Cheer-me-ups

This rainy and windy weather doesn’t seem to want to stop. June seems months away, so I thought I’d recollect the things that brighten my day to shun this dismal grey.

In the top picture, the interior and the way the family is gathered around the table seems bright and warming. The photo depicts the family of Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti in Casa Via Dezza as seen on Yatzer.

Flowers always brighten my mood. The above picture is from a favorite blog by Miss Moss.

Thinking of (and of course being in) Paris always makes me happy! I like this map drawn by American illustrator Josie Portillo.

Last but not least: I love big studio spaces especially with huge vaulted windows providing lots of light and fantastic rooftop views like in this studio of this woman artist Gisèle d’Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht. I really like the space and all sorts of working material and inspirations laying around, not to mention the old furniture combined with her work.

Probably not your grandmother’s favorite chair

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1. She may worry that she would get a charcoal stain on her Sunday best. Chair from the Smoke Collection by Dutch designer Maarten Baas for Moooi. 2. She may feel insecure and hesitant about leaning back. Lathe IV chair by Dutch designer Sebastian Brajkovic. 3. She may not see it, especially if she forgets …

These are a few of my favorite things…

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… that I’ve been longing for the past year, and am now so lucky to be in possesion of (due to me getting yet another year older last weekend!) Last year I got my first new (used) city bike in crazy hot-pink/black and have been wanting to give it a dull black touch-up. At the …

Style Icons

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Do people still have style icons? Although, every now and then, I may be inspired by some new starlette’s detail (Lana Del Rey’s pointy long fingernails for example), there are three women that have been my “style icons” consistently for many years. Each inspire me for various reasons. One would be the french actress Charlotte Gainsbourg. …

Of Places and Spaces

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I always find architecture inspiring. I love the structures, the spaces and the textures that unfold especially when photographed so beautifully like in Deimel+Wittmar’s photos of architecture from the 1920’s in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (pictures 1, 5, 6) There is a young artist, Dominik Louda, showing now at the Kerstin Engholm Gallery in Vienna who also …

Spring is yellow

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I recently recieved a few huge branches of a forsythia and put them in a simple vase in front of our black wall in the living room. It looked absolutely stunning. Unfortunately the photos I took from my android phone’s camera didn’t. So I searched the web and found this beautiful alternative on Martha Stewart’s …

Klitika and Collages

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The past week I’ve been working on my Klitika series. I have so many magazines and newspapers that have great images just waiting to be cut up and reassembled. The Klitika are part collages, part line drawings. In morphology and syntax, Klitika is the german translation for clitics: morphemes which depend and “lean” on neighbouring …