INSPIRATION: Travel Does the Heart Good!

 Source: Pinterest/Travel & Places Worldwide

LIGHTING: Heracleum the Big O by Bertjan Pot

Beautiful design! The Heracleum lamp by Bertjan Pot & Marcel Wanders is a force of nature. Just like the plant that inspired it, the lamp is expanding, transforming and growing new leaves to crown this exciting new design season. 

About the designer
Bertjan Pot is a designer, probably best known for his Random Light (1999). The light started as a material experiment, which is basically the start of each product created by Studio Bertjan Pot. The outcome is usually an interior product showing a fascination for techniques, structures, patterns and colors. Most experiments start quite impulsively by a certain curiosity for how things would function or how something would look. From there Bertjan takes on challenges with manufacturers to explore possibilities and push the boundaries a bit. The reward for each challenge is a new one. Studio Bertjan Pot works with manufacturers such as Arco, Established & Sons, Feld, Gelderland, Montis, Moooi and Richard Lampert.

The Heracleum lamp by Bertjan Pot & Marcel Wanders

The Heracleum lamp by Bertjan Pot & Marcel Wanders, detail.

Sources: Bertjan Pot and Moooi/Heracleum the Big O

RUNWAY: JUNYA WATANABE FALL 2013 RTW

Why is it that Junya Watanabe's name isn’t continually lauded to the rafters as one of the Greats of fashion? His collection today proved it yet again - that he’s a unique master of cool-casual. A maker who fuses his impeccable signature cutting with familiar street-generic clothes everyone loves. He is a designer whose reality-dressing never comes without a touch of romance.

Sources: Fashionista (Photos: IMAXtree) and Vogue

ZAC POSEN PRE-FALL 2013

Source: ZAC POSEN

OUTDOOR FURNITURE: Poltronas Outdoor Furniture

Interesting outdoor furniture from Poltrona, named the Poltronas Showtime Outdoor Furniture, a collection designed by Spanish designer Jaime Hayon (2006). Description: armchair, sofa and cover in rotomoulded polyethylene and mass pigmented. For more information please have a look at the enclosed link below.  

About the designer:
Jaime Hayon is the most intriguing figure in new Spanish design. He has energy, talent and a style of his own, which are all distilled into the Showtime collection he has designed for Bd Barcelona design. This happy encounter between a young designer and a veteran producer has led to the birth of a furniture collection meant for the home, but which has the adaptability and the personality needed for contract furnishing. A collection in which plastics consort with upholstery, the gleam of lacquered wood and the tradition of fine ceramics in contrasts between classicism and modernity.

the designer Jaime Hayon

Source: BD Barcelona

QUICK PIC: SUMMERTIME IN HOLLAND

Beautiful all these lovely, yellow flowers in a field together. 

It's Summertime in Holland!

Photography: Irene Pouw

INTERIOR: beautiful mini chairs by Jimmie Martin

INSPIRATION:
Beautiful mini chairs designed by Jimmie Martin UK. 

Jimmie Martin Ltd. is an established luxury brand based in London since 2004. Jimmie Martin provides an eclectic showcase of one-off pieces of furniture combining the decadent and quirky with the nostalgic and urban. All pieces are individually finished off to either the customer’s personal taste, or to the ideas of the founders, Jimmie Karlsson & Martin Nihlmar. For more information about the company, please find the link below.

 

 Source: JIMMIE MARTIN

RUNWAY: VIKTOR & ROLF FALL 2013 COUTURE

 Source: STYLE.COM/Viktor & Rolf Fall 2013 Couture

LIGHTING DESIGN: Stunning Recycled Bicycle Chandelier

Recycled Bicycle Chandeliers by artist Carolina Fontoura Alzaga.

CONNECT is a series of chandeliers inspired by DIY and Bike punk culture combined with aesthetics rooted in the Victorian era created by LA based artist Carolina Fontoura Alzaga. Her handmade bespoke pieces evoke a strong industrial look and invite the viewer to examine them up-close in order to come to grips with their fine details and the technical precision needed to put them together.

Carolina managed to master the challenges faced by resilient materials such as bicycle chains and cassettes and created a stunning collection which also addresses universal themes around sustainability and the environment. She admits to having a strong connection with urban bicycle culture and hopes to inspire audiences to question their ideas on what is beautiful and functional. For more information see the enclosed links below.

Sources: Carolina Fontoura Alzaga and Yatzer/Recycled Bicycle Chandeliers

THANK YOU VERY MUCH - 60,000 PAGE VIEWS

Good Morning. 60,000 page views since I started with my weblog ByElisabethNL on December 11th, 2011. Thank you very much for your interest in my blogs. I really appreciate this. It's a pleasure for me to look for interesting blogs which I can share with you about interior/design, fashion/haute couture, photography, art, antiques etc. Wish you a stylish and inspiring week and greetings from Holland. Irene Pouw, Interior & Fashionblogger (ByElisabethNL).

RUNWAY - Comme Des Garcons Fall 2013

Comme Des Garcons Fall 2013 - A meditation on tailoring. Inspiring and colourful fashion show from Comme Des Garçons Fall 2013. For the complete review please have a look at the enclosed link below.  

Source: Fashionista

Photos: IMAXtree