Hasta La Ideas

You probably remember this post … I think everybody in blogland agreed that this is a gorgeous living room…I was lucky that after posting the person who lives here send me a very nice email and her name is Stephanie Rammeloo.

Stephanie lives in this amazing house in Amsterdam and as you can clearly see from her home she is a very creative and stylish lady … Stephanie began her career by making cookbooks and advertising concepts for a publisher, but soon she became a freelance stylist, and as she calls herself she is a concept-designer, working for Dutch magazines like VT Wonen…

But that’s certainly not all this very nice lady does… Stephanie recently co-authored, styled and illustrated two fantastic cook books….The first one is Happiness is a Cupcake together with  Sanne Dirkzwager and beautiful photography by Paul Barbera, on of Stephanie’s favorite photographers.

Stephanie works from this office…yes I’m jealous and Yes I love and understand ‘the white’ … her latest cook book is about my favorite food country in the world, although I love the asian food, I have to eat Italian once a week, so Stephanie’s wonderful book is high on my wish-list… La Cucina d’Abruzzo… Stephanie partnered up again with Sanne Dirkzwager and created the whole concept for this cook book, the beautiful images are by Mark Niedermann.

One of Stephanie’s best examples of knowing how to bring style, functionality and taste to a house is her fantastic own home … her friend Paul Barbera
made some beautiful pictures of it. 

And with knowing how to combine functionality with style I mean these
two great build-in closets, the white doors are amazing, I would love
to hear who made them for her 🙂

For her work, Stephanie needs to keep the inspiration flowing, she likes
to keep up with what is happening in the
world and according to her there is no better way of doing this than
traveling, so she tries to do that as often as possible…well Stephanie
you are more than welcome to visit Malaysia and help me create a beautiful home like yours. Thank you!

If you would like to ask Stephanie something about her work please send her an email.

Tomorrow I will be showing you a post about Stephanie’s visit to Maison et Objet in Paris last January, where she made some great images for us and spotted the latest trends.

Four posts in One today that are all being connected with each other … I start with studio mhl … after graduating from the design Academy in Eindhoven and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Monique van Bruggen started her own jewellery label in 2004 called mhl. Together with fellow jewellery designer Bonne van der Ree she shares a studio/showroom in Amsterdam called Studio Bonbon.

But perhaps you have heard her name somewhere else recently … could be possible that you have seen Monique at work at Studio IJM, the well-known and probably the best styling studio from the Netherlands …

and while reading Monique’s beautiful blog I discovered another talent and from Monique … namely designing her boy friends website ‘eb ontwerp‘ …and this is how I found the cool furniture designs by him, Erik Bakker.

I immediately recognized the beautiful ceramic vase on the table, yes it is from Mara Skujeniece from her Spool series. It’s not the first time I’m writing about this amazing artisit, I really love her work (the new website looks great!) and I am so happy that I now know of a place where I can buy here collection online …. Zilu

And this is the fourth part of my post today for you … Zilu a new Dutch online webshop founded by  Ghazaleh Dabiran and her husband. Zilu is a place where you can buy beautiful handmade products made with care and from very high quality. Some of the designers at Zilu will be very familiar for you but some of you, like studio mhl will probably be a nice addition to your wishlist!

posters by Studio Violet and Sandra Monat available at Zilu.

Fun tableware wallpaper by Studio Ditte…

I couldn’t find a more appropriate design then the Dear Diary 1.0 … a computer embedded in a traditional wooden desk by Dutch designer Marlies Romberg…to start my first day on Bloesem. It’s the perfect example of bringing the Old and the New together in the beginning of this New Year … and the other reason is that I will be buying a new computer today …my sweet apple really has become too slow, I will miss my buddy, he has been a very good friend of mine for a long time…but time to move on and speed things up … more info about Dear Diary 1.0 here at Mocoloco..

{ps. tomorrow I will be back with more from the Let’s Get Personal Tour, more Dutch designers will be showing their homes :)}

This weekend the Dutch design week 2009 starts and oh how I wish I could go there … if you have images from this event you would like to share with me on Bloesem, please shoot me an email…I would like to sign off this week with the incredible textile designs by Mae Engelgeer, aka fabricfreak. She designed this ‘Muse Collection‘ as an ode to her muse: the bow and the collection was manufactured at Audax textile museum. Some of the pieces are available online at Wannekes. Enjoy your weekend! ..irene