2.11.10 0
Musical chairs
Fantastic chair made out of piano keys.
So balanced, so delicate yet bold.
By Ninestoriesfurniture.
Via Ok Great.
27.8.10 1
Johanna Richter
This beautiful home swing reminds me a lot of a massive wooden necklace I have. Jewellery for the house, there's a thought... See more of her work here.
26.4.10 0
The wheel of knowledge
... made my heart skip a beat. Even if my art books wouldn't fit.
If you placed them by color and made it speen very fast, would you see white?
Via Noquedanblogs.
2.3.10 0
Great minds think alike...
... or how else would you explain these?
Both are tables designed to look like wooden toys (see the difference between Mexican toys and Norwegian toys).
The first one is the Mesa Pirueta by Paulina Gonzalez Ortega (whom I met at CSM) and Andres Ocejo.
27.2.10 0
Reading your way to a chair
Wall-sticker by Florian Kremb. Very smart. Although it's so horribly overpriced it makes me want to just put a pen to my wall. But I won't.
Via noquedanblogs
14.12.09 0
House on Fire
Now, now, now, I've been blah-in about "when I lived in Swaziland" this and that but I'm extremely proud to say that the best club ever (and gallery) has a brand new website!
I just couldn't describe the lively, magic sculptures you can find there, but finally! They are online :)
This is House on Fire.
17.10.09 0
Free furniture? Yes thanks.
Ikea, be scared.
Foldschool is an awesome website where you can download the instructions and patterns to make your own (very well designed) cardboard furniture. Cheap, eco, interactive, personalizable. I'm off to making the stools (that sounds slightly wrong, doesn't it).
8.9.09 0
Country envy
I sometimes suffer of country envy. You can be perfectly happy somewhere and suddenly you get this uncomfortable, inpractical feeling... country envy!
You get it on Sunday mornings, reading the paper, when you learn there's this awesome exhibition by your favourite artist in New York. You get it when you see South African houses. You get it when you live in a cold country and see pics of warmer places. You get it when you LOVE something on the internet and realise they only ship to France.
Well, I've just seen this post and wished I was in Argentina. (I have an insane obsession with this kind of furniture)
26.8.09 1
African Moroso
Remember I was telling you about African textiles?
These is what Italian company Moroso has made inspired by them and all African crafts (I know, we are all asking: what did African crafters get out of this? Apparently they've set up a small atelier for 20 artisans adn the industrial designers were African, European and American).
I like them. Let's see how this all goes for everybody.
12.8.09 0
Figleaf wardrobe
Another Elf-like fantasy piece by Tord Boontje.
Makes me curious to see what's he gonna do in the coming years.
10.3.09 2
Doshi Levien
"My beautiful backside" sofa.
Different, daring, colorful and multicultural. Lusting all over it (I could do just with the cushions, really, The thin long one, the "oval" ones... they are stunning).
By Doshi Levien (who keep on getting it very, very right).
16.2.09 1
Hella Jongerius
Having done design sometimes makes me want to cry. Like when nobody thought much of a piece and then you see a very similar thing has won an award, or when Hella Jongerius comes up with a table very similar to what you spent ages doing but nobody thought it would hold (I do acknowledge this is very well resolved). I'll quietly sit sighing whilst you can check it out here.
PS: Have you seen her new designs for Ikea?!
9.1.09 2
Bleu Nature
You all know about my problem with wooden stools.
I think Bleu Nature just does this on purpose. This is provokation. This, this... is just too lovely. Add them to my wooden stool wish-list. Sigh. 
They also do this fascinating dishes...
18.12.08 4
First step, recognize the problem
The first step in overcoming an addiciton is recognizing the problem. Well, then. i am addicted. Badly. I covet every single hand-crafted wooden stool out there. Specially the ones in Elle decor SA. I need to go back to SA and accumulate. (ok, maybe the cure of my addiciton will take a while).
Found via Desire to Inspire.
11.11.08 0
Alma Allen
You might have noticed I'm loving raw wood (see old post here). Imagine then my will to know where the "trumpet" stool on the cover of Elle Decor came from (below, with white seat)! And, just picture my rejoice-ment when I read about Alma Allen in Hoping for happy accidents. 
She sculpts wobbly, organic forms out of most materials, but boy, do I droole over her stools! (not literally, I wish I had one of her stools to wet with saliva, but unfortunately I don't). I think my favourite is the top one...
