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The Weekly Gallery

Another end of our 'working-week'...I hope you enjoyed this week's posts on Bloesem...wish you a very lovely weekend and hope to see you back next week...

These are such beautiful necklaces, called Ida and Pink Honey by Stone&Honey, available at Makool Loves You!Beautiful Silk textile postcard sets in blue or red by Amy Wright, available in her shop, The Painted Forest.
...another cushion cover from Skinny laminx that I really like! ... 'Duck Egg Eep' is available right here...{Amy Rice for Affirmations} A new exhibition at Artstreamstudios for you to go and see if you live in the Rochester, NH neighborhood ... Affirmations ... four women artists from Australia to New York and in between! But if you can't make it here you can view the work online from these talented women,  Amy Rice, Penelope Dullaghan, Flossy-P and Sian Keegan. {Flossy P for Affirmations}

Nina Jobs

{pattern design by Nina Jobs called Tweed for the Kreation series}
With a smile on my face was I scrolling to Nina Jobs her site yesterday ... I really like her style, designs and patterns. Nina Jobs is an Swedish industrial designer with a background in graphic design. She lives in Stockholm and from her studio she works for some big brands like Ikea, H&M and for the Museum of Modern Art New York.

For the company David Design Sweden, Nina has designed the beautiful textile series, called Jungle, that includes this cushion and a large, round tray, both online available at the Scandinavian Design Center.

... I really like these flexible bowls in China with the cork lid from Nina Jobs, but I couldn't find a place were you can buy them, I think they were made especially for a corporate client. But anyhow, they are gorgeous to look at and I'm sure some of you will find them very inspirational.If you have any questions for Nina I would suggest just sending her an email. Have fun visiting her website.

...and if you were hoping to see this Weeks Gallery ... don't worry tomorrow it will be there with many nice designs, arts and textiles ... I just wanted to share this with you today...

Marieke's favorite design pieces in her house

When I (= Marieke) moved in with my boyfriend, now husband, I didn't have much beautiful furniture, only old worn IKEA student stuff that I didn't even want to move out of super small student studio. Time for a fresh start I thought! Strangely enough I never really felt at home until I got some pieces from our old home, that my parents moved out of. I set them up as my "studio", a corner of our lower floor. The big cabinet holds almost everything I need for my work, such as tools, paint, office supplies, fabric, my administration. It's as full as can be!

This easel is my mother's and to me one of most valuable objects in our house. Unfortunately my mother cannot use it anymore, but it does bring happy memories - as a little girl I always used to hang around in my mom's studio looking at her working. I don't work standing behind it but I always put stuff on it, work in progress, to look at and comtemplate what needs improvement ... In a way, the cabinet, the table and the easel form my own private childhood museum, wherever it will stand, I can bring upon myself the mood to make things and think how extremely lucky I am to do what I love best.

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Tanneke's favorite design pieces in her house

 
The armchair is a design of Warren Platner for Knoll international, this chair come from the 1950s and I have let the chair upholster and restore. I have bought this chair in a very bad condition at Ebay in Germany. The cushion Galeano is designed by Margo Selby. The fabric is developed on a handloom in her London studio, by English mills. Luxurious silk and lycra fibres are woven in a double cloth structure to create a 3-dimensional quality. Stick the Snail is my favourite Creatures from Donna Wilson. Cushion Galeano and Stick the Snail are available at Wannekes. The rug Victoria is from Nanimarquina.

What I (=Tanneke) remember of this chair is that he is especially made for a public space in Switzerland. I have bought this chair a several years ago also at Ebay in Germany. The bag is designed by one of my favourite dutch bag designers Hester van Eeghen. All these objects are my favourites in my home because they are good well-considered designs without doing concessions to form, material etc. But most of all: they are designed with love. Because of this the objects get a soul.

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Teresa Green design

I was reading one of my favorite magazines,  Selvedge, and always stop by their online shop and found these great teatowels by Teresa Green. Her real name is Teresa Cole and she is the talent behind Teresa Green Textile Design. She uses practical textiles as a canvas for her print work - a combination of art and design that can be used on a daily basis.

Teresa Green's collection consitst of t.towels, bags, bed and table linen and cards. All the products are made from natural linen and screen printed in subtle colours.. very very beautiful! You can buy the tea towels here or send an email to the Studio with your enquiries.

Malin Lundmark

{Hook hanger and wooden knobs for the wall inspired by chess by Malin Lundmark}
Malin Lundmark just send me an email with her new collection of beautiful products. Malin is a Swedish designer, based in Stockholm and you might have seen her work before here on Bloesem. Malin's main philosophy when creating something, whether it is for an exhibition or a product, is to mix playfulness, function and decoration. She wants the product to both have a soul and to tell a story. Everything she make becomes a part of her Wonderland world, a world where fantasy becomes reality, a world where environment and products come together to create a completeness....

Another new product from Malin Lundmark is the MagBag...a magazine holder in the shape of a stylized bag. It´s a functional product where purpose and playfulness interplay in a poetic way and is available via Maze. {ps. The Hook Hanger and the Chess hooks are both available via LADP}

.. and the winner is ...

