Displaying posts from September, 2012

When I stumbled upon the portfolio of interior designer Marie-Laure Helmkampf I instantly fell in love. Located in the South of France, Marie-Laure has designed some spectacular rustic homes that are so incredibly dreamy. Her neutral colour stories, natural fabrics and modern mixed with classic furnishings and fixtures is perfection. I could live in any of these spaces exactly as they are.

3 levels of Paddington, Sydney terrace house redesigned as a luxurious inner city pad. Rough brick walls sit alongside velvet, leather, silk and crystal while in the kitchen Calcutta marble meets polished concrete. Rising through it all the star of the show is the glass and steel staircase. A house that needs more sympathetic photography to really convince me but oh my the staircase against that wall…. brilliant. Link here while it lasts.

Rough luxe, rustic yet modern, traditional married with minimalism. Indoor melds with outdoor, concrete and stainless steel, glass and pebbles and everything washed with beautiful natural light. The gallery and dwelling of Valerie Traan in Antwerp, Belgium by LENS°ASS Architect. Subtle beauty, the preservation of the old and the juxtaposition of the modern in a sympathetic way and always the presence of repeating patterns of brick or herringbone or block. After the jump a few more images from the firm’s design of a GP surgery in an old brick barn like structure.

If you’d like to send me photos to include in next week’s “pets on furniture” post, please ensure your photos follow my basic rules: First, the pet must be on a piece of furniture. And said piece of furniture must be clearly visible in the photo, so it takes center stage rather than your pet. Think of it more of a photo of a great piece of furniture that you want to show off…and your pet happens to be sitting on it. And second, the photo must be of decent quality. If it’s dark or fuzzy (from a camera phone) then it may not make the cut. Photos, your name, location and a brief description can be sent to desiretoinspirekim@hotmail.comand PLEASE don’t send closeups of your pet! Thanks!

This is my lovely little black pug Elliot – helping me “spice up” a picture for my blog of a classic Wegner chair as well as my newly made posters with diamant pattern.
– Katharina (Copenhagen)

Here is a picture of Nigel on a lawn chair. He is a Welsh Terrier.
– Jeff

Here is Lapo relaxing on the Barcelona ottoman in our living room.
– Tiziano (Reggio Emilia, Italy)

This is our new family member. Stray dog that we adopted a month ago. Now we have two cats (both rescued) and Terrie, female dog. She is two years old. This picture is taken in our Bela Vida Gallery.
– Belma (Sarajevo) 

This is Star on her throne. She is clearly a lady of leisure. 
– Amelia (Chicago, IL)

After recovering a chair, my Scottish Terrier, Greyson, decides to claim it to watch for his arch-nemesis, the squirrel. Later, he jumped in my ‘after’ photo.
– Patricia

This is a picture of Kahlua and Cream snuggling on the couch in our living room. Kahlua is the dog and Cream is the cat; we know that her name is ironic since she’s black.
– Jessica

This is MegaCat and Noah on our dining room sofa, No no is desperate to feature on pets on furniture, he was so jealous when MC made it on to the site a few months ago 😉 They are both rescue kittens and came to us a year ago with their mum.
– Andrew and Tom (London)

Delicious. Divine. Dinesen. A Danish flooring company that sources floor boards that are so beautiful, so perfect that the best in the business must have them in their designs. Think Anoushka Hempel, John Pawson and almost any Scandinavian architect you can name. I stumbled across them when I found the MacDonald Wright Architects website. There, lurking in the links, was a company that puts the wood in my flooring love. Oh bad, bad pun but folks if I could marry a piece of oak or Douglas fir I’d tie the knot with these planks.