Firenze, signs on the walls

Ghostly Greetings from Florence, have a fang-tastic night!!!!!!!!

Living in a masterpiece - Villa Stein by Le Corbusier

After the Maison Plainex in Paris, another masterpiece of Le Corbusier is on sale.
Villa Stein-de-Monzie, "Les Terrasses", was built in 1927 in Vaucresson, near Paris. The house
was designed by Le Corbusier for Gabrielle Colaco-Osorio de Monzie and Sarah Stein, sister-in-law of Gertrude Stein.

Halloween Diy and Inspiration - 6

There are only  a few days to Halloween night! I found six more bloggers' ideas:
01: Pumpkin s'mores cake from Desserts for Breakfast | 02: Table setting from Stylizimo | 03: Spooky pumpkin punch from Honestly Yum | 04: Monster-straws from A Subtle Revelry | 05: Zombie Boogers from Paper and parcel (recipe and bags) | 06: DIY Spook-Pops from Fellow Fellow.
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Florentine Door - Detail

The beautiful door of an antique store in Firenze / Florence

Forte Beach - October

At the beach before the RAIN!

Halloween Diy and Inspiration - 5

01: Free crazy iPhone wallpaper | 02: Ghost Cupcake Cones from Confessions of a cookbook Queen | 03: Simple idea for eyed glasses from Welke | 04: Scaredy Cat Cake Topper from Coco Cake Land | 05: Mutant bunny cake from Coco Cake Land | 06: Easy Popcorn Balls from Paging Supermom.

Previous Halloween Diy and Inspiration : 01 (freebie) -  02 - 03 - 04

The Atelier Martel by Robert Mallet-Stevens is on sale

The atelier designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens in 1927 for the brothers sculptors Martel in Paris is one of the precious jewels on sale in France

October Chestnuts

...in Italian is castagna / castagne.

Free Printable #2014 Calendar

Next year - 2014 - Calendar is ready. You can freely download it here and then print it on a A4 format. I used Paper | FiftyThree to write the #2014 and for the sketch on the bottom, the rest is very minimal. I hope you'll enjoy it all the next year! L

ps: The first version has been corrected. This is the last version.

Halloween Diy and Inspiration - 4

01: Mini Ghost Pinatas DIY from Oh Happy Day | 02: Diy Halloween Pompom Spiders from Creature Comforts | 03: Confetti Dot Pumpkin from A Subtle Revelry | 04: Diy Pumpkin cooler from Style Me Pretty | 05: Diy Haunted House from Mermag | 06: These words may sound quite unsettling... from Girly-girl-graphics.
Here (freebie) - here and here, you'll find previous posts about Halloween 2013, L

Studio You Me / 2: The Drifters Table - Identity Design

Behind Studio You Me there are two creative women (and friend):  Kestie Lane and Hana Hakim. Their works portfolio extend beyond interior projects (we saw Brighton Residence yesterday) to graphic, event, urban, furniture and product design.

So this time, I want to highlight the brand identity that the studio designed for The Drifter Table.

I find it so elegant and cool, isn't it? 

"The Drifter Table is a bevy of three like-minded hardworking chefs who are taking the pop up restaurant movement in Melbourne by storm.

Studio You Me wanted create a brand that was dynamic and edgy but also have a sense of establishment to mark it’s longevity and to set them well apart from the norm.

The brand is designed using an elegant stone backdrop and a cool custom crafted font, the iconic compass design gives the brand its strength and a reference to pioneering new culinary territories.

Like the three collaborators, the brand has a cheeky side reflecting the personalities of the chefs, with quirky anecdotes and phrases on the matchbooks and menus to get the dinner conversation started."

Life is too short to design anything less than extraordinary.

Studio You Me / 1: Brighton Residence

Cruciani, Italian macramé lace bracelets

The four-leaf clover bracelet was an idea of Luca Caprai and was designed to communicate Cruciani to a young and increasingly well informed and demanding public.  Lace may seem distant from modern day tastes but it in fact encapsulates many elements of our culture and traditions.

