Today I am loving … this absolutely stunning tiles from Claesson Koivisto Rune. This multi disciplinary design/architecture office is based in Stockholm, Sweden, and was founded in 1995 by former University College of Arts classmates Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune.
(images from Claesson Koivisto Rune)
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Today I’m loving … these beautiful floor tiles.
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One of my favorite designers Patricia Urquiola has designed a stunning collection of rugs and poufs for Spanish label GAN, Gandia Blasco’s carpet and textile brand. I just love every single rug in the collection!
The Mangas poufs have the same distinctive textures and colours as the rugs.
The Mangas (Spanish for sleeves) collection is based on a patchwork of different wool knits, to create a collection of various typologies with different shapes, going from Manga corta (short sleeve) to Manga de campana (bell-shaped sleeve). The result is a series of beautiful carpets in a variety of textures and colours.
(images from GAN)
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This picture shows that dark floors can be beautiful as well!
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I just love white wooden floors. I have to admire them from afar as we have natural colored wooden floors in our home.
The top two images are from VT Wonen.
I found the image above at Emmas Designblogg.
Loving the rustic kitchen in the image above (via Living Etc).
This photo is from the portfolio of stylist Sara Sjögren (via Desire to Inspire).
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Today I’m loving … this colorful Thonet rug and chairs. The image is from the Thonet Showroom in the former home of the Thonet family.
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More rainbow stairs, this one is indoors!
(image from Living Etc)
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I am searching for a kilim rug in similar colours (it should have purple in it!) as the one in the image above (from Tine K). Does anyone know a good source? Or perhaps do you know where this rug is from (Turkey or is it an Afghan kilim rug?) Your help is appreciated as I have been searching the net for days now without any luck..
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When I saw this carpet on Happy Mundane I knew I had to post about it as well. The carpet is designed by Instant Hutong, which are Marcella Campa and Stefano Avesani. The carpet is one of a series of 8 carpets. Each carpet represents different maps of Hutong areas (narrow streets/alleys of courtyard residences that form neighborhoods in Beijing, China).
Each of the carpets has been isolated and presented as autonomous town within the big city. They are embroidered by hand with the same technique of the propaganda slogans on large fabrics used by the communist party during the seventies. The carpets have been filled with white wire wool insertions. All along year 2009 the urban carpets will be shown to the Hutong dwellers inside the courtyards and on the public lanes in order to share the project with people and bring it back to the city districts it was inspired from.
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A long time ago when I justed started this blog I posted about Christien Meindertsma’s giant knitwork. I just found this picture (via Les Carnets du Design) of a piece Christien created for the exhibit Design for a Living World, which just opened at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. The exhibit aims to tell a unique story about the life-cycle of materials and the power of conservation and design. Christien used wool sourced from a sustainable sheep ranch in Idaho to create a large scale knit rug a “flock” of smaller components, each one made from 3.5 pounds of wool, the yield of a single sheep. Then she sewed them all together to make one giant rug.
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