B Dunlap

Even the tattoo looks good:) so beautiful...calligraphy from B Dunlap 

inspiration for the bathroom and more

I have been collecting inspirational photos for our new bathroom last couple of weeks. I especially like combination of white, green/ grey and wood. So nothing new for me:) I'd love to use metro ( subway tiles) for the shower, perhaps in green or blue but also like marble, pricey, but looks stunning. Thinking white marble floor, white or green/ grey painted walls and colored shower metro tiles. What do you think? have you got any experience with marble, how easy is to maintain it? 

sorry I forgot to note images sources ( but some are Living etc. MarieClare...)

TRENDLAND

I have been spending a lot of time lately over at trendland. From beautiful advertising campaigns from 

Boysen Paint, to white on white photos from Jelte Janmaat to instant spray clothing, fashion, interiors, design...great stuff! and that instant spray clothing will be on sale from next year, a can for about $15, you can wash it and wear again! new generation, very futuristic. What do you think? head over for more inspiration....

the nature is ultimate beauty in this world

They said:... 'The Snow is a 15-meter-wide dynamic installation..... Seeing the hundreds kilograms of light feather blown all over and falling down slowly, the memory of the snow scape would lie within people’s heart would be bubbled up.....The snow scape created with the feather would be more like the memory of snow lying with people rather than the actual snow.....The most beautiful things I believe in this world is what is irreproducible, accidentally born, and disorder that cannot be understood by the theory. I believe the nature is the ultimate beauty in this world.'....

Installation by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka. I haven't been to any exhibition for a while and if I live in Tokyo I wouldn't want to miss this. Till November the 7th. Again via very inspirational dezeen

tuesday 3.8.2010

This week I liked this teddy bear from Beth Cust.... and that is icing sugar! please have a look at her website. I thought it was amazing. Stairs, boots, all covered in dreamy sticky icing sugar...

simple yet wonderful packaging from helpineedhelp.com

and their great t- shirt idea

warm orange blanket and office from elle deco

beautiful shower curtain from Anthropologie and this uber cool swimming pool

idea for dream bookcase and more possible, for staircase from Dulux ad

simple storage baskets in Greek style from elle deco

dreamy daybeds and voile

and books recently purchased Amsterdam Made By Hand from Pia Jane Bijkerk

and Etcetera from Sibella Court. I have been feeling little bit under the weather after catering for almost 20 people this weekend but still enjoying summer! Thank you everyone for great comments at my last post. I really appreciate it. Have a lovely summer week! and next week little surprise:)

oliver

I've started to be slightly obsessed with Oliver Jeffers. I mentioned here before how I love his books and illustrations, but last months I discovered 'Lost and Found' film as well. Incredibly sweet, I don't even mind my daughter watches it over and over again. I also bought one of his posters for A. bedroom, can't wait to see it. Have you got any of his books? Does anyone have ' The heart and the bottle' ? if yes what do you think of it? M. thinks he is terribly overrated and this book isn't for children at all...probably not, but I like it:)

what do I do when my husband goes away ?

...DIY....M. went away for the whole weekend and I've been frantically running around the house and painting and painting and...So far I have moved the picture walls, painted a wardrobe, wall in the kitchen and got rid off a fitted carpet in our bedroom. And! painted the floor as well. Five broken nails, backache and two days later I feel content and satisfied. And we manage to go for a little trip with grandparents as well! But one thing I'd like to recommend, don't try to pull a fitted carpet from a room full of furniture:)..uh. I will share all my home changes with you next couple of days, but now please have a look at this amazing wardrobe idea! fantastic! ...sorry just wanted to add -these photos, project is not mine. Bedroom redone from a very talented Elaine

the selby is in your place

There's this thing we New Yorkers do when we walk down the street. We look in the windows of the other people's apartments. We don't do it in a creepy, stalker way. It's nothing like that at all. We do it more in curios, maybe even competitive way, although that's not to say it's in a negative way either.... (The Selby In Your Place).

I went a little bit crazy at Amazon last week and bought loads of books and this is one of them. Homes and studios, famous and infamous people, interesting, strange, full of details, little stories, incredibly interesting.

czech inspiration- miroslav sasek

Miroslav Sasek was born in 1916 in Prague and trained as an architect, because his parents didn't approve of him becoming a painter. In 1945 , after the Communist Party came to power, he emigrated and lived in France and Germany. He worked for Radio Free Europe, before he started his first book This is Paris, published in 1958.

The series of books continued with London, Rome, New York, Edinburgh, Munich, Venice, San Francisco, Israel, Cape Canaveral, Ireland, Hong Kong, Greece, Texas, Australia....

I love the bright colours and stylized drawings, they make me really happy.

Sasek books are very collectible now and in last couple of years a lot of them has been reprinted. You can buy them at Amazon and read more about his life and work here.

I was unaware of him for very long time, which is surprising as we are both Czech but sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees. I have to tell my mum about him as well, especially my mum's maiden name was the same as his and she shares her first name Vera with his sister.

I believe some of his drawings would be wonderful posters for kids rooms. Or tea towels? cushions? what do you think?

Have a great day!