The Cruciani four-leaf clover bracelet phenomenon exploded in August 2011, when there were endless queues at the Cruciani boutique in Forte dei Marmi, day and night, to get the summer bracelet in one or more colours. This boom rapidly spread throughout the whole of Italy and beyond.

Halloween Diy and Inspiration - 3

Other five diy ideas for Halloween (these are so funny!)(and here and here, you'll find my previous post about Halloween 2013):
01: Halloween Googly Eyed Cupcake Toppers from Valley and Co. Lifestyle | 02: Dangling Eyeballs from Paging Supermom | 03: DIY Baby Octopus Costume from Mermag | 04: Haunted houses for Halloween treats from Mr. Printables | 05: Spinning paper toy from Minieco.co.uk

Halloween Diy and inspiration - 2

01: Printable Invitations from On to Baby | 02: Diy Bat Garland from The Sweet Occasion (2012) | 03: Ghost pompoms from Mr. Printables | 04: Folded paper bats from Martha Stewart (2012)| 05: Black and White decorations by Jurianne Matter for vtWonen | 06: Halloween balloons characters from the october issue of Martha Stewart Living.

Previous post about Halloween: Free printable for Halloween - 1

The Tietgenkollegiet in Copenhagen

I finally found my photos of the Tietgenkollegiet (The Tietgen Residence Hall), one of my favourite buildings in Copenhagen.
It is a dormitory for students where I would live immediately if I had the possibility. It makes me want to be a student again!

I love Yellow

I love yellow and I love blurred photos (did I wrote it before?) (really?)

Ikea's Valkand - Bowl and dish, bamboo and yellow coated steel

Vitra's Eames Plastic Side Chairs in yellow. The Eames Plastic Chairs are renewed versions of the legendary Fiberglass Chairs designed by Ray and Charles Eames in 1950.

Free printable for Halloween - 1

It was a rainy sunday yesterday and I began thinking to Halloween. I sketched this little ghost and I uploaded two printables on dropbox : Boo is a A4 page single printable sketch (use it for cards or bottle labels) and BooLabels is a A4 page with 8 little printable labels (right for treats). You can freely download them here! (if you have problems downloading them, write me and I will help you).
eheheheheheheheh!

Irene Hoofs' Amsterdam loft by X + L

The lighting fixture is an X + L design. 

From Remodelista, the amazing apartment of Irene Hoofs of Bloesem in the Jordaan area of Amsterdam. I dream a space like this! The renovation of the loft was designed by the Dutch duo X + L (Xander Vervoort + Leon Van Boxtel).
Photography by Irene Hoofs.
Read Sarah Lonsdale's article from Remodelista.

Corian countertop

The concrete floor is painted with white industrial floor paint to enhance light.

Decorate with pallets, 6 ideas

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Some ideas to recycle pallets and furnish your home with a personal style:

01: Add colored drawers! This is a great idea also for a desk. From Weiss.cucinebianchi

Things I love - Instagram

01: André Wogenscky, Le mani di Le Corbusier / Le Corbusier's hands (an intimate portrait of my myth, Corbu) | 02: Spring water Sant Antoni - promotion for Cersaie expo by Gamberi | 03: Muji alphabet stamp set| 04: Clarins cotton printed trousse - Feed Project

Photo Editing: Gimp's Filters

I'm using Gimp 2.8 - the free GNU Image Manipulation Program - to edit my photos. I'd never had the time to explore filters before - I usually love untouched or quite untouched images - but I did it yesterday with these origami butterfly series. The shots weren't all well focused but I was liking them the same that's why I thought of filters - to save some pics getting something different;-) I wrote the name of the filter I used under each picture.

Canvas

Fantini, I Balocchi Collection

From Cersaie Expo 2013, Fantini's I Balocchi - reedition of the 1977 collection designed by Davide Mercatali and Paolo Pedrizzetti.