Launching this week at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show in New York is Bornholm Kitchen – the new line created by my friend, fellow blogger, and kitchen design maestra, Susan Serra: Bornholm Kitchen is inspired by the design aesthetic and the natural surroundings of the island of Bornholm and Susan’s Danish ancestry – although ...
Oh this is fun – do you ever wonder what it’s really like to live in Sweden? Can the Swedes, and their homes, really be as stylish and well adjusted as their enviable image would suggest? I for one am often guilty of style envy when it comes to Scandinavian design, as you can tell ...
It is one of the design world’s enduring mysteries, as far as I am concerned. Why is it that the more likely your country is to experience a long, cold winter, the more likely you are to have a white on white kitchen? (via) For evidence, I cite Mia, at the cool blog Trendey, who ...
When you really can’t decide which color is your favorite, why not have them all? Found at Husligheter. I have to admit I really like the effect – of course it only works with the absolutely calm white and neutral surroundings. A cornflakes box would ruin it. With today’s hinge technology, you could probably even ...
Clearly I’m not part of the demographic this publicity photo, from Swedish kitchen company Marbodal, is aimed at (via): Yes, I understand that many more people are remaining single for longer these days, and singles have kitchen needs too – but I just want to tell this smug lout to put the Crackberry down and ...
Or pictures, at least. Eames shell chairs are multiplying around kitchen tables everywhere. I don’t know which are original, which are reproduction, which are copies, and which are fakes – or for that matter, whether my rear would know the difference – but they make eminently practical kitchen chairs: I’m especially seeing them in white, ...
I do seem to be stuck on those Wegner Wishbone chairs this week. Also called the Y chair, and the CH24 - definitely a modern classic. AND the perfect excuse for me to feature another collection of kitchen tables. The PH50 light fixture by Louis Poulsen is another Mid-Century classic, originally designed in 1958 (PH5): ...