Category: Designers

Tom Dixon.

Tom Dixon. At Designboost. And I was not there.

Awful. Simply awful. Not Tom Dixon. He is not awful. It is awful that I missed his lecture at Designboost.

Tom Dixon is my designer hero. I love what he does. As if it isn’t evident by now. I don’t know how many posts I have about his products.

And I keep coming back to the products he designs. I guess I always will.

For instance, I wouldn’t mind having a Tom Dixon couch, and a Tom Dixon coffee table, and well, two arm chairs like these (but with black legs). And to finish it off why not place a couple of candle holders on the coffee table. And why not a floor lamp beside all this?

And a dining table would be good to have too.

 

A carpet full of flavours!

I have come across a very talented designer! Her name is Nuttamon Prayoonhong. We met at the BIG Fair in Bangkok while I was visiting and wandering around in awe of all beautiful designs there were. While wandering around admiring all the beautiful design (of all sorts of products)  I passed by a space with textile and carpets. But there was actually only one carpet that caught my attention. I just couldn’t get enough of the design, the colors, the texture. I was actually stroking it at a point. Lovely lovely work.

And suddenly a pleasant woman approaches me and say; -My daughter did this. This is my daughter. And thus I was introduced to Nuttamon Prayoonhong. I am happy to have met you Nuttamon! (if you read this). I am proud to show your carpet here at designmekka.com

The inspiration for this carpet Nuttamon describes as follows

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This carpet is inspired by macaroons confectionery with the outstanding attributes in terms of color variety, taste and texture. The taste of this confectionery is communicated in terms of cloth texture, representing softness of cream and crispiness through various size of cotton and sisal. Moreover, the weave structure reflects fun of colorful confectioneries and their dimensions in the packaging in which diamond pattern is used to represent cream texture and zigzag pattern to represent external surface. The carpet is designed to decorate rooms in an urban eclectic style for urban, working-generation women who are confident, understand their own needs, highly individual, live complete lives, prefer new things, prefer written travel experiences are environment-conscious and love colorful lives.

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This is how it all started. Well, not a l l but how the carpet is in the making. The beginning. The birth on the loom.

Even in the bare beginning you sense the colorfulness and the texture. And it grows. Into this

You see the resemblance to the macaroons don’t you?

Beautiful to look at, divine to let melt on your tongue! Not the carpet. The macaroons, silly!

The work with the carpet continued and here there are only some lose ends to tie.

Look at the texture. It is really fantastic to its feel.

And voilà here it is in all its glory.

I really love this carpet, the design, the texture and, actually, even the inspiration to the design.

All pictures published with the permission of the designer.

Macarons; delicinspiration.

It is an explosion of colors behind the counter. Hands are moving fast picking up cookies in all colors of the rainbow; green, red, yellow, orange, pink, mint, blue…and being placed in the cool mint green boxes which has become the Ladurée signature.

I am talking about macarons, the French cookie that is now conquering the world. You see macarons in films, tv-shows, fashion magazines and… you name it.

Ladurée started out with one shop on Champs Èlysées and has in one short decade gone from one store to shops in Paris, London, Lebanon, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Japan and…the list is as long as 13 countries. The latest one will this summer open at Madison Avenue in New York. And Ladurée will not stop here. This is just the beginning if you listen to Mr. David Holder, General Manager of Laudurée.

I love macarons. They are beautiful to look at. They taste delicious. They are like…fairy tale:ish. What can be better? Well, the best thing is that they inspire to great design!

I have previously told you about a beautiful carpet that is designed with the inspiration of Ladurée macarons. The talented designer is Nuttamon Prayoonhong – and although I posted this almost one year ago – this is still my all time favorite carpet that I hope one day will take its natural place in my home. And I really hope the rest of the design world will appreciate its beauty. It’s about time!

You can read the full story of the macaron inspired carpet here



					
					
			

			
			
			
		

		

				
				
		
	
			
		

			

								
			  				  
								
									

						
							Homework Desk – Selfdiscipline Collection – by Nika Zupanc.						
					

							

		
			

				
Is your desk as messy as mine? I mean, all my desks have always been messy in some way or another. Not extremely messy, but you know how it is; papers in a pile over there, small stuff over here, post-it notes to remind me of things to do, or not to do and it adds up. And then you clean your desk and start all over again. But, no more. Check this smart desk out. Designer Nika Zupanc has created this one, and I must say it is really smart thinking. You know where you have your stuff. It is actually on (in?) your desk and easy to get hold of, but you don’t have to see it all the time. It’s the ideal desk. Now you see it, now you don’t. And I really would love to have a desk where I don’t actually see everything all the time. Love this one. Homework desk; Selfdiscipline collection by Nika Zupanc.








