Nosideup: design festival

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Taschide

Dear people of the blogosphere,
I am afraid I can only connect from an internet cafe for the moment. This means I have not much goodness or time to post. But Mr. M. and I are in Oxford. And we are alone (well, if you don't count the boxes everywhere). We are finding out how a flat of our own smells or looks. And we are happy.

I leave you with a pic of another new German design team, Taschide. In Designersblock they had this sea urchin woolen poufs. They also had stools with knitted "socks" and these animal shapped mirrors.

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Miho Kaneno

Miho is a lovely lady with lovely products. She exhibited in this year's Designersblock in London and everybody went crazy for her pieces: Little, cute as a button handkerchiefs with prints of cookies and vintage plates. She doesn't have her own website yet but you can see more about her here.

PS: REMEMBER THE PRINT GIVEAWAY! ENTER HERE!

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Perlen by Woodloops

They hade these beautiful, sculptural massive pebbles made out of oiled wood (oak, others available; sustainable forest management) in Tent. They are made by Woodloops. Find out more here.

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Chiharu Kataoka

I saw these in tent and thought they were glorious little objects. They are meant to be chopsticks, I think, but I love them per se. Find out more about Chiharu here.

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Circa

It's been a lovely, busy and exciting weekend. I've been at the designersblock exhibition and party (that is extremely unusual in me, I get sleepy very easily); and what's more... I'VE HAD MY FIRTS SALES IN ETSY!!!! I'm extremely thrilled and happy and thankful.

But let me show you more about this design week:

Circa is an event running together with Tent. It is considered the biggest exhibition of mod furniture. It was thoroughly enjoyable, but it's not where you go to get you bargains (that's Oxford, remember?). I almost bought a teak bowl (scandinavian looking). So simple and smooth! But at 30 pounds (60 dollars) it wasn't an absolute bargain (although Liberty of London sells wooden bowls for 260 pounds right now). So here are a few pics for you to get the vibe.

The enamel bowls are krenit bowls. They can fetch interesting prices in galleries (300 dollars the smallest), but you can find them much more affordable on ebay. They were my first vintage love.

I do have something about display bells. And I loved the artist wooden hand in this one.

PS: Isn't that red chair adorable beyond belief? I never found out who was it by or how much was it... Anyone knows it?

CORRECTION: designed by Jeremy Harvey in 1978

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Roam textiles

After all the coco de mer excitement, I return with the promised posts on the London design week.

At designersblock (you still have time to come see for yourselves until sunday) Roam textiles have proved a bright, cheerful and dari

ng corner. They are a couple of Scottish designer who have been collaborating with fashion houses and are now launching their own line of blankets and soft furnishings. And

the sofa where all of it is laid looks fabulous too.

Their motifs go from the ubiquitous Russian dolls, to the very fashinable nautical knots, to the downright cute illustrations. They customize baby blankets too.

How do you like it?

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ladies and gentlemen... it's on!

Today was the "Press day" at Designersblock in Covent Garden.

And there was such a friendly mood all over the place! I'm really going to try and serve the information in bite-sized articles about different designers. So keep posted 'cause there are already a lot of them.