..and how about some inspiration...knitted House Dresses...called 'my town in my home'...a collaboration between Mafuyu and Yoshikazu Yamagata...and was first presented during the Arnhem Mode Biennale 2007 in the Netherlands ...read more about their concept right here...
Last week i saw these beautiful images on Pia Jane Bijkerk's great blog...her friend and photographer David Finato made them...Like Pia herself David is a also from Australia and lives in Amsterdam. They met a few years ago on a shoot in Sydney and now just happen to be both living and working in my old hometown. And for all you photographers and artists out there...Pia is organizing a great collective book project, called 'my heart wanders', where anyone can enter a photograph..more information right here.
Loraine showed these 'placemats' or 'shadow diner set' as Loraine calls them...i don't know exactly what they are, but I do know that Judith Höfel designed them and I find them very inspirational and so is the rest of Judith's work...
I think most of you are aware of the many talents Lena Corwin and Maria Vettese have...but they always know to come up with an even better idea, project or design than the last time...for one year they have been working together on LINES & SHAPES...which started as an idea to get artists together in a collaborative effort toward something and this something resulted in a series of small books...starting with six volumes this first year...each volume will have a different visual theme and a different group of artists will be featured...artists featured in the first volume are: jennifer causey, lena corwin, karen gelardi, caitlin mociun, christopher ryan and maria vettese...you can subscribe right here...or buy the first issue click here...Congratulations to Lena and Mav!
Imelda just showed us an amazing discovery from Japan and of course I
just had to share this treasure trove with you...Cocca is a
japanese shop selling printed textiles and crafts materials in their
brick and mortar store and online! I just browsed their website to get
some great inspiration for refurbishing chairs, finding great pillows
and amazing new prints...Thank you Imelda!!
Jennifer Chan came with the brilliant idea to let foam Oasis function as the vase itself! By packing the foam Oasis in a patterned shrink- wrapping film the vase can hold flowers at any angle while its packaging also acts as its container to keep them watertight. Brilliant and it looks beautitul! Jennifer is a Chinese-Irish designer who studied at Royal College of Art in London. On her website you can also find a bookcase by her which I truly love.
Love this styling work by Paul Lowe. Paul is food and interior stylist who moved from Oslo to New York to love and live. This production was for the Scandinavian lifestyle magazine Interiormagasinet. The story was about tea and Paul wanted to mix the whole tea concept into a mixture of craft and food. Paul doesn't even know how to knit, so he bought a wool sweather from H&M and a hot glue gun...result is perfect. Images are from photographer Steve Giralt. Paul also published a cookbook for dogs...have a look here.
Inspiration...joy..colors...beauty...all from ijm. studio in Amsterdam.
Frank Visser is the founder of ijm. studio. Frank considers himself a story teller. I consider him as a very talented person who truly brings me hapinnes by creating these extraordinary productions. Frank works with various photographers and their work is often shown in Dutch and international magazines. The website is a must see!
{via The Style Files}
Dear all… I had a great long weekend in Ho Chi Minh City… truly an amazing city with a lot of charm and soul…and…good shopping too… think Vietnamese Paris… so many different crafts, textiles and much more… all just perfect and fabulous materials… my friends and I had a marvelous time… I made many pictures of shops and street life…and working on a travel special on Ho Chi Minh City… coming soon! {thank you Jenny, Meg and Bec!}
More good news… Bloesem was voted among the 10 most influential design blogs on TheHomeRejuvenationBlog… such an enormous honor and a big surprise… thanks so much everyone for voting Bloesem! I truly makes me happy that you enjoy my daily posts... and of course tomorrow back as usual with beautiful finds...
I am very happy to introduce you to designer and photographer Elise Rijnberg. This new special read is an on-line interview with Elize about her life, work and passions. It was great fun doing the interview and I would like to thank Elise for taking the time answering all the questions and telling us so much about herself. I am a big fan of Elise’s work and doing the interview was a wonderful way to meet. I hope you find the interview interesting too, the images are of course all made by Elise.
As you probably know I am off for a long weekend to Ho Chi Min City with my friends, I am sure it’s going to be an exciting trip… will show you some pics when I return… I will be back on Tuesday… have a great weekend and see you in a few days!
