Thursday
Oct132011
Eva Kylland
Thu, 13 Oct 2011
While I sit in French class day after day suffering (it's one-on-one, with me talking on and on about my day job), I desperately find myself requiring some mental relief. I steal moments thinking about the new boots I ordered, humming songs by the new band I discovered (I can hear them practising as I write this) and dreaming about inspiring interiors, such as the ones below photographed by equally inspiring Norwegian photographer Eva Kylland whom I discovered the other day. I will spend today thinking about the photo above. DREAMY.
Reader Comments (20)
LOVE that 2nd room / photo; the coziness yet openness and the curves of the sofa around the table. Yummy.
I don't agree. Those feathers belonged to a living being. And so did the head of the moose. This is not design.
All that wood ALSO belonged to living beings, and I don't see anyone complaining... Natural forests in South America (i only dare speak of what i know) are disappearing by the minute...
Sorry, had to say it. Still, I love wood and use it.
Why doesn't it bother the designer to use the poor moose's head and feathers from uncounted birds as decor? Why doesn't it bother the client to have death as their decor? Or the photographer to memorialize it? Or DTI to post it?
What is wrong with humans?!
Why maybe it's because death is a part of life. It's part of the cycle, and it's why where here today to discuss it.
Why is it a "poor" moose'head ?, maybe he was sick, maybe he didn't suffer at all, and had a good life.
It's ok not to like it, but I wouldn't go as far as calling that inhuman.
You cannot compare animals with trees. Of course that we need the forest and the trees, but we only damage ourselves by destroying the trees. But it´s the moose and the birds the ones that suffered, and they can feel pain, despite of the trees.
It´s also a bit naive thinking that the moose died old and without suffering before they cut their head. No, he was murdered by a hunter just to put a part of his dead body as a piece of decoration. Sorry for my english, I´m spanish. STOP ANIMAL CRUELTY!
From the beginning of human history, we have hunted animals and profited their meat,leather and fat . We eat hunted deers and mooses, and we can conserve their beautiful antlers to admire them.
What I did not think so highly is killing an angel only to expose his wings. I hope that, at least, have eaten the rest!!
love your blog and I find it truly inspiring, what is really hard to get.
I'm so sorry to hear you're suffering through French class. :( I just love languages so I hate to hear when people are having a tough time with them. Since your class is one-on-one can you not go for a walk & talk at the same time. Or switch things up once a week by doing something practical like going to the grocery store or to the movies or the market? Why do you want to talk about your day job after spending a day working at it? Anyway Kim - you can do it! Et si vous avez besoin d'aide, dîtes moi. :)
Jordana
p.s. Those wings....that first photo...dreamy indeed!
I'm sorry to keep this going, but the first to suffer when forests are cut down are the animals living in them and thanx to them. Most die....
Things are just not that simple....
It is appropriate to discuss why is it considered fashionable to buy and display and deem "design" the body parts savagely taken from our fellow beings (we know they suffer). If every other aspect of the design is allowed to be critiqued, then why not the heads, skins and feathers of animals displayed as design?
Are we choosing to sleepwalk through life while our fellow beings are caused to suffer by us while we call it "design"?
Agreed, I do not find dead animals aesthetically pleasing in any way. I just find them sad...
Poochie Lou, Holland and Inma,
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Sorry guys to disagree, you don't have to like it (neither do I), but we have evolved as omnivorous beings for millena, which means that other animals die in a myriad of ways so that life goes on. Unless you've always been a pure vegetarian, you are part of that cycle too.
Besides, knowing that we will die someday, one way or another, is surely the best to remember that you should enjoy and respect life. So maybe some people are more comfortable with it.
Please don't spend too many moment daydreaming during Fremch class; I would hate to think that all those tax dollars are ill-spent on our wonderful federal civil-servants.
Clearly your tax dollars are far more important than my mental health Connie but let me assure you that I am only able to have those stolen moments while I am on a bathroom break, while the teacher is looking something up in the dictionary or while I am racing home so that I can get my blog posts done in order to spend the remainder of my evening studying OFF THE CLOCK. Yes, we federal civil servants are quite wonderful.
Beautiful interiors, especially the first half of the pics!
As for the debate about wood and hunting, I don't quite get it. I am from Norway, and the house in which the moose hangs is also somewhere in Norway. I believe most of the wood in the pictures is also Norwegian.
If you have ever been to Norway, you would know that there is plenty of forest (and no rainforest, which is of course extremely important for climate change). In fact, as labour is expensive and topography is not favourable to large scale farming, there is less and less cultivation of the land and the forest is taking over in many parts. Essentially, in order to preserve some types of landscape and species, forestry is very useful. I think there is no threat to Norwegian forests! If you do take the extreme stance to not utilize anything living, then I am not sure how you can sustain yourself. Humans have always harvested from nature. If not, what do you eat? In what kind of housing do you live?
As for the moose, if you are a vegetarian - good for you. Most people are not. You may dislike it.
If you do eat meat, well then hunting a moose, eating the meat, and stuffing the head to hang on your wall shouldn't be such a crime as long as you have a hunting permission and follow hunting regulations (as I am confident almost all Norwegian hunters do). The hunting is strictly regulated. That moose lead a free life in nature, and he had a quick death. It is not as if he was killed only to become a trophy for the wall. I have never heard of hunters of moose that only care about the heads, quite the opposite!
I was inspired by all of these photo. Which is the point, right? @Anne. *clap, clap, clap* well said.
Hi there,
I love all of your photos, especially all the white walls. I have a little house in Seattle, Wa. I am looking to paint the walls white, any ideas on a great white paint? These hues in your pictures look like what I have in mind, I'm thinking French farm house white. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I too am more interested in the brand paint and the name of the color white. Very chic, and calming.
I should add I am talking about the color in the kitchen with the farm house sink in it.