Spring atmospheres

In the early days of Spring, our wardrobes want soft colors, shortened sleeves, light trousers and dresses ... I was dazzled with the new kids collection from Zara ....

Flower prints, delicate embroideries, a palette of soft colors, a mix of "must have" this spring, such as as the striped sweater tunics and the western shirts, with more basic pieces...

Have a look at their new collection : you'll sure find great silhouettes for your kids.

Paris family style

Parisian families, artists and designers have opened their front door to the Japanese editor Paumes. "An introduction to the kids , a tour of the home and a glimpse of family's everyday - their loves, their laughs and their favourite pass-times" : this was the purpose of the visits of their interiors. You will have the pleasure to visit the interiors of some of our favorite French designers such as Petit Pan, April Showers...
A great decoration book to discover creative homes, each with a personality of its own, from colourful to flea-market chic, from romantic to cool, vintage to contemporary design... Bienvenue à la maison!
To shop here

Bensimon Gallery

After clothing and home decor collections with his parisian store Home Autour du Monde, Serge Bensimon has opened in the fall a gallery.  
The place is intended to promote design and decoration artists who "sublime creations and modernize the wood, ceramics, crystal of craftsmanship, unique pieces and small series that run around nature. A kind of arts and crafts of modern times ", he explains this month to French Elle Decoration magazine.
The collection rotates every three months so feel free to visit and come back! 
His next project? Why not decorate a hotel or design a green house... we can not wait!
Bensimon gallery, 111 rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris

French decoration shows in Paris

End of January were held in Paris Playtime and Maison et Objet decoration shows launching new 2010 trends for our interiors.
At Playtime, dedicated to the world of the children, the ethnic chic, ecological and multiplication of new french brands trends were still valid.
I admired it on the blogosphere and identified, in particular, stands from two little brands Noix de coc' and les petites emplettes. Their collections offer bedding linens and supplies for kids small rooms. A playful, fresh, bright and colorful 2010 collection for Noix de coc and spontaneous, authentic and natural for Les petites emplettes.
The exhibition demonstrated once again that the decoration for kids grows from year to year and left the pink and blue layettes aside for brightful universe now.


The "path of influence" of the Maison et Objet fair was cut  in three stages: "transculturation," "cooperative," "Hybrid".
For Elizabeth Leriche, Director of her own style office, member of the Maison et Objet Observatory and interrogated by the blog of the show, the mix of cultures was noticeable this year, " with collections resulting from an exchange between western designers and craftsmen, including bringing African culture and know-how. Like the collection of Tord Boontje in collaboration with Senegalese craftsmen for the company Moroso.

 
"The design of this collection, in which other designers have participated, is certainly European, but the forms are inspired by African culture as textiles. The same goes with the chair by Konstantin Grcic, which uses the expertise of master craftsmen and bamboo and enriches their experience. There is a real exchange", underlines Elizabeth Leriche ... and impressed we are by the result!
Photos http://www.unjenesaisquoi-deco.fr, http://blog.maison-objet.com/

Promising invitations

Next week in Paris will open one of the largest gatherings of French designs in decoration: the Maison et Objet fair, followed the next weekend by the Playtime exhibition dedicated to the world of the child.

The French brands often compete with their great ideas for the installation of their stands, the exhibition of their collection ...  
This year the beauty of their work is already in the invitations and give particular desire to explore their new collections. 
Thanks to Polder-April showers we are traveling in their bucolic pictures, Atelier LZC make us discover their new colorful patterns, Minilabo has made a little theater with one on their felt doll .. and the little new ones, Georges et Rosalie and Lale will show collections which sound very promising... perhaps soon on Comptoir d'enfance.

Decorative drops

In few weeks spring is coming and will bring its drops and clouds. But we will be prepared because they already are at home.
 Mademoiselle sous la pluie from Blanca Gomez is walking on the walls. The nimbus lamp from PA design gives a fairy lighting in the rooms.

 The little drops, the mobiles and cushions clouds from Nur Gallery add a poetic touch to our interior.

Fine little ideas

Elisabeth lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. She is a photographer and shares a studio with artists Camilla Engman and Studio Violet.
You can also find her work over at Lula.





Her blog Fine little days "is very much about appreciating everyday life. But also about eye candy in different forms," as she defines it.

For her children, Tovalisa, 11 and Otto, 8 she has created a poetic atmosphere. Enjoy this travel in a swedish interior! I especially like the two bookshelves transformed in a doll house and a candy house !

Happy New Year 2010

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A lovely dinette, part 3

I dream since a few months reading the French blog Vivre a la campagne ... I like her philosophy, her atmosphere from the south of France, the home made decorations...

So I fell in love with this little homemade dinette, with a small bottle of milk redecorated, small cooking ustensils like Mom found at Ikea ... all nicely packed in a crate of fruits from the farmers market, painted in pink.

A great gift for Christmas !

Crédit photos : Vivre à la campagne.

A lovely dinette, part two

Another lovely dinette created by the french artist Nathalie Lete.
She lives and works in paris. She mixes different techniques and mediums, illustrations, ceramics,textile and painting…
She is inspired by her travels, but also by the mixing of vintage toys and old engravings of flowers and animals. Her work is colourful, "naive and poetic, sometimes strange, to the point of tending towards art brut", as she defines it. Her world is nurtured by popular and folk art. She produces children’s and graphic’s books, knitted and stuffed toys, glass pictures, patterned dishes and this lovely dinette.
In a Cardboard suitcase, the dinette set contains 14 pieces of metal: a small plate, kettle, 4 small cups and saucers and 4 plates. All very nicely illustrated by Nathalie Lete.

She also creates exclusive pieces for stores such as Anthopologie like postcards,ceramic sculptures, silkscreen... in limited edition…

A lovely dinette

Madame M opened her pottery studio in France last year .. Since she multiplies creations, unique pieces, small bowls, ornaments, jewelry and more recently a small dinette. Her "influences are very diverse, the aesthetics of Japanese, traditional Scandinavian design through nature, its forms and fruit, and the new generation of ceramists French or foreigners ..." as she defines them.
She prefers "pure porcelain and white stoneware, simple shapes and irregular, containers and jewelry, working alone ... away from" perfection "of industrial and consumer system environment. "...

This beautiful dinette porcelain is like the rest of her collection ... Full of delicacy and poetry. It includes 6 small plates, large cup, bowl and spoon, a pot and its lid. The whole is shaped and created with care in very small series in France. Each piece is unique. The dinette is delivered packed in bubble wrap and tissue paper in a closed cardboard box with a ribbon of white cotton and a label.  
Refinement from A to Z for the pleasure of the eyes and little hands!

The moms will be able to enjoy their tea and little cakes in those beautiful sandstone bowls and mini cups  ... After all there is no age for a small dinette!