...Tootie Maldonado, she wrote the following comment: "I simply love Ana Ventura! I must say this print reminds me of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys....which as a child I LOOOOOVED! I even thought (as a child) that I would grow up and marry Peter Pan. I would make my little brother watch the movie with me over and over...and now he's a father with two children and I see him watching the movie with his kids and the funny thing is...he acts out the movie...word for word! It's hilarious!!! If I won this print, it would always remind of the child within" ... both Elizabeth from Twig and I loved this comment, so congratulations to you Tootie. Thanks everybody for leaving your comments, hopefully there will be another great giveaway soon and you can have a new chance to win ... {ps. thanks to you too Elizabeth for offering this great Ana Ventura print}

...15% Discount...

Elizabeth also would like to offer all the Bloesem readers a discount at Twig, for example on the handbag collection by Orla Kiely... Discount is for 15% off (does not apply to the Wear_Sale category) through Sunday, September 14th. Just use the discount code Bloesem_Twig15 when checking out.

The Weekly Gallery

I know it's only Thursday, but I'm going to wish you a lovely weekend already ... i have so much work to prepare and finish that I need to give myself two extra days, so I will be back on Tuesday and I really hope to see you back then ... and Elizabeth and I will also announce the winner of the giveaway contest ...

Only original vintage vinyl wallpaper and textiles from the '60 and '70 are being used for these gorgeous items ... the shop is called Drawflower, which you can find right here ...

NY fashion week is almost starting and autumn is coming so prepare and treat yourself with one of Terry Graziano's amazing handmade hats...

Claire Nereim send me an email about her beautiful work ... i fell in love with both calenders, but unfortunately only the black one with flowers is still available in her online shop...

...lovely customized vintage tablecloths, pillows and accessories by Ik&Roos from the Netherlands...

I truly wish this artwork was for sale ... I LOVE LOVE LOVE it ... Hanna Konola from Finland made it ... some of her illustrated cards are available at Raredevice, thanks Nicole for introducing me to Hanna's work!

Lucy's favourite design/art objects in her home
- it was hard to only choose 2! - but the first item is an artwork I (=Lucy) purchased just this year.  It is the first (and only!) artwork I have ever bought, and is a book sculpture by Australian artist Nicholas Jones.  I discovered this piece when I went to interview Nicholas for my blog - I visited his incredible studio in Melbourne and I was so inspired by the space and the work, I got quite carried away taking a lot of photos and asking lots and lots of questions... it was very overwhelming!  I felt so lucky to be invited to see Nicholas' studio and to chat to him about his work in person.  Nearing the end of the interview he showed me this piece - it was in a box set aside for an exhibition in Sydney.  I immediately fell in love with it, but I didn't feel I could ask to buy it, as it was set aside for his exhibition!  I got home and couldn't stop thinking about it - so I phoned Nicholas the next day and asked if I could buy it after it was exhibited.  Lucky for me he said I could have it and he would create a different item for his exhibition.  :) 

The second item I (=Lucy) am including is a beautiful rocking chair made by my very talented partner Gordon Johnson.  Gordon is a furniture designer/maker, and he created this piece about 5 years ago as a prototype for a furniture competition in Japan.  It was such a labour-intensive piece he has never made any more of them... which is a little sad but at least it means we have the only one!  The chair is made using a 'skeleton' of of plywood ribs, skinned with a blackwood veneer.  Unfortunately our home is a little too small for this piece so at the moment is stands in the corner and rarely used :(  One day when we have a larger home I hope to give it the prime position it deserves!

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Kelly's favorite design/craft-related items in our house
The second image might be well known to some: It is the "Season" design by Wallcandy Arts. Wallcandy Arts creates wall decals that are easy on, easy off most surfaces. I (= Kelly) put together the design piece by piece while my one-year-old twin boys (Felix and Pierre) sat patiently by; they were so captivated by what I was doing (staring at where I was placing leaves, squealing with excitement), that I feel they were part of the project. The photo is in the boys' playroom and the boys are seated in the foreground. The first image is very personal. It shows kids' backpacks handmade by a close friend, Lanie Spoljaric, who lives outside Chicago, as do I. She created the packs for the boys' first birthday. The fabric she chose is a soft felt featuring robots, spaceships, and aliens. I am obsessed with robot motifs and had them put on the boys' birthday party invites and even their cake. So the fact that she thoughtfully spent hours searching for fabric and creating these bags (so cute, look at the ribbon straps) really touched me. They hang in the boys' bedroom on a wooden rack that my in-laws brought to us from a boutique in Paris called Le Bonhomme de Bois.

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Siri Brekke

{Ceramic work by Siri Brekke, bowls and plates from 'A Kind of Paradise' series}

I hope you all had a lovely weekend ... I totally forgot that yesterday was a National Holiday here in Malaysia ... everybody was celebrating 'Hari Merdeka' = 'Independence Day' ... so we went to the park, Lake Gardens, played with our son and some friends and had a lazy afternoon ... wonderful!

During the weekend I also received an email from Siri Brekke, a ceramic artist from Bergen, in Norway, telling me that her website just launched ... it's a great summary of all her past and recent work ... Siri works with different ceramic techniques and expressions, both in functional wares as in more sculptural works...the image above show plates from the 'Tableware stories' ... each plate shows the classical motives from bourgeoisie and rural life in Britain, but also contains a message ... Siri let the people speak out about today's global food situation!