Workspace for the soul

Tomorrow I'm moving in to my new shared workspace in the eastern part of Copenhagen (Østerbro). It's really tiny but I'm looking forward to have a place outside my (also tiny) home where I can work with all the fun projects coming up this spring.

When I grow up I'll have a place like this one below. It used to belong to italian architect Achille Castiglioni and is actually a museum you can visit if you are ever in Milan. In the words of one of my favourite fictional characters: "Isn't it dreamy...?"

Tourists at home and roof top drama

Sometimes when you have friends staying at your place you rediscover your own city and remember why you love it so much. Thank you Hanna, Robert and little Lee for two amazing days!
We woke up after the Nørrebro Distortion festival night and discovered a guy sleeping on the roof of the building facing our appartment. He kept rolling closer and closer to the edge (you can see his arm like a little bump on the bottom pic) and us shouting and whisteling was no way near enough to wake him. We ended up calling the police who came and woke the tired man up. I hope he didn't get into touble because of us, but it was just too scary to watch and not do anything.

Iben Birch Bech lamps

Love these lamps that Iben made for a bar at the Roskilde Festival a couple of years ago!

Print saved and a cool pop-up store!

Hello friends! I hope you are enjoying this sunday evening. Copenhagen was cold today so we spent the day inside, cooking risotto (me) and watching a bicycle race on TV (Simon). To my great surprise the stains on my Lottas träd print faded away when it dried and are now almost impossible to see! Lucky lucky stupid little me :) I promise to take a photo of it once I get it framed.
Tomorrow I'm going to meet with this talented lady to discuss a future project and I'm very much looking forward to it!
And finally some eyecandy to finish off the week! Love the concept of this cool pop-up store for Australian fashion brand Arnsdorf created by design studio Edwards Moore. So simple but stunning. 154 pairs of tights were used in the installation!

Via Dezeen. Photography by Tony Gorsevski.

Oui oui oui!!

Look what I found in my mailbox the other day! This great tote made by Mette that I won in her secret birthday lottery last week! Lucky lucky me! Thank you so much Mette <3

How big is a beaver?

Today I learned that a European beaver can become up to 75 cm long (without the tail) and an American beaver up to 100 cm, also without the tail. I also learned that they serve beaver meat at NOMA.

Stools by polish design studio MOWO

22m2 in Christianshavn, Copenhagen

Tiiiiny place (22m2 or 236sqft) in Christianshavn. I like the accenturated plumbing in the kitchen and the colour of the stairs!

pics from Citymæglerne

Copenhagen mural

This is a house in sankt hans gade (in the heart of Nørrebro Copenhagen) with a great mural. I think it's so well done, even the frames of the windows have the same coulour as the wall! I pass it by frequently since it's my own neighbourhood and everytime i think of how I would love to see more of this type of facades in the city! I am going outside now to enjoy the beautiful weather, since the man is home sick and needs to sleep.

 

 

via flickr

Danish pop & new wave punk

Great pops of colour in this danish home and my all time favourite danish band to start of the new week!

via From Scandinavia with love

C'est la vie, oh la la

I studied French for seven years between the age of 14 and 20. As I recall it I was doing quite well actually. The first time I went abroad without my parents I was 15 and went to Paris with my french class and sweet, strict teacher Rosita. Paris was like magic to me then, and it still kind of is, when I think about it.
A couple of months ago I was out for a drink with a couple of danish friends and we met up with some other people, among them two french guys. They lived here in Copenhagen and spoke excellent danish and for some reason I do too when I speak to other forigners. For a long period I spoke Danish only to people from other countries than Denmark and as soon as I talked to a Dane I involuntary switched to swedish. Weird, I know, but I don't have a proper explanation to it. Anyways, one of the french guys started complimenting the scandinavians for having such a good pronunciation i french, saying that he could not tell the difference (yeah, right!) between a french person and a dane/swede speaking french. Well, of course I understood that he was exaggerating but I thought - what the hell, I'll give it a try - so I switched to French. He looked at me like I was a total nut and explained (in danish) that he couldn't understand a WORD of what I was saying. Rosita, I am terribly sorry, but seven years of reeling off french verbs obviously didn't do it for me. Thank you anyway for your patience and at least I understand ALL of the words in this song. If I lived in Paris it would be in a place like this one below. Oui, je veux bien!

via Automatism

Same same but different

I've been drooling over the Hay shelfs (bottom pic) for a few years now and today I found these similar but also different shelfs over at Tiger's blog. The designer, Yukari Hotta, was born in Japan but studied here in Copenhagen. The shelves Kile are held together only with wooden wedges. Which one do you prefer?

