gilded

//black, white, trompe-l'oeil wallpapers, gold, mirrors.
la maison des champs-élysées hotel, interior design by maison martin margiela
images from here

m e r r y c h r i s t m a s !

you will never come close to how I feel

//autumn's here, so am I.

got back from my long long travel, spent a week at home packing up stuff, then moved to a new town to start uni.

this summer I discovered a limited wardrobe to be more inspiring than the usual wide assortment of clothing that hangs in my closet.

at least for me a wide wardrobe means that I stick to the same garments day after day. having fewer pieces, I wore a bigger percentage of them because they were more compatible with each other.

that's why it's refreshing to move to a new town, a new apartment: I now only have garments I really love and need.

plus getting dressed is so much more fun now.

baudelaire

the blogging world seems to have gone crazy over the Swedish BYREDO brand. I haven't checked out the fragrances yet but the perfumes sound just as tempting as their minimalistic bottles and labels look like. my favourite so far would have to be Baudelaire; juniper berry, black pepper, caraway, incense, hyacinth, leather, papyrus, patchouli, black amber.... sounds mouthwatering.

the bad thing about perfumes is that they rarely meet with the goodness and extravaganza of their description though. 

eye candy

 

Finnish designers are pretty great.

check finnish design shop. they ship to various countries, outside the EU as well.

habitare '09

I went to the habitare fair today and found quite a lot of inspiring things for home. didn't buy anything but got plenty of good ideas.

as you may see from the horrendous photo flow, I mostly took photographs of lamps and chairs; the two things I love looking at. the magis chair one in black (in the first photo) is an item I will surely purchase one day.

I'm looking for a cool lamp for my room and fell hard for the flat diamond-shaped lamps in the fourth photo. however the only lamp I seriously think about right now is the funny fish lamp which is probably a piece designed for children. I can't help but wonder what it would look like hanging from my ceiling though.