Category: Interior decorations

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


					
					
			

			
			
			
		

		

				
				
		
	
			
		
		

				
				
		
	
			
		
		

				
				
		
	
			
		

			

								
			  				  
								
									

						
							Sustainable design.						
					

							

		
			

				
What in the world did the world mean by sustainable design back in the days? Usually quite boring articles. However, we are all growing up and sustainable design is now really cool and sometimes I suspect design-classics-to-be.


I love these














This is actually a roof made of rubber


And all these items are really made from these




 


Isn’t it amazing?


 


					
					
			

			
			
			
		

		

				
				
		
	
			
		

			

								
			  				  
								
									

						
							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..


					
					
			

			
			
			
		

		

				
				
		
	
			
		

			

								
			  				  
								
									

						
							Friend or foe?						
					

							

		
			

				


In October 2009 I told about this wonderful line of every day products. Designer Gustav Kristensson makes these under his design company Vardagsbruk. I loved it in 2009. I loved in in 2010. And I still love it in 2011. Specially the tea cup/mug. In white.


And now it has received an award from the magazine Residence for great design. På tiden!


This is what is said about it at Vardagsbruks homepage:


A CERAMIC FRIEND ON THE TABLE, sober and commonplace in the spirit. The receptive language of form in the tea and coffee sets Half past seven, is durable for the eye and connects back to 1950 century wise staple, which Höganäs tableware and Hertha Bengtson Boil blue for Rörstrand. But the surface “lathe stripes” and the little square handles give a subtle touch of high tech. Nice.


					
					
			

			
			
			
		

		

				
				
		
	
			
		

			

								
			  				  
								
									

						
							Barefoot and passionate about colors.						
					

							

		
			

				
In Colombo there is a wonderful shop alas gallery alas café called Barefoot. Color is Barefoot‘s passion. And as you walk through the store and enjoy the textures, designs and materials you are hit with a burst of colors. Colors everywhere. And great materials. Now, it ain’t cheap, but it is organic, hand made and nothing is mass produced. You know that if you have a Barefoot item, there aren’t many more around.




The yarn Barefoot use have been dyed and all textile is woven by hand by skilled artisans in the villages of Sri Lanka. There are many color combination’s throughout the store, like these,  more subtle colors




and these, bright, happy, shouting colors.




All beatiful in it’s own way. But Barefoot is not only about products. It also has a Gallery and a great café situated in a cosy frangipani yard serving (as always) a great cup of Sri Lankan tea with British style tuna/cucumber sandwiches to go with it. Yum.




I don’t know which is the best experience, the tea+sandwiches or the mere cosyness of the café in the frangipani yard. I think the yard is a winner. (But the tea really is exceptional!)