Hasta La Ideas

We just spend our last weekend in the Netherlands after a beautiful summer and extreme nice weather… this week it is time to fly back to our 'normal' life in Asia. Always a bit sad to leave our family and friends again and knowing you will be going back to a life where you always feel a bit like a stranger but that is also the interesting and exciting part… and I am convinced that living in Singapore is best for me and my family at this point in our lives. I have said it so many times before but I do believe that SG has so much to offer and I just love the climate and sunshine …

But let's start this week with some beautiful work by Maartje van den Noort from the Ntehrlands whom I finally met in person …. very briefly though but nice enough to get an impression of this talented lady …

A while ago her home was featured here on Bloesem.

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.. Maartje van den Noort

Raw Color  did it again … Simply perfection and it combines all the things I love .. wool , colors and translucency.

Interior designers Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe were commissioned by a Dutch bank to renew  their office in Eindhoven. With the help from Daphna Laurens, Snodevormgevers and Ecological Textiles a stunning project has happened.

.. Raw Color 

Not often do I open newsletters … just too many arrive in my inbox but the glass table above caught my eye and I immediately recognised the Ladies & Gentlemen studio signature. Their new collection called Mirage is again truly beautiful and very now. Mirage is inspired by a kaleidoscope with it's principle of multiple reflection. 

Dylan Davis and Jane Lee are Ladies & Gentleman and meeting Jane last year made me want to foolow what this talented couple is doing.  

A bit of site searching brought me to Sight Unseen and apartment theraphy where Jane and Dylan recently shared their home. I love the living room and it reminds me so much of the living room from design heroes Ray and Charles Eames … how lucky are they to have found this vintage Florence Knoll sofa.

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.. Ladies & Gentlemen studio

A ceramic artist and illustrator combined forces … and see the lovely result. Mitsy Sleurs from ArtMind, who is living and working in Hasselt, Belgium and illustrator Lila Ruby King from the UK made these mugs, plates and bowls.  

I wanted to share with you my newest line of work, a collection of tableware made in collaboration with illustrator Lila Ruby King.

They named the collection Sea Level. For the imagery, they went with what they are calling a contemporary taken on Delfts blue. I really like them. 

ps. Mitsy shares many interesting tutorials on her blog about ceramics. My favorite must be 'How to apply a ceramic decal/screenprint to porcelain?' 

.. Art Mind

.. Lila Ruby King

A dreamy, sweet and crispy start of the week with Nämä from Finland. This online shop created their own small online free magazine and the images are just perfect! … and yes I do like all the products too.

These cuttingboards are very high on my wish-list and although no images here I do love the small vintage range of ceramics at Nämä.

The beautiful Metsä fabric from Kauniste is perfect for teatowels and NAMA photographed them so well!! But I also like how Time of the Aquarius used the same fabric for their new guestroom. 

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All images by Ruth Landesa except for no. 3 which is by Times of the Aquarius.

.. Nämä from Finland