Colour Pops in Sweden

The walls and floors of this beautiful Swedish home are all white, but wooden furniture and colorful home accessories give pops of color to the interior. There is so much to love about this home but my favorite area is the light and airy living room with chairs from Jonas Lindvall and that gorgeous wooden pendant light which was a flea market find!

Mae Engelgeer's Beautiful Textile Designs

We love these pretty textile designs by Mae Engelgeer. This Dutch designer based in Amsterdam likes to design colorful and eye catching products which are like a piece of art in any interior. 

Billowing paper sculptures by Peter Gentenaar

Netherland-based artist Peter Gentenaar creates billowing paper sculptures that are born out of what he couldn’t do with commercial paper. As a printmaker, Gentenaar’s search for a better type of paper led him to an unexpected process of creating his own custom beater that processes and mills long-fiber paper pulp into the material he now uses in his artwork. “My sculptures start as totally 2-dimensional,” says Gentenaar, describing the process in which his organic forms come to life. As the wet pulp dries around the bamboo framework it begins to shrink and curl. The resulting sculptures, massive, yet delicate seem to resemble underwater organisms gracefully floating in water. The pieces are then suspended in mid-air in sprawling spaces like churches. 

One for the Kids - Decorating with Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs… Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, Diplodocus, Triceratops... we're noticing a bit of a dinosaur trend in the current children’s inte­rior design world, so here are some of our favourite piccies for inspiration...!

 

The Original Pantone Book

271 years before Pantone, an artist mixed and described every colour imaginable in an 800 page book!

In 1692 the artist known only as “A. Boogert” sat down to write a book in Dutch about mixing watercolours. Not only would he begin the book with a bit about the use of colour in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding one, two, or three parts of water. The premise sounds simple enough, but the final product is almost unfathomable in its detail and scope. Spanning nearly 800 completely handwritten (and painted) pages, it was probably the most comprehensive guide to paint and colour of the time. 

Quirky Architectural Design - Ibiza

We have fallen in love with the quirky interior and exterior of this beautiful getaway in Ibiza, if only we were soaking up some rays there right now!!

With spectacular views of Ibiza’s west coast, Villa Terramar is a vacation home like no other. The ultra-modern, two-building residence is split over several floor-like layers and sits within the natural habitat that surrounds it over the beach of Cala Tarida. With a quirky and super fun color palette, the villa was designed, by Andres Jaque Architects.