my notes on interior design and decoration
Today’s home tour takes us to visit an elegant, sophisticated house and, as the owner describes it, with a masculine soul. It is the Copenhagen home of the influencer and fashion stylist Sophia Roe, daughter of the Nordic brand Louise Roe’s founder. The style is essential but refined: a few but “important” pieces of furniture and a palette of neutral…
Togo is one of the most iconic sofas ever. Designed by Michel Ducaroy in 1973 for Ligne Roset, the Togo sofa has never gone out of production, selling over 1,200,000 pieces in 40 years. The Togo sofa was presented for the first time at Furnishing Expo in Paris in 1973 and, despite the slightly high price, it achieved immediate…
Today I want to share a “discovery” that I recently made and seems very interesting to me. It is a new company that allows you to customize your Ikea furniture. The brand is called Fronteriors and was launched in 2019 by two interior bloggers and stylists: Linda Dekkers and Kathryn Hawkes (better known as Live Loud Girl and House of…
Today I take you on a home tour that tastes like summer, with a fresh and relaxing atmosphere and where pastel colors dominate. We are in London, in one of the aparthotel of the Leman Locke chain. The one I show you today is located in East London; it was opened in 2016 and is the first aparthotel of the…
In today’s post, I will talk again about the trendiest colors for 2021 and 2022 for interiors and furnishings. Today I am talking to you about the four color trends that, according to the research carried out every year by NCS Colour AB, we will see a lot next year. NCS is a company based in Stockholm (Sweden) that works…
I love lamps, I think they are some of the most beautiful pieces of design that really show the combination of good design, technologies and functionality. So when I was asked by Halos to try out of one their lamps, I was really happy and curious. Halos is a new company based in UK that creates high quality modern lamps…
Last year, we celebrated the forty anniversary since the foundation of the Milanese Memphis group. Forty years have in fact passed since the evening of December 11, 1980 when a group of young architects and designers gathered in the living room of Ettore Sottsass’s house in Milan. The legend says that a record was playing Bob Dylan’s song “Stuck Inside…
London based Office S&M, established by Catrina Stewart and Hugh McEwen, transformed a previously damp and dark space into a colorful and playful house for a young family of four. Mo-tel House is the remodeling of the lower ground floor of a Victorian townhouse in Islington, London. The name Mo-tel House was chosen to reflect the clients’ aspiration for a…
Once associated only with the furnishings of public spaces such as benches, today many companies are choosing concrete as a material to create trendy furniture and accessories. In recent years, we have witnessed more and more the use of concrete also for home finishes such as floors, kitchen tops or backsplashes, first only in lofts and industrial-style houses but now…
To sleep well, you need a good bed, a comfortable mattress and quality linens. What are the best materials for linens? Natural materials are always to be preferred, cotton and linen on top. And today, given the arrival of summer, I want to talk to you about linen and why its characteristics make it the best fabric for sheets. First…
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