Marimekko | Spring 2017

This spring Marimekko introduces a new table setting range born from the collaboration between designers Carina Seth Andersson and Sami Ruotsalainen, the designer of the Oiva tableware. The new

Evelyne Prélonge Paris | Luxury Faux Furs

I could use fur only if fake, so I'm happy to find brands like the parisian Evelyne Prélonge.
Evelyne Prélonge has worked for high fashion for 20 years before

Federico Pepe | cc-tapis + installation at Spazio Pontaccio

cc-tapis revealed the new collection designed by Federico Pepe and launched Avril 2015 in

Dimore Studio | Palmador 2015

Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran - the duo behind  Dimore Studio - celebrated the 10th year of their partecipation to the Milan Design Week presenting the collections "Palmador" and "Tessuti" with a new

Salone del Mobile di Milano 2015 | Random

Random inspiration from the Salone del Mobile 2015 in Milan:
up - At Danish Living Room, wall decoration with re-usable sticky bricks by Wallz and Cadovius Butterfly shelves by DK3 | Stool from the Companion series by Philip Grass
after - Flow flooring collection by Bolon

up -  Rocking chair high and rocking two-seat sofa from the

Apartment in Manhattan | Get the look

If you love the look of the apartment in Soho of yesterday post, you will find some similar items here:
01: Stemless Glassware - Gold Rimmed | 02: Color blocked baguette boards made of Pennsylvania-grown Sycamore | 03: Enudden wall shelf - Ikea | 04: Bekvam step stool, white - Ikea | 05: Powder pink linen tufted fabric wallpaper by Koziel | 06: BoConcept ottoman | 07: Custom throws and pillows by Mischa Lampert

Kvadrat: Celebrating Divina | Milano

House of Rym - 2014

Spring Summer 2014  Collection

Marimekko Unikko 50 years + Home Collection Spring/Summer 2014

In spring 2014 Marimekko encourages people to be bold in realizing their visions for their homes and letting their imagination run free.
In 2014, Marimekko also celebrates the 50th anniversary of its most iconic pattern, Unikko.

Maija Isola’s classic Unikko (poppy) pattern was born in 1964 shortly after the company’s founder Armi Ratia had announced that Marimekko would never print a floral pattern. Maija refused to obey Armi’s orders and, in protest, designed an entire

The Story of Bolon - The Book

Lars and Monica

We were talking about Bolon, the Swedish company producing unique woven floors, in my previous post.
Well, to celebrate their ten-years anniversary, the third generation owners, Marie and Annica Eklund, have presented a very special book dedicated to the story behind their family business and realized by the editor Simon Mills with the beautiful black and white photos by the internationally famous photographer Tobias Regell.

“The Story of Bolon” is a flirtatious dalliance with the fine books found on the coffee tables of the fashion world. 
The book interweaves memories and historical photographs from Bolon’s early days, comprising unique collection prints and personal interviews with some of the world’s foremost creators, designers and architects; from Rosita Missoni, Jean Nouvel and Giulio Cappellini to Thomas Sandell and Gert Wingårdh. 

A digital edition of the book is available here.

Marie

Marie and Annica

Annica

Marie and Annica

The Family!

Bolon launches new studio tile WING

Bolon Wing

During 2013, Bolon launched Wing - a flooring tile produced from roll material that with its shape may be combined with several of the Bolon’s collections reenergising them and adding a nice variation. 
Wing is part of Bolon Studio and was created expecially to facilitates new dimensions for interior design environments. 

Throughout 2013, Bolon is celebrating the ten-years anniversary of the third generation owners, Marie and Annica Eklund.
Bolon is a third generation family business. The company’s history starts in Stockholm in 1949, when Nils-Erik Eklund had the brilliant idea of using textile waste from the neighbouring factory to manufacture woven rag rugs. The company’s name is a combination of the first and last letters of the Swedish words BOmull (cotton) and nyLON. In the 1960s the enterprise - handed down to Lars and Monica Eklund - continued developing the rag rug concept and created a completely new business niche – awning mats for caravans.
The third generation of the family, the sister Marie and Annica, took over the enterprise in 2003 and embarked on the journey that would shape Bolon for the future. 

Today, Bolon is a design-led business which produce unique woven floors for creative and inspiring environments. 
All of their floors are designed and manufactured from their factory in Ulricehamn, Sweden. 
The production is energy efficient, careful to recycling and to assume responsibility throughout the product cycle. 

