Photo Mood . white . shadow . freshness

The heat is getting the best of me. 

Can't get any proper work done, my brain is a melted mush and I'm in dire need of cool and shadowy places to hide and do nothing. Come back rain...you're forgiven!

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Photo Mood . string and yarn

Finding beauty in the most common things.

Happy Sunday everyone!

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via Biskopsgården  | photo by Debi Treloar | photo by Chris Court

via Grace&Glory | photo by Daniella Witte

[ a gesture in black&white ] by Norm.Architects

A few photos of a townhouse in Copenhagen renovated by Norm.Architects. 

A home of contrasts.

A white background and open layout that make for a serene, pure and fluid refuge, in opposition to it's exterior body and surroundings. And an almost graphic gesture through the punctuation of the space with black details. I find it beautiful (if maybe not very liveable). What do you think?

photography by © Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen

via Yatzer

Photo Mood . pink . glass . soap bubbles

A Mood Board with beautiful photographies for some Sunday inspiration.

I call it { Not So Fragile }.

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by Anita Waters via fPOE on Pinterest | by Elena Schetneva via | by Ciel Photography via Pinterest

by Joanna Henderson  | by Vee Speers | by Anne via magalarie

Normann Food - 12 Summer recipes for you

This Summer, the entrance hall of Normann Copenhagen's flagship store will be transformed into a huge cook book. The concept is called Normann Food and it consists of 12 easy Summer recipes, illustrated by beautifully styled photographs, where both the ingredients and Normann's kitchen accessories are paramount. In addition to the colourful large-scale installations, there will be recipe cards (in Danish and English), available to anyone that visits the store or places an order on-line throughout July. 

all images via Normann Copenhagen 

If you liked these examples, you can find more images and recipes, including the ones from Normann Food 2012, here. 

And I don't know about you, but those poppy seed pastries seem to be calling my name!

Monday Mood

Need to fight the crankiness that typically comes with a fuzzy Monday.

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image source: Line T Klein | Pinterest | The design Files

Emma Persson Lagerberg's home

I love seeing how people whose work I admire live. So, to start this new week, I'm sharing the home of Emma Persson Lagerberg, a Swedish interior stylist, photographed by the also very talented photographer Petra Bindel. 

I was first captivated by the kitchen in tones of mint green, with the mason jars linen up on an open shelf and the detail of a chair painted green. Looks fresh and inviting, don't you think? But I also love that there are books spread all over the place and that little reading nook with an old, leather covered chair... I could spend hours there. And to end the tour in perfection, those double white doors opening to a peaceful  white bedroom. I would gladly live there.

all images by Petral Bindel

Neugebauer Apartment

An amazing home, in Hamburg, with a masculine feeling. 

A constant presence of wood, white and grey all through the apartment - perfectly balanced. 

Art and books. 

And a general sense of tranquillity.

And how perfect if this first photo? I just keep staring at it.

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photography: Janne Peters

styling: Wolfram Neugebauer

Faded Spring

Today we're having one of those late Spring rainy days, when the world seems enveloped in grey and all the colours are washed out. But the temperature is nice, and I was even outside for a bit, just feeling the rain drops on my face, while planing to share today's mood through this photos by Janne Peters.

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Indoors Garden

I've been working on a Pinterest board called [ Indoors Garden ] and I'm loving the atmosphere it transmits. It's fresh and full of good ideas for having plants inside our homes.

Here are some of my latest pins. 

Hope you like it!

all images via Pinterest

Vipp + Merci

The story of the Vipp's pedal bin is an example of permanence in good design. This pedal bin, created in 1939, by Holger Nielsen, for his wife's hair saloon, was in the origin of the internationally recognized Danish design company Vipp. And in 2009 it was accepted into the architecture and design collection of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Today, the pedal bin continues to be very sought after, and as the iconic product that it is, it gets to be dressed, styled, painted and personalized by different artists and designers, for limited editions or charity purposes, that you can find on Vipp's Pinterest board Collaborations.

source: Vipp + Merci

On a previous post, about Merci opening it's web-shop, I shared the images of their paper bag as one of my favourite products. So you can imagine my excitement when I first learned, on Nordic Leaves blog, that the designers of the paper bag (the French design team bê-pôles) and Vipp had worked together for a limited edition of the pedal bin for Merci. I had to share it here!

image via Nordic Leaves

image via Nordic Leaves

By far my favourite collaboration...what do you think?

Daniella Witte's Home

Daniella Witte is a Swedish stylist and photographer with one of the most beautiful and inspiring blogs I follow. Her blog is written in Swedish, but the photos more than speak for themselves (and there's always google translation). There, you can find beautiful photos of her impeccably styled home and it's transformations over time. Her style comes from a mix of raw materials (wood, copper, concrete) and natural tones, with warmer details and textiles. It's a perfect example of contemporary Scandinavian style. 

I truly recommend a visit to her blog. But first, here are a few photos where you can see some changes happening. You can notice two different lamps hanging from the ceiling and a painted black detail on the table's legs, for example. And also the different sun light coming in through the windows. 

all images by Daniella Witte 

Hoping this was a good way to inspire you for a new week!

(mine started with 24h without internet...it's good to be back)

Scandinavian Style - Family Room

When I moved to Denmark I noticed that the layout of theirs homes is, generally, very different from what you can find in Portugal. And the most flagrant of those differences is the predominant existence of a room where living, dinning and kitchen coexist. They call it "Alrum", the equivalent of a "family room" in English, and it derives from the strong concerns and integration of the idea of family and family life in interior design and architecture around the 1960's. 

It took me a little time to stop worrying about the smell of food and the mess that a kitchen can become, and focus on the idea that it's not necessarily a bad thing to be forced to pay more attention to what you have in your kitchen and how you show it. To actually think and plan that space without being able to rely on closing a door. But what I love more about it, I must admit, is that being someone that loves baking and spends a lot of time around food, I don't have to be isolated to do so. 

So today I'm sharing an example of a Scandinavian family room, in neutral tones and with a mix of mid-century and industrial style. Photographed and styled by Lovely Life and for sale at the Swedish real estate agency Alexander White.

all images via Lovely Life

White, Black and Wood Mood

The tones I'm loving these days.

Wishing all a great weekend!

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White and Green for Muuto 2013

This Spring I'm having a serious crush on white and green styling. Neutral tones with a few splashes of green, clean lines, simplicity, and overall a fresh atmosphere. Especially when the green comes mainly from natural plants. And these images, from Muuto's Spring 2013 catalogue, illustrate that with perfection.

images 1.2.3 photographed by Petral Bindel in colaboration with All The Way To Paris

via: Muuto

And a small product guide:

all images via Muuto

1. NERD bar stool

2. UNFOLD pendant lamp

3. MHY pendant lamp

4. TOSS AROUND salad servers

5. CORKY carafe

6. FLOW milk jug

7. STACKED shelf system