Stockholm...

An Icon Re-imagined...

Originally designed in 1965 by Jacob E. Bang Holmegaard has reissued this elegant vase in a stunning opalescent. To read more follow the link...

Barn Life...

Like a lot of people who are not originally from New York City, Tiina Laakkonen had a hard time thinking of the Hamptons as “the country.” Laakkonen, a former model and now a fashion stylist who has worked for The Times, grew up in Imatra, a small town in Finland, and likes to joke that she comes from “peasant stock” and doesn’t understand “fancy things like swimming pools.” Her husband, Jon Rosen, who owns the digital post-production company Nucleus Imaging, spent his childhood summers in Amagansett, N.Y., and has an almost Proustian attachment to the area. So when it came to finding a house there, Laakkonen insisted that it be a true country house. Or as she puts it, “I’m not a horsy person, but I like the idea of it.” To read more follow the link...

Industrial...

(image courtesty of Nordic Design)

The Nomad...

Posh hotel time. We briefly passed over the NoMad Hotel whilst covering Maison Kitsune’s flagship store located on the first floor. Time to dig a little deeper on 1170 Broadway, North of Madison Square Park if you were wondering. Owned by the Sydell Group, the location is described as a 168 room, 133,000 square-foot ’turn of the century Beaux-Arts building’ with interiors by designer Jacques Garcia. To read more follow the link...

Monday Must Have...Georg and Ilse

The super talented design maven Ilse Crawford has teamed up with the renowned Danish silversmith to create the Ilse Collection. Handcrafted in stunning combinations of silver and gold for a breathtaking result. Simple shapes and bold lines gives each piece a distinct modern feel. To see more follow the link...

Mixed Tape...

COS Magazine...

This bouquet, one in a series of five specially made for COS Magazine, is by the celebrated Amsterdam-based product design firm Scholten & Baijings. For their bouquet they made use of their signature mix of bright colours and linear grids. The beaming merino-wool-and-cotton blankets, from their Colour Plaids series, are shown here as background panels for a bouquet that includes a peony, red berries and gloriosa lilies. To read more follow the link...

A Little POC...

I love this quirky little apartment in Copenhagen. Classic white with a pop of color and a whimsicle sense of humor. To see more follow the link...

Artist in Residence...

The bed, the shark, the bullet: Besides his classmates from Goldsmiths College, Sarah Lucas, Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst, 46-year-old Mat Collishaw made the YBA movement the pivotal junction of the art world in the 90s.

At the legendary first Freeze exhibition he showed “Bullet Hole,” his best-known work until today—a large photograph, showing a head being fractured by a bullet. It paved the way for subsequent work dealing with controversial subjects such as diseases, transience, sex and violence. In July 1988, the legendary art show that was mainly organized by the 23 year old Hirst staged in London’s Docklands becoming one of those magical moments in modern art history where the likes of Charles Saatchi attended the students show and purchased art works of Collishaw and others. Since his debut, Collishaw, in contrast to his highly visible peers, always flew a bit under the radar. To read more of the article follow the link...