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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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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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Loraine's precious pieces  
When irene asked me about the favorite things i (= Loraine) have and how they fit into the concept of "my own private museum" i thought yes , people are doing that just as they're creating their own worlds with blogs which also means that those collections aren't about expensive objects for most people, but the things they do collect are cherished very much !

I love to collect lots of things , the ones i'm most into at the moment are kitchen tools and pots & pans and i've just started to collect textiles The little milk pan is by Serafinozani, The Trivet i bought at Dekkorate,  the spoon i bought at mora, the very practical slicer is from MUJI , the pasta spoon is/was by alessi called twergi and i could only find a link to other spoons from the same series. {It's a wonderful thing that Irene want's to give the things we collect a context !}

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Danielle's favorite pieces in her house
The first image shows some of my vintage linen tea-towels. I (=Danielle) love the beautiful patterns and bold colours as well as their sense of history - they brighten up my kitchen and make me smile whenever I see them! I often find awesome vintage tea-towels on ebay, can also be worth checking out op shops. The second image shows a number of my favourite things in my lounge room. The framed print is by ah-yi - I love her delicate gocco prints and the organic shapes and patterns in her designs. I made the cushion from some of Lara Cameron's beautiful Birch Forest fabric in mustard. Lara's work is so inspiring and I particularly love this striking design, printed in one of my favourite colours. Fabric can be purchased from her online shop   You can also see the top of an ottoman I made using Amy Butler's Gum Drop Pillow pattern. The bold fabric is from Ikea, designed by Linda Svensson. I love surrounding myself with objects made using textiles/patterns that strike a chord with me...

{ps. Danielle just told me that she has a great new fabric design, called Citrus, available in her shop}

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..a while ago I wrote a weekend read for Bloesem called "At Home" ... in this read I told you about Li Edelkoort's prediction that we will all be living in our own museum some time in the near future ... Li sees us living among our handpicked collector’s items, but also family pieces that passed on from generation to generation ...

I LOVE this idea and believe what Li says is true ... and I wanted to do a follow up on this idea together with
other design bloggers ... so I invited some wonderful guests from the bloggerscommunity (and will invite more) to show us their two favorite pieces in their home or should I say 'their own Private Museum' ...

Every Wednesday Bloesem will be showing favorite design pieces from one or two guests ... and today we're kicking off with Kathleen Losche and Heather Moore ...