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Tasschen to open shop in Amsterdam!

Posted on September 16, 2011 | Leave a comment

Dutch coffee table book lovers; max out your credit card AND your coffee table! German publisher Tasschen, known for their budget friendly books on anything related to design, art, architecture, fashion and photography, is opening a flagship store on glitzy PC Hooftstraat!

Tasschen

A spokesperson for the company that imports Tasschen commented “The store will sell the budget friendly books, as well as luxurious high-end books and limited editions worth thousands of dollars”.

Tasschen previously opened shops in London, Paris, New York, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Berlin and Brussels

The Homevoyeurs webshop also sells books to fill your coffee table. For instance this one: Constructive Furniture by Jean Prouve, Ray Eames and Charles Eames for $29,95.

Constructive Furniture

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Posted in General living and fun stuff, Products from the Homevoyeurs.com webshop

Tagged Amsterdam, Architecture, Cheap, Coffee table books, design, fashion, PC Hooftstraat, shop, store, Tasschen

Arjan’s apartment journey

Posted on September 14, 2011 | Leave a comment

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

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Posted in Design, designers and online finds, General living and fun stuff, See how others live, Share your house with us

Tagged Apartment Journey, Arne Jacobson, design, Egg Chair, Hipstamatic, Home, marble, PK61, Porsgrunn, Poul Kjaerholm

Charlie Sheen’s old home

Posted on September 13, 2011 | Leave a comment

Running behind a bit as it was on the market back in 2009, but I found these pics of Charlie Sheen’s former home on Hooked on Houses. I really like the decor bar the dining room chairs. Those I do NOT like. Love the study however. Very inspiring as I am currently researching a possible redecorating of my own study.

Charlie Sheen's old home

Love the vaulted ceiling with the beams!

Yep, pretty much perfect sitting room.....

Not a big fan of the chairs, to say the least...

I absolutely love this study.....

This house looks like it was decorated by Jon Hutman and Beth Rubino who team up frequently to style the movies of Nancy Meyer.

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Posted in Homes of the rich and famous, See how others live

Tagged beth rubino, Charlie Sheen, Charlie Sheen home, famous, Hollywood, house, inside, Jon Hutman, Los Feliz, movie home

9/11: What the new WTC could have been.

Posted on September 11, 2011 | Leave a comment

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. All eyes are on Ground Zero, the site of the former World Trade Center, where Daniel Libeskind Memory Foundations is being built. His design won an international competition hosted by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to redesign the WTC site. Libeskind’s entry was one of 7 designs. The others are worth remembering too so have a look at what the new World Trade Center could have been.