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WIS design

I love this new Chest of Drawers called Decades by WIS design. The chest of drawers is made out of discarded drawers, found and rescued at flea markets, which creates a mix of different styles from earlier decades. All different sorts of woods and knobs in a single piece of furniture, beautiful! The old drawers are enhanced by the new frame in white lacquered MDF. Click here for their website. For more information you can send Lisa or Anna an email.

Jarl Fernaeus

Just before anther weekend starts I want to show you the amazing designs by Jarl Fernaeus. Jarl is a 35 year old designer and art director from Stockholm. He says he always works with a clear idea about the form and the concept. During 100%futures in London Jarl showed four new products, that he made in collaboration with DuPont in Sweden. He used wood together with Corian. This material gives the objects a clean, cold look which makes the strict and precise expression stronger. It also gives the objects a more luxurious feel.

The purpose of showing the interiors objects at the exhibition was for Jarl Fernaeus to find out about the interest and response of the products. My response is as follow...'I love your items and sincerely hope that all the products will be produced in larger numbers in the future so one day I will be able to own one of your amazing designs'. Please keep us updated Jarl! {for any interested manufacturer here is Jarl's email address}
ps. wish you a wonderful weekend of course and hope to see you back soon!

Interior Dialog

Any bedroom will improve when you hang blinds like these or sleep under a duvet like this. The products are from the ‘Interior Dialog’ collection from Dorte Agergaard Jensen. Dorte is a graphic and textile designer and studied in both London and Denmark. Dorte’s work is all about digital printing on textiles for interior products. She showed her ‘interior dialog’ collection at 100%Futures in London recently.

Amongst Dorte's collection is a 20-meter long fabric with a unique print off interior products. Dorte used the same prints for a duvet cover, blinds and curtains…the prints are very vibrant and they almost look like you want to grab them of the fabric.

Dorte’s own words about “Interior dialogue” ... “it is a design series created for home and body where expression and form take their departure point in rearranging everyday objects and placing them in a new context – a play with our concepts of normality. The aim is to innovate everyday interior and clothing.” Please send Dorte and email if you are interested in buying them or pricing.

FokusFabrik

I know I told you that my weekend was starting, but I just opened my inbox and found an email from FokusFabrik (from Finland) and I couldn't resist posting their new products and fabrics, available per meter right here...

The pillow on the right is my favorite and would look great on our grass green couch...the good news is...FokusFabrik also opened their webshop! So everything is available online. Once again I wish you a very nice weekend!

Save Our Souls

While reading one of my favourite magazines, wallpaper, I came accross a very interesting Scandinavian design couple. Johannes Carlström and Magdalena Nilsson from Sweden are the founders of Save Our Souls. Influenced by some catastrophes in the world like the tsunami, bombings, clash of cultures and I believe environmental issues their first collection in 2005 was in their own words: dark, beautiful and ambitious! Spill is the name of the table… an unpleasent but seductive pool of oil spreads over fragile ecological systems…And the black lamps are called Drops…a black heavy drop of oil hangs above us and spreads light and darkness. For information about any of their products you can send Save Our Souls an email.

House&Garden

A while ago I was invited by House&Garden.com to write a slideshow about up and coming Scandinavian designers. It was great fun preparing this ‘article’ and I hope you will enjoy it too. Have a look here…{A big thank you for the multi-talented Grace, today she will be launching her new Design*Sponge and I can’t wait to see it!} I'm sorry the slide-show is not up any more, because House&Garden closed their doors!

While working on the slideshow I came across many talented Scandinavian designers. Unfortunately, it wasn’t possible to mention them all, but I am happy to introduce you to Mjuk design. Mjuk Design is Magdalena and Johnny. They both grew up in rural Sweden but spent their adult lives in London. This has made them aware of the beauty in the contrast between nature and urban. Magdalena designed a beautiful collection of wallpaper and fabrics as well as knitted cushions.

The wallpaper designs by MjukDesign are screen printed on paper and fabrics. On their website you can also find a beautiful room divider, have a look here.