniella Witte's dining room | WEEK'S FAVOURITE

Interior stylist and photographer Daniella Witte's dining room is my week's favourite image.

 I love the black shelves on the left, so graphic and structured compared to the fluidity and slight disarray of the rest of the room. 

The brightness and the green plants remind me that spring is close.

And that sofa...so inviting! Perfect for snuggling while having my morning coffee and going through the interior design magazines. 

Have a nice weekend everyone.

photography: Daniella Witte

perfect styling in 20 square meters | SCANDINAVIAN LIVING

Yes, this gorgeous images have infected the blogosphere like the "winter bug" (cough, cough, snif) has infected me. I still had to share them with you, here on my little corner because, lets face it, they are stunning. This 20 square meters apartment is the home of  Josefin Hååg, a talented interiors stylist and blogger. And the photos were taken for Residence Magazine by Kristofer Johnsson and styled by Lotta Agaton... yes, of course they had to be amazingly good.

That gallery wall is so beautiful...that bed...the room lighting... I could definitely live here!

all images via: 20 Kvadrat

photography: Kristofer Johnsson

styling: Lotta Agaton

scandinavian apartment | retro in restrain

Loving the styling and photography (especially the detail 'vignettes') of this apartment, once again from Fantastic Frank!

Plants and  retro details come together with neutral tones (note the concrete floor and the raw wood) and the emptiness of the rooms, creating a cosy, but at the same time almost minimalistic, atmosphere. As if someone's keeping 'the mid century' in check. One can almost feel the tension in the first two images. 

styling: Thomas Lingsell

photography: Emily Laye

all images via Fantastic Frank

a desaturated apartment | SCANDINAVIAN LIVING

This apartment in Copenhagen belongs to stylist Ingeborg Wolf and her boyfriend Claus Larsen, and it's a wonderful ode to grey and neutral tones without ever being boring. A careful mix of styles (industrial, mid-century, contemporary) and materials (wood, ceramics, iron) come together in a quiet and relaxing monochromatic harmony. 

Sure, it may help a little bit that the photos are really desaturated... but I don't care, I love grey!

photography: Pernille Kaalund

all images via: Bo Bedre

BROSTE COPENHAGEN | lookbook

I got myself a small eye infection and, though it doesn't seem to be anything serious, I'm giving it a rest and not putting on my contact lenses today. Which means that for a day the world is going to be one big foggy mess! I did manage to find my old glasses, which allowed me to make this post, but they are giving me headaches so this has to be a quick one...haha!

Just a sneak-peak of the SS2014 lookbook from Broste Copenhagen (which, by the way, has a new web-site), photographed by Line T. Klein and styled by Nathalie Schwer.

 images via: Broste Copenhagen

photography: Line T. Klein

styling: Nathalie Schwer

Vintage Inspiration | Kitchen

I found the perfect Kitchen to start my day!

Bright, calm and white...everything is ready to prepare my coffee... then I'll hold my mug and sit at that vintage, cute little table, looking through the window and slowly awaking. 

all images via Bolaget

Pure Poetry About Bread | by Ninkipen design studio

Today my inner nerd is completely in love with a bread displayer!

...sigh...

The interior design of this bakery, called Panscape (how perfect is that?), is the work of the japanese studio Ninkipen.

Stunning!

photography: Kawada Hiroki

via: facing north with gracia

And did you notice the little mouse hole on the wall?

Can't have a bakery without thinking of those tiny fellows...

Christmas decorations | Oohh collection

Yesterday I saw this product in a shop and thought it was adorable for a Scandinavian Christmas.

These  ornaments belong to a collection called 'Oohh' by the Danish company Lübech Living.

They are made of eco-felt, a material made from recycled plastic bottles and bags, and each envelope comes with 24 pieces inside, in grey, black or white.

all images via: Lübech Living

(here in Varde I found them at Yebo Design House)

Christmas by New Norm

A taste of Scandinavian Christmas with some behind the scenes photos, decorated by Norm.Architects for Danish magazine Bo Bedre. 

Subtle and simple, with the green of plants adding a bit of 'life' to the surrounding grey tones.  

And some lovely ideas on how to display the Christmas greeneries. 

all photos via: Norm Architects Facebook

Design Crush | CEPA - Port Wine Bottle Coaster

With Christmas around the corner, it's time to start thinking about what presents to get for the entire family. I personally love the simple things that, nonetheless, come with good design and full of significance. So I decided to share with you this design piece which I have a serious crush on - especially the cork edition. 

Designed by the Oporto based atelier Clínica de Arquitectura, the CEPA is a support for Port Wine Bottles that aims to inspire new ways of presentation and serving rituals. It creates a way of reviving old traditions, like the wine and the wood and cork industry, with a contemporary look and attitude.  

all images via Clínica de Arquitectura with permission

"The support is a cylinder made of one single piece of one of the materials - solid wood or cork - both strongly related to the identity of this wine and the Douro Valley, in which two connected cavities are cut out. One of the cavities is dimensioned to fit the bottle. The other is designed to land the stopper..."

You can find the two versions of the coaster for sale on DesignSpray: Cork edition | Wood edition