Sukha Amsterdam shop is on the top three list of favorites by talented blogger and interior stylist Desire, a “tough lady” with an exquisite approach to design and great taste in shopping. Through reading her blog Vosges Paris, I got myself familiar to this concept store (which despite my five visits in the city of canals and bicycles the past few years is still waiting patiently on my list of ” awesome places to see”). At Sukha, the interior changes a few times around the year, proving how capable and inspired the styling team working there is. Continue reading →

For the Asplund family that lives in Stockholm, Scandinavian design is something more than just a superb way of arranging their living environment. As owners of their own furniture store, named after their family, the Asplund store, they have incorporated in their home’s design many of the elements available in their store. Scandinavian design therefore is indeed for them a way of life, both in professional and personal spectrum. Characteristic cabinets, carpets, lights, chairs and carefully selected decoration and kitchen objects all are combined together to make up a very individual, inviting and functional space. Continue reading →

Are you ready for yet another visit to a gorgeous property? This time we are flying to {well, unless you are already located there!} the north of Sweden geographically and chronologically back to the 18th century. A fabulous combo don’t you think? This rustic farmhouse has been carefully and so beautifully renovated by the owners and the architects and designers they hired, in order to keep intact some of its charm dating back to the years, while becoming modern and functional for the needs of a rather large family. Continue reading →

“Paris is always a good idea” said lovely Audrey Hepburn. She was far from wrong and this is why I’m sharing here with you another Parisian home residence. This time it is a modern atelier located north of the city. It belongs to interior designer Marianne Evennou and her husband Frank Evennou, who is an artist. Both their identities are reflected throughout the whole place, as art meets design and interior architecture in such a fabulous way. Continue reading →

Today I’m sharing a most interesting approach that combines kitchen, ecology and effective recycling. I must admit that quite a lot of time has been spent from me diving deeper and deeper into its details in order to come up with a few basics to share with you. At the beginning it seemed to me that I was learning about a NASA program!
Completely astonished, line by line read, I was being informed about how in fact the vision of some people can have a great impact on our everyday living and our lives on this planet. Continue reading →

It’s a brand new year, and for some of us that means a brand new kitchen! If you’re planning a kitchen redesign but you’re stuck for inspiration, we’ve got some of 2013’s hottest trends wrapped up: Continue reading →

This remodeled roof top in Paris has been landing on my laptop’s screen over and over again lately. The final notice that the time has indeed come to share it with you was when I stumbled upon it this morning browsing through one of my favorite German Interior magazines that come home monthly.

The dark colors that the two architects has used to create their warm abode for themselves and their son, situated on the last floor of an old convent {yes indeed!} in the center of the city of lights attracted me in an usual manner, me being a lover of white, Scandinavian like interiors. Continue reading →

What do Italian design and Chinese calligraphy have in common? Well, depending on the perspective pretty much or perhaps not quite a lot. But in the case of the Italian bathroom design brand Neutra, Chinese calligraphy is the initial inspiration for the creation of their recently released, sleek, minimal collection called Inkstone, designed by the award winning architect Steve Leung. Continue reading →

My husband and I have been living by the woods since a little bit more than a year, have I ever mentioned that here? It can be miraculously beautiful and charming I have to admit, like living in a different epoch, so long as one is willing to pay attention to all the changes happening throughout the year, as seasons pass. Mostly visual changes, but also hearing and smell ones, not to mention of course the taste, which is at its peak during summer with all the berries the forest has to offer.

However, the forest I’m sharing with you here today is not one that changes as seasons alter. It is the same all year long, but equally magnificent day after day in its gorgeous conception. This marvelous, enormous dining room you are seeing here, is the cafeteria area in the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia, designed by Spanish architects Estudio Nomada. Continue reading →

I’m excited to share with you this next project – the design of which is truly refined. The house of Meryl and Ed Mandelbaum charms at the very first sight, having the perfect location – nestled in the beautiful Berkshires on a lake side and the edge of a forest.

This 2.900 sq. ft. home combines local identity, modern approach and absolutely unique features. What I like most about the house is that its interior design seems to blend traditional with contemporary, floating somewhere in between… Continue reading →