h&m home showroom

i've had a lovely but weird weekend. however, i had time to { finally! } visit the h&m home showroom in the central stockholm. cool concept, obviously! they had the collection hanging from the ceilings and small fridge door magnets with pictures of the collection. and a cashier with internet connection for ordering your stuff online. happy thoughts.

♥ Love&Decorate, Tiina

yet another scandi design weekend

hope you are doing great! i've had a lovely weekend, the stockholm international fair had the largest home&house fair this weekend, and obviously i wasn't going to miss out on that! here's some of my pictures. enjoy!

we have alot of yellows, orange and greens in sweden at the moment. something for you? i really want those french coffee chairs!

♥ Love&Decorate, Tiina

here's something odd you'll love

oddbirds. what a name! and what a cool concept, no? you must see this company's site!

oddbirds is a swedish design company that creates wonderful items for each unique home. many of their products are not even ready when you purchase them, but you can use your creativity to put them together. { no, it's not like ikea stuff, no no no! } have a look now!

♥ Love&Decorate, Tiina

scandinavian design fair: Formex

hello sweet girls and boys! this weekend has been such a happy one, since it was finally the big fair weekend! formex, the largest scandinavian design and craft fair and i was there! yeah! the theme this fall was vintage travel, and don't we just love both vintage and travel? here's my pics... enjoy!

some golden frames and bed covers for you maybe? or the scandinavian designed and south african produced cow leather bags? or maybe you like some arm candy and ecological soap bars?

the pink and blue cushion are from a new up'n'coming design company called la-la label (no website...). the black and white textiles with some lovely yellows and blues are from mairo. the arm candy from åska. bags from kamelo.

don't you just love the swedish brand boob? (and love my red nails too!) they make beautiful maternity fashion. and they are so pink too!

these two companies i loved a bit extra. frosta design creates hand knitted baskets, pillows, wall deco, you name it! they also have representatives in the usa and australia! fidelin is a newly started company that produces high quality french linen interior textiles, where the linen is produced by one of the oldest linen producing families in france. all made in sweden.

and some more i-just-cannot-stop-wanting... bliss (1) is a new started company with a beautiful range of life style produts for a mother, a father and a baby. the products come in sweet shades of white, purple and pink. love them! elsie d (2) has a beautiful colorful range of indian textiles, just as fabric copenhagen (4), go and check them out! shyness (3) is a new absolutely beautiful collection of high quality bed linen and cushion covers, along with their own line of bath textiles. it was such a pleasure talking to all these lovely creative ladies! go girls i say!!

♥ Love&Decorate, Tiina

swedish design week { part 2 }

this uppsala based design company { i used to live in this little town, it's wonderful! the oldest university in scandinavia is located here, as it also is the town of Carl von Linné and i just might have to make a little citybreak don't you think? } is really divine. emosa believes in fair trade and all their suppliers are producing environmental friendly products. their mission is to create job opportunities in developing countries, specially for women. they also make sure that most of of the suppliers are members of WFTO. i think their products are beautiful and it always makes my heart go extra warm when something good comes out of shopping lovely products.

♥ Love&Decorate, Tiina

swedish design week { part 1 }

let's have a real swedish design week! why? because the swedes do great stuff! and also at the end of this week is the biggest design fair in scandinavia, formex. i've been looking for this week for a looooong loong time now... the fair is only for trade, but since i must get there in order to create my own ideas and ofcourse, to tell you about the newest scandi designs, i asked some lovely designers to send me an invitiation... not only did i get a couple of invitations but a free entrance ticket too! i love it when people are helpful!!!

here, a swedish designer, jenny frank from designStudioForm, who creates fantastic linen pillows, candle holders and alike. you must go and have look at this super creative lady's work!

another swedish design company that makes my stockings spin is edblad&co. this lovely company creates jewellery and interiors with materials like silver, plastic, pearls, silk and porcelain, and all with green values. have a look at these fab products!

♥ Love&Decorate, Tiina

finnish design by pentik

you know i am finnish, right? i also have a crush on finnish design. like this one here, pentik. the design house is located in finland, and have stores in over 80 locations across the nordic countries. pentik is mostly known for the ceramics that are produced in the factory in posio in the finnish lapland.

♥ Love&Decorate, Tiina

soft danish design

you know i'm always looking for new lovely interior products and other designs, right? this time i love these alpaca throws by the danish company called elvang. i haven't been able to touch and feel the softness of these lovelities yet, but i just found out that they do have atleast two retailers in my city { and probably some in your city too! } so why don't you just have a look?

you feel me longing for autumn? yes, i love autumn.

ps. madonna's show was unbelievable!

♥ Love&Decorate, Tiina

new designs from marimekko

a quote from interior design...

Finnish design institution Marimekko is breaking out spring flowers large
and small with two vintage designs from Maija Isola. Ruhtinatar, the large rose,
is offered in four colorways, including orange, green, and white. Karmiini, the
small circular floral, comes in two colors, including green. Valmuska, the giant
graphic floral and last fall's big hit, debuts in orange.

♥ Love&Decorate, Tiina

from Sthlm

did you know that there is a fab shop online that sells swedish art and design in USA? the shop owner tiffany writes...

'to bring you the things that normally don’t make it over to the US. Those things Swedes can take for granted, but we never get to see… unless you visit Stockholm, which I highly recommend!'

here's my two tips:

1. visit stockholm.

2. visit from Sthlm.

♥ Love&Decorate, Tiina

more swedish { royal, really!! } design

how many of you have notices that the the prince of sweden, Carl Philip Bernadotte, is a designer and has released a new absolutely fantastic silverware for Mema/GAB?

♥ Love&Decorate, Tiina

swedish designers A&B

asshoff and brogård is a designer duo who runs the design studio and live in stockholm. they first met during studies, and now design products for labels such Ikea, Almedahls Kinna, Lampister, GROK/LEDS-C4 and Moelven Eurowand. this lamp is called Pearl. cool isn't it?

♥ Love&Decorate, Tiina