Pictures from Nika Zupanc’s website


					
					
			

			
			
			
		

		

				
				
		
	
			
		

			

								
			  				  
								
									

						
							What can’t you do from what the bees produces.						
					

							

		
			

				
When I was little I had a candle made from bees wax. Only one. But oh, how I liked that candle. It twirled around the candlewick in such a twirly way. I liked that. Unfortunately it melted away as we lit it and enjoyed the smell and the sight of the beautiful yellow flame. And then I forgot about it. Life went by, and suddenly I had my own family with kids of my own. The daily rut cut into life and everything went…grown up, whatever that is. And then came along these beautiful beecups.  And I suddelny felt so inspired. Yezzz. Happiness in a little (bee)bowl!


Keep an eye out for what’s happening on the design scene in South America. A true design mekka.  The Chilean designer Mariana Tocornal use bees wax to mold different objet d’art. Check this bee cup out








Here’s Mariana Tocornal




And if you want to check out her other products, click the picture below. Enjoy!




 


 


					
					
			

			
			
			
		

		

				
				
		
	
			
		

			

								
			  				  
								
									

						
							Greta Grossman Magnusson						
					

							

		
			

				


She is back. Well, Mrs. Grossman isn’t really back but her work is. Danish company Gubi has started production of the Grossman Grasshopper floor lamp (the red one above) in various colors. I for one am still waiting for the double grasshopper. There is nothing like it.


Below is the floor lamp Cobra in profile. You see it above in another angle. It is also a very interesting lamp.




…one of which Gubi will also produce a table version of.


 




(This is the original version)




 


(and here’s the original drawing for the original)




But I am still waiting for the Cobra table lamp with a little grasshopper in it. See this red treasure below. I really hope that Gubi will produce this one as well sometime in the near future.




 


 


Interested to read more about Greta Grossman? DMKA has a post about it. You’ll read it here or here


Now I am in a hunting mode for GGM’s art. She withdrew to San Diego after her husband passed away and in SD she painted. I am really curious about her art. Does anyone know of it? Please give me a holler..


					
					
			

			
			
			
		

		

				
				
		
	
			
		

			

								
			  				  
								
									

						
							A perfect piece.						
					

							

		
			

				


There is a dress that I think is the dress of all dresses and that is Diane von Furstenberg’s wrap dress. What a genius design! A simple, elegant ease for all women was her philosophy when she created her famous dress. In an interview for the book The Fashion Makers (New York, 1978) she said “There was a need for my things, for very simple dresses everyone could wear”. And I believe she is still right. These dresses are sexy and chic, accessible and easy to wear. It doesn’t matter if you are slim or large, you can still wear a Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress.



Do you see the resemblance of the original wrap dress on the first picture with this one? Isn’t it wonderful that simple elegance can outlive all trends? I love it. I specifically love this one




The little black dress, wrapped around you. Love it!


Want it? Need it? I understand. Totally. Click here and let the magic begin…


					
					
			

			
			
			
		

		

				
				
		
	
			
		

			

								
			  				  
								
									

						
							Julien David’s Happy Pill						
					

							

		
			

				
There are many sorts of Happy Pills. One that I really like is Julien David’s scarf made of 60% cashmere 40% silk. Imagine this work of art both in design and texture around your neck:



Designer Julien David worked with Narciso Rodriguez and Ralph Lauren before he ventured out on his own. He started out, in Tokyo 2007, with The Scarf. When other prints on scarves are concentrated on small, delicate patterns, David goes for one gigant illustration, and in this case The Pill. I love the way the scarf looks when gathered together and it owes it all to the gigantness of the print. This is how it looks like when spread out:




Want to know more about talented Julien David?



Check out his website by clicking here.

By the way, David has now ventured out to designing bags and coats & jackets as well. A work of art!


					
					
			

			
			
			
		

		

				
				
		
	
			
		

			

								
			  				  
								
									

						
							Design worth while.						
					

							

		
			

				
Anna Kraitz is a very talented designer whom you should keep track of. With permission from the designer herself designmekka.com has the pleasure to publish these pictures (Thank you Anna! I am grateful for your consent and happy to show your products.)

Candy for the eyes:




Look at the details of the Mamalook sofa, see the thoughtful design. Even the legs has a form of its own!

Photographer: Johann Bergenholtz.


But there is more. And since I seem to get stuck looking at lamps, I give you…drumroll…

the floorlamp Girl. Look at the braids! Cool, isn’t it?!




Anna Kraitz also designs every day products like lamps and teapots as well as teacups.







Talking about every day products. Look at these cool sunglasses:




Ahhh..the joy of wonderful design. Do you want to check out more of talented Anna Kraitz designs? Click here