Inspiration Profile - Jantine Vaartjes

Well, the week has flown by and it has been a busy one - including being on a crew for a TV commercial shoot on Wednesday! I will let you know more about that later. I am 'officially' finishing work today and I am really looking forward to a relaxing Christmas Day with my family next week. Staying on the Christmas theme, this week's Inspiration Profile has done some great and cosy Christmas styling and is all the way from The Netherlands. Read and enjoy.I would like to wish you all a...

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An Office Lunch Room

We made sure that New Zealand was centred to the wall and very visible!Contrasting timbers looks effective - American Ash leaner and dark oak stained bar stoolsOne resolution I plan to take up next year is photographing my interior design work and keeping it up to date! It is just so easy to let it slide as I have many projects this year that I haven't recorded. So it's high time I catch up on this.To start on the good habit, here is the lunch room for a real estate office that I worked on several months ago. It is...

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Holiday Catalogue from Design Within Reach

 Spotted on Marcus Hay - this cool holiday catalogue for American design store, Design Within Reach. Hay was involved in the styling of this catalogue (read about it here) - I love the modern and fresh approach to the festive season, as well as seeing the design classics throughout.Like this amazing 50's house? Read about the Goddard Mandolene House here.Photographs by Jim Bastardo via DW...

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Inspiration Profile - Justin and Louise Wright

Hooray - it is Friday once again. Are you all surviving the mad rush towards Christmas? One more week of work to go for us lot down under.Now for this week's Inspiration Profile - they are on the cover of the latest HOME New Zealand magazine and were studying Architecture at the same time as I was at Design school. How far they have come since then! Enjoy the profile of architects Justin and Louise Wright from Assembly Architects Ltd. Happy Friday all.Louise and Justin Wright - Assembly Architects Ltd.Louise on the cover of the latest HOME...

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Blue Kitchen

   I am working on a lot of kitchens at the moment - so while researching I've noticed that I definitely pause and admire the kitchens with colour. While you can't go wrong with a classic white kitchens, there is something rather lovely about the depth and richness of using a colour, like this calm blue grey one in Copenhagen, designed by Kobenhavns Mobelsnedkeri. It contrast beautifully with the timber floor and the dark hardware.Photographs via Remodelist...

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Christmas Tree Decorating

Here's a fun job I did yesterday...I got an email on Friday afternoon from a branding company asking me if I could decorate a Christmas tree for their government client - and if so, quickly. Once I saw the photo of the sad looking tree, I had to say yes. I visited the office that day - saw the aqua and blue colours behind the reception desk therefore had the jumping off point for the decorations. Shopped in the weekend and on Monday afternoon, I decorated the tree. This is how it went...The tree - before.Moved the tree...

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Grey by Studio Bakker

Spotted on Emma's Design blog - these gorgeous and restful grey interiors by Stef Bakker, a Dutch interior designer, stylist and art director. Nice.Photographs via Studio Bakke...

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Inspiration Profile - Alana Broadhead

Welcome to this week's Inspiration Profile and we have Alana Broadhead from Fancy - 'an online magazine devoted to the best design from New Zealand. And from around the world. But mainly from New Zealand.'Fancy is fresh and colourful and so are all the other projects Alana has under her belt - read further to learn about Design Yeah and Foundry. Happy Friday all.Alana BroadheadFancyName: Alana BroadheadWhat do you do:  By day, I’m a copywriter and brand strategist, which I’ve been at for 13...

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Spindle Back Chairs

Host restaurant in Copenhagen, Denmark by Norm Architects.Hyperion Public restaurant in Los Angeles, USA by Claire StansfieldI love the use of the spindle back dining chairs in these two diverse restaurants from opposite sides of the world. I think there may be a childhood influence here as I seem to recall a similar chair when I was younger. The chairs rock in the black, whites and greys.Photographs via Remodelist...

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