Category Archives: Design, designers and online finds

My little icon; transforming My Little Pony into popular icons….


Finnish artist Mari Kasurinen transforms My Little Pony toys into renditions of famous icons. Anyone who has ever owned a ‘my little pony’, (ehm… guilty) will find themselves confronted with an unsettling mix of nostalgia, bewilderment and feeling very old.  They are wonderful however.

My Little Lady Gaga

My Little Damien Hirst

My Little Kahlo

My Little Jack Sparrow

Prefab garden shed / greenhouse / guesthouse


This lovely green house Garden shed is designed by architect Ville Hara and designer Linda Bergroth for Kekkilä Garden’s Home & Garden collection. It’s a prefabricated garden shed combined with a greenhouse that easily doubles as a guesthouse. It can be assembled by simply using a screwdriver.  The Garden Shed, made from Finnish pine and safety glass, was launched in 2010 and was awarded with the Garden Product of the Year prize.

Garden shed by architect Ville Hara and designer Linda Bergroth for Kekkilä Garden’s

It is available through Kekkilä Garden in Finland and by Hasselfors Garden in other Scandinavian countries.

The back provides storage space

 

source: architizer

Anthropologie, amazing home accessories from the USA now in Europe and online!


On a recent trip to Edinburgh we stumbled across a fantastic shop called Anthropologie. This American chain of stores recently opened their doors in Europe with two shops in London and one in Edinburgh. They sell women’s clothes that, with my modest knowledge, are a bit too gypsy-ish and ‘oh look at me getting it and reading books and being clever‘, but their home deco stuff was simply put a-ma-zing! I walked around wanting to buy pretty much everything. It’s hard to define or to label what style, but bohemian, retro, kitsch, quirky, edgy, French and classy all spring to mind.

They have a well stocked online shop and the good news is they deliver pretty much all over Europe from their EU site! So that little vase that I couldn’t bring due to Easyjet’s one bag only policy can be making its way to me anytime soon!

Curvy Chrysanthemum Vase, €28.00

Fleeting Apparition Jug, €378.00

Stellata Rug in three sizes between 2,5 and 8 feet round From €82.00 - €416.00

Turn the season carpet


Got a case of autumn blues? Craving a bit of spring? Yvette Laduk, a young and up and coming Dutch designer, came up with this clever carpet. Turn it around in spring for a dose of crispy autumn leafs or the other way around for a touch of green in the colder months. It measures 155 cm x 236 cm.

Turn the season carpet by Yvette Laduk