One spilled carrot seed in my tiny vegetable garden grew into 1 beautiful carrot. I hung it with the kitchen tools for my husband to use in one of our meals :o)
Month: August 2012
Vintage Sapique 11
The advantage of a home with 27 rooms, is that you can camp inside your own home while you're renovating. And that's exactly what we did for 7 years. For example: while we were working on the floor heating at the 1st floor, we squatted 2 of the offices downstairs. One was our living-dining-office-everything room, Read article…
Back to… Greece
Today's destination is Greece: you'd expect a deep blue sea & bright white houses, but in my memory Greece was completely different. In 1998, a few weeks before turning 18 I took my first plane ever (!) from Amsterdam to Athens, Greece. Together with a highschool friend we stayed in an affordable hotel with a Read article…
Rusty Colors
Not far from Studio Sapique is this abandoned place: a former workshop building. It's rusty and partly overgrown by greenery. The workmen left their old shirts & boots in the lockers and since then it served as a temporary home for 3 homeless men. Sun & vegetation took over and transformed the rusty door into Read article…
À la plage, à la piscine
Graphic, stylized, fun, sunny & colorful: these photos by Gray Malin have it all. He took these photos from a doorless helicopter hovering over beaches in France, the US, Brazil, the Caribbean & Australia. The series is called "À la page, à la piscine" and is perfect for the ones ( including me ) who Read article…
Weekend tip: Pierrefonds
One of the most impressive castles in the Oise, must be the 14th century Castle of Pierrefonds. It's in excellent condition, was beautifully restorated in the 19th century & has beautiful graphic wall decorations! After a visit to the castle, or in case you're in need for a more laid-back activity, there's nothing more refreshing Read article…
Styloise: Simon
This is a first: I photographed someone for Styloise who doesn't appreciate living in the Oise! Simon, a student from Mouy, prefers hanging out in Paris or Lille, because to him the Oise is boring & "just suburbs". Besides Chantilly he couldn't name another place that he really liked. One of his favorite restaurants is Read article…
The Typography of Travel 2
Beautiful typography spotted on some of my travels: Merci – Paris, France Clas Ohlson – Oslo, Norway Armurier Tourly (weapon shop) – Beauvais, France Rougier & Plé (arts & crafts store) – Paris, France Smile with your heart city campaign – Akureyri, Iceland La Poste – Pierrefonds, France Train shop – Paris, France Muu milk Read article…
French Fika
Yesterday my Italian friend & I went for "fika" at the Swedish Institute in Paris. Fika means having a coffee break with pastries and as one of my Danish readers pointed out, fika is only used in Sweden ( and not in Denmark ). I was looking forward to a delicious kanelbulle, but no luck: Read article…
Back to… Denmark
This summer has been a busy month with lots of visitors here at Studio Sapique, or should I say Hotel Sapique? Friends & family & new friends, all relaxed and in a perfect holiday-mood. In a month from now it will be our turn for some traveling and I can't wait! Especially after writing about Read article…
