crossover: when childhood toys meet antique Chinese furniture*

Crossover is surely a trend. You can see this trend in a playful way in Made in China by Wokmedia, a London-Shangay based studio. In Made in China each piece is unique, featuring traditional Chinese furniture embedded with hand-carved wooden toys and finished in white lacquer."...innocent children toys act as a kind of space invaders emerging from a world hidden inside our childhood memories. Specifically invading antique Chinese furniture, starting to threaten their traditional past". How to play down the antique furniture!
I love also Lunuganga by Wokmedia, a branch shaped shelf, that can have different uses in your home. Simple things I love, love, love!

Have a nice week-end!

bridget davies' embroidered works*

Bridget Davies is an english artist and textile designer who makes beautiful embroidered cushions, handbags and little things. I love embroidered chandelliers and parfumes!!

pieke bergmans' virus*

Hallo everybody, I was very busy, so I couldn't post! I hope to post much in the next days!! At this moment I would like to rest in the BIG MAMA VIRUS by Pieke Bergmans. It must be so confortable! The design approach of Pieke Bergmans is fresh and playful; have a look at UTOPIA INFECTED: mirrors that rensemble countries and continents, but they are distorted by the design virus and your mirrored face is distorted too, so you are infected now!


For the designers interested in displaing their products: an opportunity to be part of the DESIGNSPOTTER-Exhibition on the International Furniture Fair imm cologne 2008. From January 14^th untill 20^th DEsign spotter offer you the great opportunity to present your product in the heart of the imm 2008 to a wide audience of experts and visitors. See the details on DesignSpotter.

Have a nice sunday!

nature+design*

When I have discovered the work of Heather Smith, immediately she has became one of my favorite designers! Why? Because I love products where foreign elements (like nature, time or natural elements) operate in the design process. In the Heather Smith project "Come Rain or Shine", the London based designer explores the potentials of surface manipulation through the use of the natural elements as a tool in the design process."Come Rain or Shine"is comprised of two products: walls and floors in wood and tiles of felt in plaster or concrete that both work with natural elements to develop patterns. Just a word: WONDERFUL!

Have a nice week end! ;)

yellena's prints*

Beautiful prints by Yellena's etsy shop, found via Aphrochic.

dust collectors*

I fall in love with Dustcollectors collection of vases by Sebastiaan Straatma.Normally, objects are functional and decorative. When the objects loose the function, like antique vases displayed on cupboards, they become only decorative and their real function is collecting dust and being decorative. This is the keen and full of humor concept inside Dustcollectors vases.They are unique piece,handmade of resin, ispired by chinese antique vases. So beautiful!
Also the wall lamp is very nice!

a world of nature*

Beautiful works by photographer and textile designer Marielle Leenders.Maybe you have seen her works on Bloom!, Li Edelkoort's review on flowers(one of my favorite review!. Her works(textiles and photos) are all about nature. Very interesting: the new developed materials with pressing techniques, you can see them on Marielle Leenders' site!

delusion of grandeur*

What about these beautiful chandeliers by Delusion of Grandeur (Canterbury based)? I love them! They sell also other interesting interior products, if interested in them, you can email at Delusion of Grandeur.

slow fashion*

I spotted Hendrikje Horsten over at Iqons. She studied at Utrecht School of Arts where she attended The Master Programme of Fashion Design. Her work is an amazing work on fabrics that gives birth to a spectacular collection!

Hendrikje Horsten,infact,loves experimenting with fabrics. Her collection becomes stronger by the use of textile techniques. About this collection Hendrikje says: "I chose the technique patchwork to make my concept stronger. The clothes become valuable by the use of patchwork, you can see all the amount of work in it. The dress in blue/brown/white is made of 1800 pieces of fabric" . 1800 pieces of fabric: what a work! Besides, I love the combo color of patchwork fabric: grey/brown; blue/white/brown; brown/grey!
The Hendrikje's collection is about Slow Fashion. For me, this is an important concept. The designer says "... I want to give a reaction on fast fashion and the speed of change. Trends move more quickly then ever before, and nowadays its only about‘la nouveauté pour la nouveauté. I'm giving expression to former values: attention, handicrafts, durability and time". The Hendrikje's collection is simple in the shapes, very wearable, but with a huge handicraft work inside, that is the value that gives the beauty to the collection!
I really agree with this concept to slow fashion and to give more durability to it. What do you think about it? Let me know , please!!!

Ho visto il lavoro di Hendrikje Horsten su Iqons (è tra i miei friends su Iqons). La sua collezione è semplice nelle forme, molto portabile, ma i tessuti con cui è realizzata sono formati da bellissimi patchwork. Il vestito in blu/marrone/bianco è fatto con 1800 pezzi di tessuto: che lavoro!
Slow fashion è il concetto da cui prende forma questa collezione. La moda, infatti, sembra proprio aver bisogno di un rallentamento, poichè è diventata, soprattutto negli ultimi anni, sempre più veloce e sembra cercare a tutti i costi la la nouveauté pour la nouveauté.
Hendrikje Horsten , con il suo lavoro di artigianato, cerca di dare più durabilità ai suoi capi ... e penso che ci riesca benissimo!