To set Oprah straight

I don't know if you saw the Oprah show in the fall, where she visited Copenhagen and "a typical danish home." (If you haven't seen it look here) Well, let's just say that that house was not very typical for a danish family, there are a few wealthy people who lives like that, but the majority of the Copenhageners have places like this one below. That includes me and my boyfriend, although ours is even smaller! Thank you to the girl who posted this on youtube!

Small exhibition at Cinnober

My favourite bookshop here in Copenhagen is Cinnober. They have the best supply of wonderful illustration, graphic design and architectual litterature and everytime I go there I want to buy it all. Cinnober is located in the centre of Copenhagen, close to the shopping street Strøget so if you are in town you should definately pay it a visit! Starting on tuesday the 2nd of february they will be selling some of my limited edition prints and I'm very happy to be in such good company!
How to find the shop here!


cinnobershop.dk
emmamargareta.com

Fnubbu in our house!

The very talented danish designer Signe Møller Jensen with her brand Fnubbu actually has her studio and shop at street level in MY house!! She does some really beautiful work and I love peeking through the windows while waiting for my boyfriend to get ready when we are going somewhere ;) I would wear this anytime!

Fnubbu

Frodo Mikkelsen

Danish artist Frodo Mikkelsen

Same same, but different

First of all, thanks for returning, despite my lack of postings the last couple of weeks! The new job is fun but as you know, starting a new work can be quite exhausting!
A couple of days ago I found a nice, elips shaped, glass table top in our recycle shed ( I love that shed!!) in the back yard. It had been a part of a hidious mid 90's sofatable (I found the legs too) but the top itself was pretty nice and just the perfect size for a new diningtable. I'm thinking about painting the glass on the downward side and add some nice legs to it.
One of my favourite places to go peeking for designerfurniture (that's right, just looking- totally out of my price range!) is HAY, and the have these really nice trestles I would buy if I could! They are also available as clothesracks and I like that it looks like they're are kind of "walking".
Anyways, IKEA has a pretty nice copy, Vika Lerberg, and I'll probably go for them instead, and find some other way to support Danish design!



Clothesrack from HAY


The IKEA copy

A bit like a ferry

Can you believe that I am going to work in THIS building for the next couple of weeks? This is so so strange and especially to me since I'm really afraid of hights (I started crying while climbing the tower of Vor frelsers kirke in Copenhagen a couple of years ago!!)
Yesterday I visited the designstudio I am going to work with for the first time and it was such a weird experience. This house was designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and was, upon it's completion in 2005, the tallest building in Scandinavia.
I can understand the necessity to build really tall buildings in cities where space is limited, but this is Malmö! The building has apartments as well as office spaces and the office where I am going to work is on the 19th floor (out of 54) so it's not even halfway up, and I must say (even on a cloudy day) the view was spectacular!
I'm not the biggest fan of this type of architecture, neither interior or exterior. Apart from the view, it felt abit like being on a ferry or on an airplane. How do you get a cosy, homey feeling in a space like that? And I can't imagine what it would be like to live in a place where the windows just opens 10 cm! Where there is only one way out!
For an office, it works just great and I'm really looking forward to the next few weeks (especially to work together with the nice and talented people there!) and maybe I can start dressing more stewardess-like to match the interior!

Fa fa fa fa fashion!

Backstage photos from my dear friend Veronica B Vallenes fashionshow at Copenhagen Unfair (the alternetive fashion week) She is so talented!! The bottom three outfits are my favourites. Thanks for a great show Vera!





Veronica B Vallenes

Copenhagen visual

I used to bike past this bar, on Gothersgade, in central Copenhagen on my way to work every day. I think the colors and the graphics are great, and though it's probably quite old, I find it very contamporary looking! I'm not sure what type of place it is really, probably not the nicest, but I enjoy what it looks like from the outside.



Photo borrowed from Another DK

Laundry

I live on the 5th floor without an elevator so everytime I do laundury I carry tons (or so it seems, at least) of clothes up and down the stairs. Good exercise, yes, but I would love to have a small washing machine in my apartment, and above that, a few more of these (below!) in Copenhagen! Copenhagen sure has the architecture where this would work, and I love that you can see from below that people are actually LIVING here! Besides, clothes actually dries outside even in the winter, and instead of putting everything in the dryer, you can do our environement a favor by hanging them outside!



photo by James Duncan Davidson (found through Flickr)