Catarina Giarimi- Giarimi Design

Catarina Giarimi is a swedish designer & interior designer. I admire her beautiful engraved glassware. Above you find some of her work, like the lowball glass & martini glass from the series Caribbean Cocktail (pic one & two). And some of the glasses from the Stockholm Schnapps series (pic three & four).

The Stockholm Schnapps series is engraved with patterns based on wellknown sites in Stockholm. Like the Globe, Sergels torg, the subway sign, City Hall, Skansen, Kaknästornet and many others. They come in a very nice package with a cute box, a leaflet with various pictures of the different sites and recipes for home flavoured snaps. A perfect gift!

Ferm Living -Wall stickers

If it was not that we have woven wall paper through out the whole apartment. I would put up some wall stickers from Ferm Living to make it a little more personal & fun in our present home. I will absolutly use their stickers and wall papers in our next home.

Here are some of their oldies and news for this fall.
Mushroom, picture number one.
Fairy Flower, picture number two.
Retro Flower, picture number three.
Flower Field, picture number four.

Check out their website for more news!

Klippans Yllefabrik

Today fall has found its way here too. I am sitting here wraped up in a blanket drinking tea looking out the window. Outside the leaves has started to fall down and it has been raining. A day like this I would not say no to a wool blanket from Klippans Yllefabrik. This wool factory is a family business, started when Jöns Petter Magnusson bought a wool spinning mill at Klippan, Sweden in 1879.

They have so many nice patterns so I have a hard time deciding which one I like the most. These five above are my favorites though.

Picture number 1 & 5 shows RETRO in lambs wool, designed by Karin Mannerstål. Number 2 shows MASK in lambs wool, designed by Lotta Glave. Number 3 shows PRISMA in merino wool, designed by Linda Svensson. Number 4 shows BIRD in lampbs wool, designed by Lotta Glave. Number 6 shows POLKA in lambs wool, designed by Birgitta Bengtsson Björk.

Svamp cushions

These cushions you find at Mio in Sweden. It is called Svamp, which simply means mushroom in swedish. Designed by textile designer Linda Svensson, whom is the designer behind for example Jorun and Patricia from IKEA. I want one of them, the petrol or the olive one. I would put it in our future guest room. So it will probably be found on my wish list for christmas.

Living Box

Well, I thought I might show you a little more about the design exposition Living Box that I visited yesterday. Photos by Jonathan Boussaert. It for free, so if you are in the Nantes area, go and see it! I recommend it!

artists : Absalon, Vito Acconci, Archizoom Associati, Michel Aubry, Francis Baudevin, Mario Bellini, Berdaguer et Péjus, Pierre Bismuth, E & R Bouroullec, Martin Boyce, Angela Bulloch, Tom Burr, Stéphane Calais, Cherrier Alain et Daniel Nuret, Joe Colombo, Matali Crasset, Tacita Dean, Philippe Decrauzat, Dejanov et Heger, Nanna Ditzel, Droog Design et Tejo Remy, Sylvie Fleury, Patrice Gaillard & Claude, Bernard Govin, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Konstantin Grcic, Haberli et Marchand, Marc Held, Jim Isermann, Joris Laarman, Stéphane Magnin, Bernhard Martin, Mathieu Mercier, Regina Möller, Bruno Munari, Lucy Orta, Jorge Pardo, Dan Peterman, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Tobias Rehberger, Tejo Remy, Pia Rönicke, Denis Santachiara, Kristina Solomoukha, Robert Stadler, Studio 65, Tatiana Trouvé, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Joep Van Lieshout, Maarten Van Severen, Franz West et Peter Kogler, Stephen Willats, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Andrea Zittel

Happy Sunday

Yesterday started a little grey for me. But it all changed during the day. Suprisingly I found a package in the mail (that I strangely missed on saturday) adressed to me! It was from a very sweet friend. It couldn't have arrived on a better day! She sent a very cute card, by Hanna Werning, a funny match box from Designtorget with Ernst Kirschsteiger and his strange statments and the last copy of my favorite deco magazine(that I can't seem to find in this city..) Living etc! Thank you so, so much Anna! You are the best!

So, I left the apartment with a smile on my face and went to meet mon monsieur. We went to see Living Box, a design exposition. Later we also got a gift from the parents of mon monsieur, an agave plant! So grey sunday went to be happy sunday!

Arper leaf lounge chair

It is not really time to fix up the balcony.. But I can not stop to think about it. I want to buy arrangements of fall plants in big pots, get cosy lightning, nice seating and spend the evening wraped in a comfy blanket. But instead I went to the nearby park today to, atleast, take some nice pictures of the fall colors around the park. I spent a nice time, and got some great shots too. But, I still have the balcony planning in my head.

I know for sure which fauteuils I want. No other then the Leaf lounge chair, in black. Designed byLievore, Altherr and Molina for Arper (2005). I love leafs, if you had'nt noticed already..

Virrvarr

One of my favorite furnitures is my Perstorps table with the "Virrvarr" pattern. Not only do I love it for the design, it used to belong to my great-grandmother. So I tresure it dearly. This summer it got a good scrub with sand paper and a new coat of vernish. So it looks as good as new again!

The swedish prince, Sigvard Bernadotte, designed the pattern "Virrvarr". And it is the most famous of the patterns for Perstorps laminate sheeting. My desk in school had the same pattern, as many worktops in swedish kitchens. At Sassabrassa you can find many new designed products with the famous pattern. And Formica still make the laminate sheeting worktops for kitchens.

