Category Archives: Design, designers and online finds

Organic vase


As an urban dweller with just not enough storage in his apartment, I appreciate design that appeals without being in function. So a vase that can sit on a table without flowers, yet without being just a vase is worth a closer look.

Benjamin Graindorge designed this vase with the pretentious and annoyingly difficult name ikebanamedulla (no capital I off course, because everybody uses capitals so why should Benjamin). I like the idea of it, but am not sure I like the outcome. I like the silhouette, and I also like the frail stem-like things ‘growing’ from the bottom. But the white backdrop with the jagged edge is too bold a statement, if that.

Benjamin Graindorge / 'ikebanamedulla'

$450.000 kitchen


Crisis smisis is what London-based Marazzi design must have thought when they designed this kitchen. It’s made of 24 carat gold leaf and Venetian glass and has Crocodile leather cabinet doors and Swarovski crystal lights to boast. It’s claim to fame is that it’s believed to be the most expensive kitchen in the world. Somehow I bet an Indian Mogul or Arab oil magnate somewhere would beg to differ, but it sure looks expensive!

World's most expensive Kitchen

Empty Chair


This chair was designed by Dutch Designer Maarten Baas for Amnesty International. The name of the five-metre tall piece, The Empty Chair, refers to the empty seat of  Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo who was unable to receive the prize in person last year as he had been imprisoned.

Empty Chair by Maarten Baas

Arjan’s apartment journey


Loyal Homevoyeurs aficionado Arjan took an apartment journey too. The day after I posted about my own, he took up the challenge and captured bits and pieces of his own home. Arjan doesn’t have an iPhone, therefore also doesn’t have the Hipstamatic app so the pictures are crystal clear. Maybe a bit too calculated too as the objects pictured are all high-end design pieces. The purpose was to find beauty in the unusual, the accidental or the overlooked, but the result is striking nonetheless.  The marble table pictures in the forefront of the image with the red Arne Jacobson Egg chair is a  rare Porsgrunn Poul Kjaerholm PK61 table. More about that in a later post!



If you are inspired by Arjan’s home, you might like this book about Arne Jacobson. It’s on sale now for $29,70 in the Homevoyeurs webshop.

Room 606: The Sas House and the Work of Arne Jacobson