Home on Wheels - Best Caravan Interior Design

Many times on this blog I emphasized how much I love to travel. And I really do! Since I've moved to Argentina, road tripsbecame my favourites. Car travelling gives us the flexibility of deciding our own route and travel times. We can also stop off wherever we want and it gives us the opportunity to see and experience more. In our times, we loose so much of the magic of travelling, that otherwise we would have experienced if we hadn’t travelled by plane.

I've never been a great fan of caravan holidays until recently, when I came across with this wonderful caravan manufactured by Caravanolic, a Spanish architectural studio. I was smitten with it's original interior design, functional and modern yet personal and cheerful. I dare to say it looks like taking your home for a ride! I love it!

Source: www.caravanolic.com/

Pantone Universe

I simply love Pantone colours! I can never decide which one is my favourite. Pantone is a colour guru, a platform that provides standard color systems to almost all industries, including manufacturing, fashion and design. Pantone is growing and strenghtening it's position in a smart and organic way. It makes me think of how many oportunities the Polaroid waisted.

The Pantone brand is happily expanding its family and now the Pantone Universe also includes:

A cheerfull Pantone Hotel on Brussels’ Louise Avenue - the building features 59 rooms celebrating the brand’s iconic colors. On a rooftop lounge Pantone-colored cocktails are served, and you also can find a  store selling trademark company products.  

Seavees 09/63 PANTONE Sneaker Collection available in seven vintage colors from the original Pantone color guide - epitomizes the cool, casual style of California in 1963.

 Sonia Spencer Accessories Collection - Stainless Steel and Enamel Cufflinks and Key Rings Based on the Iconic PANTONE Chip Design.

Kitchenware Collection by Typhoon - include textiles, shopping trolleys, storage jars, mugs and salt and pepper mills.

Pantone Mugs by W2

Design items by Seletti

 

Photos from the websites: Pantone.com and Seletti.it

Swedish summer escape destination

Among all the things I love most in life - I love Swedish summer! Summer days in Sweden are long and warm and charming... Most of  Swedes spend at least part of  their summer in traditional log cabins located along the vast coast line or on the shores of a tranqil lakes. The one that belongs to F.'s familly is probably the most luxourus place on earth if, just like me,  you consider luxury a perfect place to escape the hustle and bustle of the large city far from civilisation. During the long summer days we experience the midnight sun, savour the natural silence and enjoy the relaxing sound of water lapping on the shore. Just a familly and friends spending time together, sailing, swimming, sunbathing on the rocks, sitting around the table, chating, cooking, eating, playing games, reading... Oh dear I miss Swedish summer!

Stockholm-based Sommarnöjen is a company with the tagline of “Small house. Great architects.” Here are few examples of their works. More can be found on http://www.sommarnojen.se/.

New Polish Folk Design

In two weeks I will be visiting Poland. I look forward to it so much that I google for things that remind me Poland the most. Like Folk Polish design for exampl. Before moving to Argentina, I had a gorgeous Dia rug on my wish list. Polish folk design was among my favourites.

Moho Design established in 2004 is present at international fairs and competitions, gaining several awards. On my wish list, their Dia rag presented at the exhibition "100% Design” in London, where it was awarded by the Wallpaper Magazine.

SHE lamp! inspired by a traditional folk skirt from Łowicz region. Legs - matt red plexiglas scratch-resistant, glass - foil printed with UV.

Bed linen „Jagienka” designed by a Polish designer Anna Stępkowska Nowak is inspired by folk decoration motives from Łowicz region. It was awarded by Polish edition of the Elle Decoration Magazine http://www.inmoment.pl/

MOWOstudio was founded by Monika Elikowska and Wojciech Opal. Designers specialize in furniture, everyday objects, interiors and commercial spaces have recently carried out a new project - a stool called Beaver job!

The New Folk Design is a cyclical project that aims to build the identity of Polish design based on traditional crafts and folk art through educating young designers about vanishing craftsmanship. A series of workshops for designers were developed to help them to transform tradition into a modern folk design according to the latest global trends. For few years now Polish talented designers are doing a sensation abroad. What makes me really glad, their projects often link to our reach and diverse folklore.

World's Most Glamorous Clubs

I need some excitement. I wish I could glam my day a bit tonight. I wish I sparkled again. Dancing. Feeling fabulous. Feeling like the world is mine... Instead I'm at home with my laptop, covered with blanket, googling for clubs I should've been heading to by now. Check out this upmarket venues I wish I could escape to once: 

My House is a Los Angeles nightclub designed by Dodd Mitchell. The club’s décor remind you of an upscale house party held in someone’s private home. This place must make you feel special. I love the idea of a nightclub where guests feel comfortable, sitting on nice soft sofas, surrounded by luxurious designers' objects.

San Francisco’s Gitane is an eclectic club designed by Mr. Important, the interior design firm specializing in creating indelible restaurant, nightclub, retail and nightlife experiences. Mr.Important derived their inspiration from the complexity of art, music and design of gypsy culture. It manifest itself in an extensive palette of colours, textures and objects and constructs an "ordered" chaos atmosphere. The ambient is full of emotions, of nostalgia, romantism and passion.

Fabulous Vanity Club, also by Mr. Important, is located in the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Luxurious design, plentitude of fine textures, surfaces and colours brings to my mind an adults-only amusement park. It’s theatrical and fabulous.

Absolut Icebar London is the world’s second permanent icebar (afer Stockholm's). The bar located on vibrant Heddon Street, has become one of the London's coolest hot spots with the temperature -5°C all year round. Entire interior is built by natural frozen Swedish Torne River ice – from the walls, bar, stools, to the artwork and the ‘glasses’ in which the drinks are served “in the rocks”. The ice design is changed annually and leading designers are invited to create experimental ice interiors.

Fabryka Trzciny Art Center is located in an 1916 old brick marmalade factory, on the right bank of Vistula river in Warsaw, Poland. It’s one of the oldest post-industrial buildings in Warsaw and it merges tradition with avant-garde architecture and modern surroundings. It consists of a performance hall, bar and nigh club, theatre and a restaurant. The architects were Bogdan Kulczyński. It's like piece of New York in Central Europe. Slightly edgy yet fabulous. Fabryka is not blinking and shining but surprisingly it seduces you too.