Metal boxes & lava stones | Mad et Len home scents

At home I love to burn scented candles and lately I am enjoying the scent of Koto, our new diffuser that looks amazing! But I have another love…. Think metal boxes, candles & lava stones, and the best fragrances you can imagine. Mad et Len is maybe one of the best kept perfume secrets invented by Alexandre Piffaut and Sandra […]

Temporary Tattoo art by Ylva Skarp

If you traveled around the blogosphere the last few days, you might have noticed these wonderful temporary tattoos ging around designed by the talented Ylva Skarp. You might know here by her striking black and white prints from the early days, I blogged about those here when showing my studio… that seems like ages ago… and […]

Rick Owens Fashion store | Milan

I first came across Rick Owens some years ago, I loved the iconic design pieces presented at Maison et Objet, if you are not familiar with them,  have a look at this blogpost | Rick Owens in Paris | This year there was a small presentation of some of the new furniture pieces in Milan and […]

IKEA X FASHION | Walter van Beirendonck cooperation

June 2016 Ikea will launch a new collection made in collaboration with some well known fashion designers, and I love to see Walter Van Beirendonck creating five prints for IKEA, which will be rolled out on a whole collection of interior design objects. I loved to learn more of his work, the Antwerp Six, and […]

A long time love affair | Just the two of us

If you love music as much as I do, I am pretty sure you will know the feeling of getting totally lost in music. Music makes me happy and it revokes all kinds of emotions in me. I have a long time love affair with Placebo, and I really enjoy listening to their songs. Listening to […]

Bathroom dreams in Black & White | Favourites from Bol.com

Over the last few months I have written several times about my bathroom dreams and the ‘wow’ factor I am looking for. Renovating my home and finding beautiful concrete walls under layers of wallpaper and the use of large amounts of white paint really helped me to refine my taste over the last few years and transform […]

COS X Snarkitecture | Milan design week 2015

After last years amazing installation in collaboration with Mendo | COS X Mendo | I was really curious to experience this years Cos’ installation at Milan designweek by Daniel Arsham and Alex Mustonen of Brooklyn based duo Snarkitecture who changed Spazio Erbe into an immersive translucent cave. The installation involved thousands of strips layered white fabric hanging from the […]

Shopping downtown Reykjavik | DesignMarch 2015

Between exhibitions and openings there was some time to discover some of Reykjaviks best fashion and concept stores downtown. I found the Eyland flagshipstore, after seeing a catalog at Suit. In case you did not read my former Iceland post |Reykjavik Fashion Festival 2015 | Cocktail dresses & white sneakers| the main inspiration for Eyland […]

Reykjavik Fashion Festival 2015 | Cocktail dresses & white sneakers

In my first blogpost about Iceland and my my visit to DesignMarch 2015 |read it here if you missed it| I talked about on how Sari and Birta organised things for us and I really loved all the effort they took in personalising the tour for all journalists from different countries. It is so much easier if people who […]

Buster + Punch | New showroom and Led Buster launch

Last week I was a few days in London for another Blogtour, it was the 5th time we travelled together. And thanks to at{mine}, co-organiser of this London Blogtour and our other sponsors |more about them later| we had some amazing appointments with different designers, and some of the finest and most iconic ventures in Great […]

Ylva Skarp X Annaleena | SS15 collection

Some time ago, back… in 2012 when showing pictures of my new studio on the blog, see here | Studio Update | I first showed the work of Ylva Skarp. Since then she has been covered by many blogs and magazines and she still manage to surprise me with every new collection.  Starting on paper and […]

Something for the weekend… | Tenue de Nîmes Fashion

Hello on this Saturday morning, hope you are doing well. I was at home for almost 2 weeks with a bad flue, who isn’t these days! Luckily I am slowly feeling better now, and enjoying my coffee sitting at the kitchen table writing next Monday’s blogpost, which will all be about Black!  Also black are these images […]