During my recent trip to Amsterdam I had 3 comfortable nights in this cool designer hotel, Hotel de Hallen, a former tram depot dating back to 1902. Converted into an industrial designer boutique hotel filled with…
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Robin Day, well known for being one of Britain’s most famous furniture designers of the 20th Century, sadly passed away in 2010 at the age of 95. His aim was to make good design available…
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As a lover of industrial style I’m so pleased to see the new release of Vipp lighting, this five piece lamp series is pure beauty in product design. Using 75 years of metal work…
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Copenhagen is becoming one of my favourite cities, having only visited twice, it’s left a big impression and captured my heart. This summer I spent 3 days in Copenhagen, with the plan of visiting design show northmodern and immersing…
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This August I visited a design trade show, northmodern, in beautiful Copenhagen. Previously named ‘DesignTrade’ this trade show has been regenerated and reborn into a new innovative, more stylish and sharply curated design show. Based…
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Northmodern showcased a cool new collaboration with internationally acclaimed Danish architects to ‘REFORM’ your IKEA kitchen. IKEA hacking has becoming something of a cool new trend but when I saw that Bjarke Ingels Group, Norm Architects and Henning Larsen Architects…
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Beauty in the simplest of forms. Dutch designer Lex Pott, known for his Pivot shelves for HAY and Transience mirrors, has produced this incredible Spring scissor in collaboration with Nomess Copenhagen for the Wallpaper*…
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For my recent trip to Copenhagen I stayed at the trendy Skt.Petri hotel which is part of the Design Hotels group. When I arrived I was super hungry and was in great need for a scandi…