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KOTO a new candle by Skandinavisk X Design Bloggers United

Friday, August 8, 2014

As from next week KOTO, the newest candle by SKANDINAVISK X Design Bloggers United will be launched at Formex fair in Stockholm. The cool thing is that we have been working for some time on this cool collaboration with SKANDINAVISK.

After meeting our team at DesignTrade in Copenhagen in 2013 SKANDINAVISK says they learned about our common principles and design aesthetic. "Your innovative thinking as a Design collective and working together across Northern Europe, seemed a perfect match for our brand and ambitions". says Shaun Russell.

During the process we discussed fragrances, look and feel. The colour is no surprise.... Black! and for the name we came up with KOTO, because we love those small Finnish words, and KOTO means home, a word totally fitting the small moments together at home, SKANDINAVISK believes making Scandinavia so happy and successful.

The beautiful large black hand-blown glass with a mix of perfume, natural and mineral wax and 4 wicks of 100% cotton, has once lighted 72 burning hours and notes of amber, jasmine and vanilla. KOTO will be available from September 1st. Curious already.... pre-order our candle at SKANDINAVISK

pictures & styling Susanna Vento, our lovely new member of the Design Bloggers United team.

Volkshotel | Hotel and meeting place for creative minds

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Volkshotel is a brand new hotel located in the former Volkskrant building. And after a weekend of partying, music and special acts now open for guests, creatives minds and neighbours. I was invited to the opening weekend and just before the party started I had a sneak peek at some of the 172! rooms and the different spaces. It was a great night with lots of nice people, meetings, music, drinks & bites and a beautiful sunset on the 8th floor.

For 42 years the building was the home of one of the biggest, most progressive Dutch newspapers. After the newspaper moved out, the empty building transformed and thanks to the Foundation Urban Resort it became one of the largest creative workspaces in Holland, where hundreds of creative minds found a place to work. By the end of 2010 plans are made for a new hotel including the work studio's and Canvas.

There are also 9 special themed rooms designed by creative minds, like the soixante neuf room by Rosa Winkel and the white bike room.

Volkshotel is a place where everyone is welcome to come to drink, work, eat, meet and sleep.On the seventh floor the old canteen is transformed into restaurant Canvas, where you can have a reasonably priced breakfast, lunch or dinner with 360° views over the city. On the picture above 'the balcony' that goes all the way round. Canvas Club is open during the weekends.

The old installation rooms are converted into Petit Canvas, a place for any occasion, including marriage reception and private dinners. On the 8th floor you can sit outside and have a sauna or use one of the 3 bath tubs.

Interior designer Bas van Tol has created an interior full of magnified newspaper cut outs and original elements of steel, wood, concrete and glass. I can't wait to try out the hotel myself together with our bloggerstour team later this year. Want to try out the hotel yourself ? Stay in the hotel on any date in July for 69 euro's a night!

Volkshotel
Wibautstraat 150
1091 GR Amsterdam
Metro stop: Wibautstraat / or walk from Amstel station in 10 minutes.

pictures (c) vosgesparis.com | amsterdamnext.com

Asplund | Blog tour Stockholm #5

Sunday, February 23, 2014

I am a huge fan of styled corners and also in my own home I like to add small objects together to make little still lifes. The thing I love personally is to have a little starting point as a base, like a marble plate, a bunch of magazines or as in the picture above adding objects together in a mini vitrine. A cubistic form designed by Eva Lilja Lovenhielm for Asplund in lacquered metal with a thick crust in wood or like here in Carrara marble.

They caught my eye when we visited the store during our Blog tour in Stockholm recently, where we got a tour through the shop. And Johan Ridderstråle, who together with Mats Broberg designed the Tati tables one of Asplund's big success stories, took us through their collection. The Tati tables are available in a variety of colours, including lilac, white, grey and green. This year the series is extended with a mirror, coatrack and two different tables — a rectangular and a circular dining table.

After our tour through the shop we had a delightful Turkish dinner together with the lovely people from Asplund, designers, stylists and our group of bloggers at these minimalistic tables surrounded by great design. I loved to see the huge suspensions by Petite Friture and eating from the minimalistic elegant Frame tables. Thank you Asplund for the great reception and wonderful night!

Pictures by Riikka Kantinkoski for Bloggerstour.com

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Thursday, February 20, 2014

lovely items from Sweden

These beautiful personalized BeoPlay H6 headphones were a present from our sponsor Bang & Olufsen who was really generous to offer to every one of us a pair of these really cool headphones. Thanks so much!

Pictures headphones by Riikka Kantinkoski | Vosgesparis

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Creative with BEMZ | Blog tour Stockholm #4

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

A few weeks ago I wrote about how I would love to exchange my current grey sofa for a white and linnen copy |here in this post| and I think a white linnen sofa might be even closer than I thought. During our Blog tour in Stockholm we visited BEMZ on our first night in town.

If you have a piece of IKEA furniture at home and you are bored by the look of it just like me, this is where BEMZ come in handy. They provide custom designed covers for a large range of IKEA chairs, sofa's, cushions, bedspreads and many more. Big chance they can make a brand new cover for your couch as well.