Hollandse Nieuwe Offices - Bolon Botanic Collection

Lebuïnuskerk, Deventer, The Netherlands - Architect Van Hoogevest - Bolon Create Pario Collection

Society – Limonta – Italian textiles

The most intriguing stories often start with a question. “Why not create something for ourselves, when all we have created so far has been solely for others?” The rumination is that of Limonta, a firm that started life in 1893 in Costamasnaga, near Lecco, an area with one of the longest textile manufacturing traditions in Europe. Limonta has worked in the clothing, furnishing, sports, and automobile sectors. Answering to the previous question, Limonta has formed in 2000, Society, a special firm driven by the desire to try out innovative solutions in home couture.
Society selects the best fibres from linen to wool and unearths those that perhaps nobody any longer uses, such as manila hemp. Thanks to the production capacity of the Limonta Group, Society can now produce “in house” flat-weave and jacquard-weave fabrics, velvets and terry cloth, and much else, and take the time to try out new combinations and mixes never yet tried. This is a real luxury to afford today.

Let’s take “whole-product dyeing”. This is a dyeing technique in which fabrics are assembled in unprocessed form and then dyed in the “dye bath”, without any mechanized drive. The result is a natural, spontaneous imperfection that confers on each single item a distinctly “used” appearance and, at the same time, makes it shrink resistant to every wash. In this way, every tablecloth and every bed sheet has a unique colour shade that marks it out from any other. This feature increases the scope to combine, mix, and create differences and unusual colour contrasts. It is Society that thought of them, but the creativity is left to you.

Society's range of products includes: table, bedroom, bathroom, accessories, clothing, baby.
http://www.societylimonta.com/

Mia Cullin - textiles design from Sweden

In Mia Cullin's portfolio, I expecially love the textiles projects. In this post, I'll show you two of them, but you can look at the others in her website.
Above, Flake, star shaped pieces from TYVEK joined together to make curtains or room dividers with three dimensional surfaces - produced by Woodnotes.
Following, Lily, carpet in leather and cushions in wool felt. Made of assembled star shaped pieces.
Mia Cullin works as designer and interior architect in Stockolm. She worked for Woodnotes, Nola, Ikea, Habitat and Ateljé Lyktan.

Mimou - Sweden | Creativity Rules

... decorating is not nuclear science - it´s all about bringing items together with love.

Mimou is a Swedish productor of gorgeous wallpaper, linen, cushions, fabrics, furnitures. These snapshots come from their last beautiful inspiring catalog celebrating the end consumer and well titled 'creativity rules'.
In the making of our products we always have the user in mind and we are always curious as to what happens with the product when it "leaves home". What will it look like? Will it be happy? Will it be cared for? We are a bit like anxious parents to a teenager.
In Sweden we have a saying: The taste is like the butt - divided. Well, in this catalog we wanted to find out more... We invited 7 people to show their version of what our products look like in their environment. The result blew us away with astonishment. All styles were distinctly different from each other and still we loved them all.

mimou ab gamla landsvägen 2 372 31 Ronneby
phone: +46 457 19070 fax: +46 457 27075
info@mimou.se
www.mimou.com

Kinnasand, new HEMP collection

The new Kinnasand HEMP carpet collection stands for a carpet collection of authentic unique pieces. The handwoven kelims are characterised by the prevailing tradition of the nomads and a puristic design language. Each HEMP carpet is composed of fragments of ancient kelims handwoven in 100% hemp, narrating it’s own story. Since every fragment of your HEMP kelim comes from different provinces, colour shadings and differences in the weaving structure are essential features.

The kelims of the collection are unique pieces with a history. Each original piece is composed of fragments of ancient carpets, handwoven by the nomads in 100% hemp.
For the HEMP collection best quality of these 30-60 year old kelims are selected on site. The carpets are repeatedly wasched, bleached, dyed and dried. They are individually manufactured and reassembled carefully by hand.

Since every fragment of your kelim originates from different provinces, colour shadings and differences in weaving structures are significant features. Eventual appearance of shady areas, single extraneous yarn as well as small knots are manifestations of its authenticity.

The HEMP Kelims - plain and multicolour - are unique pieces with a history and are available in 10 standard sizes. Individual sizes are possible upon request.

Following, two pieces of a previous collection of Kinnasand, the VINTAGE Carpet Collection.

Bungalow DK

The paper-card I bought in Ravnsborggade, Copenhagen