Irina Graewe

German interiors editor and stylist Irina Graewe has an impressive portfolio. Such a bold, playful approach to colour and some incredibly punchy set ups.
Career crush. Again.






See her site for more amazing work:

irinagraewe.com

Cowhide Ruggery

Very soon we will have a new lounge... a very special red velvet modular number that I inherited but has been in storage for a year now. We've had ongoing issues with leaks in the roof and didn't want to risk our mint condition lounge getting ruined. So now with the leaks all gone and the holes all patched, we get our lounge room back, out comes the red velevt and I get to play with the space.

LOVE the warmth and texture that a brown cowhide rugs brings to a room. I think, with some careful layout consideration, I could make the lounge work with a cowhide rug. Eclectic. Keep everything else quite minimal, with art on the white walls and timber floor boards. I also want to buy a new arc lamp (below).

Ikea sells the rugs for under $400, may have to inspect.

Here is the lounge, photographed in it's original home. My baba's front room was the sitting room which no one sat in- all the fun happened in the kitchen. Hence the lounge being in mint condition.


lamp from vintagelooks.com
Cowhide rug images via google

PS. I am teaching Interior Styling next semester, so I imagine my Images folder on my desktop will be flooded with interiors related content. Fun fun fun!

Insect Hotel

Award winning design by Arup Associates. Different materials are placed inside each segment to attract different insects. The brief called for for a sustainable and creative insect habitat for the city of london parks, called "Beyond the Hive". The segements in the 1500 X 1500 structure reflect the organic shapes found in nature.
Buzzy.

from designboom.com

Loving this blog

Quirky collage amongst some great 'rolled outta bed looking this fabulous' looks.

Turned Out by Maya


http://www.turnedout.tv/

I want to be her: Li Edelkoort

"Travelling, shopping and searching the world over, Li Edelkoort is constantly gathering information and emotions, studying the fabric of society, picking up materials, words, figures and flowers like a global beachcomber."

Forecasting in fashion, interiors, art and design. Travelling the world to speak about fashion, interiors, art and design. How do I get that gig?

Get the full scope of what she does here:

http://www.edelkoort.com/

Permanent Vacation Pop Up

Gothenburg, Sweden from October 2009. The upside down hills hoist type racking spun- view the video here:


Designed by Stockholm designers 1:2:3 and Kristoffer Sundin.

Chet Baker