Op een onbewoond eiland...

Vrijdagavond voeren we vanuit de haven bij het Lloyd Hotel richting het Zomerrestaurant Vuurtoreneiland. Wat is Amsterdam toch mooi vanaf het water...
Op het eiland aangekomen wandelden we door het gras naar de glazen kas. Goed gegeten met het prachtige uitzicht als decor. Een inspirerende avond op een prachtige plek waar je eigenlijk niet meer weg wil....
Heel fijn dat mensen dit soort concepten bedenken en ze ook daadwerkelijk weten te realiseren!

Een impressie...

Fotografie Rosa van den Kerkhof / Studio Nest

Merci Paris

We've been to Paris for a few days and I've been to Merci twice. What a wonderful shop, I love their style! After christmas they were changing the store with a lot of letters. This is a trend you see for years now but at Merci it was new and a bit more exciting because of the fresh combinations, don't you think? I will post more about Paris later.

Photography © Studio Nest

Amsterdam inspiration

Last weekend I made some pictures during a walk through Amsterdam. In the harbor area I saw this drifting wooden house, isn't it beautiful?

Photography © Rosa van den Kerkhof

Wasteland: an inspiring documentary

A friend recommended to see this documentary and I'm glad we did. I watched it a few weeks ago and I still think of it often. It's so beautiful to see how art can change peoples life, and in this movie literally. It's a very moving documentary about the people who work in the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Together with artist Vic Muniz they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage (around 50m2 on the floor), that reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives.

Final Magna photographic print entitled “The Gypsy Magna–Pictures of Garbage”                                  

View down onto Irma’s portrait on the floor, here you can see the scale very well.                               

Close-up of Irma’s face in portrait

(Screen grab) 

Photographs by Vik Muniz, courtesy of Vik Muniz Studio

Take away at Bakkerswinkel

The interior of the take away shop of the Bakkerswinkel in Amsterdam (Warmoestraat) is as cosy as the other shops. The counter is made of scrapwood designed by Piet Hein Eek, what I still like after all these years. I like the open raw wooden cupboards they painted i a high gloss grey hue, great (last picture)! Love their pies a lot, especially the cheese cake and carrot cake mmmmmmmm.

Photography by Rosa van den Kerkhof

Vote for our design

Recently my boyfriend and I joined a design contest here in Amsterdam. The assignment was to design an apartment with the intention of actually buying or renting it later. So we designed our dream apartment with a studio that we can afford at this point in our life. If you like you can help us by voting here and click on the most right star. Thank you very much and I'll keep you posted.

Here you can see the design & story below (in dutch)

© Dirk van den Wijngaard & Rosa van den Kerkhof

What you can do with yellow

I really like the colour yellow lately and I want to add a bit to my interior. Especially combined with grey it forms a great match. I found a piece about this colour on the website of kleurinspiratie and in their opinion it is the colour of 2011. Yellow stands for a fresh look on the future, optimism an gives a positive feeling. That sounds good to me! Here's my yellow inspiration.

(source angela hardison)

(source apartmenttherapy)

(source david stark)

 via housetweaking.com

via emmas.blogg

(Age M Magazine)

via alvhemmakleri

A little inspiration for the weekend: Lovely Melbourne Home

I found this house on the lovely website The design files. This is the home of the australian florist Katie Marx. Love the huge blossom branches and the painting of the videotapes. This piece of art is made by Dane Lovett. It's a funny and light interior, you shouldn't take life to serious anyway :-)
Have a great weekend!

A little inspiration for the weekend: BLUE