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Feeding the birds

January 7th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Animals, Design, Life

I hope you survived the heavy storm o.k.? Here in Friesland, the province where I live, complete pastures are still under water, due to the enormous amount of rain. Lucky for us our little house is built on a mound; so we are save from the water … Will it ever become winter you think? I [...]

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Typical Dutch

January 4th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Ceramics, Culture, Design, Typical Dutch, Uncategorized

Royal Delft has long been synonymous with Dutch tradition, tourism and lets face it kitsch. With the help from fresh young Dutch design talents the brand is now reinventing itself with a new series of porcelain called BlueD1653. Three master painters designed in collaboration with designers Arian Brekveld, Chris Koens and Damian O’Sullivan as many [...]

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Dutch Design online

September 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Design, Interior Design

Spotted in Wannekes … Black Widow by Dutch designers Studio Job Wannekes sells Dutch design and contemporary design products. Wonderful Kay Bojesen Denmark Dog/Dachshund made of wallnut. After graduating Artemis Styling Academy in 2004, Tanneke Neessen started her own interior styling office called Studio EHBI. Since then Tanneke’s passion for interiors and design forms the [...]

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Scholten & Baijings

April 28th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Design

April 30 – August 28, 2011, BLUSH, Stedelijk Museum, Den Bosch, The Netherlands Blush design in full color is the title of the first museum survey of designers Scholten and Baijings. The Stedelijk Museum in Den Bosch will show their designs but the exhibition also tells us about the work process of this Dutch duo. [...]

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The countryside of Groningen

April 4th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Architecture, Art, Culture, Food, Life

Yesterday Jan and I made ​​a tour in the countryside of Groningen, that’s the province north of Friesland in The Netherlands, beautiful skies, many grassland birds, beautiful art and a small but nice Spring sun … We started at museum Het Kunstpaviljoen, an exhibition space in a home environment where architecture, interior and nature coincide. [...]

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Emmy+Gijs+Aldo, parents and son

February 17th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Design, Jewelry

Exhibition EMMY + GIJS + ALDO, Zuiderzee Museum, Enkhuizen, The Netherlands This exhibition brings together a selection of objects, jewelry and furniture by Emmy Leersum, Gijs Bakker and Aldo Bakker, parents and son who take a special place in Dutch design. Until may 29, 2011, info Zuiderzee Museum Silver Olive oil pourer by Aldo Bakker [...]

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Mad Hatters

February 9th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Ceramics, Design, Uncategorized

JORINE (founded in 2005) is the label of the Dutch Jorine Oosterhoff. Jorine Oosterhoff graduated from the ArtEZ in Arnhem, The Netherlands and has since worked as a freelance designer. JORINE specializes in porcelain objects, mostly tableware. Occasionally, particularly for larger commissions she collaborates, with buroJET / Egbert-jan Lam. The story Alice in Wonderland inspired [...]

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The complete works of Hella Jongerius

November 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Design

Until February 13, 2011 the complete works of Jongerius is shown in Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, The Netherlands The Dutch designer Hella Jongerius (1963) is considered one of the leading industrial designers of her generation. Jongerius is known for the special way she fuses industry and craft, high and low tech, tradition and [...]

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Our visit at Meesterlijk

October 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Design, Fashion, Uncategorized

Last Sunday, Jan and I visited the Fair “Meesterlijk Design and Crafts”. Please find more info about Meesterlijk in an other post I wrote overhere . It was good to see that on the day we visited, the fair was pretty crowded. Many new designs in many different areas. Meesterlijk is stil going on through [...]

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Contemporary, festive and sophisticated

October 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Design

New in the online store of Wannekes is the collection of these modern contemporary tablecloths. The beautuful damask tablecloth are woven in the Dutch Textile museum and are designed by Dutch designers like Studio Job, Jurgen Bey, Hella Jongerius, Kiki van Eijk, Christien Meindertsma, Scholten & Baijings, Ineke Hans and more. Anne- Marie Jetten “Red [...]

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