When I lay eyes on these tiles by Cristina Celestino for Fornace Brioni, I immediately imagined where I would use them in our home… or even better: future home 😉 The shapes, the colors, the patterns… The tradition of Fornace Brioni’s handcrafted brick tiles, that are called “cotto”, dates back thousands of years and is Read article…
Last week I was back in Milan for Design Week. The previous edition (2017) was so good and hard to top, but again it was a lovely trip. Very warm and sunny (27°C), very crowded. In a short amount of time I managed to see quite a bit, but also missed out on so many Read article…
When I was a student and together with Robert for a few months, I bought my very first piece of furniture: I invested all my money into the largest and most expensive boxspring bed I could afford. It hardly fit into my room, but it was huge and comfy. The 180x220cm bed moved with us Read article…
A few weeks ago I was in Zurich together with Igor to speak about the Urban Jungle Bloggers community and our book at the Textile & Fashion Days of the Swiss Textile College. It was really fun as their topic of the year was “Urban Jungle” and they had a Slow Fashion Performance at night with models Read article…
OK, so I made a DIY! It’s been a while since I’ve actually made something with my own hands, but I judged this one was too easy not to try. I received one of the new LED filament bulbs from Plumen and it inspired me to turn it into a table lamp. Filament bulbs have Read article…
Our home is now officially for sale! 27 Rooms at 50 km north to Paris… We are hopeing for someone to fall in love with the building, just like we did 15 years ago. Someone that will turn the incredible surface (504m²!) into their workshop, office and/or apartment. Someone who will enjoy watching the boats Read article…
We just got back from a short, intense and very fun trip to London. Robert joined me as I was invited to speak on a panel at the Town Hall Hotel with eve sleep. Our main goal was to eat at any of Ottolenghi’s restaurants Spoiler alert: we made it to Ottolenghi’s Islington location, we Read article…
Even though I just came back from two crazy and intense days in London, where I spoke at an event and wandered around the city (and visited several plant shops as well… bien sûr) I wanted to show you this peek into the newest plant shop in Paris today: Leaf shop végétal! After four years of Read article…
With January comes furniture fair season. Friday I spent a long day at Maison & Objet to check out the new collections of some of my favorite brands and to discover new (to me) brands. Along the way I met with fellow French bloggers Ilaria, Valérie, Juliana, Freg and Romain, which is always the fun Read article…
The title of this post is total clickbait, but I wanted to tell you about a little Instagram experiment I did this past week, that paid off by being featured on Martha Stewart’s Instagram account. So here we go: In the past months I keep hearing people complain about Instagram’s new algorithms: you don’t see Read article…