Orla Kiely range at Heal's

The amazing Orla Kiely, has released a new line of furnitures, bed linen, etc for Heal's.
This makes me want to jump in the car and head to Britain right this minute. Click here to see the rest. They also sell her series of notebooks, bags and cups that I so long have been wanting.

I used to own this little guy bought at Heal's before too. That was before one of the monsters knocked it on the floor and it broke into pieces..

After the move, I will try to take a weekend trip or something to the UK avec mon monsieur. Hope they still sell these things above then..

I want to work for google... pictures from their office

Do you want to take the slide down from your office to the cafeteria? Then you want to work for google. Checkout these pictures found at Aftonbladet. The site is in swedish, but you don't need to read to be able to understand the pictures. Click on text in the yellow box to the right after the jump, to see the cool pictures.

Silence, ça pousse!

Today I had plan for a quiet day with lunch and latte in the sun on the balcony. Usually it is very calm there, with view over a garden. But just as I started to make my lunch I heard an awful noise.. Lawn mower... And I am allergic to grass.. So no way I could sit out there now. Today is really not the best time to have big running red eyes, since I am invited to a catalouge launch for a furniture store tonight. I made their furniture layout for the store this year, so I want to see it live. And of course eat one or two of their yummy snacks.

So sad but true, I had my lunch by the computer googling my new favorite tv host, Stephane Marie. He is the host of Silence ça pousse! at France 5, a french tv show about gardening. He goes to peoples houses and help them plan and fix their garden. And he is incredible! I never dreamed about a big garden, but I do watching him. So, when I ever get a piece of dirt to dig in I will call him!

But for the time beeing I have to settle with my citrus trees I got from a friend who moved back to the land fare fare away. And my tiny succelents which anxiously waiting for my father-in-law to make a pot for them.

Newest addition

Yesterday we went to a big flea market held in a big parking place here in the city. I bought this little white guy, who took place by my blue little vase I bought some weeks ago at another flea market. I used to have mikado flowers in the blue one, until the monsters ate them..

Street Light

These are the cutest street lights I have ever seen. They make me smile every time I pass them. I used to pass this street two times a day going to and from my french classes here in my new hometown.

Clever Idea deux

Ripped this picture out from an Elle Decoration some years ago. I like the wall of frames. I am on my way making my own wall like this. But like it is now i don't want to make more holes in the walls, so nine frames is enough for the moment. Even if I have many prints and pictures lying around waiting to be displayed.

Stringhyllan -modern since 1949

I, like all other swedes, like the String system. Designed in 1949 by Nisse and Kajsa Strinning, and still going strong. It is a classic that you find in many swedish homes, young or old.

I had one before, but I want a new one in white/white, or maybe two..

Look on the website for more inspirational photos, in one of them you can see the bowl from Entré that I blogged about before.

Bed room inspiration

I am thinking about making a bird mobile like that myself. The color combination in picture two could work in my bed room, would match the curtains Hanna Linje (picture 4) that I already have from IKEA. Just noticed that the curtains seemed to have been discontinued...
In the third picture I like how they displayed the frames. The picture is from Ana's home at Rearranged Design. All the prints are bought via Etsy. The biggest print on the bottom I know is by Vol.25.

The three first pictures found via Apartment Therapy.

Kitchen inspiration

Flipping trough my inspiration map I found this kitchen. I like the color combination white/black/yellow, the clean feeling and a splash of color for the eye with the yellow chairs. And all the herbes on the countertop takes away the too steril feeling. The picture is from an old Sköna Hem. I wish our tiny kitchen was anything like this. One can only dream that I will have a scandi kitchen again.

Kay Bojesen Monkey

This little guy, the Kay Bojesen Monkey, was a gift from mon monsieur. And he has been hanging around in our living room ever since.

Yesterday I heard a noise and saw that he lost his arm.. Just like that, without any reason or warnings.

The only reason I can think about is that he hung (in the arm that is now broken) on a lamp for some months before we moved him down to sit on a shelf. So maybe the rubber dryed out, since he was hanging in the window.

Well, i don't know. But I want to fix him though.

Entré

Entré from Rörstrand was designed by Carl-Harry Stålhane. It was produced between 1957-1960. It is made out of stoneware with relief stipes and shiny bright colors. The production stopped because it was to expensive to make it.

Angie Lewin

One of my favorite printmaker is Angie Lewin. I like her work alot.

Close up of the fabric posted earlier

Now when it got darker I could take a better pic of the
curtains, so you can see the pattern better.

Coffee and tea

I drink a lot of tea, and sometimes latte. Plain black coffee is not for me, but I still have coffee cups for visitors that wants their coffee black.

My white big cups I use for tea or latte. They are from Trend Interiör. But Trend Interiör has sadly changed their style since some years back. I ordered them when I worked as a purchaser for a design store. I have had them for years and they still do the trick. I love drinking from them. They are the perfect size and I like that there is no ear on them so I can warm my hands at the same time as I sipp the warm drink.

The black ones I have in white too. But with our small kitchen the white ones are for the moment banished packed down in the basement. They are also some years old and are from Hemtex. They remind me of Entré from the 50's by Carl-Harry Stålhane for Rörstrand.

Both spoons are by Arne Jacobsen for Georg Jensen. Originally designed for the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. The ones on the picture is the latte spoon and the expresso spoon.

The tray is from Åhléns.

I want..

I want this day bed so badly, Case Study Day Bed available at Modernica. Designed by George Nelson.