Five months of boutique

Six months have passed since my last blogpost. The reason for this is... LIFE and new adventures. After the successful exhibition of Francesca Lancisi, I opened a boutique and life has been a roller-caster since.

In this relaunch of the blog, I am sharing a few images from my newsletters and shop.

15 year of "misunderstanding"

This is a post for all those 58 that "Liked" my status on Facebook on the 14th of February  - the story about how Tullio and I met. Well, last weekend, to celebrate the 15 years of "misunderstanding" (did u know that, he actually woke up his friend in the middle of that night and told him that he met the women of his life?!!), we went away on an indulgent trip to an amazing hotel: The CAMBRIAN in Adelboden, Switzerland.

I usually do not get blown away by hotel design, but this time I held my breath. Here are some photos (and many more here):

How do you hide a TV?

Have you thought about how seldom a TV is shown on the photos of designed interiors? Even TV benches are often without a tv on them? A TV would usually would destroy the atmosphere and the beauty. Usually the photo is taken from an angle so that the TV cannot be seen or there is simply no TV (temporarily maybe?). However there must be some solutions on how to integrate/hide a TV in a living room without it intruding on the harmony of the space.

Here are a few solutions I found that are not too bad:

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Designing in concrete

At the pop up shop last week I was selling Tove Adman's concrete lamps, tables, candleholders and clocks. I had hung the nude concrete lamp on a coat rack but a lady asked me how else one could hang this lamp. Below is an answer on the first photo: on a nice tree branch for example. I have also found some other inspirational images with her designs. 

The ide&oda webshop is only a few days away....

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Made in Sweden

We all know that Scandinavian design is appreciated all over the world. This is why SMD Design not only believes that good Swedish design deserves to be made in Sweden, but they actually make most of their products at their own production site, in Småland, in southern Sweden.

 The below products will be available at the Scandinavian Art and Design week by ide&oda, but if you see any other products on their website that you like, let me know.

Launching of Scandinavian Art and Design Event

Today starts a three week countdown to the Scandinavian Art and Design event I am organizing in Geneva. The week between 26 November and 2 December I will open a pop-up shop in the old town in Geneva selling Matt Nils' ceramics, Carl Spader's photography (Swedish Artists) & Scandinavian design objects. Today I am only posting the invite but stay tuned for more information on the artists and the objects. In the meanwhile you can like ide&oda on Facebook.

Old treasure in my living room

An amazing luck to find this old school bench in a secondhand shop in France. 

Old and new

It is all very trendy to mix old and new, but there are only few who can add that extra edge to this trend.

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Outdoor furniture

What else can one do when it has been raining for weeks but to dream about outdoor living? I can totally see myself lounging in any of these settings by Spanish outdoor furniture company KETTAL.

Chairs

The black chair by Swede Bjorn Dahlstrom was inspired by Art Noveau yet is so simple and fresh. The pine chair by Danish Cecile Manz is called Pluralis - a mysterious chair composition for three. The chairs on the third and fourth images are by Gamfratesi - a Danish/Italian design duo. They call the fourth chair for the Cartoon chair for its cartoon-like proportions which adds an element of surprise.