We visited their flagship store in Stockholm |Odengatan 22| where we could see examples and fabrics. After a few bits and bites we were challenged to design our own cushion cover... we could choose any fabric or paint as some of us used| from their huge samples table in the middle of the store.

In case you would love to design your own cover, they provide free fabric samples for those who are not able to come to the store! See many examples here on the Bemz website.

With this sofa and it's designer still in mind I chose to work with black and white linnen and to keep the stitches visible on the outside. The pattern is somewhat predictable but I liked to work with this technique and the super soft linnen.

Here are some more examples in white of IKEA furniture transformed with BEMZ covers. I had a wonderful first evening and would love to thank the girls over at BEMZ!

Bemz cover for Tylösand 2-seater sofa with 1 armrest, fabric: Absolute White Panama Cotton.Bemz daybed cover, fabric: Absolute White Panama Cotton | Picture by Bemz

Bemz daybed cover, fabric: Absolute White Panama Cotton | Picture by Bemz

Pictures Riikka Kantinkoski | Vosgesparis |Bemz

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Stockholm Furniture fair | Blog tour Stockholm #3

Sunday, February 16, 2014

It was the first time I visited the Stockholm Furniture fair during our Blogger tour in Stockholm and really enjoyed the atmosphere. I always love to see how the various brands show their new collection and I was especially happy to see the stand of Danish brand by lassen. I am a huge fan of their design. I think it is the iconic kubus form that I am attracted to most, as I have always loved square shapes more then any other.

By lassen is a family business whose simple mission is to carry the Lassen legacy forward and I loved meeting the great grand daughter of Mogens Lassen who kindly showed me around in their stand. I also choose their 'Twin' table as my favorite item from the Furniture fair |more about that at the end of this post| because I love its versatility and shape, it will be available from April 2014.

The same shape and color pattern is used in the stand - white - wood - grey and copper. The art prints are from Kristina Dam, I wrote about her work last month here: Kristina Dam studio | Graphic objects

Due the short time we had, we mainly focused on Hall A and the Greenhouse area where our blogger team collected favorite items and booths for the Furniture & Light Fair blog. We thought Menu, String and by Lassen really stood out.

String

Gerard also wrote a review on the Greenhouse area, the area for young designers where we spend a lot of time talking to many of them | I will link it here as soon as it's on the Furniture & Light Fair blog | meanwhile check it here on the Mr. Walnutgrey blog. I think we all loved the secretaire by Karen Toft in this area and I loved the work of Hanna Dalrot who showed here graduation project for Product design at Beckmans College of design.

Karen Toft Secretaire

Graduation project of Hanna Dalrot

We only had a few hours to walk around and as always... it's a matter of too little time and to much to see at fairs like this. We had a little break at Maze and they kindly invited us to have lunch with them. It was also great to talk with some people I met in Paris and Milano before, and of course, the most important! to have a look at the brands presenting their new collections and meeting new, young and talented designers.

Pictures by Riikka Kantinkoski for Bloggerstour.com

Thanks to UBER for driving us to the fair and around in Stockholm

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No Early Birds | Blog tour Stockholm #2

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

neb double storage container in black and brass by No early Birds

Hope you liked having a sneak peek at our Blogger apartment in yesterdays post, today some more of it. As you might have noticed the apartment was furnished like a real home. Emma who did most of it before we arrived also added lots of personal items to it, giving it an even more homey feeling. We really felt at home and add the end of the party we were all chatting and laughing on the huge and comfortable Auping beds.

In one of the rooms we had a small storage | workspace by No Early Birds. No early Birds is a timeless design collection designed and produced by Per Söderberg. He studied design at Domus Academy in Milan and established his architecture and design studio in 1997 in Stockholm. The collection uses a limited set of parts to create a full range of products. The metal cross-leg being the main feature of the collection. As you can see in the pictures the cross-leg comes back in the stools and the candleholder on top of the desk, as is the little touch of brass.

Neb storage and Stool in metal and leather | Speaker BeoPlay A9

accessories & candleholder by Granit | Lamp in brass by No early Birds

Wireless and portable speaker by & Olufsen | Stool No Early Birds

Pictures by Riikka Kantinkoski for Bloggerstour.com

Styling by Emma Fexeus

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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Furniture and accessories by One Nordic | No Early Birds | Granit

One of the best things of our Design blog tours is that in every country and town we visit we work with different brands and do different and exciting things. Also for our recent Stockholm tour we came up with a new concept. We called it the Blogger Apartment! Well known Stockholm and Berlin's most talked about real estate agency Fantastic Frank gave us an amazing space that we furnished with appliances, furniture and accessories from our sponsors.... and it looked amazing.

I wish I could have brought some of the pieces from our apartment home, but even more I wish you had seen it! Like with every 'new home' and because we are bloggers who love to meet you, we organized a party during Stockholm Design week to show our apartment. And over 100 people joined us for a glass of wine, admired the apartment and listened to the Bang & Olufsen Sound through the various speakers. Hope you like to have a look around as well through this blogpost and hope to meet you when we visit your city!