For some time now I was looking for something to store my bags and shawls. Look what I found and bought the other day … just my style … simple, modern and warm. Made in first class oak wood, the Dots are a design by Norwegian Designers Tveit &Tornøe. The largest Dot has a diameter [...]
Entries from February 29th, 2012
5 exhibitions at Gallery Marzee, The Netherlands
February 28th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Jewelry
With the works of great jewelers, among them Flora Vagi … … and Karola Torkos.
Tags:conceptual jewellery·Gallery Marzee·handmade jewelry·Karola Torkos
House 2.0
February 27th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Architecture
This Green and low-energy house in Amsterdam is the home of architect Pieter Weijnen. It is a real eco-house with many unusual features; it has a wood-burning stove, a rainwater tank and—a bit unusual for the city—a wind turbine on the roof. House 2.0 Inside a whole tree was used instead of a girder, adobe [...]
Tags:Architect Pieter Weijnen·charred wood·eco house·wind turbine in the city
The project of Maddie the coonhound
February 25th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Animals, Photography
Photographer Theron Humphrey travels across the US with his coonhound Maddie, capturing her (and the country) as she poses on top of things. Do you know I once owned a dog like this? A great dog who did everything for me … probably he would have posed and stand on top of thing for me [...]
Tags:America·coon dog·coonhound·raccoons·Theron Humphrey·traveling in America
Colorful and austere jewelery
February 22nd, 2012 · 3 Comments · Fashion, Jewelry, Textile Art
Are colorful and austere words that go together? In the case of the jewelery of Ingeborg Vandamme, I think both words are certainly applicable. And what a wonderful mix of materials and techniques Ingeborg uses in her jewelry. Ingeborg Vandamme lives and works in Amsterdam. In Tilburg she attended the teacher training handicrafts and textile [...]
Tags:Cecile van Eeden·Galerie Beeld en Aambeeld·handcrafted jewellery·Ingeborg Vandamme·textile art
Textile Art in Deventer
February 20th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Textile Art
On March16 and 17, 2012, Stichting Textiel Plus organizes de Textiel Plus Kunstdagen in the magnificent Grote Lebuïnus Kerk in Deventer, The Netherlands. This year the overarching theme is: Innovation and sustainability. There are workshops, performances and demonstrations, also a dealer market with a variety of textile materials and an Arts & Craft market with [...]
Tags:Alexendra Drenth·Textiel Plus Magazine·Textile art Deventer
Work in progress
February 17th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Jewelry, My Work, Work in progress...
Museum De Buitenplaats in Eelde, The Netherlands has asked us to design and make some pieces of jewelry for their Museum shop. That is we were asked to make a proposal for a brooch, pendant and earrings … Museum De Buitenplaats As a starting point we take the logo of the Museum. The logo is [...]
Tags:Atelier The Jewelry Story·bespoke jewellery·handcrafted jewellery·Museum De Buitenplaats
Portable stool
February 16th, 2012 · 5 Comments · Design, Interior Design
As some of you already know I am very fond of little stools. It’s a good thing my house is rather small otherwise there would be little krukjes al over the place… Here is another one … The carry – on portable stool by Scandinavian designer and architect Mattias Stenberg of studio vision A&D. This [...]
Tags:little stools·Mattias Stenberg·The carry - on portable stool
Making coffee the slow way
February 14th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Design, Life
Do you know I never owned a coffee machine in my life? Until this day I make coffee by hand through a filter and all of a sudden I am hip because this is making coffee the slow way. And because of that all sorts of gorgeous coffee pots are popular although this one was [...]
Tags:coffe grinder·coffee pot·filter coffee·Neest·slow coffee
Cozy Shelter
February 13th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Design
The exhibition Design World in the Design Museum in Helsinki is from January 27 until May 6, 2012. The exhibition looks at international contemporary design and has a lot of pieces on show from well known but also from starting designers. The brand-new design Cozy Shelter by Dutch designer Lambert Kamps, features in this exhibition. [...]
Tags:Cozy shelter·Design Museum Helsinki·Dutch design·Lambert Kamps
