Happy New Year from Copenhagen !
2012 has almost arrived in Denmark, wishing you a very Happy New Year wherever you are in the world and hoping you end 2011 surrounded by loved ones and laughter!
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House&Hold is a home interiors shop with a heart for Scandinavian inspired modern living. The H&H Blog is chiefly written by Co-Founder Summer Robertson.
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NEW! Ferm Living Copenhagen Poster
I was perusing the always fun NEW section of House&Hold and lo and behold there was a poster of...COPENHAGEN! It perfectly captures the colorful buildings we are lucky to see every day as we walk down the street--such a great color palette! They've even included swans--I am amazed at the amount of swans out on the lakes here. We may not have squirrels, but we have beautiful swans.For more Danish love, browse Ferm Living products here and follow their blog here.
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INSPIRATION: CHRISTIEN MEINDERTSMA
You may be familiar with Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma and her gigantic knitting and urchin poufs, but her amazing projects span a variety of materials and topics. She explores new unconventional ways to highlight traditional raw materials and the results are just fantastic.
The third photo shows a lamp created through her collaboration with traditional rope makers and woodworkers to create products made locally from flax. This material used to be one of the most important textile fibers in The Netherlands, but nowadays is farmed then mainly shipped to China. The fourth photo depicts her Tree Track project, a tree-shaped toy train track made from the wood from a complete beech tree, showing the beauty of the original source. The bottom photo shows her One Sheep Sweater project, where the sole flock of merino wool sheep in The Netherlands produced enough wool to create one sweater per sheep. The yarn will be knit on a 3-D knitting machine, producing an item that is "low tech and high tech at the same time."
To learn more, visit her website here!
(images 2-5 from Christien Meindertsma's site, top image from Anthology Magazine)
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Vân Tran Monnier BIO
Vân is a print designer who recently moved to Copenhagen (yes, Denmark!) after growing up and living in Minneapolis. She has a great love for happy colors, eye-catching pattern, and all things paper. She lives with her nerdy husband and crazy dog, and looks forward to decorating a Danish apartment that is the perfect balance of modern and hygge. Click here to read all Vân's posts
If you can’t get enough of her here, you can also find her blogging at rhymeswithfun.
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