Saturday
Apr072012
Feminine Designs by me... boudoir-style.
April 7, 2012 Post a Comment Some snippets of latest personal project showing prints and look&feel for lingerie and wallpapers. Boudoir Design!
Tuesday
Mar062012
Beautiful Clean Lines
March 6, 2012 Post a Comment This week I twice came across beautiful simply designed food venues, very classical with clean lines and keeping a feeling of last century eating and shop locales.
"Steak Frit" is a brasserie that has several restaurants in Belgium, with a lovely black&white theme and classic fonts. "STEAKfrit' is a modern and contemporary brasserie with stylish traditional elements that refer to the classical Belgian kitchen without nostalgia." is what it says on their website. Love the website too!
Secondly, Uliveto Nobili Ingredienti, an Italian traiteur on the Weteringschans in Amsterdam, where I passed by and just had to have a cappucino with a piece of chocolate-hazelnut cake. It is so stylish in an understated way: simple, cool, with a beautiful marble table, a big glass counter showing off the food they make, and an "open office" situated behind an old-fashioned counter. Big windows with tiny lettering, very cool (not so good to get attention, but I was tempted anyway, so...).
Steak Frit' Brasserie
website Steak Frit'
Uliveto Nobili Ingredienti - foto's taken from Urban Fair
Tuesday
Jan172012
The finished article: Sweet Mrs. Brown
January 17, 2012 Post a Comment Sweet Mrs. Brown is a local lunchroom, offering breakfasts, lunch, coffee & cake, in one of Amsterdam's residential areas.
The aim was to create a warm and inviting atmosphere, combining the homely with a certain elegance added with a bit of fun.This mood is expressed by the name "Sweet Mrs. Brown", the logo design and graphics.
Wallpaper, fun lighting, wood textures and playful accessories were introduced to complete the scheme and create a delightful location to enjoy a nice lunch or coffee.
Saturday
Oct152011
Very busy....
October 15, 2011 Post a Comment Just to show some photos of latest project... "La Piccola": opening on next thursday.
Monday
Sep052011
Inspired by books - The Children's Book
September 5, 2011 Post a Comment A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children's book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves. (Goodreads)
I didn't love this book, but it did inspire me to create moodboards and collect images that show the themes in the books I have read.
"The Children's Book" is full of images from the late 1900's and I have found some wonderful pictures, artworks and interiors to express some of the themes in this book.
William Strang: Cynthia 1917, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Blue Bower (1865), Philip Burne-Jones: Portrait of Irene Spencer 1912, Photo: www.weheartit.com
fabric by Lizzo, wallpaper by Cole&Son, painting: Paul Wayland Bartlett: Pearce Bartlett 1890
bowls and jug by Tracy Porter, "Artichoke" wallpaper designed by John Henry Dearle for Morris & Co. Printed design pre-1900, V&A Archive: Steiner Textiles, Van Briggle Lorelei Vase
Douglas Volk: Artist's Daughter, rest found on www.weheartit.com
Duncan Grant:Vanessa Bell (Pregnant with the Artist's daughter) Angelica, Carolus-Durand: Study of Lilia - 1887
And here are some interiors that express the late Victorian age, the Arts & Crafts Movement, Bloomsbury Group and artistic and bohemian lifestyles described in the book.
The beautiful studio of Bloomsbury artist Duncan Grant
Duncan Grant: Flowers on Tiles
Interior by Tracy Porter
Interior by Tracy Porter
Lizzo Fabrics
Could this be the library in the Wellwood's house?
and last but not least:
found on "we heart it"