Thursday, 29 January 2009 by Irene Hoofs
The Soft Tree Trunk Stool from BY:AMT studio is finally available ... in 2001 Ilona Huvernaars and Alissia Melkateichroew were asked by a gallery in the Netherlands to present a setting for an exhibition called “The grass is always greener on the other side”... and these were the super fun looking chairs they designed ... Kikkerland from New York has started manufacturing them ... the Trunk Stools will be available as of May 2009, currently they are being manufactured in Mexico ... for more information please contact Alissia via an email or Laura Kellner from Kikkerland if you would like to recieve wholesale information... {previous posts from Alissia on Bloesem}
Welcome to my new sponsor Yael Fran from Buenos Aires ... Yael is a graphic designer by profession but loves to create smaller and bigger art pieces in her free time which she sells via her etsy shop ... I love this original collage in the image above very much... all Yael's work looks so playful, whimsical and happy ... please visit her lovely shop right here ...
Wednesday, 28 January 2009 by Irene Hoofs
EAT LOVE ... a fantastic new book about Marije Vogelzang's beautiful food designs and concepts ... Marije is a well-known Eating-Designer in the Netherlands ... the book is about Marije Vogelzang’s work in context of Dutch design, international design and trends in food, eating culture and society ... the book is written in English by design critic Louise Schouwenberg and available via BIS publishers ...
More Food ... a new column on BloesemKids ... Cooking for Kids ...
Tuesday, 27 January 2009 by Irene Hoofs
Many of you probably know that I'm a huge fan of the incredible work by Dutch designer Jo Meesters and one f his latest projects called TESTLAB is again fantastic ... Jo says about TESTLAB: "it is an experimental ongoing project about rejuvenating and reusing discarded materials and exploring the possibilities of the materials, removing them from their contexts and transforming them into something new" ...
TESTLAB kicked off with the collection “Odds and Ends, Bits and Pieces”, consisting out of four furniture pieces ... beautiful! The black vessels in the cabinets are from his Pulp collection, and I'm still hoping that one of these will one day find a place in our house too ... feel free to enquire any information about Jo's work by sending Jo an email ...
Thank you for all the nice comments and Birthday wishes ... last weekend was simply wonderful and I truly enjoyed celebrating my Birthday with my new friends here in Kuala Lumpur ... in case you have missed this: a great Open House Tour and interview I did with the lovely people, Karen and Andy from the children's furnishings company Ollie&Lime from the UK ...
Friday, 23 January 2009 by Irene Hoofs
Hip Hip Hooray ... it's my Birthday today ... and to celebrate this I'm doing a small giveaway on BloesemKids ... wish you a very nice weekend, I will be back on Tuesday because on Monday we will be celebrating Chinese New Year ... are you curious to know what the giveaway exactly is, just click here ... good luck, irene xx
